Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
of adjectives;
placed before the nouns they modify;
- Example: "`red' is an attributive adjective in `a red apple'"[syn: attributive, prenominal]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Prenominal \Pre*nom"i*nal\, a.
Serving as a prefix in a compound name. --Sir T. Browne.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
prenominal
adj 1: of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify;
"`red' is an attributive adjective in `a red apple'"
[syn: attributive, prenominal] [ant: predicative]