prenominal

Adjective
Synonyms: attributive

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Adjective (1)

  1. of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify“‘red’ is an attributive adjective in ‘a red apple’”Synonyms: attributiveSimilar attributive genitive
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Pre·nom′i·nal adjective

Serving as a prefix in a compound name. Sir Thomas Browne

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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