Determinative

What do we mean by determinative?

Able or serving to determine: synonym: decisive. adjective

A determining factor. noun

Having power to determine, fix, or decide; tending or serving to shape or direct; conclusive.

Of use in ascertaining the species; serving to determine the precise kind of a thing: as, determinative tables in the natural sciences (that is, tables arranged for determining the specific character of minerals, plants, etc., and to assist in assigning them to their species); determinative signs in hieroglyphics; determinative ornaments or structures.

That which determines or indicates the character or quality of something else. noun

In grammar, a determinative or demonstrative word. noun

That which serves to determine. noun

Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive. adjective

Tables presenting the specific character of minerals, plants, etc., to assist in determining the species to which a specimen belongs. adjective

An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts. noun

Determining (deciding) something. adjective

Having the power or quality of deciding adjective

A determining or causal element or factor noun

One of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases noun

An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.

(grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. Examples of determinatives include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), cardinal numbers (three, fifty), and indefinite numerals (most, any, each).

Words that are spelled similarly to determinative:
determinative, determination, determinate, terminative, exterminative, determinatives.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word determinative:
ideogram, hieroglyph, cuneiform, akkadian, phonetic, sumerian, nouns, pharaoh, adjective, noun, semantic, plural, pronunciation, prefix, indicating, egyptian, identifying, reservation, outcome, goddess, consideration, factor, judgment, words, pronounced, compounds, matters, factors, word, meaning, radical, whether, question, element, categories, dynasty, neither, sign, article, issue, nor, plus, argued, names, court, courts, supreme, circuit, related, case, crown, examples, convention, read, purpose, decision, value, language, particular, means, combined, stone.

Words that rhyme with determinative:
give, live, forgive, sieve, combative, liv, relive, outlive, viv, corroborative, misgive, ziv.

Adjectives that are often used to describe determinative:
divine, hieroglyphic, semantic, same, generic, common, personal, ideographic, old, phonetic, special, feminine, second, double.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective determinative:
factor, role, influence, factors, bacteriology, power, sign, mineralogy, force, effect, element, tables, judgment, principle, function, faculty, events, significance, compounds, importance, value, question, tests, influences, methods, signs, character, compound, issue, characters, action, idea, forces, test, event, elements, scheme, studies, step, clause, effects, facts, pronoun, judgments, relationship, relation, relations, purposes, impact, decisions, processes, feature, principles, technique, curve, powers, fact, authority, cause, criterion, characteristics, curves, evidence, consideration, criteria, prefix, techniques, adjectives, clauses, issues, motives, roles, aspects, meaning, properties, laws, aspect, weight, pronouns, key, context, causes, word, quality, answer.

Consonant match to determinative:
determinate of.

Words that sound like determinative:
determinative, determinately, determinate, determinator, dominative, diminutive, determinedly, determine, determan, demonetize.