Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Serving to declare or state.
  • adjective Of, relating to, or being an element or construction used to make a statement.
  • noun A sentence or expression that makes a statement.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Making declaration, proclamation, or publication; exhibiting or manifesting; declaratory; explanatory.
  • As declared, set forth, or made known: in contrast to essential: as, the declarative glory of God.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Making declaration, proclamation, or publication; explanatory; assertive; declaratory.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective grammar, of a verb, sentence Expressing truth.
  • adjective computing, programming That declares a construct.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration
  • adjective relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements
  • noun a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact

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Examples

  • Google and Wikipedia together can be seen as forming a nascent forebrain, hippocampus, and long-term declarative memory store.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • Google and Wikipedia together can be seen as forming a nascent forebrain, hippocampus, and long-term declarative memory store.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • Even if you write in short, declarative, Hemingwayesque sentences, its your word choice that may determine your comparison.

    'I Write Like' Website Goes Viral, Authors Bewildered 2010

  • Simak strives for poignancy in this moment, but fails because his writing style does not allow for poignancy—poignant is not often found in short declarative sentences.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Fred Perry 2009

  • Simak strives for poignancy in this moment, but fails because his writing style does not allow for poignancy—poignant is not often found in short declarative sentences.

    Way Station Fred Perry 2009

  • The messages become harsher as customers fall deeper into delinquency, with the bubbly sounding woman often being replaced by a stern male who speaks in short, declarative sentences that are aimed at creating a sense of urgency.

    Collect Calls: Demand Rises 2009

  • Statements of facts should be set out in short declarative sentences, and each sentence should address a single fact.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Peter Zura 2008

  • Statements of facts should be set out in short declarative sentences, and each sentence should address a single fact.

    USPTO Issues Controversial New Rules For Patent Appeals Peter Zura 2008

  • Knowledge of an address, telephone number, and the capital of India are examples of what is known as declarative or explicit memory.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Knowledge of an address, telephone number, and the capital of India are examples of what is known as declarative or explicit memory.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

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