Ascriptive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ascriptive is an adjective meaning ascribing; relating to ascription.
Meaning
ascribing; relating to ascription.
More Meanings
- The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work or other object to someone or something.
Example Sentences
Herodotus uses more ascriptives than Homer, but the adverbial participle is well illustrated in Herodotus and the complementary is fairly common.
Ascriptives need not be novel. Tension is a conventional ascriptive that, despite its ubiquitous use, has never achieved technical status in musical discourse.
Word Forms
- ascriptives
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include attributive, appellative, attributional, attributal, abstract, annotative.
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