Antonyms for declarative


Grammar : Adj
Spell : dih-klar-uh-tiv
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈklær ə tɪv


Definition of declarative

Origin :
  • mid-15c., from French déclaratif and directly from Late Latin declarativus, from past participle stem of Latin declarare (see declare).
  • As in hermeneutic : adj explanatory
  • As in interpretative : adj explanatory
  • As in interpretive : adj explanatory
  • As in explanatory : adj descriptive
Example sentences :
  • The period, or full stop, marks the end of a declarative sentence.
  • Extract from : « Punctuation » by Frederick W. Hamilton
  • Now his rle is not so typical and his garb not so declarative.
  • Extract from : « The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction » by Dorothy Scarborough
  • The source of that law was God; the Church was its declarative organ.
  • Extract from : « The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II) » by Henry Osborn Taylor
  • Sentences may be declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory.
  • Extract from : « An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises » by George Lyman Kittredge
  • Declarative, which puts the thought in the form of a declaration or assertion.
  • Extract from : « An English Grammar » by W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell
  • Examples of these three kinds are, declarative, "Old year, you must not die!"
  • Extract from : « An English Grammar » by W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell
  • Is the interrogative form of the last sentence better than the declarative?
  • Extract from : « Public Speaking » by Clarence Stratton
  • Notice that not every declarative statement is a proposition for argument.
  • Extract from : « Public Speaking » by Clarence Stratton
  • We have passed a resolution, which is now on your files, declarative of the sense of this House as to their constitutional rights.
  • Extract from : « Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. I (of 16) » by Thomas Hart Benton
  • Declarative sentences usually have a falling inflection just before the final period, that is, a lower pitch.
  • Extract from : « The Principles of English Versification » by Paull Franklin Baum

Synonyms for declarative

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