constative
About 0.05 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Pertaining to an utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.
Statements are constative utterances.
- noun An utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.
Similar words
aorist declarative obviative locutive statal reportative indexical statemental enunciative sentential
Often followed by
and utterances utterance speech or language distinction statement statements
Word family
constatives
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