EGAVE

declarative

About 1.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Serving to declare; having the quality of a declaration.
  2. adjective Expressing truth.
  3. adjective That declares a construct.
  4. adjective Of or relating to declarative programming.
  5. noun Synonym of declaration (declarative statement)
  6. noun (Ithkuil linguistics) Illocution: a “performative” statement which. by its utterance/publication, creates a change of state (at least psychologically) for the addressees (i.e., a declaration, announcement, edict, etc.)

Similar words

declaratory indicative asserting indicative mood common mood declarative mood fact mood expository reporting assertoric

Often followed by

sentence sentences knowledge memory and statements statement or of

Word family

declaratively

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