Definitions for "Attributive"
Keywords:  adjective, noun, predicate, modify, esp
A word that denotes an attribute; esp. a modifying word joined to a noun; an adjective or adjective phrase.
of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify; "`red' is an attributive adjective in `a red apple'"
The placement of an adjective to modify a noun in a noun phrase is the attributive position. In English this place is before the noun modified (i.e. “warm day”). In Hebrew, an attributive adjective follows the noun and must agree with it in gender, number and definiteness. The other position of an adjective in Hebrew is called the predicate position.
Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute.