declarative

de·clar·a·tive
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adjective

Serving to declare; having the quality of a declaration.

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Less commonScrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivedeclarative (not comparable)
  1. not comparableServing to declare; having the quality of a declaration.

    Synonyms: declaratory

  2. not comparablesentence; or mood; sentence; or moodgrammarExpressing truth.
    1 more example

    Palmer (1986:26–28) suggested that all languages have a clear way of indicating that the speaker is making a statement which (s)he believes to be true. Such statements are usually expressed by the declarative grammatical structure and the respective mood is called either "declarative" or "indicative"...

    2016, Irina Nikolaeva, “Analyses of the semantics of mood”, in Jan Nuyts, Johan van der Auwera, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 69
  3. not comparablecomputingThat declares a construct.
  4. not comparablecomputingOf or relating to declarative programming.
noundeclarative (plural declaratives)

plural declaratives

  1. Synonym of declaration (declarative statement)

    A love declarative for my Sara. I love you like a soft symphony; a melody written in heart and pulse. I love you like a rock; a moments' fusing in perfect quiet. I love you like […]

    1986 August 16, “I Love You, Sara K. (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 5, page 13

    Synonyms: declaration

  2. Ithkuil linguisticsIllocution: 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.)

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveServing to declare; having the quality of a declaration.

nounSynonym of declaration (declarative statement)

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiverelating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration

adjectiverelating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements

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nouna mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact

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indicative moodindicativedeclarative moodcommon moodfact mood

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchdéclaratif
  2. Englishdeclarative

Derived from Middle French déclaratif.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Arabic خَبَرِيّ
  • خَبَرِيّ (ḵabariyy)in grammar
Bulgarian разказвателен
  • разказвателен (razkazvatelen)in grammar
Catalan declaratiu, declaratiu
  • declaratiuserving to declare — see also declaratory
  • declaratiuin grammar
Finnish deklaratiivinen, deklaratiivinen
  • deklaratiivinenin grammar
  • deklaratiivinenin programming
French déclaratif, déclaratif
  • déclaratifserving to declare — see also declaratory
  • déclaratifin grammar
German deklarativ, deklarativ
  • deklarativserving to declare — see also declaratory
  • deklarativin programming
Hungarian kijelentő
  • kijelentőin grammar
Italian dichiarativo, dichiarativo
  • dichiarativoserving to declare — see also declaratory
  • dichiarativoin grammar
Polish deklaratywny
  • deklaratywnyserving to declare — see also declaratory
Portuguese declarativo
  • declarativoserving to declare — see also declaratory
Russian декларати́вный
  • декларати́вный (deklaratívnyj)serving to declare — see also declaratory
Spanish declarativo
  • declarativoserving to declare — see also declaratory
Ukrainian декларати́вний
  • декларати́вний (deklaratývnyj)serving to declare — see also declaratory
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APA

declarative. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/declarative

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Chicago

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