relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence
a predicative adjective
Compare attributive
2. logic
(of a definition) given in terms that do not require quantification over entities of the same type as that which is thereby defined
Compare impredicative
Derived forms
predicatively (preˈdicatively)
adverb
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Examples of 'predicative' in a sentence
predicative
The second pair are predicative, and follow linking verbs such as be, seem, become.
The Times Literary Supplement (2017)
In the latter, after the noun and verb, the adjective is called predicative.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Also in predicative use, it developed into an adjective as base, cowardly, vile.