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noun

• (grammar) An attributive word or phrase (see above), contrasted with predicative or substantive.

  Example: In "this big house," "big" is an attributive, while in "this house is big," it is a predicative.

adjective

• (grammar, of a word or phrase) Modifying a noun, while in the same phrase as that noun.

  Example: In "this big house", "big" is attributive, whereas in "this house is big", it is predicative.

• Having the nature of an attribute.

• Serving to express an attribute of an object.