declarative

Synonyms for declarative

adj explanatory

mid-15c., from French déclaratif and directly from Late Latin declarativus, from past participle stem of Latin declarare (see declare).

The period, or full stop, marks the end of a declarative sentence.

Now his rle is not so typical and his garb not so declarative.

The source of that law was God; the Church was its declarative organ.

Sentences may be declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory.

Declarative, which puts the thought in the form of a declaration or assertion.

Examples of these three kinds are, declarative, "Old year, you must not die!"

Is the interrogative form of the last sentence better than the declarative?

Notice that not every declarative statement is a proposition for argument.

We have passed a resolution, which is now on your files, declarative of the sense of this House as to their constitutional rights.

Declarative sentences usually have a falling inflection just before the final period, that is, a lower pitch.