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attributive

 adjective
     
Related topics: Grammar
at‧trib‧u‧tive
SLG describing and coming before a noun. For example, in the phrase 'big city', 'big' is an attributive adjective, and in the phrase 'school bus', 'school' is a noun in an attributive position. [↪ predicative]
—attributively adverb
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