predicate
predicate is a 9-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.
- transitive verb. To found; to base.
- intransitive verb. To affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation.
- transitive verb. That which is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, "Paper is white," "Ink is not white," whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper and denied of ink.
- transitive verb. The word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject.
- adjective. Predicated.
- noun. one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
- noun. (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula
"`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates"
- verb. involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
"solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well"
- verb. affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of
"The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"
- verb. make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition
"The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"
Synonyms
Common word forms
predicated, predicates, predicating
Words from these letters
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