MEANING
1. Expressing a statement, assertion, or declaration rather than asking a question or giving a command.
2. Involving knowledge of facts or events that can be consciously recalled or expressed.
3. Describing a desired computational result or relationship without prescribing each step used to produce it.
Use it for
distinguishing statement-form sentences from questions; describing an announcement of a position; separating grammatical form from whether a claim is trueSeparates making a statement, explicitly reportable knowledge, and specifying a desired computational result. Writing functions: Theory / Conceptual Language, Comparison / Contrast.
Words that belong together
- a declarative sentence
- a declarative statement
- a declarative form
On the page
The passage begins with a declarative sentence and ends with an unanswered question.
Its declarative tone announces a position but provides no evidence for it.
The task tested declarative memory for the order of events rather than the motor sequence itself.
The discussion contrasts declarative knowledge of the rule with fluent performance.
A declarative query states which records are wanted without specifying every retrieval step.
Word forms
- Base
- declarative
Usage notes
Usually non-gradable adjective. In grammar, a declarative is a statement-form sentence; count plural declaratives. Do not use more declarative to mean more factually true. Register: technical. Commonness: moderately common in relevant academic contexts (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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