attributive

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I make my bread deciding whether a word is an attributive noun or adjective, parsing adverbial uses over conjunctive uses, writing those delightfully boring usage notes in your dictionary.

From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2013

With the exception of the nominative, the various forms of the noun are all attributive; there is no difference, for example, between “doing a thing” and “doing badly.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Constructions of Adjectives.+—Adjectives that merely describe or limit are said to be attributive in construction.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

In other words, let the bodies be regarded as attributive and the forces as substantive.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton