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

This last word should be reserved to designate more particularly the phenomena of objective or attributive conjugation common to idioms of the second form.

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Webster, Wentworth

These compounds are usually nouns, or adjectives and participles used in a sense more appositive than attributive.

From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso)

In fact, the distinction between noun and adjective is inapplicable to English grammar, and should be replaced by a distinction between objective and attributive words.

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

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

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton