(of adjectives or nouns )形容词或名词 used before a noun to describe it (用于所修饰的名词前)定语的 In ‘the blue sky’ and ‘a family business’, ‘blue’ and ‘family’ are attributive. 在 the blue sky 和 a family business 中,blue 和 family 是定语。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryAttributive is used with these nouns:- adjective
Word Originmid 18th cent. (as a noun in the sense ‘a word expressing an attribute’): from French attributif, -ive, from attribut ‘an attribute’, from Latin attribuere ‘add to’, from ad- ‘to’ + tribuere ‘assign’.