predicate

/prɛdɪkət/ verbnoun
9 letters3 syllables14 points in Scrabble®16 points in WWF®
DEFINITIONS5
VERB
1

Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic.

“solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well”

2

Affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of.

“The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President”

3

Make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition.

“The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'”

NOUN
1

One of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements.

2

(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”

WORD FORMS
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Starts & ends withP … E
Syllablespred · i · cate
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