quantitative
Americanadjective
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that is or may be estimated by quantity.
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of or relating to the describing or measuring of quantity.
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of or relating to a metrical system, as that of classical verse, based on the alternation of long and short, rather than accented and unaccented, syllables.
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of or relating to the length of a spoken vowel or consonant.
adjective
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involving or relating to considerations of amount or size Compare qualitative
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capable of being measured
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prosody denoting or relating to a metrical system, such as that in Latin and Greek verse, that is based on the relative length rather than stress of syllables
Other Word Forms
- nonquantitative adjective
- nonquantitativeness noun
- quantitatively adverb
- quantitativeness noun
- quantitively adverb
- quantitiveness noun
- unquantitative adjective
Etymology
Origin of quantitative
First recorded in 1575–85; from Medieval Latin quantitātīvus, equivalent to Latin quantitāt- (stem of quantitās “amount”) + -īvus adjective suffix; quantity, -ive
Example Sentences
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That other Greek concept is chronos, which refers to chronological or sequential time and is quantitative.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026
With interest rates near zero at the time and quantitative easing already well under way, there wasn’t a lot else the Fed could do.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
But the flushout of gold presents what SentimenTrader calls “a very compelling quantitative setup.”
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
"We'd like to do a more quantitative simulation so that we can do a post-process and quantify the spectral behavior of the system," said Yao.
From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026
The curriculum was extremely quantitative, focused on figuring out how to maximize benefits and minimize costs, without much concern for what those benefits achieved and the costs created.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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