English adjective: quantitative | |||
1. | quantitative expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement | ||
Samples | Export wheat without quantitative limitations. Quantitative analysis determines the amounts and proportions of the chemical constituents of a substance or mixture. | ||
Similar | decimal, denary, duodecimal, numeric, numerical, quantifiable, three-figure, valued, vicenary | ||
Antonyms | qualitative | ||
2. | quantitative relating to the measurement of quantity | ||
Samples | Quantitative studies. | ||
3. | quantitative (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables | ||
Samples | In typical Greek and Latin verse of the classical period the rhymic system is based on some arrangement of long and short elements. | ||
Antonyms | accentual, syllabic | ||