Attributive

1. n. A word that denotes an attribute; esp. a modifying word joined to a noun; an adjective or adjective phrase.
2. a. Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.