Adjective

Word ADJECTIVE
Character 9
Hyphenation ad jec tive
Pronunciations /ˈæ.d͡ʒə(k).tɪv/

Definitions and meanings of "Adjective"

What do we mean by adjective?

The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase. noun

Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as white in the phrase a white house. noun

Adjectival. adjective

Specifying the processes by which rights are enforced, as opposed to the establishing of such rights; remedial. adjective

Not standing alone; derivative or dependent. adjective

To make an adjective of; form into an adjective; give the character of an adjective to.

Naming or forming an adjunct to a noun: as, an adjective name. Pertaining to an adjective: as, the adjective use of a noun. Added or adjected; additional.

In grammar, a word used to qualify, limit, or define a noun, or a word or phrase which has the value of a noun; a part of speech expressing quality or condition as belonging to something: thus, whiteness is the name of a quality, and is a noun; white means possessing whiteness, and so is an adjective. noun

A dependant or an accessory; a secondary or subsidiary part. noun

Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct. adjective

Not standing by itself; dependent. adjective

A color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency. adjective

Relating to procedure. adjective

A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, “a wise ruler,” wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler. noun

A dependent; an accessory. noun

To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective. transitive verb

Incapable of independent function. adjective

Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective. adjective

Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure. adjective

Of a dye that needs the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed. adjective

(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.

A dependent; an accessory.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Adjective

The word "adjective" in example sentences

An adjective may, in general, be distinguished from an _adverb_ by this rule: when a word qualifies a _noun_ or _pronoun_, it is an adjective, but when it qualifies a _verb, participle, adjective_, or _adverb_, it is an adverb. ❋ Samuel Kirkham (N/A)

Such an adjective is called an _adjective of three endings_. ❋ Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1900)

Find them, and give the reason.] [Footnote 2: When a noun is modified by both a genitive and an adjective, a favorite order of words is _adjective, genitive, noun_.] [Footnote 3: A modifying genitive often stands between a preposition and its object.] ***** ❋ Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1900)

A fourth kind of adjective is called by the grammarians an ADVERB; which has generally been formed from the first kind of adjectives, as these were frequently formed from correspondent substantives; or it has been formed from the third kind of adjectives, called participles; and this is effected in both cases by the addition of the syllable ly, as wisely, charmingly. ❋ Unknown (1803)

Pandemic, an adjective from the Greek pandemos, "of all the people," becomes a noun to mean "the outbreak of a disease spreading over a large geographic area," now construed as "worldwide." ❋ Ilya (2009)

Otherwise an adjective is attached, as in “temporary”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Coming up with a new and different adjective is just too much for her. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their profitability advantages will be offset by weak economic growth, so the adjective is fine rather than something more glowing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My favorite is the adjective taken from the Old English word for “gore,” dreor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In fact, Wikipedia suggests that it is 'a descendant of the Latin adjective niger, meaning "black"', but that's a technicality. ❋ Dungeekin (2009)

And my new favorite adjective is accro (hooked/addicted ... familiar). ❋ Unknown (2008)

The College Graduate in the past ten years does not know what a noun, adverb or adjective is nor do they have knowlege of history. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Here's the MW definition of 'absolute' in adjective uses (plus synonyms): ❋ Unknown (2007)

According to the Columbia Guide to Standard American English, "Democrat as an adjective is still sometimes used by some twentieth-century Republicans as a campaign tool but was used with particular virulence" by McCarthy, "who sought by repeatedly calling it the Democrat party to deny it any possible benefit of the suggestion that it might also be democratic." ❋ Unknown (2006)

Sulaym tribe; the adjective is Sulami not Sulaymi. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“Bahr” in Arab. means sea, river, piece of water; hence the adjective is needed. ❋ Unknown (2006)

As I said the other day, the important adjective is good. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Here the adjective is given an explicitly stated meaning, approximately 'referring to an end'. ❋ Unknown (1997)

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