adjective
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
grammar
human-sciences
law
linguistics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English adjectif, adjective, from Old French adjectif, from Latin adiectivus, from adiciō + -īvus, from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + iaciō (“throw”). The Latin word adiectivus in turn was a calque of Ancient Greek ἐπιθετικόν (epithetikón, “added”), a derivative of the compound verb ἐπιτίθημι (epitíthēmi), from which also comes epithet.
Inflected forms:
form: adjectives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: adjectives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: adjectiving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: adjectived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: adjectived
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.
pos: noun
examples: The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives.
"They'll have to invent new adjectives when I come back. You wait!"
"We have fallen into the culture of adjectives and adverbs, and we have forgotten the strength of nouns," he said.
The Brazilian football legend, who passed away in December, has been added to the Portuguese edition of the Michaelis dictionary as an adjective to describe someone or something “out of the ordinary.”
gloss: A dependent; an accessory.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: it must be an adjective of dain
gloss: Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The whole English law, substantive and adjective.
gloss: Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Incapable of independent function.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.
gloss: To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has […] adjectived all three.
In English, instead of adjectiving our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, adjectived signs from other languages[…]
gloss: To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:adjective.
Synonyms: adjective
adjective noun
adnoun
describing word
description word
noun adjective
adjectify
adjectivize
Derived words: adjectival
adjective clause
adjective dye
adjectivehood
adjective law
adjectiveless
adjectively
adjective patterns
adjective phrase
adjective pronoun
adjective verb
adjectivism
adjectivitis
adjectivity
adjectivization
common adjective
deadjectival
nonadjective
overadjectived
phrasal adjective
predicate adjective
proadjective
proper adjective
unadjectived
verbal adjective
い-adjective
な-adjective
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