Adjectify

Quick meaning: Adjectify is a verb meaning (transitive) To convert (a word that is not an adjective) into an adjective.

Meaning

(transitive) To convert (a word that is not an adjective) into an adjective.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To describe something.

Example Sentences

She adjectifies the teens as “iridescent,” the twenties as “glowing,” the thirties as “warning” and the forties as “triumphant.”

Adjectifying the “lower” animals to describe dastardly conduct on the part of “Superior” animals is always incorrect because the lower animals never act in a dastardly fashion.

If we desire to affirm that the substantive is put in action, we adjectify it by adding to its positive the termination tla; for example atawit, love; adjective affirming action atawit-la, loving.

Niebuhr “adjectifies” love in terms of self-sacrifice and thus “gains too easy a victory, and by a somewhat mistaken strategy, in his campaign to demonstrate the (relevant) impossibility of love.”

Word Forms

• adjectifies
• adjectifying
• adjectified

Synonyms for adjectify

Depending on context, synonyms include adjective, adjectivize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include adjectivize, adverbify, nounize, adjectivise, adjective, adverbize.

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