Adjective

/ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.
2. (obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
3. (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
4. (law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
5. (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
6. (obsolete, reflected in the chemical sense, but extinct as a general sense) Incapable of independent function.
7. (transitive) To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
8. (transitive, chiefly as a participle) To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.

Example Sentences

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.”

it must be an adjective of dain

The whole English law, substantive and adjective.

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.

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.

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Word Forms

• adjectives
• adjectiving
• adjectived

Usage Notes

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