adjective
nounEtymology
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.
- derived from adiectivus
- derived from adjectif
- inherited from adjectif
Definitions
A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.
- 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.
A dependent
A dependent; an accessory.
- it must be an adjective of dain
Adjectival
Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
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Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
- The whole English law, substantive and adjective.
Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
Incapable of independent function.
To make an adjective of
To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
- 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[…]
To characterize with an adjective
To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:adjective.
The neighborhood
- synonymadjective
- synonymadjective noun
- synonymadnoun
- synonymdescribing word
- synonymdescription word
- synonymnoun adjective
- synonymadjectify
- synonymadjectivize
- neighbornoun
- neighborword
- neighboradjectivelike
- neighborattributive adjective
- neighborcardinal adjective
- neighbordemonstrative adjective
- neighbordescriptive adjective
- neighbori-adjective
- neighborindefinite adjective
- neighborinterrogative adjective
- neighborlimiting adjective
- neighborna-adjective
Derived
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
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at adjective. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at adjective. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at adjective
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA