adjective
/ˈadʒɪktɪv
/noun Grammar
A word naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or technical.An important reason for this is that most nouns and most adjectives have rather complex semantic structures....
- Use verbs, nouns and adjectives and get a copy of Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases.
- In Swinburne's work as a whole many adjectives are used as nouns and many nouns as adjectives.
Derivatives
adjectival
/ adjective ...- ‘High and Latin’ is a coordination of an adjectival modifier with a proper-noun modifier, and sounds just as weird.
- Moreoever the rest of the lines explain and expand these references by using adjectival phrases and subordinate clauses which tell the reader to look for explanation within the poem itself.
- The other parts are adverbial or adjectival clauses.
adjectivally
/ adverb ...- It is the past participle, used adjectivally, of the verb striegeln.
- It has never been obvious to me that that means corporations formed before 1901, and that is said to be a past participle, used adjectivally.
- But in the Pledge, the phrase is used adjectivally, to modify nation.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French adjectif, -ive, from Latin adject- 'added', from the verb adicere, from ad- 'towards' + jacere 'throw'. The term was originally used in the phrase noun adjective, translating Latin nomen adjectivum, a translation of Greek onoma epitheton 'attributive name'.