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To convert (a word that is not an adjective) into an adjective.
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It is remarkable of words denoting dimension, that they all are abstracted into names by subjoining th, as length, breadth, width, and depth, and that these are not ordinarily allowed to be adjectified by adding either y or full.
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.
Wiles’ title – Foredoomed is my Forest: The Diary of a Zimbabwe [sic] Farmer – is problematic for another reason. He may not use Africa, but his failure to ‘adjectify’ Zimbabwe is an all too obvious reflection on the quality and content of the rest of the book.
The influence of Kafka on popular culture is undeniable, whether people have read his books or not. He is one of a few authors who have had their names adjectified. Situations or organisations are called ‘kafkaesque’ to denounce an absurdly painful series of events or experiences usually set in or involving a bureaucratic organisation (see for instance Hodson, Roscigno, Martin, & Lopez, 2013).
To describe something.
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She adjectifies the teens as “iridescent,” the twenties as “glowing,” the thirties as “warning” and the forties as “triumphant.”
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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.
However, since Moers’s work in the mid-1970s, attempts to adjectify Stein’s work as “female” have entangled that work far more deeply with Stein’s femaleness as femaleness, as an elemental condition, inseparable from the body.
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.”
Like so many other designers, she hates being objectified, or rather adjectified, as a “woman” designer.
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[…]; he was already feeling adjectified to death.
It pleased her to see minibuses named like racehorses, adjectified, and always with more exclamation marks than they could use in one go: wifey! or sexy boyz!! or rock of ages ii!! And Joanna’s favourite: untouchable!!!
By using the word “postmodern” before “metanarratives”, however, I intend to adjectify my focus and delimit it to a time period, and not classify all metanarratives as postmodern.
From a historical perspective, the relation is seen differently: with the conceptualization of the adjectified subject—the woman subject, the feminist subject, the black subject, the postcolonial subject, etc.
A biophilic, smart Singapore will remain just another ‘adjectified city’ without buy-in from residents, or if they are unequipped with the know-how on how to take advantage of these upgrades.