adjective — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.

   Examples

   The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives.

   "They'll have to invent new adjectives when I come back. You wait!"

   More examples (2)

   "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.”

2. A dependent; an accessory.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Examples

   it must be an adjective of dain

Adjective

1. Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Synonyms

   adjectival

2. Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Synonyms

   procedural

   Antonyms

   substantive

   Examples

   The whole English law, substantive and adjective.

3. Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • of a dye

   Antonyms

   substantive

4. Incapable of independent function.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • Obsolete

   Synonyms

   dependentderivative

   Examples

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   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.

Verb

1. To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

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   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[…]

2. To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.

   Usage

   • Transitive
   • as a participle

   Examples

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:adjective.

Adjective

1. of or relating to or functioning as an adjective

   Synonyms

   adjectival

   Examples

   adjectival syntax

   an adjective clause

2. relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law

   Synonyms

   procedural

   Antonyms

   substantive

   Examples

   adjective law

Noun

1. a word that expresses an attribute of something

   Broader terms

   modifierqualifier

2. the word class that qualifies nouns

   Broader terms

   major form class