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ad·jec·tive       [aj-ik-tiv] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.Grammar. any member of a class of words that in many languages are distinguished in form, as partly in English by having comparative and superlative endings, or by functioning as modifiers of nouns, as good, wise, perfect.
–adjective
2.pertaining to or functioning as an adjective; adjectival: the adjective use of a noun.
3.not able to stand alone; dependent.
4.Law. concerning methods of enforcement of legal rights, as pleading and practice (opposed to substantive).
5.(of dye colors) requiring a mordant or the like to render them permanent (opposed to substantive).
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < LL adjectīvum, neut. of adjectīvus, equiv. to adject(us) attached, added, ptp. of ad(j)icere (ad- ad- + -jec-, comb. form of jac- throw + -tus ptp. suffix) + -īvus -ive]

—Related forms
ad·jec·tive·ly, adverb
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ad·jec·tive       (āj'ĭk-tĭv)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Abbr. a. or adj.
  1. The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase.
  2. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as white in the phrase a white house.

adj.  
  1. Adjectival: an adjective clause.
  2. Law Prescriptive; remedial: adjective law.
  3. Not standing alone; derivative or dependent.


[Middle English, from Old French adjectif, from Late Latin adiectīvus, from adiectus, past participle of adicere, to add to : ad-, ad- + iacere, to throw; see yē- in Indo-European roots.]

ad'jec·tive·ly adv.
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adjective 
1414, from O.Fr. adjectif, from L. adjectivum "that is added to (the noun)," neut. of adjectivus "added," from pp. of adicere "to throw or place (a thing) near," from ad- "to" + comb. form of jacere "to throw" (see jet (v.)). In 19c. Britain, often a euphemism for bloody.
"They ... slept until it was cool enough to go out with their 'Towny,' whose vocabulary contained less than six hundred words, and the Adjective." [Kipling, "Soldiers Three," 1888]

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adjective
1. of or relating to or functioning as an adjective; "adjectival syntax"; "an adjective clause" [syn: adjectival] 
2. relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law; "adjective law" [ant: essential] 

noun
1. a word that expresses an attribute of something 
2. the word class that qualifies nouns 

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adjective

A part of speech that describes a noun or pronoun. Adjectives are usually placed just before the words they qualify: shy child, blue notebook, rotten apple, four horses, another table.


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Adjective

Ad"jec*tive\ ([a^]d"j[e^]k*t[i^]v), a. [See Adjective, n.]

1. Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence.

2. Not standing by itself; dependent.

Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency.

3. Relating to procedure. "The whole English law, substantive and adjective." --Macaulay.

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Adjective

Ad"jec*tive\, n. [L. adjectivum (sc. nomen), neut. of adjectivus that is added, fr. adjicere: cf. F. adjectif. See Adject.]

1. (Gram.) A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.

2. A dependent; an accessory. --Fuller.

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Ad"jec*tive\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjectived; p. pr. & vb. n. Adjectiving.] To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective. [R.]

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. --Tooke.

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