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noun

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.

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adjective

pertaining to or functioning as an adjective; adjectival: the adjective use of a noun.

not able to stand alone; dependent.

Law. concerning methods of enforcement of legal rights, as pleading and practice (opposed to substantive).

(of dye colors) requiring a mordant or the like to render them permanent (opposed to substantive).

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Adjectives is always a great word to know.

So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:

a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin adjectīvum, neuter of adjectīvus, equivalent to adject(us) attached, added, past participle of ad(j)icere (ad- ad- + -jec-, combining form of jac- throw + -tus past participle suffix) + -īvus -ive

Related forms

ad·jec·tive·ly, adverb

non·ad·jec·tive·ly, adverb

pre·ad·jec·tive, adjective

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Example Sentences

It suggested the advantage of economy in the use of adjectives.

Not only is there no need to apply superlative adjectives to yourself, but doing so probably doesn't help your case.

In other words, they're both autological: they're adjectives that manifest the quality they describe.

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It suggested the advantage of economy in the use of adjectives.

Not only is there no need to apply superlative adjectives to yourself, but doing so probably doesn't help your case.

In other words, they're both autological: they're adjectives that manifest the quality they describe.

Ask students to use adjectives to describe the pictures, and write the words on the board or on chart paper.

But please, continue to believe that labeling other people with nasty adjectives is a rational argument.

The goal: to learn how to make the chocolate chip cookie that matches your favorite adjectives.

The best new feature of the game are the adjectives.

Definitely he is going to run out of wind, adjectives and superlatives.

As for-profit higher-ed sector becomes a substantial part of the landscape, these prefixes and adjectives will go away.

Plenty of alternative adjectives are beginning to spring to mind.

Discuss how adjectives can make writing more lively and help readers paint a picture in their minds.

But the adjectives have been dropped, which makes chemical synonymous with toxic or poisonous.

And they would cheerfully embrace all these adjectives as compliments.

We are limited in our use of words but, sonically speaking, we're not limited to verbs and adjectives.

Try to describe your company using three adjectives.

Hit those high points with as few adjectives as possible and you'll be singing in key.

Some fail to make adjectives agree with nouns, or conjugate verbs improperly.

Have them find three adjectives in the article and use each one in a sentence.

The fortified wine shares two vital adjectives with the campfire treat: dark and sweet.

However, journalists should use the correct adjectives when describing these events.

Besides seeing your name really big, some adjectives might start to stick out.

First, he asked people who knew individual animals well to describe them with lots of different adjectives.

Direct students to skim the article and identify adjectives used to describe sharks.

Nouns get verbed, adjectives get nouned, prepositions can moonlight as almost anything.

Just ask my students, and they'll tell you the adjectives are apropos.

Incoherent and dull aren't good adjectives to apply to a speech.

Have students find and circle five adjectives in the story, then use each one in a different sentence.

Shoppers in the supermarket today can buy chicken free of nearly everything but adjectives.

On a good day, she might write a grammatical sentence, provided that there were no confusing adjectives or adverbs.

By now, each of those adjectives has an onomatopoetic ring.

If conventional adjectives fail to convey the emotions one experiences at receiving a peace prize, invent a term.

Additionally, have students use descriptive adjectives to create an impact on the reader.

These are all negative adjectives and over defensiveness without even talking of any evidence.

Matthews had once ordered that there would be no more adjectives preceding names.

The coffee chain has removed a string of adjectives from many of its lattes.

People whose speech is larded with empty adjectives are generally not taken seriously.

The language flows less easily off the tongue with adjectives masquerading as adverbs.

Polite discourse has a weak arsenal of adjectives to describe crimes of war.

One of the things that stands out is the extremes in adjectives.

They will be hearing many adjectives and verbs meant to portray a vision of sorts they have heard before.

The student should write three adjectives that apply to that animal, then draft a descriptive paragraph about it.

Some of the adjectives used to describe her impressions upon awakening are:.

Prial makes him come alive, not with adjectives but with a few pointed examples.

It's an imprecise adjective, but a lot of adjectives are imprecise and yet useful.

The problem with your comment is that it does not have enough adjectives.

It's not that your date doesn't match the adjectives from the glamorous self-description.

The gallery scene in this city is in such a state of flux that both adjectives are regularly applied.

Cozy, cute, colorful and charming were the adjectives heard at our table.

In seeking consistently to avoid references, the novel work evades adjectives.

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Word Origin & History

adjective

early 15c., from O.Fr. adjectif (14c.), 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.

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"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 definition

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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