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.
Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as white in the phrase a white house.
adj.
Adjectival: an adjective clause.
Law Prescriptive; remedial: adjective law.
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.
ad·ju·tant (āj'ə-tənt) n.
Abbr. Adj. or Adjt. A staff officer who helps a commanding officer with administrative affairs.
(āj'ĭk-tĭv) 