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1.
of, pertaining to, or used as an adjective.
2.
describing by means of many adjectives; depending for effect on intensive qualification of subject matter, as a writer, style, or essay.
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Adjectival
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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| adjective (ˈædʒɪktɪv) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. a word imputing a characteristic to a noun or pronoun |
| b. adj (as modifier): an adjective phrase | |
| —adj | |
| 2. | additional or dependent |
| 3. | Compare substantive (of law) relating to court practice and procedure, as opposed to the principles of law dealt with by the courts |
| [C14: from Late Latin adjectīvus attributive, from adjicere to throw to, add, from ad- to + jacere to throw; in grammatical sense, from the Latin phrase nōmen adjectīvum attributive noun] | |
| adjectival | |
| —adj | |
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