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ad⋅jec⋅tive
[aj-ik-tiv] 
ɪk
–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 ). |
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| ad·jec·tive (āj'ĭk-tĭv) n. Abbr. a. or adj.
[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
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.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.Adjective
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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Language Translation for : adjective
Spanish:
adjetivo,
German:
das Adjektiv,
Japanese:
形容詞
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
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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