adjective
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- adjective
- /ˈædʒɪktɪv/
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adjetival
- Subjects were next given the adjective checklist and asked to describe themselves.
- adjective checklist
- adjective meaning
- Adjective Rating Scale
I mean, there's so many like adjective way that we should be failing and we throw it around like it doesn't mean anything.
- I mean, there's so many like adjective way that we should be failing and we throw it around like it doesn't mean anything.
Examples
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No statistical analysis was performed on the adjective descriptors used by teachers, but there were differences among the ways the four groups were described.
Academic text (1991) -
I administered the Goldberg (1992) adjective checklist to assess the Big Five personality characteristics.
Academic text (2003) -
We live in the United States of America, and we have appropriated the adjective "American" even though we can claim no exclusive title to it.
Academic text (1990) -
Participants were asked to complete the adjective checklist in response to their feelings immediately after their imagined acute bout of exercise.
Academic text (2003) -
The nominal and adjective suffixes in the present study were all included within the top-ranked 18 suffixes.
Academic text (2012) -
At the same age, the chart on language development showed children adding many new words to their vocabularies and learning to use complex sentences, such as those with adjective or conditional clauses.
Academic text (2014) -
Horgan's 82 adjectives were taken from four or five adjective checklists used in the fields of clinical and counseling psychology.
Academic text (1992) -
The subjects were also asked to spontaneously provide adjectives to describe nuclear war (the Adjective Generation Technique AGI; Allen & Potkay, 1983).
Academic text (1993) -
In the sentence "The tall man walked quickly," the word tall is an adjective that describes the noun "man."
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When learning grammar, students often struggle to identify which words are functioning as adjectives in a sentence.
Synonyms
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Relating to words or phrases that describe people and things
Compounds
- Specialized
An adjective that shows the type of a noun, for example 'wooden' in 'wooden spoon'
- Specialized
An adjective that shows the highest degree of a quality when comparing three or more things
Surface Forms
Morphology
adjective = adject + ive
Although formed from recognisable Latinate elements, the combining form 'adject-' is not a standalone English word and the parts do not help an average learner deduce meaning.
Etymology
Adjective (meaning 'relating to or functioning as an adjective') keeps the same idea: from ad- 'to' and jacere 'to throw', it describes a form that is 'thrown to' a noun to act like an adjective. That's why this use of adjective simply means 'about' or 'working as' an adjective.