adjective
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- noun
- /ˈædʒɪktɪv/
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adjetivo
- To create phrases, you can use an adjective like 'happy' to describe a noun, as in 'happy child'.
- adjective + noun
- adverbs and adjectives
- verbs and adjectives
And they got that one adjective correct, baby.
- And they got that one adjective correct, baby.
- And then the strangest adjective is omnipotent.
- Why are we not using descriptive adjectives any longer?
- Now vegans would would use much stronger adjectives than bad and not good.
- So now trans is the adjective which applies to woman, the noun.
- Oh well, just curious, what are some adjectives for how you see me?
- So again, adjectives like adverbs water things down a little bit.
- The teenager who called me Osama with a few colorful adjectives alongside that.
- The reality is, is what you want is a list of adjectives that have meaning to you, right?
- Distressed, upset, confused, Jarred, many other adjectives and feelings.
- Is he using stealing as a verb or an adjective?
Examples
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OK, give me two adjectives about this sound.
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The only adjective that a comedian wants is funny.
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And I would say the last adjective would be honest.
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Fulfilling all of those adjectives is hard, right?
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I was sure she'd call on me to read my list of adjectives describing weather, and she did.
Fiction book (2001) -
Why are we not using descriptive adjectives any longer?
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Gutmann calls these elements political education, but the adjective "political" tends to convey a narrow meaning.
Academic text (1990) -
The three adjectives which best describe this killer are sadistic... intelligent and dangerous.
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A further linguistic question is whether the adjective "theological" applies to "education" alone or to both nouns.
Academic text (2017) -
The word adjective describes qualities like color or size, such as in 'red' or 'large'.
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
Etymology
Adjective comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and jacere 'to throw', so it originally meant something 'thrown to' a noun. Think of an adjective as a small word 'thrown to' a noun to add description, which is why it tells size, color, or number.