adjectives

Definition of adjectives in English English dictionary: plural of adjective; Language Problems; words that describe or modify nouns: Children’s dirty faces peered in the candy shop window The word dirty describes faces; words that describe nouns or pronouns Ex : Yoko is a wise woman; words that describe nouns or pronouns Ex : Yoko is a wise woman; a word which modifies a noun or a pronoun; 1 Compound Adjectives If two or more descriptive words precede the noun, each of which describes the noun, use a comma (or "and," when appropriate) between each descriptive word
adjective: Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective
adjective: Incapable of independent function
In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.
adjective: Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure
adjective law.
adjective: Of a dye that needs the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed
adjective: A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent
The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives.
attributive adjectives: plural form of attributive adjective
demonstrative adjectives: plural form of demonstrative adjective
interrogative adjectives: plural form of interrogative adjective
participial adjectives: plural form of participial adjective
possessive adjectives: plural form of possessive adjective
predicative adjectives: plural form of predicative adjective
proper adjectives: plural form of proper adjective
quasi adjectives: plural form of quasi adjective
substantive adjectives: plural form of substantive adjective
adjective: {a} that is added, a word added to a noun to denote some property of it
Adjective: A word that modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, refining, or qualifying it Adjectives can add color and immediacy to writing; however, adjective overuse is a stylistic error common to beginning writers
Adjective: noun modifier
Adjective: A word or group of words that describe or modify a noun example: The slow, meandering creek sang a gentle song
Adjective: Â A word that modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, refining, or qualifying it Â Adjectives can add color and immediacy to writing; however, adjective overuse is a stylistic error common to beginning writers
Adjective: of or relating to or functioning as an adjective; "adjectival syntax"; "an adjective clause"
Adjective: (adjektiv): one of the lexical word classes Adjectives are typically descriptive of a noun; they denote qualities, characteristics and properties of people, things and phenomena Examples: red, dark, small, round, overwhelmed, certain, fantastic Most adjectives can be compared for degree, and the forms are called positive, comparative and superlative, respectively Examples: small – smaller – smallest; good – better– best; difficult– more difficult – most difficult
Adjective: A word class which contains words that can add more detail (i e modify) to a noun or pronoun - e g the busy teacher (pre-modification); it was awful (post-modification) Adjectives are gradable depending on whether a comparison is made with one other thing or many other things: big, bigger, biggest; difficult, more difficult, most difficult
Adjective: An adjective is a word that modifies a noun by specifying an attribute of the noun Examples include adjectives of colour, like red, size or shape, like round or large, along with thousands of less classifiable adjectives like willing, onerous, etc In grammar rules, we use the symbol ADJ for the pre-terminal category of adjectives Adjectives are also used as the complements of sentences with verbs like "be" and "seem" - "He is happy", "He seems drunk" ADJ is a lexical grammatical category
Adjective: the word class that qualifies nouns
Adjective: declinable and comparisable word signifying a quality or a feature, used as an attribute or a complement
Adjective: a word used to describe somebody or something, for example The blue table, the happy child When a phrase is used to describe something, it is known as an 'adjectival phrase' ('as old as you') An adjectival clause is a clause which does the work of an adjective See clause
Adjective: a word that expresses an attribute of something
Adjective: A word that describes, limits, qualifies, or in any other way modifies a noun or pronoun A descriptive adjective names a quality of the noun or pronoun it modifies: junior year A proper adjective is formed from a proper noun: Hegelian philosophy 27a
Adjective: A word that modifies a noun or pronoun, specifying such things as what kind, how many, and which one
Adjective: An adjective describes a noun or another adjective An article is a special name for the adjectives a, an, and the When the articles a and an are used before a word that begins with a vowel sound, use an If the word starts with a consonant, use a
Adjective: A word that modifies a noun (someone or something): The little boy hit the big, blue, ball
Adjective: pg 17, par 3
Adjective: (used with `with' or in combination) covered by or as if by something scattered over or on Being distributed here and there without order
Adjective: applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure; "adjective law"
Adjective: A word that modifies a noun or noun substitute
Adjective: a word that serves as a modifier of a noun to denote a quality of the thing named, to indicate its quantity or extent, or to specify a thing as distinct from something else It answers the questions "which?", "how many?", and "what kind of?", though probably not all three at once
Adjective: (ad-jek-tiv) An adjective is a part of a sentence that modifies a noun by describing something about the noun
adjective: To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective
adjective: Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler
adjective: Not standing by itself; dependent
adjective: Additional or adjunct
adjective: Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence
adjective: A category of words, such as big or heavy, that modify or describe a noun and which can usually be used both attributively and predicatively, be graded, and be modified by an adverb
adjective: Relating to procedure
adjective: Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler,"
adjective: 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
adjective: A dependent; an accessory
adjective: {i} part of speech used to modify a noun (Grammar)
adjective: An adjective is a word such as `big', `dead', or `financial' that describes a person or thing, or gives extra information about them. Adjectives usually come before nouns or after link verbs. a word that describes a noun or pronoun. In the phrase 'black hat', 'black' is an adjective and in the sentence `It makes her happy', 'happy' is an adjective. (adjectif, from adjectus, past participle of adjicere, from ad- + jacere )
adjective: the word class that qualifies nouns a word that expresses an attribute of something applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure; "adjective law
adjective: wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler
adjective: adj

adjectives

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/ˈaʤəktəvz/ /ˈæʤɪktɪvz/

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