Definition of adjective. Meaning of adjective. Synonyms of adjective

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Definition of adjective

Adjective
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.
Adjective
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
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.

Meaning of adjective from wikipedia

- in grammar , an adjective is a 'describing' word; the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase , giving more
- the following is a partial list of adjectival forms of place names in english and their demonym ic equivalents, which denote the people or
- the following is a list of adjectival forms of countries and nations in english and their demonym ic equivalents. a country adjective
- the japanese language does not have words that function as adjective s in a syntactic sense date march 2012, i.e. tree diagrams of
- for example, in the english sentence this is a red ball, the adjective red is a modifier, modifying the noun ball. removal of the
- in the case of adjectives, the subjectival concord takes the place of the 'relative' part of the adjectival concord (that is, with the
- table of adjective declension endings: i- m , ii- m , iii- m , i- f , ii- f , iii- f , - ǎ- , -u- , -i- , -ā- , -i- , -ē- , ,
- an adjective phrase (or adjectival phrase) is a phrase the head word of which is an adjective , e.g. etc the adjective in an adjective
- in english orthography , the term 'proper adjective' is sometimes applied to adjective s that take initial capital letter s, and the term '
- a postpositive adjective is an adjective that appears after the noun that it modifies. are examples of adjectives that are primarily used