Wikimore

See also: adjectivé

English

From Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#ADJECTIVE Category:English terms derived from Middle English#ADJECTIVE adjectif, adjective, from Old French Category:English terms derived from Old French#ADJECTIVE adjectif, from Latin Category:English terms derived from Latin#ADJECTIVE adiectivus, from adiciō + -īvus, from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + iaciō (“throw”). The Latin word adiectivus in turn was a calque of Ancient Greek ἐπιθετικόν (epithetikón, “added”), a derivative of the compound verb ἐπιτίθημι (epitíthēmi), from which also comes epithet.

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(grammar Category:en:Grammar#ADJECTIVE) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.
The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives.
Category:English terms with usage examples#ADJECTIVE
- 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 8:
  "They'll have to invent new adjectives when I come back. You wait!"
  Category:English terms with quotations#ADJECTIVE
- 2019 September 24, Jessie Yeung, quoting Pope Francis, “Pope Francis loves nouns but is ‘allergic’ to adjectives”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 27 September 2019:
  "We have fallen into the culture of adjectives and adverbs, and we have forgotten the strength of nouns," he said.
  Category:English terms with quotations#ADJECTIVE
- 2023 April 27, George Ramsay, “Pelé added to Portuguese dictionary as an adjective for ‘out of the ordinary’”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 19 December 2024:
  The Brazilian football legend, who passed away in December, has been added to the Portuguese edition of the Michaelis dictionary as an adjective to describe someone or something “out of the ordinary.”
  Category:English terms with quotations#ADJECTIVE
(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#ADJECTIVE) A dependent; an accessory.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC:
  it must be an adjective of dain
  Category:English terms with quotations#ADJECTIVE

(grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent

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adjective (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#ADJECTIVE Category:English adjectives#ADJECTIVE Category:English uncomparable adjectives#ADJECTIVE Category:English entries with incorrect language header#ADJECTIVE Category:Pages with entries#ADJECTIVE Category:Pages with 6 entries#ADJECTIVE

(grammar Category:en:Grammar#ADJECTIVE) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
Synonym: adjectival
(law Category:en:Law#ADJECTIVE) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter X, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
  The whole English law, substantive and adjective.
  Category:English terms with quotations#ADJECTIVE
Synonym: procedural

Antonym: substantive
(chemistry Category:en:Chemistry#ADJECTIVE, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
Antonym: substantive
(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#ADJECTIVE, reflected in the chemical sense, but extinct as a general sense) Incapable of independent function.
- 1899, John Jay Chapman, Emerson and Other Essays, AMS Press (1969) (as reproduced in Project Gutenberg)
  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.
Synonyms: dependent, derivative

Coordinate terms: adjunct, adjunctive, adjutant

incapable of independent function

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adjectival — see adjectival

methods of enforcement and rules of procedure

Category:Entries with translation boxes#ADJECTIVE

of a dye that needs the use of a mordant

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adjective (third-person singular simple present adjectives, present participle adjectiving, simple past and past participle adjectived)Category:English lemmas#ADJECTIVE Category:English verbs#ADJECTIVE Category:English entries with incorrect language header#ADJECTIVE Category:Pages with entries#ADJECTIVE Category:Pages with 6 entries#ADJECTIVE

(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#ADJECTIVE) To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
- 1805, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta: or The Diversions of Purley Part 2
  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.
- 1832, William Hunter, An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives, page 46:
  In English, instead of adjectiving our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, adjectived signs from other languages […]
  Category:English terms with quotations#ADJECTIVE
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#ADJECTIVE, chiefly as a participle) To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.

to make an adjective of — see also adjectivize

French

adjectiveCategory:French non-lemma forms#ADJECTIVE Category:French adjective forms#ADJECTIVE Category:French entries with incorrect language header#ADJECTIVE Category:Pages with entries#ADJECTIVE Category:Pages with 6 entries#ADJECTIVE

Latin

adjectīveCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#ADJECTIVE Category:Latin adjective forms#ADJECTIVE Category:Latin terms spelled with J#ADJECTIVE Category:Latin entries with incorrect language header#ADJECTIVE Category:Pages with entries#ADJECTIVE Category:Pages with 6 entries#ADJECTIVE

Portuguese

adjectiveCategory:Portuguese non-lemma forms#ADJECTIVE Category:Portuguese verb forms#ADJECTIVE Category:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#ADJECTIVE Category:Pages with entries#ADJECTIVE Category:Pages with 6 entries#ADJECTIVE

Romanian

adjectiveCategory:Romanian non-lemma forms#ADJECTIVE Category:Romanian noun forms#ADJECTIVE Category:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#ADJECTIVE Category:Pages with entries#ADJECTIVE Category:Pages with 6 entries#ADJECTIVE

Scots

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From Latin Category:Scots terms derived from Latin#ADJECTIVE (nomen) adjectivum.

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Wikimore

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