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Definitions: Adjective |
AdjectiveAdjective1. Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective; "adjectival syntax"; "an adjective clause". 2. (law) applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure; "adjective law". Noun1. A word that expresses an attribute of something. 2. The word class that qualifies nouns. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adjective" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Synonyms: AdjectiveSynonyms: adjectival (adj), procedural (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: substantive (adj). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In English language, an adjective is a part of speech which can be thought of as a "describing word". An adjective modifies a noun in a similar way to a determiner. In some sentences, past participles are used as adjectives.
In the examples, the adjective is highlighted in bold.
In English, adjectives come before the noun they describe. In French, they usually come after the noun.
An adjectival phrase is a phrase with an adjective as its head. (e.g. full of toys) . Adjectival phrases may occur as premodifiers to a noun (a bin full of toys), or as predicatives to a verb. (the bin is full of toys.)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Adjective."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adjunct | Noun: adjunct; addition, additament; additum, affix, appelidage, annexe, annex; augment, augmentation; increment, reinforcement, supernumerary, accessory, item; garnish, sauce; accompaniment; adjective, addendum; complement, supplement; continuation. |
Book | Writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor, subeditor; playwright; poet. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Nouns, adverbs, adjective here and there. (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) | |
Clever | As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
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Civil Liberties | India | By using the adjective "missionary," the RSS taps into a longstanding fear of foreign religious domination. (references) |
Economic History | Switzerland | Nationality: Noun and adjective (singular and plural)--Swiss. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Adjective" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Adjective" is used about 507 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 507 | 11,929 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "adjective": Adjective color ♦ classifying adjective ♦ descriptive adjective ♦ numerical adjective ♦ predicate adjective ♦ predicative adjective ♦ qualifying adjective ♦ relational adjective. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "adjective": noun-adjective. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adjective | 673 |
adjective list | 53 |
adjective clause | 37 |
adjective english | 28 |
adjective lesson plan | 22 |
adjective descriptive | 21 |
adjective predicate | 21 |
adjective and adverb | 19 |
adjective comparative | 16 |
spanish adjective | 16 |
french adjective | 15 |
adjective dictionary | 13 |
adjective example | 11 |
adjective possessive | 11 |
adjective words | 10 |
adjective worksheets | 10 |
adjective resume | 10 |
adjective compound | 9 |
adjective superlative | 9 |
adjective english in | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "adjective"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | adjektief. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | adjektivor, mbiemëror, mbiemër (attribute, cognomen, last name, name, surname). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محتاج إلى مادة مثبتة, نعتي (adjectival, qualifier), نعت (attribute, attributive, description, epithet, qualification), وصفي (adjectival, descriptive, qualifier), وصف (attributive, capacity, characterization, characterize, demonstrate, demonstration, depict, depiction, describe, description, dub, painting, picture, portray, term), صفة نعت أو لغة (attribute, character), إجرائي متعلق بالإجراءات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Basque | adjektibo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | несамостоятелен (reliant), нетраен (corruptible, infirm, passing, perishable, spoilable, weak), на прилагателно (adjectival), зависим (contingent, dependant, dependent, subject, subordinate, tributary), прилагателно, прилагателен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catalan | adjectiu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 形容辭 , 形容詞 , 形容词 (Adjectival, Adjectivally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | adjektivum, přídavné jméno. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | adjektiv. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | adjectief, bijvoeglijk naamwoord. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | adjektivo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | lýsingarorð. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | وصفی (Adjectival, Apposition, Descriptive, Ordinal), وابسته (Affiliate, Akin, Attache, Attendant, Correlate, Dependent, Germane, Relative, Relevant, Subordinate), تابع (Accessory, Ancillary, Citizen, Function, Incident, Passive, Sub, Submission, Subsidiary, Suffragan, Tributary), صفت (Epithet, Qualification, Quality, Schema). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | adjektiivi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | adjectif (adjectival). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | eigenskipswurd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Eigenschaftswort, Adjektiv. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επίθετο (epithet, surname). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תואר "שם, תואר (appearance, aspect, degree, designation, epithet, figure, shape, title), שם "תואר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | melléknév. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kata sifat (attributive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | aidiacht. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | aggettivo (adjectival). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 虚字 (kanji representing verb or adjective), 連"形 (attributive form, participle adjective), 形容詞 (true adjective), 形容動詞 (adjectival noun, quasi-adjective). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きょじ (falsehood, kanji representing verb or adjective), れ"たいけい (attributive form, participle adjective), けいようどうし (adjectival noun, quasi-adjective). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 형용사 (Adjectival). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | marennym. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occitan | adjectiu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | athetivo (adjectival). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adjectiveay adjetivo. (various references) atributiv (adjectival, attributive, attributively), adjectival (adjectival, adjectively), adjectiv, suplimentar (accessary, additional, adscititious, auxiliary, circumstantial, extra, further, incidental, odd, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary), subordonat (adjunct, ancillary, dependent, inferior, junior, paternalized, subordinate, under), secundar (bye, secondary, seconds hand, subordinate, subsidiary), relativ (adjectival, attributive, comparative, comparatively, proportional, relative, relatively), dependent (appendant, appurtenant, paternalized, subject), complementar (complementary). (various references) прилагательное (adj, adjt). (various references) pridevni, pridev (attribute). (various references) adjetivo. (various references) adjektiv. (various references) sıfat (adjectival, attribute, attribution, attributive, capacity, character, determinant, epithet, title), bílgísínde, önad. (various references) sypat (appearance). (various references) залежний (dependent, feudatory, reliant, subject, subordinate, vassal), підлегла людина, підлеглий (ancillary, dependant, dependent, inferior, junior, secondary, subaltern, subordinate, subservient, under), прикметник, приметковий. (various references) thêm v o; lệ thuộc, phụ v o (accessary, accessory, additional, adscititious). (various references) ansoddair. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adjectivum, adposita, adpositaque, adposite, adpositi, adpositis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "adjective": adjectively, adjectives. (additional references) | |
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"Adjective" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abjective, adgective, adjecive, adjectif, adjectiv, adjectove, adjectvie, adjeitive, adjestive, adjetive, adjictive, adjitive, advective, ajective. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "adjective" (pronounced a"jiktiv) |
| 4 | -k t i v | active, addictive, affective, attractive, collective, conductive, connective, constructive, corrective, counterproductive, defective, destructive, detective, directive, distinctive, effective, elective, hyperactive, inactive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, irrespective, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perspective, photoconductive, predictive, proactive, productive, projective, prospective, protective, radioactive, reactive, reconstructive, reflective, refractive, reproductive, respective, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, subjective, superconductive, unattractive, unproductive, vindictive. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, adaptive, additive, administrative, adoptive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, authoritative, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, congestive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, cooperative, corruptive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, dissipative, distributive, duplicative, elucidative, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inattentive, incentive, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, inventive, investigative, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, plaintive, positive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, probative, prognosticative, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, receptive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restive, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, substantive, suggestive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vituperative. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-j-t-v" | |
-2 letters: dejecta, deviate, evicted, jadeite. | |
-3 letters: active, advect, advice, dative, deceit, deject, device, ejecta, evited, ideate. | |
-4 letters: acted, cadet, caved, cavie, cited, civet, davit, deave, deice, dicta, eaved, edict, eject, evade, evict, evite, jived, vatic, viced, vitae. | |
-5 letters: aced, acid, adit, aide, ajee, avid, cade, cadi, caid, cate, cave, cede, cedi, cete, cite, dace, date, deet, deva, dice, diet, dita, dite, diva, dive, eave, edit, eide, etic, iced, idea, jade, jeed, jete, jive, tace, teed, tide, tied, vice, vide, vied, vita. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-j-t-v" | |
+1 letter: adjectives. | |
+2 letters: adjectively. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 6A 65 63 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. .--- . -.-. - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01101010 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d j e c t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 006A 0065 0063 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357076716986758871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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