Definition of Adjectives. Meaning of Adjectives. Synonyms of Adjectives

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Definition of Adjectives

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 Adjectives from wikipedia

- closed class of adjectives, and new adjectives are not easily derived. Similarly, native ****anese adjectives (i-adjectives) are considered a closed class (as...
- Look up adjectival in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Adjectival may refer to: Anything related to or serving as an adjective Adjectival noun (****anese)...
- nominalized adjective is an adjective that has undergone nominalization, and is thus used as a noun. In the rich and the poor, the adjectives rich and poor...
- neuter. Other adjectives such as celer, celeris, celere belong to the third declension. There are no fourth- or fifth-declension adjectives. Pronouns are...
- than you are). Adjectives and adjective phrases function in two basic ways, attributively or predicatively. An attributive adjective (phrase) precedes...
- important, and right. Adjectives head adjective phrases, and the most typical members function as modifiers in noun phrases. Most adjectives either inflect for...
- changes nouns into adjectives) -ish (usually changes nouns into adjectives/class-maintaining, with the word class remaining an adjective) -ful (usually changes...
- articles, and adjectives to distinguish case, number, and gender. For example, all German adjectives have several different forms. The adjective neu (new)...
- are pronounced with a 'ch' sound (e.g. the adjective Czech does not qualify). Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms are also used for various...
- as described in the main article. ****anese adjectives can compound. This is quite common for na-adjectives, which function essentially as attributive...