adjective
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English adjectif, adjective, from Old French adjectif, from Latin adiectivus, from adiciō + -īvus, from ad- ("to, towards, at") + iaciō ("throw").
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/, /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɛk.tɪv/, /ˈæd͡ʒ.ək.tɪv/, /ˈæd͡ʒ.ə.tɪv/
adjective (plural adjectives)
(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent. - The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives.
- (obsolete) 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
- French: nom adjectif, adjectif
- German: Adjektiv, Eigenschaftswort, Beiwort, Wiewort, Beschreibungswort
- Italian: aggettivo
- Portuguese: adjetivo
- Russian: и́мя прилага́тельное
- Spanish: adjetivo
adjective (not comparable)
- (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
- Synonyms: adjectival
- (legal) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 10, 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.
- Synonyms: procedural
- Antonyms: substantive
- (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- Antonyms: substantive
- (obsolete, 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
- 1899, John Jay Chapman, Emerson and Other Essays, AMS Press (1969) (as reproduced ↗ in Project Gutenberg)
adjective (adjectives, present participle adjectiving; simple past and past participle adjectived)
- (transitive) 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.
- 1805, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta: or The Diversions of Purley Part 2
- (transitive, chiefly as a participle) To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.
- French: adjectiver, adjectiviser, adjectivaliser
- Italian: aggettivare
- Portuguese: adjetivar
- Spanish: adjetivar
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