adjective

The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives.

"They'll have to invent new adjectives when I come back. You wait!"

1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 8:

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

it must be an adjective of dain

1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC:

byvoeglike naamwoord

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

形容詞 (けいようし, keiyōshi) (for "い" ending in Japanese, and translation for "adjective" in other languages)

From Middle English adjectif, adjective, from Old French adjectif, from Latin 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.


adjective

(grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.

The whole English law, substantive and adjective.

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:

(law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.

(chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.

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.

1899, John Jay Chapman, Emerson and Other Essays, AMS Press (1969) (as reproduced in Project Gutenberg)

(obsolete, reflected in the chemical sense, but extinct as a general sense) Incapable of independent function.

reflected in the chemical sense; but extinct as a general sense; reflected in the chemical sense; but extinct as a general sense

adjectiu

of a dye that needs the use of a mordant


adjective

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

In English, instead of adjectiving our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, adjectived signs from other languages[…]

1832, William Hunter, An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives, page 46:

(transitive) To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.

(transitive, chiefly as a participle) To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.

en-verb

adjective (third-person singular simple present adjectives, present participle adjectiving, simple past and past participle adjectived)

adjectives (present singular third-person)
adjectiving (participle present)
adjectived (participle past)
adjectived (past)

muuntaa adjektiiviksi

to make an adjective of — see also adjectivize


adjective

vocative masculine singular of adjectīvus


adjective

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

inflection of adjectivar:
third-person singular imperative