adjective

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.

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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.

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(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)

it must be an adjective of dain

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


adjective

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

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

adjectiu

of a dye that needs the use of a mordant

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


absolute

en-adj

absolute (comparative more absolute or absoluter, superlative most absolute or absolutest)

more absolute (comparative)
absoluter (comparative)
most absolute (superlative)
absolutest (superlative)
abs. (alternative)
absolut (alternative)

conditional

antonym(s) of “free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions”

antonym(s) of “independent of references

First attested around 1380. From Middle English absolut, from Middle French absolut, from Latin absolūtus (“unconditional; unfettered; completed”), perfect passive participle of absolvō (“loosen, set free, complete”), from ab (“away”) + solvo (“to loose”). Influenced in part by Old French absolu. Compare absolve.

независим

grammar: not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence

categorical

(physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.

Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.

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possessive adjective

en-noun

possessive adjective (plural possessive adjectives)

"My", "its" and "his" are possessive adjectives.


attributive adjective

attributive adjective (plural attributive adjectives)

The word “red” in “the red balloon” is an attributive adjective.

In the phrase “attributive adjective”, “attributive” is the attributive adjective.

(grammar) An adjective that modifies the head of the noun phrase in which it occurs; an adjective that precedes the word or phrase it modifies.


demonstrative adjective

demonstrative adjective (plural demonstrative adjectives)

An adjective that points out which person, object or concept is being referred to; whether it is singular or plural; and whether it is near or far from the speaker or writer.


descriptive adjective

descriptive adjective (plural descriptive adjectives)


indefinite adjective

indefinite adjective (plural indefinite adjectives)

An indefinite pronoun used as a determiner.

adjectif indéfini

an indefinite pronoun used as a determiner


interrogative adjective

interrogative adjective (plural interrogative adjectives)

interrogative pronoun
interrogative pronoun

an interrogative pronoun used as an adjective


limiting adjective

limiting adjective (plural limiting adjectives)

possessive adjective
possessive adjective

demonstrative adjective
demonstrative adjective

indefinite adjective
indefinite adjective

interrogative adjective
interrogative adjective

An adjective that limits a noun. They include definite articles, indefinite articles, possessive adjectives, demonstrative adjectives, indefinite adjectives, interrogative adjectives, cardinal adjectives, ordinal adjectives, proper adjectives and nouns used as adjectives.


numerical adjective

numerical adjective (plural numerical adjectives)

A number used as an adjective: either a cardinal adjective (such as "one") or an ordinal adjective (such as "third").


participial adjective

participial adjective (plural participial adjectives)

present participle
present participle#English

A participle used as an adjective; it may be either a present participle or a past participle, and used either attributively or predicatively.


predicative adjective

predicative adjective (plural predicative adjectives)

predicative adjectives (plural)
predicate adjective (alternative)

‘Complicated’ is a predicative adjective in the sentence ‘Grammar is complicated.’

In ‘This looks bad,’ the word ‘bad’ is the predicative adjective.

(grammar) An adjective that is not part of the noun clause it modifies, but is linked to it with a copula.


proper adjective

proper adjective (plural proper adjectives)

These two general classes of adjectives may also be divided into several others, of which the following are the most important: — 1. A proper adjective is one that is derived from a proper name; as, American . . .

1859, William Harvey Wells, A Grammar of the English Language: For the Use of Schools:

(grammar) An adjective derived from a proper noun, such as British derived from Britain.


cardinal adjective

cardinal adjective (plural cardinal adjectives)


ordinal adjective

ordinal adjective (plural ordinal adjectives)


postpositive adjective

postpositive adjective (plural postpositive adjectives)

In the sentence "She is beauty personified," the postpositive adjective is "personified", modifying "beauty".

The word "better" is a postpositive adjective in "I want something better", modifying "better".

In "This seems sufficient", "sufficient" is the postpositive adjective, modifying "this".

(grammar) An adjective that follows the noun or pronoun that it modifies.

adjetivo pospositivo

adjective that follows the word it modifies


relational adjective

relational adjective (plural relational adjectives)

In some languages, a noun cannot modify another noun by being placed right next to it (like an adjective); for such languages a noun might have a corresponding relational adjective (obtained from the noun by some morphological adjustment) which can modify another noun. For example, in the English expression architectural heritage, "architectural" does not refer to a property or quality; it expresses a relationship to the corresponding noun "architecture". For languages which do allow direct adjective-like modification of a noun by another noun, they might have relational adjectives anyway, for example, due to borrowing them from the former type of languages.

(grammar) An adjective that defines a relation and not a qualification.