adjective
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What is the meaning of adjective?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.Examples: "The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives."; ""They'll have to invent new adjectives when I come back. You wait!""; ""We have fallen into the culture of adjectives and adverbs, and we have forgotten the strength of nouns," he said."
2. (obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.Examples: "it must be an adjective of dain"obsolete
adj (English)
1. (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.Synonyms: adjectivalnot-comparable
2. (law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.Examples: "The whole English law, substantive and adjective."Synonyms: proceduralAntonyms: substantivenot-comparable
3. (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.Antonyms: substantivenot-comparable
4. (obsolete, reflected in the chemical sense, but extinct as a general sense) Incapable of independent function.Examples: "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, derivativenot-comparableobsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.Examples: "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."; "In English, instead of adjectiving our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, adjectived signs from other languages[…]"transitive
2. (transitive, chiefly as a participle) To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary