adjective
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Engleski
EngleskiSistem
Etymology
From Srednji Engleski adjectif, adjective, from Stari Francuski adjectif, from Latinski adiectivus, from adiciō + -īvus, from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + iaciō (“throw”). The Latin word adiectivus in turn was a calque of Antički Grčki ἐπιθετικόν (epithetikón, “added”), a derivative of the compound verb ἐπιτίθημι (epitíthēmi), from which also comes epithet.
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
- 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 8:
- "They'll have to invent new adjectives when I come back. You wait!"
- (obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
- Šablon:RQ:Fuller Cambridge
en
—it must be an adjective of dain
- Šablon:RQ:Fuller Cambridge
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- attributive adjective
- cardinal adjective
- demonstrative adjective
- descriptive adjective
- indefinite adjective
- interrogative adjective
- limiting adjective
- nominalized adjective
- noun adjunct
- numerical adjective
- ordinal adjective
- participial adjective
- possessional adjective
- possessive adjective
- postpositive adjective
- predicative adjective
- prepositive adjective
- privative adjective
- proper adjective
- quasi-adjective
- relational adjective
- relative adjective
- substantive adjective
Derived terms
Translations
(grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent
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Adjective
adjective (not comparable)
- (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
- Sinonim: adjectival
- (law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
- Sinonim: procedural
- Antonim: substantive
- (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- Antonim: 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.
- Sinonimi: dependent, derivative
- Koordinatni termini: adjunct, adjunctive, adjutant
- 1899, John Jay Chapman, Emerson and Other Essays, AMS Press (1969) (as reproduced in Project Gutenberg)
Translations
incapable of independent function
adjectival — see adjectival
methods of enforcement and rules of procedure
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Verb
adjective (third-person singular simple present 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.
- 1832, William Hunter, An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives, page 46:
- In English, instead of adjectiving our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, adjectived signs from other languages […]
- 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.
Synonyms
Translations
to make an adjective of — See also translations at adjectivize
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See also
Francuski
FrancuskiPronunciation
Adjective
adjective
Latinski
LatinskiAdjective
adjectīve
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Rumunski
Rumunski
Pronunciation
Noun
adjective
Škotski
ŠkotskiEtymology
From Latinski (nomen) adjectivum.
Noun
adjective (plural adjectives)
- (grammar) adjective