ADJECTIVE

adjective, procedural

(adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law; “adjective law”

adjectival, adjective

(adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adjective; “adjectival syntax”; “an adjective clause”

adjective

(noun) the word class that qualifies nouns

adjective

(noun) a word that expresses an attribute of something

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

adjective (plural adjectives)

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

(obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.

Synonyms

• See adjective

Hyponyms

• attributive adjective

• cardinal adjective

• descriptive adjective

• demonstrative adjective

• indefinite adjective

• interrogative adjective

• limiting adjective

• numerical adjective

• ordinal adjective

• participial adjective

• possessive adjective

• predicative adjective

• proper adjective

• quasi-adjective

• relative adjective

• substantive adjective

Adjective

adjective (not comparable)

(obsolete) Incapable of independent function.

Synonyms: dependent, derivative

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

Synonym: adjectival

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

Synonym: procedural

Antonym: substantive

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

Antonym: substantive

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.

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

Source: Wiktionary

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Ad"jec*tive, a. Etym: [See Adjective, n.]

1. Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an word sentence.

2. Not standing by itself; dependent. Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency.

3. Relating to procedure. "The whole English law, substantive and adjective." Macaulay.

Ad"jec*tive, n. Etym: [L. adjectivum (sc. nomen), neut. of adjectivus that is added, fr. adjicere: cf. F. adjectif. See Adject.]

1. (Gram.)

Definition: A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.

2. A dependent; an accessory. Fuller.

Ad"jec*tive, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjectived; p. pr. & vb. n. Adjectiving.]

Definition: To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective. [R.] 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. Tooke.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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