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
adjective (plural adjectives)
(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.
(obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
• See adjective
• 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 (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
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
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
22 April 2025
(adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow; “bright silver candlesticks”; “a burnished brass knocker”; “she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves”; “rows of shining glasses”; “shiny black patents”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
