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
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
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