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What (who) is Adjective - definition

PART OF SPEECH THAT DESCRIBES A NOUN OR PRONOUN
Adjectives; Adj.; Attributive adjective and predicative adjective; Attributive adjective; Characterological adjectives; Absolute adjective; Adjectival form; Gradable adjective; Ungradable adjective; Adjective order; Adjective order in English; Order of adjectives; Order of adjectives in English; OSASCOMP

adjective         
¦ noun Grammar a word naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or technical.
Derivatives
adjectival adjective
adjectivally adverb
Origin
ME: from OFr. adjectif, -ive, from L. adject-, adicere, 'add'.
Adjective         
·noun Relating to procedure.
II. Adjective ·noun Not standing by itself; dependent.
III. Adjective ·noun A dependent; an Accessory.
IV. Adjective ·vt To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective.
V. Adjective ·noun Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence.
VI. Adjective ·noun 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.
adjective         
n.
(Technical term of the grammarian.) Qualifying word or term, descriptive name, attributive name, attributive, attribute, connotative name, adnoun. See epithet.

Wikipedia

Adjective

An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes a noun or noun phrase. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun.

Traditionally, adjectives were considered one of the main parts of speech of the English language, although historically they were classed together with nouns. Nowadays, certain words that usually had been classified as adjectives, including the, this, my, etc., typically are classed separately, as determiners.

Here are some examples:

  • That's a funny idea. (attributive)
  • That idea is funny. (predicative)
  • Tell me something funny. (postpositive)
  • The good, the bad, and the funny. (substantive)
Examples of use of Adjective
1. Monsieur le President had been to the adjective mine.
2. If "environment" the noun is bad, the adjective is worse.
3. Australian–born Andy Thomas uses "patent" as an adjective.
4. Joe read out Rich‘s excoriating review, giving passionate emphasis to every dismissive phrase and lousy adjective.
5. Finally, Mr Rowley announced÷ Im not going to argue with you over an adjective.