Look up: Adjective

1. adjective
   [adj] - (law) applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure 2. [n] - a word that expresses an attribute of something 3. [n] - the word class that qualifies nouns
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2. Adjective
   (Adjective (adjectival)) A word class which contains words that can add more detail (i.e. modify) to a noun or pronoun - e.g. the busy teacher (pre-modification) it was awful (post-modification). Adjectives are gradable depending on whether a comparison is made with one other thing or many other things: big, bigger, biggest difficult, more difficul…
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3. Adjective
   An adjective is a word that describes somebody or something. Old, white, busy, careful and horrible are all adjectives. Adjectives either come before a noun, or after verbs such as be, get, seem, look (linking verbs): a busy day I'm busy nice shoes those shoes look niceAdjectives (and adverbs) can have comparative and superlative forms. The compar…
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4. Adjective
   Ad"jec·tive (ăd"jĕk*tĭv) adjective [ See Adjective , noun ] 1. Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or 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. …
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5. Adjective
   Ad"jec·tive noun [ Latin adjectivum (sc. nomen ), neut. of adjectivus that is added, from adjicere : confer French adjectif . See Adject .] 1. (Gram.) 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 so …
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6. Adjective
   Ad"jec·tive transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Adjectived ; present participle & verbal noun Adjectiving ] 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 < …
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7. adjective
   procedural adjective relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law ; `adjective law`
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8. adjective
   noun a word that expresses an attribute of something
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9. Adjective
   In grammar, an `adjective` is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun (called the adjective's `subject`), giving more information about what the noun or pronoun refers to. Collectively, adjectives form one of the traditional eight parts of speech, though linguists today distinguish adjectives from words such as determiners that used to be considered adjectives but that are now recognized to be different. Not all languages...
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10. Adjective
    In grammar, an `adjective` is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun (called the adjective's `subject`), giving more information about what the noun or pronoun refers to. Collectively, adjectives form one of the traditional eight parts of speech, though linguists today distinguish adjectives from words such as determiners that used to be considered adjectives but that are now recognized to be different. Not all languages...
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11. Adjective
    • (n.) Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence. • (n.) Not standing by itself; dependent. • (n.) Relating to procedure. • (n.) 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, o...
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12. adjective
    (from the article `Albanian language`) ...is that nouns are further inflected obligatorily with suffixes to show definite or indefinite meaning: e.g., bukë `bread,` buka `the bread.` ... Apart from these fundamental rules of word order, the principles governing the positions of adjectives, adverbs, and prepositi...
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13. adjective
    
    1. a word that expresses an attribute of something
    2. the word class that qualifies nouns
    
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