Adjective (ˈædʒəktɪv)

Definition of adjective in English:

adjective

NOUN

Grammar

A word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.

Origin
Late Middle English from Old French adjectif, -ive, from Latin adject- ‘added’, from the verb adicere, from ad- ‘towards’ + jacere ‘throw’. The term was originally used in the phrase noun adjective, translating Latin nomen adjectivum, a translation of Greek onoma epitheton ‘attributive name’.

Pronunciation
adjective
/ˈajəktiv/ /ˈædʒəktɪv/

‘Use verbs, nouns and adjectives and get a copy of Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases.’
‘In Swinburne's work as a whole many adjectives are used as nouns and many nouns as adjectives.’
‘Firstly I think one of the big problems is the use of descriptive adjectives as nouns.’
‘Reading becomes an exercise in spotting nouns and adjectives; there is nothing to engage or delight.’

Adjective (ˈædʒəktɪv)

by ANCIENT_WOLFY January 19, 2022

Yahiamice's [PLACE] of [ADJECTIVE]ness

a discord server, owned and created by Yahiamice (Yahi for short)

person 1: Is Yahiamice's PLACE of ADJECTIVEness any good?
person 2: yeah you should join it, there are a lot of funny people

by jarbedious jarmelious 2nd jr September 7, 2023

adjectivize

turning a non-adjective into an adjective

adjectivize is similar to verbilize such as the noun google becoming a verb

by bibliosapian April 10, 2010

Adjective-Space

Adjective-Space is derived from applying the natural progression of physics to the real world. Physics progresses by reducing the number of independent dimensions of the theoretical world into a manageable number of meaningful orthenormal vectors. Physicist have succeeded in removing all meaning from their field of study fairly recently when the last three dimensions collapsed into each other, Mass, distance and time. Adjective theorists wish to apply this same idea to adjective space, they attempt to find ways to reduce the total number of adjectives used. An example of this would be Color-Space. Recently Adjective theorists have managed to reduce the number of colors into three (Red, Green and Blue) Thus making other adjectives totally unnecessary. Purple is no longer needed, one red and one blue create purple. This is a rather simplistic example, an example of one of the more troubling adjectives is moist. Moist can clearly be described as a vector with the dimensions sticky and damp. The problem is that no one can agree on exactly the amount of sticky and damp needed to create one moist.

There has been much contention over the existence of Adjective-Space. The main competition is Poetry Theorists who believe that reducing the number of adjective dimensions in Adjective-Space reduces the utility of the space. The most famous of the anti-Adjective theory books was 1984.

Adjective-Space... Do I really need an example?

by kodiac1 July 5, 2006

Jublomatic (adjective)

A woman who is of sexual interest to a Jublomat, i.e. has large breasts.

Woah mate get a load of the tits on her, she's jublomatic and no mistake.

by partridge May 15, 2003

church (adjective)

The act of being very prude. (usually for religious reasons)

1. I tried to get it in with that girl last night
2. what happened?
1. she church (adjective) AF
2. i knew that was a purity ring

by BPteamGORRILLA August 20, 2012

adjectiveless

too good to be true. describes a noun that doesn't step up to any adjectives

The Broadway show was adjectiveless.

by Ugwana April 10, 2010