adjective

English

Etymology

From Old French adjectif, from Latin adiectīvum, from ad (“next to”) + -iect-, perfect passive participle of iaciō (“throw”) + -īvus, adjective ending; hence, a word "thrown next to" a noun, modifying it.

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Adjective

adjective (not generally comparable; )

1. (obsolete) Incapable of independent function.
   • 1899, John Jay Chapman, Emerson and Other Essays, AMS Press (1969) (as reproduced in Project Gutenberg)

     In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.

2. (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
3. (law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.

   adjective law

4. (chemistry) Of a dye that needs the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.

Synonyms

• (incapable of independent function): dependent, derivative
• (functioning as an adjective): adjectival
• (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure): procedural

Antonyms

• (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure): substantive
• (of a dye that needs the use of a mordant): substantive

Derived terms

• adjectival
• adjective clause
• adjective phrase
• adjective patterns
• proper adjective

Translations

incapable of independent function

Catalan: adjectiu (ca)

Japanese: 非独立性の (ja), 依存性の (ja)

functioning as an adjective

Afrikaans: byvoeglike (af) Albanian: mbiemër Arabic: وصفي (ar) (wáʂfiy), نعتي (ar) (náʕtiy) Armenian: ածական (hy) (açakan) Asturian: axetivu (ast) m. Azeri: sıfət (az) Bashkir: please add this translation if you can Basque: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: please add this translation if you can Bengali: please add this translation if you can Catalan: adjectiu (ca) Chechen: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Cantonese: 形容詞的 Gan: please add this translation if you can Hakka: please add this translation if you can Mandarin: 形容词的 (cmn) Min Dong: please add this translation if you can Min Nan: please add this translation if you can Wu: please add this translation if you can Czech: přídavné jméno (cs) n. Danish: adjektiv (da) n. Dutch: bijvoeglijk, adjectivisch Esperanto: adjektivo (eo) Faroese: lýsingarorð (fo) n. Finnish: adjektiivi (in compound words), adjektiivinen (otherwise) French: adjectif (fr) German: adjektivisch (de) Greek: επιθετικός (el) (epithetikós) Hebrew: תואר השם (he) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: melléknévi (hu) Icelandic: lýsingarorð (is) Ido: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: kata sifat (id) Interlingua: adjective, adjectival Interlingue: please add this translation if you can Irish: aidiachtach (ga) Italian: aggettivale (it)

Japanese: 形容詞の (ja), 形容する (ja) (keiyō-suru) Javanese: please add this translation if you can Kashmiri: please add this translation if you can Kazakh: сын есім (kk) Khmer: គុណនាម (km) (kunnaneam) Korean: 형용사 (hyeong-yongsa) Kurdish: please add this translation if you can Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can Latin: adjectivum (la) Macedonian: придавен (mk) (prídaven) m., придавски (mk) (prídavski) m. Malay: kata sifat (ms) Nepali: please add this translation if you can Novial: adjektivi, adjektival Persian: وصفی (fa) (vasfi) Polish: przymiotnikowy m., przymiotnikowa f., przymiotnikowe n. Portuguese: adjectivo (Portugal), adjetivo (Brazil) Quechua: sutip rampaqnin (qu) Romanian: adjectival (ro) Russian: прилaгaтeльный (ru) (prilagátel’nyj) Slovak: prídavné meno (sk) n. Slovene: pridevniški m., pridevniška f., pridevniško n. Spanish: adjetivo (es) Sundanese: adjéktif (su) Swahili: tashbihi (sw) Swedish: adjektiv (sv) n. Tagalog: pang-uri (tl) Tajik: please add this translation if you can Tamil: please add this translation if you can Thai: คุณศัพท์ (kunnásàp) Turkish: sıfat (tr) Turkmen: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: прикметник (uk) m. Urdu: please add this translation if you can Uzbek: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: có tính chất tính từ (vi) Volapük: ladyekik (vo) West Frisian: eigenskip oantsjuttend (fy) Samogitian: please add this translation if you can

methods of enforcement and rules of procedure

Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can Arabic: اجرائي (ar) (’ijrā’iy) Dutch: formeel (nl) French: … de procédure (fr) German: formal (de) Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Icelandic: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: please add this translation if you can

Interlingua: adjective, adjectival Japanese: 手続き上の (ja) Polish: przymiotnikowy m., przymiotnikowa f., przymiotnikowe n. Portuguese: adjectivo (Portugal), adjetivo (Brazil) Romanian: adjectiv m., adjectivă f. Spanish: adjetivo (es) Swahili: tashbihi (sw) Thai: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can West Frisian: protokol (fy) c.

of a dye that needs the use of a mordant

Catalan: adjectiu (ca)

Noun

Wikipedia adjective (plural adjectives)

1. (grammar) A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.

   The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives.

Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:adjective

Translations

(grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent

Afrikaans: byvoeglike naamwoord (af) Albanian: mbiemër (sq) Tosk: adjektiv (als) Arabic: نعت (ar) (na3t), صفة (ar) (Sífa) f. Aragonese: please add this translation if you can Aramaic: גדשניא (gedšanāya) m. Armenian: ածական (hy) (açakan) Assamese: please add this translation if you can Asturian: axetivu (ast) m. Azeri: sifət (az) Bashkir: please add this translation if you can Basque: adjektibo (eu), izenondo (eu) Bavarian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: прыметнік (be) (prymetnik) Bengali: বিশেষণ (bn) (bisheshawn) Bishnupriya Manipuri: please add this translation if you can Breton: anv-gwan (br) Bulgarian: прилагателно име (prilagátelno íme) n. Burmese: နာမဝိသေသန (my) (nama witheithana) Buryat: please add this translation if you can Catalan: adjectiu (ca) m. Cebuano: please add this translation if you can Chechen: билгалдош Chinese: Cantonese: 形容詞 Gan: please add this translation if you can Hakka: please add this translation if you can Mandarin: trad. 形容詞, simpl. 形容词 (xíngróngcí) Min Dong: please add this translation if you can Min Nan: hêng-iông-sû Chuvash: паллă ячĕ Cornish: hanow gwan (kw) m. Corsican: please add this translation if you can Crimean Tatar: sıfat Croatian: pridjev (hr) m. Czech: přídavné jméno (cs) n. Danish: tillægsord (da), adjektiv (da) Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can Dutch: bijvoeglijk naamwoord (nl) n., adjectief (nl) n. Esperanto: adjektivo (eo) Estonian: omadussõna (et), adjektiiv (et) Faroese: lýsingarorð (fo) n. Finnish: adjektiivi (fi), laatusana (fi) French: adjectif (fr) m. Friulian: agetîv Galician: adxectivo (gl) Georgian: ზედსართავი სახელი (zedsart‘avi saxeli) German: Adjektiv (de) n., Eigenschaftswort (de) n. Greek: επίθετο (el) (epítheto) n. Hebrew: שם תואר (he) Hindi: बिशेषण (hi) (biśeṣaṇ) m. Hungarian: melléknév (hu) Icelandic: lýsingarorð (is) n. Ido: adjektivo (io) Indonesian: kata sifat (id), adjektiva (id) Interlingua: adjectivo (ia) Interlingue: adjective (ie) Irish: aidiacht (ga) f. Italian: aggettivo (it) m. Japanese: 形容詞 (ja) (keiyōshi) (けいようし) (for "い" ending in Japanese, and translation for "adjective" in other languages), 形容動詞 (ja) (keiyō-dōshi) (けいようどうし) (for "だ/な" ending)

Javanese: please add this translation if you can Kashubian: przëdownik m. Kazakh: сын есім (kk) Khmer: គុណនាម (km) (kunnaneam) Korean: 형용사 (形容詞, hyeong-yongsa) Kurdish: please add this translation if you can Latin: verbum adiectum (la) n. Latvian: īpašības vārds (lv) m. Limburgish: bievooglik naamwaord (li) n. Lingala: likonzámí (ln) Lithuanian: būdvardis (lt) Low Saxon: adjektiv (nds) Lower Sorbian: adjektiw m. Macedonian: придавка (mk) (prídavka) f. Malay: kata sifat (ms) Malayalam: നാമവിശേഷണം (ml) Maltese: aġġettiv (mt) Manx: marennym (gv) m. Mongolian: тэмдэг нэр (mn) (temdeg ner) Nepali: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: adjektiv (no) Nynorsk: adjektiv (nn) Novial: adjektive Oriya: ବିଶେଷଣ (or) Persian: صفت (sefat) Polish: przymiotnik (pl) m. Portuguese: adjectivo (pt) (Portugal), adjetivo (pt) (Brazil) Quechua: sutip rampaqnin (qu) Romanian: adjectiv (ro) n. Romansch: adjectiv (rm) Russian: имя прилагательное (ru) (ímja prilagátel’noje) n. Sanskrit: विशेषण (sa) (viśeṣaṇa) m. Scots: adjective Scottish Gaelic: buadhair (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: (Ekavian) придев (sh), (Ijekavian) придјев (sh) Roman: (Ekavian) pridev (sh), (Ijekavian) pridjev (sh) Sicilian: aggittivi (scn) Slovak: prídavné meno (sk) n. Slovene: pridevnik (sl) m. Spanish: adjetivo (es) m. Sundanese: adjéktif (su) Swahili: kivumishi (sw), sifa (sw) Swedish: adjektiv (sv) n. Tagalog: pang-uri (tl) Tajik: сифат (tg) Telugu: విశేషణము (viSEshaNamu) Thai: คำคุณศัพท์ (th) (kam koon sàp) Turkish: sıfat (tr), ön ad (tr) Ukrainian: прикметник (uk) m. Upper Sorbian: adjektiw m. Urdu: بشیشن (ur) (bišešan) m., صفت (ur) (sifat) f. Vietnamese: tính từ (vi) Volapük: ladyek (vo) Võro: umahussyna Walloon: addjectif (wa) West Frisian: eigenskipswurd (fy) n. Yiddish: אדיעקטיוו (yi) (adyektiv, adjektiw) m. Zazaki: please add this translation if you can

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French

Adjective

adjective f.

1. feminine form of adjectif

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Interlingue

Noun

adjective

1. adjective

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ad.ʒekˈti.ve]

Noun

adjective n. pl.

1. Plural form of adjectiv.