English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] Borrowing from Old French adjectif Latin adiectīvum ad ( “ next to ” ) + -iect- iaciō ( “ throw ” ) + -īvus
Pronunciation [ edit ]
IPA (key ) : /ˈæ.dʒɪk.tɪv/ , /ˈæ.dʒə.tɪv/
Adjective [ edit ] adjective (not comparable )
( 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.
Synonyms : dependent derivative
( grammar ) Adjectival ; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
Synonyms : adjectival
( law ) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
Macaulay
The whole English law, substantive and adjective .
Synonyms : procedural Antonyms : substantive
( chemistry, of a dye ) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
Antonyms : substantive
Translations [ edit ]
incapable of independent function
methods of enforcement and rules of procedure
Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: إِجْرَائِيّ (ar) ( ʾijrāʾiyy )
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
of a dye that needs the use of a mordant
adjective (plural adjectives
( grammar ) A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.
The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives .
( obsolete ) A dependent ; an accessory .
(Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)
Synonyms [ edit ] Derived terms [ edit ]
Terms derived from adjective
Translations [ edit ]
(grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent
Afrikaans: byvoeglike naamwoord (af)
Albanian: mbiemër (sq) , adjektiv
Arabic: نَعْت m ( naʿt ) , صِفَة f ( ṣifa )
Aragonese: adchectivo (an) m
Aramaic: גדשניא m ( gedšanāya )
Armenian: ածական (hy) ( acakan )
Assamese: please add this translation if you can
Asturian: axetivu (ast) m
Azeri: sifət (az)
Bashkir: сифат ( sifat )
Basque: adjektibo izenondo
Bavarian: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: прыметнік m ( prymjetnik )
Bengali: বিশেষণ (bn) ( biśeṣôṇ )
Bishnupriya Manipuri: please add this translation if you can
Breton: anv-gwan (br)
Bulgarian: прилагателно име (bg) n ( prilagatelno ime )
Burmese: နာမဝိသေသန (my) ( nama.wi.sesa.na. )
Buryat: тэмдэгэй нэрэ ( temdegej nere )
Catalan: adjectiu (ca) m
Cebuano: please add this translation if you can
Chechen: билгалдош ( bilgaldoš )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 形容詞 形容词 ( jing4 jung4 ci4 )
Mandarin: 形容詞 (zh) , 形容词 (zh) ( xíngróngcí )
Min Nan: 形容詞 形容词 ( hêng-iông-sû )
Chuvash: паллă ячĕ ( pallă jačĕ )
Cornish: hanow gwan m
Corsican: please add this translation if you can
Crimean Tatar: sıfat
Czech: přídavné jméno (cs) n
Danish: tillægsord adjektiv (da)
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: bijvoeglijk naamwoord (nl) n adjectief (nl) n
Erzya: раствал ( rastval )
Esperanto: adjektivo (eo)
Estonian: omadussõna adjektiiv (et)
Faroese: lýsingarorð n
Finnish: adjektiivi (fi) , laatusana (fi)
French: adjectif (fr) m
Friulian: agetîv
Galician: adxectivo (gl) m
Georgian: ზედსართავი სახელი (ka) ( zedsartavi saxeli )
German: Adjektiv (de) n Eigenschaftswort (de) n Beiwort (de) n Wiewort (de) n Beschreibungswort n
Greek: επίθετο (el) n ( epítheto )
Ancient: ἐπιθετικόν n ( epithetikón ) , ἐπίθετον n ( epítheton )
Hausa: please add this translation if you can
Hawaiian: haʻiʻano
Hebrew: שם תואר m ( shem to'ar )
Hindi: बिशेषण m ( biśeṣaṇ ) , विशेषण (hi) m ( viśeṣaṇ )
Hungarian: melléknév (hu)
Icelandic: lýsingarorð (is) n
Ido: adjektivo (io)
Indonesian: kata sifat (id) , adjektiva (id) , kata keadaan (id)
Interlingua: adjectivo (ia)
Interlingue: adjective (ie)
Irish: aidiacht (ga) f
Italian: aggettivo (it) m
Japanese: 形容詞 (ja) ( けいようし, keiyōshi ) ( for "い" ending in Japanese, and translation for "adjective" in other languages ) 形容動詞 (ja) ( けいようどうし, keiyō-dōshi ) ( for "だ/な" ending )
Javanese: please add this translation if you can
Kannada: ವಿಶೇಷಣ (kn) ( viśēṣaṇa )
Kashubian: przëdownik m
Kazakh: сын есім (kk) ( sın esim )
Khmer: គុណនាម (km) ( kunnaneam )
Korean: 형용사 (ko) ( hyeong-yongsa ) (形容詞 (ko) )
Kyrgyz: сын атооч ( sın atooç )
Lao: ຄຳຄຸນນາມ (lo) ( kham khun nām )
Latin: nomen adjectum n adjectum n
Latvian: īpašības vārds (lv) m adjektīvs (lv) m
Limburgish: bievooglik naamwaord n
Lingala: likonzámí
Lithuanian: būdvardis (lt)
Low German:
German Low German: Adjektiv
Lower Sorbian: adjektiw m
Luganda: please add this translation if you can
Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: придавка f ( pridavka )
Malay: kata sifat kata keadaan adjektif (ms)
Malayalam: നാമവിശേഷണം (ml) ( nāmaviśēṣaṇaṃ )
Maltese: aġġettiv (mt)
Manx: marennym m
Maori: kupuāhua
Mongolian: тэмдэг нэр (mn) ( temdeg ner )
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Norman: adjectif m ( Jersey )
Northern Sami: adjektiiva
Norwegian:
Bokmål: adjektiv (no)
Nynorsk: adjektiv (nn)
Novial: adjektive
Occitan: adjectiu m
Oriya: ବିଶେଷଣ (or) ( biśeṣaṇ )
Pashto: please add this translation if you can
Persian: صفت (fa) ( sefat )
Polish: przymiotnik (pl) m inan
Portuguese: adjectivo (pt) ( Portugal ) adjetivo (pt) ( Brazil )
Quechua: sutip rampaqnin
Romani:
Kalo Finnish Romani: adjektiivos
Romanian: adjectiv (ro) n
Romansch: adjectiv
Russian: и́мя прилага́тельное (ru) n ( ímja prilagátelʹnoje ) , прилага́тельное (ru) n ( prilagátelʹnoje )
Rwanda-Rwanda-Rundi: please add this translation if you can
Sanskrit: विशेषण (sa) m ( viśeṣaṇa )
Scots: adjective
Scottish Gaelic: buadhair m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ( Ekavian ) придев m ( Ijekavian ) придјев m
Roman: ( Ekavian ) pridev m ( Ijekavian ) pridjev (sh) m
Sicilian: aggittivi
Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: prídavné meno (sk) n
Slovene: pridevnik (sl) m
Somali: please add this translation if you can
Southern Altai: јарталгыш ( cartalgış )
Spanish: adjetivo (es) m
Sundanese: adjéktif
Swahili: kivumishi sifa (sw)
Swedish: adjektiv (sv) n
Tagalog: pang-uri (tl)
Tajik: сифат (tg) ( sifat )
Tamil: உரிச்சொல் (ta) ( uriccol )
Tatar: сыйфат (tt) ( sıyfat )
Telugu: విశేషణము (te) ( viśēṣaṇamu )
Thai: คุณศัพท์ (th) ( kun-ná-sàp ) , วิเศษณ์ (th) ( wí-sèet ) , นามวิเศษณ์
Turkish: sıfat (tr) , ön ad (tr)
Turkmen: sypat (tk)
Ukrainian: прикметник (uk) m ( prykmetnyk )
Upper Sorbian: adjektiw m
Urdu: بشیشن m ( biśeśan ) , صفت (ur) f ( sifat )
Uzbek: sifat (uz)
Vietnamese: tính từ (vi) , hình dung từ
Volapük: ladyek (vo)
Võro: umahussyna
Walloon: addjectif (wa)
Welsh: ansoddair (cy) m
West Frisian: eigenskipswurd (fy) n
Wolof: please add this translation if you can
Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: אַדיעקטיוו (yi) m ( adyektiv )
Zazaki: sifet vername
Zulu: isiphawulo (zu) class 7 /8
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.
Tooke
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.
1832 , William Hunter, An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives (page 46)
In English, instead of adjectiving our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, adjectived signs from other languages [ …]
Translations [ edit ] Adjective [ edit ] adjective
feminine singular of adjectif
Interlingue [ edit ] adjective
( grammar ) adjective
Adjective [ edit ] adjectīve
vocative masculine singular of adjectīvus
Romanian [ edit ] Pronunciation [ edit ] adjective
plural of adjectiv
Etymology [ edit ] adjective (plural adjectives
( grammar ) adjective
