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adjective

noun as in word that modifies a noun

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This time he decline to offer an adjective, said he would leave it to others to go through the tea leaves of the election.

How could I have written something so, so (fill in the negative adjective)?

And so we are all supposed to denote something from “working mother” as a descriptive adjective.

You use an adjective, it better be a sixty-four-dollar adjective.

The French have an adjective that the English language lacks—“digest.”

Pope-holy; properly an adjective, meaning 'holy as a pope,' hence, hypocritical.

When the exact sense was lost, the suffix -al seemed to be adjectival, and the word dismal became at last an adjective.

This is the termination of the present participle and verbal adjective derived from verbs in -a.

This is wrong, and probably due to the dropping of the final e in the definite adjective firste.

Once more there is no definition of the term able-bodied, which is used sometimes as an adjective and sometimes as a substantive.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to adjective, such as: accessory, adjunct, adnoun, attribute, dependent, and identifier.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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