noun. The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase.

noun. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as white in the phrase a white house.

adjective. Adjectival.

adjective. Specifying the processes by which rights are enforced, as opposed to the establishing of such rights; remedial.

adjective. Not standing alone; derivative or dependent.

To make an adjective of; form into an adjective; give the character of an adjective to.

Naming or forming an adjunct to a noun: as, an adjective name. Pertaining to an adjective: as, the adjective use of a noun. Added or adjected; additional.

noun. In grammar, a word used to qualify, limit, or define a noun, or a word or phrase which has the value of a noun; a part of speech expressing quality or condition as belonging to something: thus, whiteness is the name of a quality, and is a noun; white means possessing whiteness, and so is an adjective.

noun. A dependant or an accessory; a secondary or subsidiary part.

adjective. Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct.

adjective. Not standing by itself; dependent.

adjective. a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency.

adjective. Relating to procedure.

noun. 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 something else. Thus, in phrase, “a wise ruler,” wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.

noun. A dependent; an accessory.

transitive verb. To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective.

adjective. Incapable of independent function.

adjective. Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.

adjective. Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.

adjective. Of a dye that needs the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.

noun. A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.

verb. To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.

noun. a word that expresses an attribute of something

noun. the word class that qualifies nouns

adjective. of or relating to or functioning as an adjective

adjective. relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law

"An adjective may, in general, be distinguished from an _adverb_ by this rule: when a word qualifies a _noun_ or _pronoun_, it is an adjective, but when it qualifies a _verb, participle, adjective_, or _adverb_, it is an adverb."

substantive  

adjective color  adjective law  noun adjective  participial adjective  proper adjective  

adjectival  adjective clause  adjective patterns  adjective phrase  adjectived  

major form class  

accent  adjectives  adverb  agent  allusion  

accessory  adjectival  adjectival  adverb  adverbial