In English there are eight main parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction and finally interjection.
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Adjective
//ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv//
Synonyms for "adjective" (43 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Verb(2 words)
Adjective(2 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Noun(2 words)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (21)
Noun(2 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Related word relations
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5 entriesMore specific
25 entriesShowing 16 of 25 words.
Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriescapable of
1 entriescoordinate
3 entriesderived
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
distinct from
2 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
4 entriesis a
6 entriesrelated to
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
used for
1 entriesTranslations
220 translations across 137 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- byvoeglike naamwoord noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Albanian
2 entries- adjektiv noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- mbiemër noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Amharic
1 entries- ቅጽል noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἐπίθετον noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- ἐπιθετικόν noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Arabic
4 entries- إِجْرَائِيّ adj (methods of enforcement and rules of procedure)
- صِفَة noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- نَعْت noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- وَصْف noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Aragonese
1 entries- adchectivo noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Aramaic
1 entries- גדשניא noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Armenian
1 entries- ածական noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Asturian
1 entries- axetivu noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- sifət noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Bashkir
1 entries- сифат noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Basque
2 entries- adjektibo noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- izenondo noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Belarusian
1 entries- прыме́тнік noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Bengali
1 entries- বিশেষণ noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Bikol Central
2 entries- panladawan noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- panmidbid noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Breton
2 entries- adanv noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- anv-gwan noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Bulgarian
2 entries- прилага́телно noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- прилага́телно и́ме noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Burmese
1 entries- နာမဝိသေသန noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Buryat
1 entries- тэмдэгэй нэрэ noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Catalan
3 entries- adjectiu adj (incapable of independent function)
- adjectiu adj (of a dye that needs the use of a mordant)
- adjectiu noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Chechen
1 entries- билгалдош noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Chichewa
1 entries- mfotokozi noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Chinese
1 entries- 形容詞 /形容词 noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 形容詞 /形容词 noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 形容詞 /形容词 noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Chuvash
1 entries- паллӑ ячӗ noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Cornish
1 entries- hanow gwan noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Corsican
3 entries- agettivu noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- aggettivu noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- aghjettivu noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- sıfat noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Czech
1 entries- přídavné jméno n adjektivum noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Danish
3 entries- adjektiv noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- egenskabsord noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- tillægsord noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Dari
1 entries- صِفَت noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Dutch
3 entries- formeel adj (methods of enforcement and rules of procedure)
- adjectief noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- bijvoeglijk naamwoord noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Erzya
1 entries- раствал noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Esperanto
2 entries- a-vorto noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- adjektivo noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Estonian
2 entries- adjektiiv noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- omadussõna noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Faroese
1 entries- lýsingarorð noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Finnish
3 entries- adjektiivi noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- laatusana noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- muuntaa adjektiiviksi verb (to make an adjective of — see also adjectivize)
French
4 entries- … de procédure adj (methods of enforcement and rules of procedure)
- adjectif noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- nom adjectif noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- adjectivaliser verb (to make an adjective of — see also adjectivize)
Friulian
1 entries- agetîv noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Galician
2 entries- adxectivo adj (incapable of independent function)
- adxectivo noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Georgian
1 entries- ზედსართავი სახელი noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
German
4 entries- formal adj (methods of enforcement and rules of procedure)
- Adjektiv noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- Beiwort noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- Beschreibungswort noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Greek
2 entries- επίθετο noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- επιθετοποιώ verb (to make an adjective of — see also adjectivize)
Greenlandic
1 entries- pissusilerissut noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Hawaiian
1 entries- haʻiʻano noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Hebrew
4 entries- דיוני adj (methods of enforcement and rules of procedure)
- נוהלי adj (methods of enforcement and rules of procedure)
- שֵׁם תֹּאַר noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- שֵׁם תּוֹאַר noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Hindi
2 entries- बिशेषण noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- विशेषण noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Hungarian
1 entries- melléknév noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Icelandic
1 entries- lýsingarorð noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Ido
1 entries- adjektivo noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Indonesian
3 entries- adjektiva noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- kata keadaan noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- kata sifat noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Interlingua
3 entries- adjectival adj (methods of enforcement and rules of procedure)
- adjective adj (methods of enforcement and rules of procedure)
- adjectivo noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- صِفَت noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- وَصْف noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Irish
1 entries- aidiacht noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Italian
2 entries- aggettivo noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- aggettivare verb (to make an adjective of — see also adjectivize)
Japanese
4 entries- 依存性の adj (incapable of independent function)
- 手続き上の adj (methods of enforcement and rules of procedure)
- 非独立性の adj (incapable of independent function)
- 形容動詞 noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Javanese
2 entries- tembung kahanan noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- tembung sipat noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Kabyle
1 entries- arbib adj (incapable of independent function)
Kalo Finnish Romani
1 entries- adjektiivos noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Kannada
1 entries- ವಿಶೇಷಣ noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Kashmiri
1 entries- باوُت noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Kashubian
1 entries- przëdownik noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Kazakh
1 entries- сын есім noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Khmer
2 entries- គុណនាម noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- វិសេសន noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Korean
1 entries- 형용사 noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- сын атооч noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Lao
1 entries- ຄຳຄຸນນາມ noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Latin
1 entries- (nōmen) adiectīvum noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Latvian
2 entries- adjektīvs noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- īpašības vārds noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Limburgish
1 entries- bievooglik naamwaord noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Lingala
1 entries- likonzámí noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Lithuanian
1 entries- būdvardis noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Low German
1 entries- Adjektiv noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- adjektiw noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Adjektiv noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Macedonian
1 entries- придавка noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Malay
3 entries- adjektif noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- kata keadaan noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- kata sifat noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Malayalam
1 entries- നാമവിശേഷണം noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Maltese
1 entries- aġġettiv noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Manx
1 entries- marennym noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Marathi
1 entries- विशेषण noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Mongolian
4 entries- тэмдэг нэр noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- тэмдэг үг noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- ᠲᠡᠮᠳᠡᠭ ᠦᠭᠡ noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- ᠲᠡᠮᠳᠡᠭ ᠨᠡᠷᠡ noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Māori
1 entries- kupuāhua noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Nepali
1 entries- विशेषण noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Norman
1 entries- adjectif noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- rengdêr adj (incapable of independent function)
Northern Sami
1 entries- adjektiiva noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- adjektiv noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- eigenskapsord noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- tilleggsord noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- adjektiv noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- eigenskapsord noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- tilleggsord noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Occitan
1 entries- adjectiu noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Odia
1 entries- ବିଶେଷଣ noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Old English
1 entries- tōġeīecendlīċ noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Old French
1 entries- nons adjectyfs noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Pali
1 entries- visesana noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- прикметнїк noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Pashto
1 entries- صفت noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Ieejenschoftswuat noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Polish
4 entries- przymiotnikowy adj (methods of enforcement and rules of procedure)
- adiektyw noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- przymiotnik noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- adiektywizować verb (to make an adjective of — see also adjectivize)
Portuguese
3 entries- adjetivo adj (methods of enforcement and rules of procedure)
- adjetivo noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- adjetivar verb (to make an adjective of — see also adjectivize)
Quechua
1 entries- sutip rampaqnin noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Romanian
2 entries- adjectiv adj (methods of enforcement and rules of procedure)
- adjectiv noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Romansch
1 entries- adjectiv noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Russian
2 entries- и́мя прилага́тельное noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- прилага́тельное noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Sanskrit
1 entries- विशेषण noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- buadhair noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- prídev noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- prídjev noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- при́дев noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- при́дјев noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Sicilian
1 entries- aggittivi noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Slovak
1 entries- prídavné meno noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Slovene
1 entries- pridevnik noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Southern Altai
1 entries- јарталгыш noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Spanish
3 entries- adjetivo adj (methods of enforcement and rules of procedure)
- adjetivo noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- adjetivar verb (to make an adjective of — see also adjectivize)
Sundanese
1 entries- adjéktif noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Swahili
2 entries- kivumishi noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- sifa noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Swedish
3 entries- adjektiv noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- egenskapsord noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- tilläggsord noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Tagalog
1 entries- pang-uri noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Tajik
1 entries- сифат noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Tamil
3 entries- உரிச்சொல் noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- பெயரடை noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- பெயர் உரிச்சொல் noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Tatar
1 entries- сыйфат noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Telugu
1 entries- విశేషణము noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Thai
3 entries- คุณศัพท์ noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- นามวิเศษณ์ noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- วิเศษณ์ noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Turkish
2 entries- sıfat noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- önad noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Turkmen
1 entries- sypat noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Ukrainian
1 entries- прикме́тник noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- adjektiw noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Urdu
2 entries- بِشیشَن noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- صِفَت noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Uyghur
1 entries- سۈپەت noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Uzbek
1 entries- sifat noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Vietnamese
2 entries- hình dung từ noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- tính từ noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Volapük
1 entries- ladyek noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Võro
1 entries- umahussyna noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Walloon
1 entries- addjectif noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Welsh
1 entries- ansoddair noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
West-Frisian
2 entries- protokol adj (methods of enforcement and rules of procedure)
- eigenskipswurd noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Yiddish
1 entries- אַדיעקטיוו noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Zazaki
2 entries- sıfet (diq) noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
- vername (diq) noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Zulu
1 entries- isiphawulo noun ((grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
'-osity' is an abstract noun word ending created from the ending of an '-ous' adjective.
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Things that modify nouns (adjective, or adjectival equivalent).
Source: tatoeba (328621)
There are two ways of using the infinitive as an adjective, 1. attributive, 2. predicative. Naturally 2. is a subject complement.
Source: tatoeba (328622)
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