On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Adjective. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as adjectival or procedural and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Adjective meaning
- A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.
- A dependent; an accessory.
Synonyms of Adjective
Using Adjective
- The main meaning on this page is: A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent. | A dependent; an accessory.
- Useful related words include: major form class, adjectival, procedural, substantive.
- In the example corpus, adjective often appears in combinations such as: the adjective, an adjective, adjective and.
Context around Adjective
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Adjective
- In this selection, "adjective" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, comparative, feminine, masculine, phrases, cannot and phrase stand out and add context to how "adjective" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a common adjective that tells and adjective phrases containing. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "adjective" sits close to words such as aspiration, azure and bauchi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with adjective
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Maybe the adjective should be crazy or insane or diabolical instead. (11 words)
As an adjective, the word 'rich' can have many meanings, right? (11 words)
I can’t even find the adjective to qualify such men. (11 words)
Another factor that determines the endings of adjectives is whether the adjective is being used after a definite article (the), after an indefinite article (a/an) or without any article before the adjective (many green apples). (36 words)
Asked what attracted to “strong” roles, Saldana said: “Every time I hear the word ‘strong’, I just hear the word woman, and sometimes I hear that adjective of strength – it encompasses what a woman is. (35 words)
In some languages, attributive adjectives precede their nouns; in others, they follow their nouns; and in yet others, it depends on the adjective, or on the exact relationship of the adjective to the noun. (34 words)
As an adjective, the word 'rich' can have many meanings, right? (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
Adjective phrases containing complements after the adjective cannot normally be used as attributive adjectives before a noun.
An adjective phrase may include both modifiers before the adjective and a complement after it, as in very difficult to put away.
Another factor that determines the endings of adjectives is whether the adjective is being used after a definite article (the), after an indefinite article (a/an) or without any article before the adjective (many green apples).
As used in the previous sentence, the word hieroglyphic is an adjective (in the same way photographic is an adjective), but is often erroneously used as a noun in place of hieroglyph.
For example: Since the comparative adjective is still an adjective, it must be inflected to agree with the noun it modifies.
However, in most cases, in other languages Rom is now used for people of all genders. citation Romani is the feminine adjective, while Romano is the masculine adjective.
In some languages, attributive adjectives precede their nouns; in others, they follow their nouns; and in yet others, it depends on the adjective, or on the exact relationship of the adjective to the noun.
It is noteworthy, however, that when a definitive noun is preceded by an adjective (or a numeral), an additional definite article is placed in front of the adjective, thus producing double definiteness.
Modern Ethiopian Semitic languages follow a different word order: SOV, possessor–possessed, and adjective–noun; however, the oldest attested Ethiopian Semitic language, Ge'ez, was VSO, possessed–possessor, and noun–adjective.
The following table contains an example of using the noun šarrum (king), the adjective rapšum (wide) and the verbal adjective parsum (decided).
This is the case if an adjective's masculine and feminine forms are homophonous and if there is no liaison between the adjective and a following noun.
Asked what attracted to “strong” roles, Saldana said: “Every time I hear the word ‘strong’, I just hear the word woman, and sometimes I hear that adjective of strength – it encompasses what a woman is.
If he describes the Government today as ‘rock bottom’, next month or next year he will unearth another disobliging adjective in defiance of our constitutional traditions.
It is just a common adjective that tells us that in question were government-owned.
Maybe the adjective should be crazy or insane or diabolical instead.
No matter which adjective is used, the PNC are badly wounded and are in the political ICU.
As an adjective, the word 'rich' can have many meanings, right?
He also included an obscene adjective to describe what kind of bums he was talking about.
I can’t even find the adjective to qualify such men.
In doing so, he cemented a new genre that studied bodily horrors with a cerebral chill while giving the film lexicon a brand-new adjective: Cronenbergian.
Common combinations with adjective
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the adjective 79×
- an adjective 58×
- adjective and 10×
- adjective is 10×
- adjective to 10×
- adjective in 8×
- adjective or 6×
- and adjective 6×
- adjective that 5×
- adjective the 5×