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Etymology
ad, next to +
-ject-, perfect passive participle form of
jacere, to throw +
-ivus, adjective ending; hence, a word "thrown next to" a noun, modifying it.
Noun
adjective (Plural: adjectives)
- A word that modifies or describes a noun, such as big or heavy.
Translations
- Arabic: نعت m, صفة f
- Bulgarian: прилагателно име n
- Catalan: adjectiu m
- Chinese: 形容词
- Czech: přídavné jméno n
- Dutch: bijvoeglijk naamwoord n
- Estonian: omadussõna
- Greek: επίθετο
- Finnish: adjektiivi
- French: adjectif m
- German: Adjektiv n, Eigenschaftswort n
- Hungarian: melléknév
- Icelandic: lýsingarorð
- Interlingua: adjectivo
- Italian: aggettivo m
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- Japanese: 形容詞 (けいようし , keiyōshi)(い ending), 形容動詞 (けいようどうし, keiyō-dōshi)(だ/な ending)
- Latin: verbum adiectum n
- Norwegian (bokmål): adjektiv
- Norwegian (nynorsk): adjektiv
- Persian: صفت (sefat)
- Polish: przymiotnik m
- Portuguese (br): adjetivo
- Portuguese (pt): adjectivo
- Romanian: adjectiv n
- Romanica: adjectivo m
- Russian: прилaгaтeльнoe n
- Slovak: *prídavné meno n
- Spanish: adjetivo m
- Swedish: adjektiv
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Adjective
adjective (no comparative or superlative)
- Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective;
- adjectival syntax
- an adjective clause
- (law) applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure;
- adjective law
Translations
functioning as an adjective
- Catalan: adjectiu m, adjectiva f
- Dutch: bijvoeglijk
- Finnish: adjektiivi in compound words, otherwise adjektiivinen
- French: adjectif
- Greek: επιθετικός
- German: adjektivisch
- Interlingua: adjective, adjectival
- Italian: aggettivale
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methods of enforcement and rules of procedure
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- Polish: przymiotnikowy m, przymiotnikowa f, przymiotnikowe n
- Romanian: adjectiv m, adjectivă f
- Romanica: adjectivo m, adjectiva f, adjectival
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Synonyms
- (functioning as an adjective): adjectival
- (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure): procedural
Antonyms
- (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure): substantive
Derived terms
