adjectives

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of adjective.
  adjective

  noun

  any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing a particular quality of the word they are modifying, as wise in a wise grandmother, or perfect in a perfect score, or handsome in He is extremely handsome. Other terms, as numbers (one cup; twelve months ), certain demonstrative pronouns (this magazine; those questions ), and terms that impose limits (each person; no mercy ) can also function adjectivally, as can some nouns that are found chiefly in fixed phrases where they immediately precede the noun they modify, as bottle in bottle cap and bus in bus station.

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adjectives

Patterns of neural activity revealed that the brain could distinguish different parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026

They ignored the numbers and filled their dispatches with adjectives indicating a doom that, hilariously, the study didn’t support.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

This spiritual sequel to “Frankenstein” is a romantic tale of obsession, possession and fantasy — adjectives that also apply to its filmmaker, Maggie Gyllenhaal, who expends massive quantities of energy jolting it to life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

"Instead, that opportunity has been squandered, and we're faced with a continuation of the bad old days dressed up in a new set of adjectives."

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025

The last example shows that verbs can be drained of life when they are turned into adjectives, too, as when contribute becomes contributive to or aspire becomes on the aspirational level.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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