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.

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

adjectives

Distinct patterns of neural activity contained information about different categories of words, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

If there’s a flaw, Mr. Anderson occasionally indulges in excessive adjectives and metaphors, but that takes nothing away from his accomplishment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

Humbled, I move on, again resolved not to let our unhoused neighbors feel invisible, nor to forget that homelessness is, among other adjectives, abnormal.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

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

More Suggestions

• adjectively
• abjective
• adjectival
• bijective
• ejective
• objective
• adjectivize
• objectively
• objectivism