adjectivize

especially British, ad·jec·tiv·ise

[aj-ik-ti-vahyz]

verb (used with object)

adjectivized, adjectivizing 

1. Grammar.,  to make into an adjective, as by adding a suffix.

   The noun mirth can be adjectivized by adding -ful or -less to form the adjectives mirthful and mirthless.

2. to apply adjectives to; describe.

   He tends to adjectivize himself as loyal and trustworthy, but that is far from accurate.

verb (used without object)

adjectivized, adjectivizing 

1. to overdescribe.

   She adjectivizes in agonizing detail, using three adjectives where even one would be superfluous.

Other Word Forms

• adjectivization noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of adjectivize¹

adjectiv(e) + -ize

Example Sentences

“Hitchcockian” has become a go-to descriptor for entire branches of storytelling – not always an apposite one, but evocative to an audience far beyond the film-nerd coterie that tends to adjectivize auteurs.

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