predicate adjective

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noun Grammar.

an adjective used in the predicate, especially with a copulative verb and attributive to the subject, as in He is dead, or attributive to the direct object, as in It made him sick.

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Origin of predicate adjective

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby predicate adjective

prediastole, predicable, predicament, predicant, predicate, predicate adjective, predicate calculus, predicate nominative, predicate noun, predicate objective, predication

How to use predicate adjective in a sentence

This time he decline to offer an adjective, said he would leave it to others to go through the tea leaves of the election.
In Press Conference, Obama Turns Conciliatory—Mostly|Eleanor Clift|November 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
How could I have written something so, so (fill in the negative adjective)?
Kerouac Biographer Gets Back on the Road|Dennis McNally|October 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And so we are all supposed to denote something from “working mother” as a descriptive adjective.
The New Right-Wing Idol: Working Moms|Tim Teeman|July 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
FRIEDMAN: I think you also laid the predicate for the Iran negotiations.
Transcript: Thomas Friedman Interviews Hillary Clinton and Christine Lagarde||April 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST

His 2004 Democratic Convention address propelled him into the national spotlight, laying the presidential predicate.
President Obama’s Belgian Waffle|Stuart Stevens|March 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Pope-holy; properly an adjective, meaning 'holy as a pope,' hence, hypocritical.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
When the exact sense was lost, the suffix -al seemed to be adjectival, and the word dismal became at last an adjective.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
This is the termination of the present participle and verbal adjective derived from verbs in -a.
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer
This is wrong, and probably due to the dropping of the final e in the definite adjective firste.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
Once more there is no definition of the term able-bodied, which is used sometimes as an adjective and sometimes as a substantive.
English Poor Law Policy|Sidney Webb