predicate adjective

American  

noun

Grammar.

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of predicate adjective

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

The development of such scientific notions as oxide, equation, predicate adjective, etc., is also dependent upon a regular inductive process.

From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education

The word holy is here used as a predicate adjective, and describes the people addressed.

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert

It is not a predicate adjective, but a partitive genitive after hwæt.

From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso)

Also in the lesson below on the predicate adjective, the pupils could not note, in all the examples, all the features given under analysis and fail at the same time to abstract and generalize.

From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education

The word “sanctified” is here used as a predicate adjective, and describes the people addressed.

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert