adjective 的 2 个定义
- Grammar. 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, certain demonstrative pronouns, and terms that impose limits 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.
- pertaining to or functioning as an adjective; adjectival: the adjective use of a noun.
- Law. concerning methods of enforcement of legal rights, as pleading and practice.
- requiring a mordant or the like to render them permanent.
- Archaic. not able to stand alone; dependent: Women were seen by some as adjective creatures, needing to be cared for and protected from the vicissitudes of life.
adjective 近义词
word that modifies a noun
更多adjective例句
- I don’t have any more adjectives other than what you guys have probably been using, but, yeah, he’s playing at an elite, elite level.
- Emotions and adjectives ran the gamut but few observers appeared to come away thinking that the last remaining superpower could rise above its bitter partisan rancor as the election looms barely a month away.
- In fact, “plastic” can also be used as an adjective and mean that something can be formed or shaped easily.
- Moving forward, the team plans to experiment more to improve the quality of the image generation and expand the model’s visual and linguistic vocabulary to include more topics, objects, and adjectives.
- This highly-trafficked phrase is also a testament to just how critical it is to communicate the specific dangers posed by an incoming storm -- even a simple choice of adjectives can make a difference in how information is disseminated.
- This time he decline to offer an adjective, said he would leave it to others to go through the tea leaves of the election.
- How could I have written something so, so (fill in the negative adjective)?
- And so we are all supposed to denote something from “working mother” as a descriptive adjective.
- You use an adjective, it better be a sixty-four-dollar adjective.
- The French have an adjective that the English language lacks—“digest.”
- Pope-holy; properly an adjective, meaning 'holy as a pope,' hence, hypocritical.
- When the exact sense was lost, the suffix -al seemed to be adjectival, and the word dismal became at last an adjective.
- This is the termination of the present participle and verbal adjective derived from verbs in -a.
- This is wrong, and probably due to the dropping of the final e in the definite adjective firste.
- Once more there is no definition of the term able-bodied, which is used sometimes as an adjective and sometimes as a substantive.