adjective

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law

   adjective law

2. 2
   noun

   A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.

   The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives.

3. 3
   noun

   A dependent; an accessory.

   it must be an adjective of dain

4. 4
   adj

   Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.

   The whole English law, substantive and adjective.

5. 5
   adj

   Incapable of independent function.

   In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.

6. 6
   verb

   To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.

   Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has […] adjectived all three.

7. 7
   adj

   of or relating to or functioning as an adjective

8. 8
   noun

   the word class that qualifies nouns

Etymology

From Middle English adjectif, adjective, from Old French adjectif, from Latin adiectivus, from adiciō + -īvus, from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + iaciō (“throw”). The Latin word adiectivus in turn was a calque of Ancient Greek ἐπιθετικόν (epithetikón, “added”), a derivative of the compound verb ἐπιτίθημι (epitíthēmi), from which also comes epithet.