abbr.a. or adj.1. The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase. 2. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as white in the phrase a white house.
ADJECTIVE:
1. Adjectival: an adjective clause.2.Law Prescriptive; remedial: adjective law.3. Not standing alone; derivative or dependent.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old French adjectif, from Late Latin adiectvus, from adiectus, past participle of adicere, to add to : ad-, ad- + iacere, to throw; see y- in Appendix I.
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vus, from adiectus, past participle of adicere, to add to : ad-, ad- + iacere, to throw; see y
- in Appendix I.
