Definition of adjective

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Adjective (v. t.) To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective.

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Lop :: Lop (a.) Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided..
They :: They (obj.) The plural of he, she, or it. They is never used adjectively, but always as a pronoun proper, and sometimes refers to persons without an antecedent expressed..
Zinco- :: Zinco- () A combining form from zinc; in chemistry, designating zinc as an element of certain double compounds. Also used adjectively..
Teleost :: Teleost (n.) One of the Teleosti. Also used adjectively.
#NAME? :: -en () A suffix signifying to make, to cause, used to form verbs from nouns and adjectives; as in strengthen, quicken, frighten. This must not be confused with -en corresponding in Old English to the AS. infinitive ending -an..
Sister :: Sister (n.) One of the same kind, or of the same condition; -- generally used adjectively; as, sister fruits..
Pickthank :: Pickthank (n.) One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively..
#NAME? :: -less () A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless..
Proto- :: Proto- () Sometimes used as equivalent to mono-, as indicating that the compound has but one atom of the element to the name of which it is prefixed. Also used adjectively..
Penta- :: Penta- () Denoting the degree of five, either as regards quality, property, or composition; as, pentasulphide; pentoxide, etc. Also used adjectively..
Neo- :: Neo- () A prefix meaning new, recent, late; and in chemistry designating specifically that variety of metameric hydrocarbons which, when the name was applied, had been recently classified, and in which at least one carbon atom in connected directly with four other carbon atoms; -- contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentane; the neoparaffins. Also used adjectively..
One :: One (a.) Pointing out a contrast, or denoting a particular thing or person different from some other specified; -- used as a correlative adjective, with or without the..
Trematode :: Trematode (n.) One of the Trematodea. Also used adjectively.
Whatever :: Whatever (pron.) Anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another; anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively.
Purely :: Purely (adv.) In a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).
Isonitroso- :: Isonitroso- () A combining from (also used adjectively), signifying: Pertaining to, or designating, the characteristic, nitrogenous radical, NOH, called the isonitroso group..
Doctrinaire :: Doctrinaire (n.) One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions..
Thysanuran :: Thysanuran (n.) One of the Thysanura. Also used adjectively.
Adobe :: Adobe (n.) An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico..
Mis- :: Mis- () A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant..
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