Phrase Hound found 26 phrases and 2 compound words that contain adjectives. The most common are listed below. Open adjectives in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 26
- proper adjectivesplural of proper adjective: An adjective derived from (or otherwise counterpart to) a proper noun, such as British derived from Britain, or Northeastern corresponding to Northeast.
- possessive adjectivesplural of possessive adjective: An adjective expressing possession.
- demonstrative adjectivesplural of demonstrative adjective: An adjective that points out which person, object or concept is being referred to; whether it is singular or plural; and whether it is near or far from the speaker or writer.
- phrasal adjectivesplural of phrasal adjective: A multi-word modifier that functions as a single adjective before a noun.
- prepositive adjectivesplural of prepositive adjective: An adjective that occurs on an antecedent basis within a noun phrase.
- cardinal adjectivesplural of cardinal adjective: A cardinal number used as an adjective.
- descriptive adjectivesplural of descriptive adjective: An adjective that describes a noun.
- indefinite adjectivesplural of indefinite adjective: An indefinite pronoun used as a determiner.
- limiting adjectivesplural of limiting adjective: An adjective that limits a noun. They include definite articles, indefinite articles, possessive adjectives, demonstrative adjectives, indefinite adjectives, interrogative adjectives, cardinal adjectives …
- na-adjectivesplural of na-adjective
- noun adjectivesplural of noun adjective: A noun used as an adjective.
- numerical adjectivesplural of numerical adjective: A number used as an adjective: either a cardinal adjective (such as "one") or an ordinal adjective (such as "third").
- predicate adjectivesplural of predicate adjective = alternative form of predicative adjectives.
- quasi-adjectivesplural of quasi-adjective: An adjectival noun, a specific Japanese part of speech. Some of these words can be used as regular nouns, and all can be used as adjectives when followed by the postfix な (na), in contrast to Japanese common …
- relational adjectivesplural of relational adjective: A classifying adjective; an adjective that defines a relation and not a quality, commonly found in (but not exclusive to) languages that do not permit noun adjuncts.
- relative adjectivesplural of relative adjective: A relative pronoun used in an adjectival clause.
- substantive adjectivesplural of substantive adjective: An adjective used alone in the absence of the noun that it modifies.
- ordinal adjectivesplural of ordinal adjective: An ordinal number used as an adjective.
- interrogative adjectivesplural of interrogative adjective: an interrogative pronoun used as an adjective
- predicative adjectivesplural of predicative adjective: An adjective that is not part of the noun clause it modifies, but is linked to it with a copula.
- attributive adjectivesplural of attributive adjective: An adjective that modifies the head of the noun phrase in which it occurs; an adjective that precedes the word or phrase it modifies.
- privative adjectivesplural of privative adjective: An adjective used to show that a noun refers to something outside the category that the noun normally represents.
- participial adjectivesplural of participial adjective: A participle used as an adjective; it may be either a present participle or a past participle, and used either attributively or predicatively.
- nominalized adjectivesplural of nominalized adjective: An adjective used as a noun, having undergone nominalization.
- possessional adjectivesplural of possessional adjective: An adjective indicating that a noun is in possession of, or has the quality of, some other noun; usually formed in English by the affixation of the suffix -ed, -ful, -y, -ous, -able, -ual, -ish, -ar or …
Compound words 2
- nonadjectivesplural of nonadjective: A word that is not an adjective.
- proadjectivesplural of proadjective: A term that is not an adjective but serves the same purpose.