a word that describes a person or thing, for example big, red and clever in a big house, red wine and a clever idea形容词- ‘Reliable’ is not an adjective that could be applied to my car.“可靠”不是可用于我的汽车的形容词。
Extra Examples- ‘My’ is a possessive adjective.my 是个所有格形容词。
- Adjectives qualify nouns.形容词修饰名词。
- Attributive adjectives precede the noun.定语形容词位于名词前。
- Predicative adjectives follow the noun.表语形容词跟在名词后面。
- adjectives describing texture描述质地的形容词
Topics Languagea1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- attributive
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verb + adjectiveadjectiveSee full entry Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French adjectif, -ive, from Latin adject- ‘added’, from the verb adicere, from ad- ‘towards’ + jacere ‘throw’. The term was originally used in the phrase noun adjective, translating Latin nomen adjectivum, a translation of Greek onoma epitheton ‘attributive name’.