of name). Shortcuts WP:NOUNWP:NOUN WP:GERUNDWP:GERUND WP:ADJECTIVEWP:ADJECTIVE Nouns and noun phrases are normally preferred over titles using other...

Some editors choose to put adjectives in their recommendations (sometimes described as votes or !votes); there is disagreement on if this is a good practice...

already exists at Edgy.  Sandstein  16:20, 10 November 2017 (UTC) Edgy (adjective) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)...

Currently Wikipedia:Naming conventions (adjectives) states that article names should be at nouns, rather than at adjectives. In mathematics articles, this usually...

It seems mostly to duplicate the content in Adjective and Comparison (grammar), which talks about adjective degrees. The article is also mostly a WP:DICDEF...

sources you can cite to help indicate that the list includes all eponymous adjectives included in some well known reference such as the OED or Merriam-Webster...

deletion (glossary) Help, my article got nominated for deletion! Subzero (adjective) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)...

deletion (glossary) Help, my article got nominated for deletion! Ubiquitous (adjective) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)...

this article: Articles for deletion/Adjectivals and demonyms for countries and nations Articles for deletion/Adjectivals and demonyms for countries and nations...

identities (roughly before 1970), homosexual can be used as an accurate adjective describing the subject. Generally homosexual should be confined to descriptions...

Let's call it <adjective>, so that the expression "<adjective> infrastructure", should mean: infrastructure of assumptions. Alternatively, "system of assumptions"...

example: "Subject is an adjective noun ..." or "Subject, an adjective noun, ...". If such examples are common, each of adjective and noun may be deemed...

such as Culture of India though some articles may be named "Country (adjective) foo" such as Indian literature and Indian Armed Forces, where the article...

only. For the former of these sentences, it's clear that "latter" is an adjective that modifies the noun site. But for the latter of these sentences, "latter"...

used as an adjectival noun: The Philippine was talking to the Frenchman is not idiomatic English. Filipino is used as an adjective and adjectival noun to...

called Republic of Macedonia)). Adjectival references for these topics should follow the same logic. Historical adjectival references to the state entities...

following: Adjectivals and demonyms for cities Adjectivals and demonyms for U.S. states Adjectivals and demonyms for subcontinental regions Adjectivals and demonyms...

for a grammatical term or expression. In the phrase red car, red is an adjective. In the phrases portrait paintings, leadership styles, assault battalion...

when I write English Sentences, I notice that there is an "anti-order" adjective. Example: This subject is English only topic. vs Only English has this...

caption. Why choose "decisive" above any other adjective, or indeed why give any simple use of adjective such prominence in the lead? The proper evaluation...

film, but "reviled" isn't usually the adjective. — al-Shimoni (talk) 13:29, 3 October 2020 (UTC) The adjective might have been too strong, but the movie...

The article Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs says: The adjective near may be found in the superlative with omission of the preposition to...

Wikipuffery is the puffing of a subject or the addition of praise-filled adjectives and claims. They may be there to exaggerate the notability of the article...

preserving the present tense, does not look right). So is "designed" an adjective? Because that seems a bit odd also. Thanks in advance, IBE (talk) 19:19...

democracy, and adjectival redirects to adjective". That's about redirects of articles, in the article space, whose title is purely an adjective. The relevant...

the name of the latter. "Bosnian" seems to be the preferred "neutral" adjective for Bosnia and Herzegovina, as opposed to "Bosniak" which refers to a...

on whether you mean to use the adjective or noun. "She and her family are Catholic" is using "Catholic" as an adjective to describe "She and her family"...

k/Archives/Language/2018 January 6 Ohium East Asian names Predicative adjective? Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 8 Japanese vs...

(country name) 1867 Canadian federal election (adjectival form) 1946 Faroese independence referendum (adjectival form, referendum) For an article covering...

whatever reason. The subtlety seems to be whether it's being used as an adjective or in a descriptive phrase. As in, "It was a five kilometer trail" vs...

2017 (UTC) Propose renaming either: OPTION A: adjective populated places OPTION B: Populated adjective places Category:Waterside populated places to Category:Populated...

linking to singulars instead of plurals, linking to nouns instead of adjectives, and linking to the gerunds of verbs. If you find a dictionary article...

should use parallel adjectives. While "women" is arguably possible as an adjective, there's no way "men" is. The only parallel adjectives are "male" and "female...

July 2020 (UTC) The adjective is tigrine. –Austronesier (talk) 07:53, 30 July 2020 (UTC) You can find a list of collateral adjectives at List of animal...

adjective, not a noun. Neither of the two references support its use as a noun meaning "sweetener" — the first uses it consistently as an adjective,...

refer to it as "adjective" only? 93.126.116.89 (talk) 06:02, 19 March 2018 (UTC) All three forms are adjectives. There are positive adjectives, comparative...

are all partial-title matches because "thermomagnetic" is an adjective. Per WP:ADJECTIVE, the page should redirect to Thermomagnetism, the noun, but there...

English has so many adjectives meaning having to do with a particular body part. Most of them end in -al; an exception is ocular. But we don't have one...

According to Prefix#German, [f]or derivative substantives and adjectives, only two prefixes are still in use as of 1970: un-, which expresses negation...

sense. Karlsruher SC means "Sports Club of Karlsruhe" - Karlsruher is an adjective, so leaving it on its own makes no sense. Saying a player played for Karlsruher...

result was no consensus. T. Canens (talk) 01:46, 19 September 2010 (UTC) Adjectivals and demonyms for countries and nations (edit | talk | history | protect |...

and assign an adjective to the right one) and the second process (assign an adjective to the rightmost) produces two different adjectives for the same...

and and adjective - but still, the same noun/adjective distinction can be shown, just in opposite, as you would use "black" as an adjective ("Jackie...

with: Le/la X est des plus Y where X is a singular noun and Y is a plural adjective. Examples: Ce genre d'opposition est des plus répandus en morphologie...

(feels) or appearances (seems) take an adjective, not an adverb. This site rationalizes this by assuming that the adjective describes the subject rather than...

27 September 2021 (UTC) That's not the correct adjective for New Zealanders. See List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations. The...

--Doug Coldwell talk 14:51, 19 April 2011 (UTC) Why is it that many French adjectives entered English in their feminine forms rather than their masculine forms...

I don't know why did I think the proper adjective form of "Myanmar" was "Myanmese", but does anyone know what should I use when I'm referring to 'something...

delete. Lankiveil (speak to me) 10:28, 29 October 2015 (UTC) List of adjectivals and demonyms for Colorado counties (edit | talk | history | protect |...

English Animal Adjectives Animal Adjectives Beastly Garden of Wordy Delights Part II: Animal Adjectives Animal adjectives Scientific Adjectives [Archive -...

Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 14:23, 20 May 2018 (UTC) Also, "fun" as an adjective is technically an informal colloquialism. Fun was originally just a noun...

Many adjectives become adverbs by adding -ly to them. For example, the adjective slow becomes the adverb slowly. However, "hardly" is not the adverb form...

of the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#Disambiguation of adjectives. ansh666 20:33, 2 February 2018 (UTC) Bayesian (edit | talk | history |...

you that so far I've known that the verb gets adverb and noun get an adjective. However, in the site which mention above I recovered some incomprehensible...

site explanations, and I still don't understand. Something about noun/adjective, but, it's very confusing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.20...

BAGS; beauty, age, goodness, size--these adjectives usually precede the noun. Also, placing the adjective first implies the quality is essential, rather...

Which is the reason for that English adjectives do not get plural -s when appearing before plural nouns? For example, why does English say yellow cars...

or adjective? And what is "Maria's"? I am not sure. 'Motorcycle' is an adjective describing the noun 'helmet'. "Maria's" is a possessive adjective also...

purposes. There is no one clever enough to write the whole thing. The adjectives big and clever come after the noun phrase that they qualify—in one case...

G 16:25, 2005 Mar 17 (UTC) delete, adjective with no obvious potential. Kappa 20:30, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC) An adjective meaning yellow, eh? Hm. I thought it...

possessive adjective. However, it has come to be used as a proper noun referring to the plain. From the view of Serbian grammar, 'Kosovo' is an adjective. The...

Gene93k (talk) 21:06, 10 September 2011 (UTC) Delete. Dicdef of a Latinate adjective that has no potential as an encyclopedic topic. Deor (talk) 21:21, 10...

Fill out the blank space: X depends on Y, if and only if Y____ <verb/adjective>_____ X. Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 September 12...

the adjective form? (e.g anatomical, anatomically). 115.188.72.131 (talk) 06:04, 25 November 2024 (UTC) "Only" doesn't have a corresponding adjective form...

to relist in correct XFD space bd2412 T 02:05, 27 December 2012 (UTC) Adjectivals and demonyms for countries and nations (edit | talk | history | links...

Disambiguation Nationality of people State-associated and other public entities Adjective Historical names Non-contentious housekeeping Other proposals "What should...

'Objective' can be both a noun and an adjective, but either way it's stressed ob-JECT-ive. I suspect 'adjective' can be an adjective, stressed ad-JECT-ive, but its...

wrong with having an adjective follow a noun (many languages it is the usual way things are done; many classes of French adjectives, for example, also come...

Are there non-gradable adjectives (positive, comparative and superlative)? I've seen that up and down are such adjectives. Is that correct? are there another...

the activity, this is an adjective about the type of people involved. Ansell 03:43, 21 August 2006 (UTC) It's not an adjective. It's a noun (per the article...

(UTC) How many adjectives are there based on names? Is there a linguistic rule to follow when converting a name (proper noun) into an adjective? One example...

use of non-standard "Sport in Japan". The overwhelming dominance of the adjective form is a clear sign of the true consensus and a few activists should...

these two types of adjective groups distinguished terminologically? In adjectives there are two main groups: First Group: adjectives that their 3 grades...

Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 05:03, 9 August 2016 (UTC) Yes, see Adjective#Adjective order. -- Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 08:48, 9 August 2016 (UTC) Thanks...

disambiguation page, because interracial is an adjective. (We can classify marriage as 'Interracial'.) We do have more adjectives as disambiguation pages, as mentioned...

you looking for a past participle adjective that is derived from an adjective. (That is gross and weird are adjectives which have been converted into a...

How to transliterate these two terms, in their noun (sing. & pl.) and adjective forms? I need to refer to them for a discussion about nomenclature of...

few true adjectives, but terms that work as adjectives are formed by adding certain suffixes onto nouns or verbs. Thai has a few adjectives, but only...

(glossary) Help, my article got nominated for deletion! List of eponymous adjectives in English (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch |...

do you pronounce Carmen followup Voluntarily not trying to understand: adjective Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 February 5 hydroponics...

symmetric"?Pierpao (talk) 13:39, 10 January 2024 (UTC) Not sure what an "alone adjective" is, but the sentence itself is perfectly fine and well-constructed (if...

-ly can be used to form adjectives, and as the OED says "When -ly is appended to an adjective, the resulting derivative adjective often connotes a quality...

is really an adjective with neuter and masculine endings (and of course the feminine is "quadrata"). They were probably used as adjectives to describe...

really don't know the language, but I'm slightly curious as to whether adjectives come before nouns or vice-versa. I've seen the former (e.g. česká republika)...

April 26 Latin translation How can be these two types of adjective groups distinguished terminologically? If English is not mey first language...

based on what? Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 3 Adjectives ending in -ic Question about verb tense: past tense or past perfect tense...

Mexican cuisine, Byzantine cuisine. Exceptions are to be made when the adjective is too ambiguous, such as "American cuisine"; in these cases cuisine of...

as a noun, adjective, adverb, or etc.: Holly's hope chest is made entirely of Oak. My teacher says "Oak" in this sentence is an adjective, but I don't...

deletion (glossary) Help, my article got nominated for deletion! List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names (edit | talk | history | protect |...

is an adjective. In accordance with both WP:MOS and particularly the WP:Wikipedia is not a dictionary policy the wikipedia doesn't have adjectives. The...

privileged to be with them" is the word humbled functioning as a verb or as an adjective? WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:49, 13 May 2026 (UTC) In the combination humbled...

the name of the latter. "Bosnian" seems to be the preferred "neutral" adjective for Bosnia and Herzegovina, as opposed to "Bosniak" which refers to a...

Maybe add war here? "armed with a 25 mm caliber gun" This is a compound adjective so the unit should be written fully and a convert is needed. "problematic...

the adjective have to agree with it? Adjectives — I miss the 'agreement rules' previously referred to. What determines the form of an adjective? Examples...

Non-Diacritic Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 13 T (not Th) adjective Dental fricative spellings Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018...

Wiktionary aside... Courcelles (talk) 04:10, 15 July 2010 (UTC) List of adjectives ending with 'ly' (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch |...

controversial.) The adjective form is often akward, sometimes prompting people to inconsistently use the noun form as an adjective. Consider:...

non-specialist readers When a measurement is being used as an adjective, be sure to employ the adjective parameter of the convert template Spell out "%" in article...

2005 (UTC) Speedy Delete is 'adjective - belongs to dictionary side. iirc, some guide explicitly mentoned to not use adjectives as arty topics. Fabartus 19:11...

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 July 9 language, use of adjective: "the text below" Do they translate the Greek New Testament in Greece...

30 October 2009 (UTC) Delete No evidence that naive isn't simply an adjective used occasionally to describe individual liberals or liberal positions...

plural of a noun or an adjective is formed by adding s - example: crayon - crayons. If the noun ends in s, z or x or if an adjective ends in s or x, the...

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 September 1 The adjective form of "Myanmar" Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 September...

apparently got reinterpreted as an adjective in Spanish probably because it formally resembled the nominative of an adjective (non-existent cujus, cuja, cujum...

riparian (ditto), valley is to ... uh ... I'm sure there's at least one adjective for the job, but I can't think of any. I don't have access to the OED...

Side note, my favorite obscure noun-verb-adjective is circular, which in addition to its well-known adjectival meaning, also has a noun meaning as "an...

Should use move heterogenous to heterogeneity as that is the former is an adjective whilst the latter is the noun, i.e. the name of the phenomenon. Whilst...

"Jane is a New Zealand actress", the words "New Zealand" are acting as an adjective, and this is perfectly acceptable. I know there are noun adjuncts which...

Urbinese? Urbinish?! Italian the adjective is 'urbinate', itself unusual with respect to other geographic adjectives; might 'Urbinate' work with the -ate...

a creative form of wording. He's bringing the noun into service as an adjective as a way of describing the film. Anything wrong with that? --Viennese...

1 April 2025 (UTC) In English, abstract nouns tend to be paired with adjectives using the same root: competence/competent, clarity/clear, persuasiveness/persuasive...

adjective I found: Boring teachers make bored students. (boring, bored) A book written in English. (written) But I could't find participial adjective...

example where the noun and adjective are the same; English is only an adjective, the noun is Englishman. British is an adjective, and the noun is Briton...

deleted - SimonP 20:19, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC) This is an adjective and a surname. As an adjective it's a protologism, which Wiktionary doesn't take articles...

category names begin with an adjective: "FOOian". An adjective must modify a noun. To be grammatically sound, the adjective and the noun must refer to the...

7 February 2015 (UTC) Because 'adjective' is, ironically, a noun, not an adjective. Your other examples are adjectives. Compare, similarly, PRO-ject (noun)...

2005 20:21 (UTC) It's an adjective. However, Wikipedia is not a dictionary and this isn't its definition. No obvious adjective→noun redirects are available...

recommend a term to be used when it is impossible to avoid the use of an adjectival description for people who enter or reside in a country without legal...

pages for adjectives, all of the entries do indeed look like WP:PTMs, because the linked articles will typically have titles of the format adjective + noun...

the name of both the song and the album, and is a play on the Basque adjective Ikaraturik, meaning "frightened" or "scared". --NSH001 (talk) 22:11, 16...

"est" are used with adjectives of one syllable, "more" and "most" are used with adjectives of three or more syllables, and adjectives of two syllables can...

example: "almost ten" means 8-9 (rather than 7-6). I'm looking for an adjective ADJ such that "ADJ ten" should mean 11-12 (rather than 13-14). If not...

the underlying root vowel -ᾱ. The adjective in Greek is Γελῷος or Γελαῖος [1]. Both the forms imply the adjective suffux -ῐος. However, while the latter...

August 2 French construction: "le (singular noun) est des plus (plural adjective)" Homophonic Translation Translate a single German sentence, please Latin...

name it for the linking the same thing. Is there anything a word verb or adjective? the structure is somewhat confusing 2404:8000:1005:555:C0EE:F0EE:B396:6DF3...

are not hyphenated, while adjectival references are hyphenated. Article names that follow the form just described are adjectival because the compound phrase...

preposition or an adjective plus preposition here, as in What's it for? or What's it similar to? So in the last example, similar to is an adjective plus preposition...

Amusement Today as the second-best children's park in the world." missing adjective. One? Several? Date of award(s) would be nice too to establish context...

generic adjective, will return a prohibitively low signal-to-noise ratio, as demonstrated by Soliloquial's Google searches as well as the other adjectives Hoary...

example as part of a proper name ("the Judea Group aquifer"), or as an adjective qualifying a term ("The Samarian hills"), or The term is being mentioned...

sum amatus, or does that come out as a verb (the copula) followed by an adjective, that is, "I am loved" as opposed to "I have been loved" ? Is there a...

but, per List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations, both "Singapore" and "Singaporean" are valid adjectival forms. I prefer "Singaporean"...

kühles is not, even though both hell and kühl are adjectives. Is this because in German, adjectives can be nouned simply by capitalising them, and Donald...

sure the subject even exists substantially, that is it seem to me the adjective "Ultrajectine" has numerous vague meanings. I have tried googling "Ultrajectine"...

Serbo-Croatian language (which may or may not even exist anymore) has an adjective -- masculine mio, feminine mila -- meaning "dear"... AnonMoos (talk) 12:56...

Apparently, Swedish, Finnish, German, Spanish and Dutch allow turning an adjective into a noun, which is a bit harder in English, requiring “one” as a dummy...

dictionary article about a verb/adjective into an encyclopaedia article about a person/place/concept/thing; no adjective→noun redirections seem appropriate;...

how did it come to function as different parts of speech (interjection, adjective, verb, noun, etc.) in modern English? Are there comparable examples of...

Clarityfiend (talk) 08:34, 9 March 2015 (UTC) Yes, it's an adjective, but people look up adjectives as well as nouns. Siuenti (talk) 11:36, 9 March 2015 (UTC)...

contexts, "becoming" can be a noun or imaginably an adjective, but neither nouns nor adjectives take AdjP complements. *"The group's increasingly becoming...

because it contains neither a subject nor a finite verb. It's just an adjective phrase, so the sentence consists solely of an independent clause and is...

a Wikipedia article will also be poorly titled: its title will be an adjective or an adverb, or an inflection of a verb that isn't a noun. Such articles...

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 4 is there an adjective that means 'kookaburralike'? Hebrew help Possessive for proper noun ending...

sense. Real Madrid CF means "Real Madrid Club de Fútbol" - ???? is an adjective, so leaving it on its own makes no sense. Saying a player played for Madrid...

15:32, 20 July 2009 (UTC) What is the adjectival form of "continuum", if there is one. If not, what is the adjectival form?174.3.103.39 (talk) 09:30, 14...

adverb "particularly" is an intensifier that modifies the adjective "susceptible". The adjective "susceptible" ascribes a quality to the entity referred...

Template:Canadian provincial adjectivals and demonyms and Template:Adjectivals and demonyms for Canadian provinces Template:Adjectivals and demonyms for New Zealand...

log) Recruiter already exists; this is really just simply placing an adjective in front and making a new article. Perhaps a tidbit or two could be added...

and China and Europe are being used as adjectives. The correct grammar is to leave these words in their adjective form, which is Australian, Chinese, European...

we discussed the rules concerning how one derives adverbs from English adjectives using the -ly suffix (and some exceptions thereof). Recently, though,...

traffic in the opposing direction to yours is "oncoming"; what's the adjective for traffic that goes in the same direction as yours? — Preceding unsigned...

December 2 Plural compounds: trunkful vs. fleur de lys Bail out/dodge/evade Adjective and objective Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 December...

that English lacks case. Moreover, possessives are not adjectives. If John's were an adjective we could say "The big red John's book is lying on the table...

the adjective "alkali" is used for group 1 metals and the adjective "alkaline" is used for group 2 metals? (For both words do function as adjectives, here...

the adjective, and does not change the preposition-noun relationship. For the inverse example (mainland China), the word "mainland" has an adjective function...

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 August 12 Russian possessive adjective in -ina What does everyone say in this Fall of Gaddafi video? Nomenclature...

like there to be one. "Elgonian" is an adjective in actual use, and where my research turns up that adjective being used in the world at large indicates...

irregular adjectives redirects to a page on collateral adjectives, which says: "Collateral adjectives are sometimes called suppletive adjectives or irregular...

One small question. Why is "U.S." being used as an adjective in the title? Shouldn't the adjective be "National Forests", e.g. List of National Forests...

--Llaanngg (talk) 14:41, 13 April 2016 (UTC) It turns the name into an adjective, so it literally means "Brabantian arrow". - Lindert (talk) 14:50, 13...

the adjective is used in combination with this word we see bovin canadien.  --Lambiam 15:57, 21 January 2023 (UTC) Canadian/canadienne is an adjective attribute...

Idiosyncratic non-topic. By the way, the use of "Democrat" in the title as an adjective indicates that this article was created by some non-Democrat with an agenda...

Can the participle begun be used as an adjective in English? Is the begun year correct? In Finnish, begun is translated as alkanut and alkanut vuosi is...

form-of templates but a few common choices are: Adjective - {{superlative of|big}} - biggest Adjective - {{comparative of|big}} - bigger Noun - {{agent...

Howdy, I'm curious as to what "tin can" means as an adjective. I've encountered it as a description of tyrants, despots, regimes, etc, but old man internet...

melange of several topics smushed together into an article titled with an adjective. "Antebellum" is a descriptive word, not a concept (which is probably...

Catholic Church in general should use the phrase "Catholic Church" or the adjective "Catholic". Such articles should be recognisable, natural, precise, concise...

that the adjective is used as a noun would be--but it's still an adjective. To put it another way, its category is still that of adjective, but its function...

shift to the penultimate syllable in the adjective in the first place, could it be analogy to similar noun/adjective pairs like "INvalid" and "inVALid", "PHOtograph"...

are from an adjective. That adjective can be formed from a verb in the first place, but it doesn't matter, it went through the adjective. To use your...

subcategories using "women" as an adjective" Nominator's rationale: "Women" is not, and never has been, an adjective. The correct adjective to describe women is "female"...

"prize", meaning to value, cannot be spelt "prise", nor can the noun or adjective "prize". The American English word "anise" is "aniseed" in British English...

above or to proposed policy below) Proposed Policy Articles that use the adjective in the TITLE should use Slovenian based on naming policy (even if the...

April 2007 (UTC) As a verb, consummate has first-syllable stress; as an adjective, it has historically had second-sylable stress, but a shift to first-syllable...

examples are adjectival here), i.e. by taking of a subsidiary phrase (usually a prepositional phrase, as you said). And as they are adjectives, they can...

April 28 Grammar Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 29 Using a superlative adjective when comparing only two items Rooibus en español...

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 March 1 Adjective and Noun word lists. Google Translate ap in welsh names Natural and Unnatural Semicolon...

compound name into an adjective. If keeping both parts matters, just say it is an organisation based in B&H, and forget about an adjective. — Preceding unsigned...

the way the article purports. The adjective "classic" can of course be applied to any moped, much like the adjectives "good" or "blue" could used, but...

be a collective noun when there is a plural form Yankees (though as an adjective it could be either singular or plural - hence Yankee soldiers). Which...

common English adjective. And, by the by, none are linked with the contemporary American "progressive" movement, except by that adjective.E.M.Gregory (talk)...

example: "Subject is an adjective noun ..." or "Subject, an adjective noun, ...". If such examples are common, each of adjective and noun may be deemed...

precise, and in alignment with the scientific literature. Moreover, it's an adjective, and that allows more cromulent grammatical constructions than would be...

14 June 2009 (UTC) support. Sounds reasonable -all the others are at "Adjective canoeist stubs": (except the Czech one, which possibly should also be...

Usually, an adjective becomes an adverb by adding one new syllable, -ly. But why do -ic adjectives need 2 new syllables (-ally) to become adverbs?? Georgia...

Is there a term like dominant adjective or primary adjective that refers to an adjective that goes before other adjectives? Where can one find out info...

senses, the two words are true adjectives, thus: "Maya architecture", "Mayan phonetics". The words may also be used as adjectival nouns, in which case "the...

without adjectives, because if it had already been absorbed then it would no longer be a photon, but I still wonder if there's any direct adjective expressing...

January 2018 (UTC) Ancient Greek grammar (tables with transliteration)/Adjectives (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)...

the adjectival form might well be "murian".--JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds 08:40, 22 October 2018 (UTC) Murrain is the disease. Murine is the adjective for...

Double-barrelled adjectives of this kind rarely work well, because it's always unclear if the first adjective is acting to adjust the noun, the second adjective, or...

develop this as a major theory; the SRO citation is using "positive" as an adjective but does not define a term "positive nationalism", and the two newspaper...

multiples per WP:NOTDICTIONARY, and titles shouldn't be adjectives at all, per WP:ADJECTIVE. SpinningSpark 13:05, 28 November 2022 (UTC) Thinking more...

the word "of" follows "an adjective" (as I've claimed). Ok, it's an adjective functioning as a verb, but it's still an adjective, isn't it? Just as every...

{{CookIsland-politician-stub}} / Category:Cook Island politician stubs The correct adjective for something from the Cook Islands is "Cook Island". The parent category...

would have helped much. The noun-as-adjective is an improvement on the demonym, but it still carries adjectival problem of implying something about identity...

when used as a adjective, as it is only used as an adjective by people who have some reason to make a point of not using the normal adjective. AshbyJnr 00:36...

happy-clappy" (although see [1]), as it's an adjective not a noun, and Wikipedia articles should not normally be at adjectival titles. There is no single noun that...

throw out his chest upward We agreed for him to go there. the order of adjectives amiable Accents Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February...

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 15 Auteur as an adjective Old English Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 16...

(ten), means "is close to but is still less than" (ten). Is there an adjective meaning "is close to but is still more than" (ten)?...

conjugate. Nouns decline. What do adjectives do? 24.92.78.167 (talk) 22:23, 23 October 2010 (UTC) In English, adjectives don't decline or conjugate the way...

phrase? Friends are arguing that it's an adjective, but it looks to me that 'odd' is functioning as an adjective, and 'every other' an adverbial phrase...

March 25 Demonyms ending with -er Is "person of color" an adjective? Do companies take the pronoun "it" or "they"? Right bank...

intensifiers are adverbs modifying adjectives making the latter stronger or weaker. Here "f###ing" is an adjective modifying a noun—not in the right category...

carrots→ 15:56, 15 April 2017 (UTC) 'no' can be an adjective in English. I suppose people use 'no' as adjective only when talking in Mock Spanish like no problemo...

one valid entry, Sonic the Hedgehog. "Sonic Man" sounds more like an adjective rather than a name. This is part of a series of questionable given name...

No proper names please. Thanks. Note: Germaine is a proper name. The adjective you want is germane. JackofOz 01:20, 8 September 2006 (UTC) I guess that...

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17 Become overrun particular type of question Democolacs Old English Adjectives as substantives Is there a word in English for this? 3rd-person singulars...

think, fundamentally different. I analyse them as adjectives (formed from verbs, yes, but adjectives nonetheless) used in the same way as tall in "the...

"Transpacific". An adjective is not usually the basis for an encyclopedia article, which nearly always describes a noun. Aside from use of the same adjective, there...

should be interpreted as a plural marker for the noun, rather than an adjectival marker similar to its usage in "golden" and "wheaten". Cf. wolven and...

of restrictive/non-restrictive clauses (not to mention nouns, verbs, adjectives .......) was abandoned as trivial, (note comma) the placement of commas...

Bishop 12:32, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC) Similarly in Spanish. Adjective-after-noun predominates, but adjective-before-noun can be used for emphasis. "El imbécil hombre"...

heard "apropos" used as an adjective at all, so from that perspective, it certainly can't be a synonym for the adjective "appropriate". It's almost always...

"Dippy Dawg", as he is an anthropomorphic dog, and "Dippy" is another adjective for a "Goof". Nowadays such a character would probably be called a "Retard"...

there occur quite a few adjectives ending with the Latinate suffixes "-ous" and "-ose." And often, nouns derive from said adjectives by using the (also Latin-based)...

do. The bare adjective doesn't denote a subject. But the corresponding noun, cryptogenesis, or a noun phrase constructed from the adjective, cryptogenic...

Ssven2! In this case, attorney general is a postpositive adjective where the attributive adjective is placed after the noun. Plurals of expressions with...

preposition has its object and every pronoun its antecedent, so does an adjective or adverb get some kind of foobar?—PaulTanenbaum (talk) 00:51, 30 March...

languages, like Classical (but not modern) Chinese could use a noun or adjective as a verb. Thus you could say "Person X is truthing". I don't know a modern...

is a homonym. There is the name for a currency, and there is also the adjective that translates into English a s "real". This has the regular plural form...

Troopers) here. The term's not used by the military as far as I can see. An adjective attached to infantry doesn't merit an article. It's even used here to...

considered adjectives, and not humanised. 'Aboriginal' is an adjective sometimes used as a noun. According to [4] ‘Aboriginal’ (adjective, capitalised)...

this phrase in the scholar articles clearly show that "suicidal" is an adjective to the word "courage," not an established concept of the existence of...

"Wario" can be taken to be a blending of Mario's name with the Japanese adjective warui meaning "bad"; hence, a "bad Mario". In the United States, the name...

figured that most English adjectives ending the /i/ sound can become nouns when the -ness suffix is added—but said adjectives' stem must change from "-y"...

bunta", using a case form of the adjective девичий "devichiy", meaning (in this non-literary context) "girlish". The adjective is derived from the noun девица...

regular adjectival form, or is that just an opinion? Online style guides are quite conflicted—the EU prefers "of the Cook Islands"]as the adjective, the...

July 29 Definition of the word "similetic" Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 30 Adjective alternative for tiger like...

standard name of <Adjectival country name> <denomination> (e.g., French franc, not Franc or Franc (currency)). To determine the adjectival form, please use...

homophones or homographs Which one is correct? (if any) "Obsoletized" Adjectives Word starting with "Dimihi...." phytoxygraphique Canadian French Jour...

frente ao Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) 2018-09-03 Postpositive adjective plural possessives. Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 September...

(Alexandra), and the adjective Sashin, -ina, -ino is declined exactly like any other adjective of that form. Russian adjectives agree with their referent...

recognizable; and resembles names for similar categories. Avoid subjective adjectives such as famous, large, or beautiful in category titles. Avoid abbreviations...

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 5 Encyclopedic Value English: adjectives: people: Regarding the phrase "in which" acronyms Organic and non-organic...

24 February 2010 (UTC) Fair can be a post-positive adjective, and Fair for All can be an adjectival phrase. -- Wavelength (talk) 16:56, 24 February 2010...

the article with a standard adjective→noun Redirect, as per Fastfission and the Wikipedia:naming conventions (adjectives). Uncle G 12:39, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)...

necessary task" - chore, bind (2), grind (4), fag (2:1) - but not an obvious adjective with that meaning. There's wheady (which I've shamelessly nicked from...

January 2014 (UTC) More traditional analysis would probably be predicate adjective... AnonMoos (talk) 13:45, 1 January 2014 (UTC) To me "leave alone" feels...

Google test is irrelevant is that "contemporary" as an adjective applied to "Classical" as an adjective is going to generation bazillions of hits for "contemporary...

that many is an article. It's not an adjective; it's a determinative. Consider for example its use (and adjectives' non-use) in partitive constructions:...

transwikied it. --Dmcdevit 21:38, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) Yorkshire, UK, slang adjective word for someone who feels the cold. The above discussion is preserved...

predicates wavy underlined? Are adjectives, subordinate adjective clauses, adjective phrases, prepositional adjective phrases, and the like in round brackets...

"Yeshivish" as an adjective, but I still don't think it deserves its own article. A section under Haredi Judaism explaining the adjective (and a "see also"...

a weak player. Another frequent example is the use of overly-emotive adjectives and win/loss synonyms when mentioning outcomes, e.g. "crushing defeat"...

universal, to use the Noun adjunct (aka the attributive noun) rather than the adjective, in most cases. Thus, "California voters" is more common than "Californian...

log) This article is quite the mishmash. First of all, the title is an adjective, which is strong evidence that the article is about a word rather than...

such as "He appears to be lying," is "to be lying" functioning as an adjective or an adverb, and how do I know? I know that "appear" is often a linking...

as an adjective, we use “foot,” which is the singular form. Let’s hear some examples: The children climbed a 15-foot tree. Here, the adjective is “15-foot”...

The adjectival ending was added onto that. I must admit, this case is special, because most adjectives borrowed from Chinese are 'na' adjectives, and...

It is an adjective phrase which are inherently problematic for disambiguation because in general things are referred to by the adjectival phrase alone...

gazeteer it gives "Argentine" as noun and adjective, then "Argentinean" as noun and "Argentinian" as adjective. "Argentina" derives from the Latin argentum...

It has to do with types of adjectives. Explanation here - since the first sentence has two different types of adjectives (Oscar-winning being purpose...

'best, ignoring the weight class', or 'per weight' and is an adjective. Per WP:MOS: "Adjective and verb forms (e.g. democratic, integrate) should redirect...

Wikipedia? At the moment virtually all of the people categories are in the adjective form. Changing a few will create a mess that we will be stuck with for...

such an adjective in a formal scientific paper or article dealing, say, with the genus Dacelo, you would be perfectly entitled to form an adjective appropriately...

don't adjectives come before the noun in English? Why isn't it the "below text"?--Quest09 (talk) 10:56, 9 July 2009 (UTC) Because it's not an adjective, but...

is gone", "gone" is an adjective (see wikt:gone#Adjective, sense 3). In "The bread is risen", "risen" feels like an adjective too, as you're describing...

'legal' here is not a simple adjective meaning 'allowed by the law' is verified by the fact there is another adjective directly ('deliberate') before...

00:09, 3 December 2016 (UTC) "Former" is an adjective, and cannot modify "86-year-old", which is an adjectival phrase. One would need to say "the formerly...

an adjective. Mikenorton (talk) 08:21, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Not sure what you mean by that. Words like Jurassic, Cretaceous etc are clearly adjectives. We...

April 19 Portuguese help French translation French adjectives French capitalisation of adjectives and nouns in titles Question on biblical latin...

September 8 stairs Ancient Greek Question: Plural of Maimaktes What is the adjectival form of the word 'library'? Wording Problems an exemplary "role model"...

--Launchballer 17:15, 4 November 2013 (UTC) Hello Launch. I'm using "RS" as an adjective, to refer to the level of reliability of the source. The same way it is...

November 2006 (UTC) Landstrasser is a proper (geographical) adjective, and toponymical adjectives formed from German (as in the language) place names are...

(c) the premise that a factually incorrect adjective "theoretical" is preferable to the contentious adjective "pseudoscientific". This request for mediation...

Historical third-person plural personal pronoun I thought proper was an adjective Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 July 31 Catsuits and cats...

appear to be adjective forms. Peter James (talk) 23:48, 10 February 2016 (UTC) How are "White-slaver", "White-slaves" and "White-slavery" adjective forms? (Whatever...

be described using a certain adjective does not make it a genre." But it does when it can't be described by a adjective, it is similar to christian rap...

what one gets from ignoring the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (adjectives). An adjective is not an article title. The best place to discuss this classification...

may be a better translation of dozorce. Oh, and I think báňských is an adjective here, modifying střelců a dozorců.  --Lambiam 21:26, 7 April 2020 (UTC)...

predicate adjective is an adjective that functions as a predicate, such as "Jessica is attractive", attractive being the predicate adjective. The subject...

create abstract nouns from practically all adjectives by simply adding -ness. To wit, while some adjectival nouns—such as availableness and incredulousness—seem...

but you should avoid it in prose. Write "cyber" as an unspaced prefix with e.g. "attack" or "security", and never as a standalone noun or adjective....

whenever he wanted to emphasize anything, he always wrote "damn" as an adjective, knowing that his wife would edit it out. Wikipedia has no such wife....

above, I'm wondering if anyone knows, or can predict, what the English adjectival forms of names Sao and Neso from Greek mythology are. As in, 'Atlas is...

preposition, but he concludes: "This reflects the fact that nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and prepositions typically have subtantive descriptive content...

(noun) is a flat region of land, but in the context given the word is an adjective, and therefore almost certainly means ordinary etc. Gandalf61 (talk) 12:01...

dwarven a proper adjective to use to describe someone with dwarfism? The Hero of This Nation (talk) 16:02, 26 August 2010 (UTC) No, the adjective is "dwarfish"...

genre called "traditional heavy metal", it's just heavy metal with an adjective added in the front to indicate a straight-ahead, early or classic heavy...

that is pronounced /streɪ̯ŋ/ be spelled? Can the word seen be used as an adjective like in Seen crimes can be reported to the police (meaning the crimes...

at Joe Karam Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 22 Adjective "organ" Computer Language Dictionary & Thesaurus sought fabric Bear of...

appositive? Do appositives also modify adjectives? 2. Among the three subordinate clauses, namely adjectival, adverbial and nominal clause, only the...

17:47, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC) Delete as copyvio of the WordNet entry and then adjective → noun Redirect to prostitution. Uncle G 20:11, 2005 Jun 24 (UTC) Delete...

matches and is, at best, an incomplete list of how the general-purpose adjective "analytic" might be used. An alternative to deletion might be a soft redirect...

for everything. What's it called when a simple phrase is noun–adjective, vs adjective–noun? To give an example, what's the name for saying "car red"...

and Hobbes example, in the "Humor" section. Also note that weird is an adjective rather than a noun. --Theurgist (talk) 08:04, 13 June 2018 (UTC) Whether...

voice (I think bass, but could be tenor) sings: "...(2-syllable, probably adjective) ist das Leben, ist der Tod." Can anyone help? thanks...

"Self-explaining" shows hits on Google, but the trouble is that it is an adjective that is used in a lot of different ways. In the Netherlands some talk...

Is there an adjective "organ" that is related to the verb "organize" and the noun "organization" like other "-ize"/"-ization" words? GeoffreyT2000 (talk)...

if you're thinking of going through all the African categories making "Adjectival geography stubs" the standard then I very strongly oppose "Congolese geography...

that it rhymes with must /dʒʌst/, using the vowel of cup. I agreed the adjective, like "a just verdict" is pronounced this way. But I have always pronounced...

(in the same way as death metal or speed metal, which are real genres). Adjective + genre != sub-genre. Was pretty lucky to survive on a no-consensus. Plenty...

expect "K" in the use by McCoy, as the last of a sequence of adjectives, to also be an adjective.  --Lambiam 09:56, 15 June 2020 (UTC) Curiously, when the...

-- JackofOz (talk) 04:14, 2 February 2008 (UTC) What if there are only adjectives before proper names, but no nouns? Is the definite article appropriate...

if it is an adjective: London pub, landscape architect, plane crash. In German you can't do that; you either have to use a true adjective (Londoner Pub)...

few hits that do come up are usually using the term standpatter as an adjective (ie conservative) rather than alluding to a recognised faction or group...

WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Another genre where someone slapped an adjective on the front of another genre. No real description of style or development...

"cultivated". -- Wavelength (talk) 21:30, 22 April 2009 (UTC) (ec) It's an adjective, "that is sowed", as opposed to silvester, wild. Maybe you know the word...

than football (or cricket...or chess for that matter??) - I'd drop that adjective - the sentence not sure about either - needs a ref in any case. – I've...

a person, or a group, a concept, a place, a thing, an event, etc - an adjective belongs in a dictionary, not an encyclopedia! Heimstern Läufer (talk)...

exogenous Cushing's syndrome and exogenous virus. Exogenous is just an adjective that's used commonly in biology for a lot of things—and most of those...

article is needed, when the adjective is used. Correct: Referential demonstratives cannot be omitted, at least not when _ adjective is used. Correct: Uncountable...

islands" what is the role of "norway" and "company. I mean they are not adjective, And another thing, I have noticed that in some dialogs you are able to...

that "risen" is both a verb and an adjective: has risen vs. is risen. Whereas died is a verb and dead is an adjective: has died vs. is dead. ←Baseball Bugs...

compare adjectives. e.g. One saving grace, though, is that this usually does not apply to downward comparisons. When it comes to adjectives relating...

-ability, and -ibility are actually not etymologically related to the adjective/noun able and ability. The former came from Latin pretty much as is, from...

'hard' as an adverb, as in "He hit the table hard with his hand." Many adjectives in English can be used with their root form, without a derivative suffix...

as the proper noun, so they all support the current page title, but an adjective rather than a noun, except in headlines, which aren't expected to be grammatical...

used to refer to one's girlfriend/boyfriend ("I asked my hyebeh out...") adjective - attractive or sexy ("That person is hyebeh.") adverb - to commit an...

Crocide asshole Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 7 Adjective to describe event that didn't happen Italian proficiency certificate The...

February 2015 (UTC) Not enumeration, but this post made me think of Adjective#Adjective_order, which is handled differently in French and English. So "the...

Dec 2004 (UTC) If we need to declare that there is simply no acceptable adjective form to refer to the people of Northern Ireland, that's OK with me. There...

be an adjective in such searches, such as "the accumulate precipitate". Of course, that gets us into the question of whether it's a adjective or a Noun...

like "German" can be adjectives or nouns, and when you say "I had lunch with a German", "German" is a noun. "Spanish" is an adjective. Very clumsy to use...

March 2014 (UTC) Using an adjective when an adverb should be used -- "straight" is an adverb. straight functions as an adjective, adverb and noun -- that...

be neuter ([2]). Shouldn't the adjective be "sanguisugum" then? My Latin grammar mentions no possibility of an adjective having the ending "-us" and keeping...

but it's not on Wiktionary. — Gwalla | Talk 22:05, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC) Adjective. Transwiki and delete or redirect somewhere. anthony (see warning) 17:21...

want to add an adjective like "excellent" (how about "praestantissima"). Just to make it more fun, sometimes you can make the adjective agree with the...

stub articles of thrice the length which are "padded" with unsourced POV adjectives ("renown", "gifted", "highly-acclaimed", etc.) and dubious attempts at...

structural descriptive grammar approach define the noun,verb,adverb and adjective? Usually they are considered primitive categories. A specific grammar...

neutral adjective for the UK. So either we use the noun "United Kingdom" as an adjective (as we do with New Zealand), or we avoid adjectives by using...

Jones Brass Ensemble is a notable band, and the adjectives in the articles can be removed (an anti-adjective bot might come in handy; it should be easy to...

any dictionary and you'll find "female, adjective" and "woman, noun". "Of women" can be used as an adjective, but not women. Well, at least in as far...

just to say that one statement. If we do, it shouldnt be titled as an adjective.Bensaccount 23:31, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) Note: Martin made the following comment...

first, with the etymology above, is basically cognate with the English adjective. The second, from the Latin vacuus, seems to occur chiefly in the expression...

2022 (UTC) The names seem to follow established traditions of making adjectives from place names, which like every single other thing in Linguistics does...

Chris (talk) 12:56, 8 January 2019 (UTC) Q Chris. I think you mean an adjective, rather than a verb. Rather than the final sound, isn't it simply the...

cross-dressers. In the first case, the entire phrase "female-to-male" is the adjective that modifies "cross-dressers", not just "female". Good Ol’factory (talk)...

At the very least, rename from adjective to gerund, as per Duncharris and the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (adjectives). Uncle G 15:46, 2005 May 23 (UTC)...

19:34, 21 June 2008 (UTC) "noun+shì+adjective+de" is a fixed construction. You use this, or simply "noun+adjective" without a copula (as in many other...

been busy! Want to add "bias" to that page? Maybe you need a section on adjectives. HiLo48 (talk) 03:51, 12 July 2014 (UTC) I could probably add many others...

g. "chicken pox", not "chicken pox") Acronyms (e.g. "HIV", not "HIV") Adjectival usage (e.g. "poliovirus polymerase" not "Poliovirus polymerase") Italics...

HELP with the shop project. Noun The baby seems unusually QUIET today. Adjective Please wait OUTSIDE for me. Adverb Marco polo 01:36, 14 January 2007 (UTC)...

were different from previous empires, it's using "revolutionary" as an adjective, not "revolutionary empire" as a term denoting a sub-type of empire. The...

participle, and such passive participles are often used as adjectives. In this case, the adjective is used in a noun slot, but does not take a noun plural...

Vegetarian cuisine, Byzantine cuisine. Exceptions are to be made when the adjective is too ambiguous, such as "American cuisine"; in these cases Cuisine of...

pupa [singular]) a radii (a radius [singular]) a renown (a renowned [adjective]) a run in (a run-in) a set back (a set-back, a setback) a set up (a setup)...

not a problem?? These are 2 different countries, and it's odd that the adjective "Dominican" can mean having to do with either of these. Georgia guy (talk)...

formation is not universal. In Zulu, adjectives are a small closed class. Instead of using participles as adjectives, adjectival constructions are made with relative...

(UTC) Why the second apostrophe? General is just an postpositive adjective, and adjectives don't have a possessive form (we wouldn't say *District's attorneys'...

"Xerus", "Y": "Yew", "Z": "Zebra" }, "_adjectives": "The below 'adjectives' array contains color and gemstone names, each with a unique...

US and Canada as adjectives, and usually as nouns. They are usually not capitalized in other countries, whether as nouns or adjectives. anglophobe, francophobe...

your bolded !vote with adjectives like "strong" and "weak," but what matters is the strength of your argument, not the adjective. Doug Mehus T·C 21:45...

phonology does not even mention possible velarization of the ⟨l⟩.) The common adjective українка is pronounced (again according to Wiktionary) [ʊkrɐˈjinkɐ]; the...

as a verb, which seems strange. In the next sentence it's used as an adjective. I say change the first one to something a bit clearer. This phrase doesn't...

people to Category:Nepali people Nominator's rationale: The national adjective and demonym for Nepal is "Nepali". Please see the Nepali Ministry for...

on frequency of use, but it is in the Australian Oxford Dictionary. "adjective (colloq.) used to emphasise something remarkable or exciting". DuncanHill...

esk/Archives/Language/2017 March 13 Which one is true? What are these adjective pairs called? Concave base of a glass bottle Wikipedia:Reference_desk...

English even if the German name is the singular Fall; or use "Waterfall") Adjectives: Convert to noun, e.g. Lichtenhain Waterfall for Lichtenhainer Wasserfall...

not all adjectivals are awkward; if an "adjective + noun" format to be used for a category name, I'd say the adjective should be adjectival rather than...

country and year to use the adjectival form of the country name. For Myanmar, the adjective is "Burmese": see List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries...

Also note that "nuclear" is an adjective. "Jefferson" is a noun, in contrast. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (adjectives) for more on this. Uncle G (talk)...

exceptions to the usual placement (e.g. French, where adjectives normally follow the noun but certain adjectives can precede the noun under certain circumstances)...

articles in this area, which are almost all "Christian [noun]," instead of "[Adjective] Christianity." There are actually a few category topics in this area...

news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) This Polish adjective is not a valid dab page. All of these are partial title matches. (t ·...

'stressed'. 'Exciting and excited'. Etc. What is the term for these pairs of adjectives? It's not opposites, quite. But I feel there must be a word for it? Amisom...

French dépendant adjective and noun, properly present participle of dépendre to depend v.1 From the 18th cent. often (like the adjective) spelt dependent...

only category is Category:Etymology, and that the article title is an adjective, not a noun). Powers T 16:24, 4 November 2007 (UTC) Keep The level of...

Ivy, Little Ivies, "Southern Ivies," etc. Almost any combination of an adjective and the word "Ivies" forms a phrase whose meaning can be understood from...

feminine is used is because 'Nationalité' is feminine. Française is an adjective modifying 'nationalité': la nationalité Française. - Lindert (talk) 22:02...

Japanese write, do they also use the semi-cursive script or other systems? Adjective version of 'officer', 'registrar' and 'commissioner'...

1 December 2012 (UTC) If a man is called "Hubbell" (sic), what is the adjective? Hubbellian? Hubbelean? Any thoughts welcome. Robinh (talk) 19:54, 29...

different meaning? I assume that you are asking about the word used as an adjective: the OED defines the linguistic sense as "Of a part of a sentence: that...

Torajan religion or the religion of everyone? The word Torajan as an adjective could imply the religion of all Torajan people. If so, how does that coordinate...

excludes all adjectival uses, so it will no in any instance crate a category "North Macedonian Foo". §4 Adjective discusses adjectives, but this nomination...

June 2022 (UTC) See Adjective#Order. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 22:45, 2 June 2022 (UTC) (e/c) The order is specified at Adjective#Order. Hungry Jack's...

In the lead, it's an ordinary adjective and noun, so there's no reason for a hyphen. Later on, it's a compound adjective so would normally be hyphenated...

literally that the adjective used in the cuisine categories all need to end in "-ian". I think he's saying that in categories, the adjective used in front...

concept is friability. This article title is an adjective. See Wikipedia:naming conventions (adjectives). Uncle G 04:15, 23 November 2005 (UTC) Merge into...

executing an RKO.[8] but "predominant" does not seem to be the right adjective here - the other brands list the "main match" and the "primary match"...

of Mormon, Mormon Tabernacle Choir or Mormon Trail, or when used as an adjective in such expressions as “Mormon pioneers.” The term “Mormonism” is acceptable...

Macedonia", or by the adjective "Macedonian" (where syntactically and stylistically appropriate) Plain "Macedonia" or the adjective "Macedonian" can be...

news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) This Polish adjective is not a valid dab page. All of these are partial title matches. (t ·...

You may want to look at this previous ref-desk thread, as well as Adjective#Adjective order. The PDF I linked at the very bottom of the ref-desk thread...

"English language version" hyphenate English-language as it's being used adjectively here. "Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny), and -> missing " "famed for his...

these all adjectives, not prepositions? Rmhermen (talk) 16:00, 14 July 2015 (UTC) outspoken is an adjective, upscale is a verb (or an adjective in OED)...

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2014 November 26 Parallelogram adjective Linear recurrence raised to a integer power distance from a surface...

There is no scope for metamorphosis of this dictionary article about the adjective Wiktionary:scot-free into an encyclopaedia article about a person/place/concept/thing...

--TotoBaggins 01:09, 20 May 2007 (UTC) "hematological" is probably the adjective you want, though it depends on the specific test (certain blood tests...

preceded by a conjunction or by a preposition, nouns in apposition, adjectives, and adjective phrases come under the same rule if they begin the sentence."...

adjectival clause "God than whom nothing is greater" - is a preposition, so it is - in the adjective phrase "greater than God" - and in the adjective...

consecutiveness, but not in the same meaning. Maybe something like that: "it is an adjective which describes something as following in order, but not (necessarily)...

16:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC) Delete per Kingofaces43. This is just an adjective. Agricolae (talk) 22:54, 12 November 2019 (UTC) @Agricolae: This is objectively...

cultural construct in British English, compared to just being an occasional adjective ("posh quarters") in American. (As an aside, I am struck that we have...

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If you look at ngrams of various compound adjectives with and without the hyphen e.g left handed vs left-handed, nine year old vs nine-year-old or [old...

renamed to Category:Slovak sport stubs, to reflect the common usage of adjective "Slovak" in other categories throughout WP. - Darwinek (talk) 11:48, 23...

(UTC) Yes, see http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=close under "–adjective", several meanings starting at 39.  --LambiamTalk 07:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)...

And the reason for this is that "Radecký" is an adjectival surname where "-cký" is a masculine adjectival suffix. So a feminine form of the name is made...

between the relative superlative and the absolute superlative since all adjectives upwardly compared using (the ancient equivalent of ) -er and -est. e.g...

identify it as a verb and not the noun "fell" meaning "animal's hide" or the adjective "fell" meaning "deadly", how will it know if it's the past tense of "fall"...

demonyms and adjectival demonyms; Roundhouse0, you seem to misunderstand the use of the term "New Zealand". "New Zealand" it is the correct adjectival demonym...

right. (I would never use "United States" as an adjective, either. As much as I hate it, the correct adjective form is "American".) --Tango (talk) 02:25, 6...

coitus interruptus if you like." Interruptus is sense b). Sense a) has no adjective and is simply "coition". Sense c) another Latinate phrase: "We practiced...

it's not an adverb (it's an adjective). rʨanaɢ talk/contribs 01:27, 14 November 2009 (UTC) OK, you win on the adverb/adjective point, but in the UK, "forthcoming...

related meanings), such as optimus masculine singular adjective, optimum neuter singular adjective, optime adverb, etc. If you want an etymology in pre-Latin...

(exquirere bonum ipsum) 18:10, 7 April 2017 (UTC) Words related to the adjective μεσος appear to have a basic "o" vowel in a few forms, such as μεσοω (denominal...

my second choice, since at least some incoming links will be using the adjective form of ChristianChristian, and users looking for Christians as a group...

polarity, whereas a little and a few do not. The same can be true of the adjective slight, though I don't think this case is so clear-cut. --ColinFine (talk)...

that use either Slovene or Slovenian both as an adjective and a noun and some use Slovenian as an adjective and Slovene as a noun, I am now nevertheless...

looking for an adjective that, when applied to a putative event in the past, means that said event did not in fact happen. But the adjective should not impute...

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 2 I'm looking for an adjective: Tamara de Lempicka: her surname as pronounced in France and America...

ridiculously short compared to what one would expect (about half of all adjectives in the English language, by gross approximation), and even if it was complete...

exedebat". However, Oxford Latin Dictionary understands aethonem as an adjective (not a name) transliterated from Greek αἴθων and as probably meaning "red-brown...

though originally from bride+ale, is used as an adjective, according to OED, "by association with adjectives (of Lat. origin) in -al, as nuptial, natal, mortal...

place can possibly be called by this word: it is a plural form of an adjective. Staszek Lem (talk) 01:20, 28 February 2017 (UTC) Note: This debate has...

eye, it would seem these are noun/adjective conjugations? (Hulþaz, kindness, the noun; hulþi, kind, the adjective?) Whatever the case of the conjugations...

"He appears to be lying" - Is the infinitive phrase functioning as an adjective or adverb? Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 8 duhui...

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this article. I don't see scope for an encyclopaedia article about this adjective. Morever: although we do have intensive care medicine, intensive farming...

both a past-tense verb (e.g. the milk spoiled) and a past-participial adjective (the spoiled milk). In British English, spoiled is usually the past-tense...

wik articles and are definitely worth noting. But an article about an adjective used to describe these buildings? I recommend possibly including "supertall"...

German, maybe. English speakers usually decide for themselves how their adjectives will be. Google recognises both forms, but -inian outweighs -inan 10:1...

the genitive of ego is mei. Mea is not a "genitive adjective" but rather a possessive adjective (the term used by my Oxford Latin grammar and every other...

it doesn't seem to have a well-defined meaning any more than any other adjective-noun combination. Opabinia regalis 04:42, 3 February 2007 (UTC) Delete...

secondary sourced. Note you can create lots of genre names by adding an adjective before the word rock but they aren't all notable neonwhite user page talk...

December 4 Sung Spanish "muy" English to Japanese translation help Noun-to-Adjective derivations using the '-ed' suffix. Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013...

- subobject classifier and showing a morphism is self-inverse Does an adjective exist to describe this situation? t-test help please Froda's Theorem Flawed ...

King of Hearts talk 17:47, 2 April 2006 (UTC) Comments: I wonder why the adjective form of "Montengro" is "Montenegrin" and not "Montenegran". J. Finkelstein...

in all cases. The name of the ball is a number-as-adjective and a noun, not a compound adjective. Plurals are formed in the same manner. Examples: "the...

{{African-religion-stub}}, losing the ambiguous redirect. The proposed use of the adjective instead of the noun is so that the scope is not Category:Religion in Africa...

'hypocrite' ("It sounds quite hypocrite"[1]), the noun form instead of the adjective 'hypocritical', while Shadow4dark has made a similar claim/attack to someone...

Not an actual region of the CNMI, the author merely took a directional adjective and made it into an official place. Quotes from sources are "The northern...

col=colpics&qt=democrat+ I found 2026 hits for Democrat (most are cases of adjective use and refer to domestic politics) and 2603 for Democratic (most of which...

of the debate was keep. ugen64 21:01, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC) Delete. Dicdef/adjective... I can't see it ever being encyclopedic... concept is better covered...

Sardinia). You cannot coin these: if the Hypheno-adjective doesn't exist, you have to use the full adjective, thus Georgian-Russian, not *Georgo- or *Kartvelo-...

but "reference" is not an adjective, and French is not relevant. "of reference" is a qualifying phrase which, unlike adjectives, normally follows the head...

to ask the same question. wikt:high-maintenance lists this as an adjective. Adjectives by themselves rarely denote encyclopaedia article subjects. They...

here: adjective and noun. Let's deal with the easier part first - the adjective. From the linguistic point of view, Slovene is the preferred adjective by...

Forward can be an adverb, an adjective, a verb, or a noun. But backward has no noun or verb definitions. Why this mismatch?? Georgia guy (talk) 10:36...

about an adjective. The policy WP:NAD and WP:MOS (Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Article_title_format) forbid article titles that are adjectives; we do not...

for U.S. and U.K. Maintain a redirect. Continue to use Burmese as the adjective where necessary. Some level of "split" for historical pages should be...

30 Polish translation (~ 1880) implying something by saying its opposite Are the sentences grammatically correct in English? (participial adjective)...

November 2009 (UTC) Delete content doesn't even match title. Not every adjective/noun pair is a topic for an encyclopedia article. --Wtshymanski (talk)...

French (as in any Romance language) adjectives always come after the noun except for certain special adjectives such as bon, grand, petit, vieux, etc...

possessive, not an adjectival modifier of son.--Jeffro77 (talk) 08:12, 20 January 2014 (UTC) But it can function as an adjective, and in this phrase...

already in Wiktionary. I don't see this article ever expanding, as just the adjective itself is too vague to be a topic. hateless 16:25, 20 July 2006 (UTC)...

(UTC) Delete. Sounds nice, but any article with a single descriptive adjective of "uberleet" probably deserves deletion. Ian Pugh 17:27, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)...

—Emil J. 17:12, 17 June 2010 (UTC) (e/c) #1 is probably a form of the adjective μνημονικός (mnēmonikós); your spelling with -ου would make it gen. sg...

 Card Zero  (talk) 14:35, 14 March 2022 (UTC) Hi, the sheer number of adjectives contributes to the potential misreading, so to me the solution that repeats...

prose example would be couple instance of a year being described with an adjective: "1998 was not as successful." - Tutmosis 00:29, 27 November 2006 (UTC)...

stubs to Category:Caymanian football biography stubs. 'Caymanian' is the adjective used in other categories, like Category:Caymanian politicians or Category:Caymanian...

widely used term for instances where it is needed. Adjectives modify nouns. In "red house" the adjective, "blue", modifies the noun, "house". Which house...

redirect to it. --Anonymous, 19:19 UTC, September 26, 2009. What is the adjectival form of "Lorraine"?174.3.110.93 (talk) 23:54, 25 September 2009 (UTC)...

There is a tendency in such works to use indefinable phrasing, such as adjectives like "strong", and vague phrases like "favor its own". For the purposes...

deleted. Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:41, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC) (Sorry, Kappa.) The adjective→noun redirect would be to ignominy. We don't have that. But we do have...

look for jarring changes in style, very unusual verbs verbal clauses or adjectival constructions, material worded far poorer than average, material worded...

but the inconsistency is in academics. Where "Spanish" could be the adjective, "Frankish" is kind of rarely used that way. At any rate, it's rare enough...

word as we think of it. I'm not sure if such Parsimony would use the adjective form "Parsimonious". Anyone know? Kushboy 06:58, August 12, 2005 (UTC)...

(Tourist) and the adjective (Tourist) have the same spelling in English while they are different in French (noun = Touriste) (adjective = Touristique)....

results prove absolutely nothing since Slovenian is the standard English adjective for anything having to do with the country, and doesnt necessarily say...

noun Starover (an Old Believer aka Old Ritualist aka Raskolnik) and the adjective staryĭ, "old," spelled in the Cyrillic alphabet? Thanks, anon. —Preceding...

when I was 12, except it was "dudical" and was supposed to be used as an adjective.  :) I don't think either incarnation deserves a wikipedia entry. Amazinglarry...

every adjective and it wouldn't sound odd because some linguists argue that there are no adjectives in Chinese, but hybrids between adjectives and verbs...

modified by adjectives or noun adjuncts. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 20:39, 29 December 2015 (UTC) That's right. In this case, an adjective plus a noun...

nation's divisions are adjectival, then all of the divisions should probably be moved to that form; see Sri Lanka, which is mostly adjectival but has two "named"...

sk/Archives/Language/2014 November 1 Laws with someone's name in them Adjective for road traffic that goes in the same direction as you What does it mean...

this meaning. All results are simply phrases using "predictive" as an adjective. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 21:16, 4 October 2021 (UTC) Note: This discussion has been...

the transliteration) as an adjective? I do know that adjectives inflect in Greek; if you could give me the "basic" adjective form as well as inflected...

I'm curious about forming the comparative and superlative of hyphenated adjectives in English. Would one do so by declining the first word? well-known better-known...

since "Luxembourger" is a noun and not an adjective—we'd still be searching for an appropriate adjective to use for all the other categories! Good Ol’factory...

an adjective; they're both prepositions (or, in syntax terms, complementizers) that introduce an adjectival subordinate clause. The full adjective is...

November 2006 (UTC) I have noticed that the suffix -/i/ seems to indicate adjectives in many languages (in English, such as in the word "healthy", in Hebrew...

with the edit summary: "renown" is a noun; what we need here is a verbal adjective, "renowned". Then I got to wondering. If "renowned" is verbal, there must...

being looked for at the moment in promoting bureaucrats - we could add an adjective like "strong" before consensus but I'm not sure that would be pretty meaningful...

23:43, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC) Delete: Not notable, except for loading up the adjective train to the point where the engine can't pull it, 1 contemporary, 2 Christian...

· SPI Tools Sudden coincidental interest in Paul D. Thacker‎; similar adjective+noun usernames; similar edits; similar "change(s) for correction ..."...

say "informal jargon term"; I say "combination of everyday adverb and adjective". :) Tverbeek 23:43, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC) Delete: (How do you vote an abstain...

2005 (UTC) There don't appear to be any suitable nouns to redirect this adjective to. Needless to say: the article is a dictionary entry about a word, and...

sparingly as an adjective usually for linguistic (Arabic script) and mathematical (Arabic numerals) concepts; Arab is the normal adjective for the people...

Alansplodge (talk) 16:31, 1 January 2018 (UTC) In the name of a town, the adjective more likely describes the location than the language. With Novi meaning...

came across but failed to find in any dictionary. I suspect it is an adjective, a blend of wonderful and spectacular. Am I right? Thank you! — Preceding...

of these were from the common use of "lifetime gamer" as a handle and adjective. Tychocat 17:56, 18 July 2006 (UTC) Delete as per WP:WEB. Not-notable...

Dab pages are the only real exception allowed by the no-adjectival-titles policy (WP:ADJECTIVE), and this case seems sufficiently parallel to the example...

ways the adjective is being used in these examples using linguistic terms? It reminds me of Zulu, which has a small closed class of real adjectives for size...

is it acceptable? Is it just as acceptable without an adjective modifying the noun-cum-adjective ("tentacled monster", "corded phone")? LWizard @ 09:56...

Umar. Were the Paulicians renegades or heretics? What about deleting the adjective "renegade"? It presents a Byzantine PoV. 'Heretic' is IMO more of a PoV...

multi-billion-dollar academic project. Incidentally, is "trans" as a noun rather than an adjective considered acceptable language, or is it a bad translation of the source...

are only for actual terms used as identifiers, not lists of pages an adjective might describe. DMacks (talk) 04:30, 22 February 2012 (UTC) They are not...

(sometimes with extended meaning of "south" as a direction), but the adjective form australis was probably more common in the geographic meaning. Meridies...

month prior to the creation of this article. There's no noun that this adjective could readily redirect to, and no scope for an encyclopaedia article....

There's no scope for metamorphosis of this dictionary article about an adjective (that Wiktionary had already had for 4 months before the creation of this...

the word to an adjective, and say it is symmetric. But "symmetrical" also exists, and seems to be redundant, in that it uses two adjectival endings. The...

"award-winning", "highly acclaimed" and so on. On Wikipedia, we don't add adjectives to describe musicians, singers or actors (or any other article topics)...

Thank you.Hazel2018 (talk) 21:02, 7 July 2018 (UTC) You use lo with adjectives, but I'm not sure if they are considered nouns in that case or if it has...

specific adjective might be an interesting fact for the term's article, but does not automatically justify having a separate article called "adjective term"...

adjective in that it lacks some feature the adjective requires, as in "the honest umbrella" or "the careful castles" (in both examples, the adjective...

archived website contains address: his, or his reps? "Assumed the role of" Adjectives from names DECtalk voice of Stephen Hawking Wikipedia:Reference_desk/...

rights. Darksun 10:03, 12 May 2005 (UTC) Strong Delete the title is a lone adjective? This is like creating an article called Civil about Civil Rights... Is...

describe participles that have no adjective value. Participles are usually described as a verb form have an adjective or adjective-like function, and sometimes...

'Autistic' as if it were a proper adjective, for the same reason the Deaf and Blind communities capitalize the respective adjectives 'Deaf' and 'Blind'. We do...

Remove the adjective "burgeoning" in the Castle Rock caption for the same reason. This adjective is bordering on WP:SOAPBOX. Remove the adjective "historic"...

there is already an article. Lusitanic is apparently a neologism; the adjective actually used is "Portugese". Herostratus 13:32, 15 June 2007 (UTC) Afro...

--76.69.47.228 (talk) 01:01, 5 September 2018 (UTC) That would be wrong. Adjectives don't take possessive forms, nouns do. --Jayron32 01:37, 5 September 2018...

adverb, not an adjective. KägeTorä - (影虎) (Chin Wag) 03:00, 12 March 2015 (UTC) Right. Anymore is an adverb. Any more is an adjective. — Ƶ§œš¹ [lɛts...

"Downtown" is simply a descriptor, an adjective, and as such it doesn't form a proper name phrase. (There are adjectives that form proper names, like "Old...

it". I think shockingly and appallingly could be used with a positive adjective without being misunderstood ("shockingly well-done", "appallingly intelligent"...