Adjective, a part of speech that modifies a noun or a pronoun
Abruzzo region of Italy: Abruzzese is the associated adjective
Adjectival noun or sometimes "adjectival", a noun that functions as an adjective, especially in Japanese grammar
Almalyk, Almalıq, Almalik, or Almaliq is a Turkic adjective form of "apple".
In some Romance languages (including Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan and Italian), Americana is the feminine noun or adjective referring to women or objects from the American Continent declined in the feminine gender.
A weakening of the laryngeal ‘ayn; in one inscription, the masculine singular demonstrative adjective is written ‘dyn (‘dyn ktb’ "this inscription") which corresponds to Mandaic and Babylonian Talmudic Aramaic hādēn.
Barenaked Ladies, Canadian rock band which sometimes uses the adjective in associated projects such as Barenaked for the Holidays
Bavarian is the adjective form of the German state of Bavaria, and refers to people of ancestry from Bavaria.
The adjective bipartisan can refer to any bill, act, resolution, or other political act in which both of the two major political parties agree about all or many parts of a political choice.
The species name is derived from the adjective gemellus (meaning twin) and refers to the similarity to Bryotropha galbanella.
In this context, the adjective Chekist (from Cheka, the first Soviet secret police organization) emphasizes the importance and political power of Cheka and its successor Soviet and Russian secret police services, such as the NKVD, KGB, and FSB.
The adjective "Iuliacensis" refers to the Rhenish town of Jülich, Latin "Iuliacum", formerly capital of the county / duchy of the same name.
Attributive usage of a collateral adjective is generally similar in meaning to attributive use of the corresponding noun.
A compound modifier (also called a compound adjective, phrasal adjective, or adjectival phrase) is a compound of two or more attributive words: That is, more than one word that together modify a noun.
Cupul or Kupul, (Maya: Kupul, 'toponímico; adjective') was the name of a Maya chiefdom at time of the Spanish conquest of Yucatán.
Cytherean is an adjective meaning pertaining to Cythera (Greek Κύθηρα, also transliterated Kythera or Kithira), a small island now part of Greece, southeast of the Peloponnesus.
The definite e-form is historically identical to the so-called weak declension of the Germanic adjective, cf.
Ethylic is an adjective for a molecule containing an ethyl group.
"When the adjective follows the noun, the adjective expresses all the inflectional categories of the noun. In such cases the noun may lack overt expression of one or all of these categories."
The adjective "Hessisch" is used since 1905, to distinguish it from other towns named Oldendorf.
The adjective Hladová (hungry) appeared after a 1361 famine, when the construction works on the wall provided livelihood for the city's poor.
The pre-Germanic name Neuffen is derived from the proto-Celtic adjective nobos, meaning holy or sacred, implying that the mountain had a religious rather than a military function 2000 years ago.
The species name refers to the similarity with Inape stella plus the Latin adjective para (meaning similar).
Another example of the use of the German adjective as a nickname is for the comedy duo of Laurel and Hardy, which Germans often refer to a "Dick und Doof", meaning fat and stupid, as per the German Wikipedia page on this topic.
The Delphin Classics was a large edition of the Latin classics, edited in the 1670s for Louis (Delphin is the adjective derived from dauphin) Thirty-nine scholars contributed to the series, which was edited by Pierre Huet, with assistance from several co-editors including Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet and Anne Dacier.
Mazurski or Mazursky is a Polish language family name derived, as an adjective, from the words "Mazur" or "Mazury" (Mazovia) and meaning "of Mazur" or "from Mazur".
Mīm is used in the creation of ism words (i.e. nouns and adjectives; they are treated fundamentally the same in Arabic grammar).
Meroitic is an adjective referring to things related to the kingdom of Meroë in pre-Islamic Sudan.
Like the toponyms Občine and Opčine, it may be derived from the Slovene adjective obči 'held in common' from the Slavic root *obьťь, referring to an early landholding arrangement.
The first element is probably a possessive adjective based on the oeconym Pijavec, referring to a property where water sinks into the ground.
The word portolan comes from the Italian adjective portolano, meaning "related to ports or harbours."
The Oxford English Dictionary (1971) notes the adjective "individual" in 1425 referring to the Catholic Trinity, in 1600 to a mate who could not be separated from the spouse and not until 1613 as describing a particular person in contrast to a group.
The Latin adjective referring to this episcopal see is Concordiensis, while that referring to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Concordia, a residential see in Argentina, is Foroconcordianus.
The essential ingredients that justify the adjective are red summer berries such as redcurrant, blackcurrant, raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, bilberries and stoned black cherries.
Samnite is an adjective meaning "having to do with ancient Samnium."
The adjective fuoricivitas (a mix of Italian and Latin meaning "outside the city") refers to the fact that, when it was founded during the Lombard rule in Italy, was located outside the city walls.
In a similar way, adjectives "Serb" and "Serbian" could be used to mean "of Serbs" and "of Serbia", respectively, though they too are used interchangeably.
Adverb, a word which modifies a verb, adjective, or other word or phrase
The adjective "slutty" carries a similar connotation, but can be applied both to people and to clothing and accessories, such as Halloween costumes.
The JazzTimes review by Thomas Conrad said "Songways is one of the prettiest piano trio albums of the new millennium... In jazz, “pretty” is often an adjective that damns with faint praise. Battaglia’s music is pretty but neither shallow nor soft".
The adjective Stygian means "of, or relating to, the River Styx", but is more widely applied to anything that is dark or dismal.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "tangerine" was originally an adjective meaning "Of or pertaining to, or native of Tangier, a seaport in Morocco, on the Strait of Gibraltar" and "a native of Tangier."
In a video interview with the Dutch online music magazine FaceCulture, singer Stuart Staples said the album's title was inspired by a story related by guitarist David Kitt, when Kitt had been sent to a songwriting workshop in the United States, and a fellow attendee was having trouble finding a suitable adjective to describe the song he was writing.
It is based on the Hebrew word (צדק, Tzedek) meaning righteousness, fairness or justice, and it is related to the Hebrew word Tzadik meaning righteous as an adjective (or righteous individual as a noun in the form of a substantive).
The adjective "upper" refers to its location further up the Rhone Valley as distinct from Lower Burgundy (Cisjurania) and also from the Duchy of Burgundy west of the Saône river.
Welwitschii is a New Latin adjective that refers to Friedrich Welwitsch (1806-1872), an Austrian explorer and botanist in Angola.
West Australian is an adjective commonly referring to people or things from the Australian state of Western Australia.