英语词汇“adjective”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

ad·jec·tive

(ăjĭk-tĭv)

n. Abbr. a. or adj.

1. The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase.

2. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as white in the phrase a white house.

adj.

1. Adjectival: an adjective clause.

2. Law Specifying the processes by which rights are enforced, as opposed to the establishing of such rights; remedial: adjective law.

3. Not standing alone; derivative or dependent.

[Middle English, from Old French adjectif, from Late Latin adiectīvus, from adiectus, past participle of adicere, to add to : ad-, ad- + iacere, to throw; see yē- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

adjec·tive·ly adv.

单词	adjective
释义	ad·jec·tive (ăjĭk-tĭv) n. Abbr. a. or adj. 1. The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase. 2. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as white in the phrase a white house. adj. 1. Adjectival: an adjective clause. 2. Law Specifying the processes by which rights are enforced, as opposed to the establishing of such rights; remedial: adjective law. 3. Not standing alone; derivative or dependent. [Middle English, from Old French adjectif, from Late Latin adiectīvus, from adiectus, past participle of adicere, to add to : ad-, ad- + iacere, to throw; see yē- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] adjec·tive·ly adv.
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