adjectivedadj.
/ˈadʒᵻktɪvd/, U.S. /ˈædʒəktɪvd/ΚΠ
1798 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα (ed. 2) I. 453 The names..are taken either from the adjectived common names of objects, of from the participles of common verbs.
1823 J. Bosworth Elem. Anglo-Saxon Gram. ii. i. 62 Pronouns take their rise from Nouns, Verbs, and Numerals, which have, in many instances, passed through the adjectived state.
1839 Monthly Mag. Aug. 122 Of John Wilson..we therefore predicate qualities both Shaksperian and Miltonic. Nor would the two great adjectived bards have disowned him.
1896 W. J. N. Liddall Place Names Fife & Kinross 12 Caiplie, a form Capa appears in Gaelic signifying a head or point of land, and is cognate with Caput. From this an adjectived form Capleach is derived.
2. Qualified or described by an adjective or adjectives. Also: having many adjectives.Sometimes with preceding modifying adjective.
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1848 Morning Post 9 Nov. /1 That lair of savages—disgusting, beastly, fever-stricken, and anything but oily-adjectived Hilton.
1892 ‘H. S. Merriman’ From one Generation to Another xi He paid for his pleasure in..the adjectived items of hospitality.
1919 G. M. Overton Why Authors go Wrong ii. 25 The ‘barbaric yawp’... The neatly adjectived noun was felt to be really brilliant.
1934 D. Thomas Let. 2 May (1987) 124 I'm not suggesting that as a substitute for your too heavily adjectived paragraph, only removing a few of the adjectives.
2009 Times (Nexis) 30 May 55 This was a lavishly adjectived, preposterously over-described, linguistically inflated but nutritionally thoroughly bankrupt burger.
3. Used euphemistically in place of an adjective regarded as an expletive, such as damned. Cf. adjective adj. 1c. Now rare.
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adjective1851
something1859
adjectived1869
qualified1886
epitheted1896
adj.1903
jiggering1903
adjectival1907
jeezly1908
blerry1920
bluggy1921
somethinged1922
socking1941
bleeping1957
naffing1959
1869 Baily's Monthly Mag. Jan. 54 The ex-pugilist..says he wishes Mr. Jones was consigned to a place of endless torment, and that he is adjectived if he does not wait until he comes back.
1888 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 6 Oct. 12/4 He began to think of Lady Anne in his heart as an adjectived fine woman.
1911 F. Martyn Holiday in Gaol xxxiv. 211 It was all the fault of an adjectived fool.
1921 Harper's Mag. Mar. 445/1 The employees..were now assembled..with a view to breaking the adjectived neck and adjectived head of Mr. Adjectived Sanders.
1941 Charleston (W. Virginia) Daily Mail 3 Sept. 5/1 Jimmy tried again,..asking to have his adjectived wagon put in the unmentionable place.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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