adjectivizev.
/ˈadʒᵻktɪˌvʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈædʒəktɪˌvaɪz/ Chiefly Grammar.
transitive. To change or form into an adjective. Also: to qualify or describe using an adjective or adjectives.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > adjective > furnish with an adjective [verb (transitive)] > form into an adjective
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1848 T. K. Arnold Elem. Greek Gram. 164 In Greek the attributive may be..an adverb adjectivized by the article.
1852 Brit. Controversialist 3 443 An equal number of correlative words, appropriately adjectivized, should be used in each of the antithetical clauses.
1898 Musical Times Nov. 720/2 There is no need to adjectivise their merits—they speak for themselves in a language that is at once direct, refined, and perfectly understandable.
1910 Everybody's Mag. Feb. 180/1 You cannot accurately adjectivize him. He does not defy analysis; he baffles it.
1949 E. A. Nida Morphol. (ed. 2) iv. 100 Derivational morphemes may..adjectivize nouns, truthful.
2008 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 2 Mar. The talk turns Orwellian... The journalist and social critic's name was adjectivized long ago.
Derivatives
ˈadjectiˌvized adj.
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1851 T. K. Arnold in Thucydides First Bk. Notes vi. 79 Observe that an adjective thus substantivized may take another adjective, or an adjectivized adverb.
1901 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 16 142 The completely adjectivized participle.
1999 Star-Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 23 Dec. 7 t Aioli and pesto have since become adjectivized restaurant-menu ingredients: cilantro pesto, roasted red pepper aioli, etc.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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