adjectives
Meaning of adjectives
plural noun
a word naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or technical.
late Middle English: from Old French adjectif, -ive, from Latin adject- ‘added’, from the verb adicere, from ad- ‘towards’ + jacere ‘throw’. The term was originally used in the phrase noun adjective, translating Latin nomen adjectivum, a translation of Greek onoma epitheton ‘attributive name’.
Information about adjectives
Hyphenation of adjectives
ad-jec-tives
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- adjectives is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with adjectives
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