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

  • It is a name.
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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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