adjective

Kafka was not just a writer, he was an adjective.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

After an episode filled with warnings about addiction, government deception, processed food and discredited fats, the meal itself receives one adjective and one bite.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

Their long, heavy eyelids give them a look of drowsy calm; the adjective most often associated with them is “chill.”

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

“You don’t often see the adjective ‘warm’ attached to a titan of industry, but it applied to him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

But Toni Morrison’s is not an adjective, like red or beautiful; it’s a noun phrase in genitive case.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Patterns of neural activity revealed that the brain could distinguish different parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026

"On a good day, I might be good. I think of my writing as contemporary accessible fiction and it really isn't for me to add the qualifying adjectives."

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

The goal is to convince online shoppers to spend north of $100 on a scent suggested by a chatbot conversation filled with ethereal adjectives and descriptions of the English countryside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025

He chose “friendly” and “cordial” as adjectives to describe his relationship with Trout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2025

Each voice has a unique tone color that is described using adjectives or metaphors such as “nasally,” “resonant,” “vibrant,” “strident,” “high,” “low,” “breathy,” “piercing,” “ringing,” “rounded,” “warm,” “mellow,” “dark,” “bright,” “heavy,” “light,” “vibrato.”

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin