adjective

The “Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang” pushes the origin of gravy as “profit or benefit, especially if unexpectedly or easily obtained” — or as an adjective meaning “easy or cushy” — to decades earlier.

If you gift your daughter the house — leaving aside the debate over using “gift” as an adjective — your daughter would lose her step-up in basis.

On a recent weekday, the country’s leading legal lexicographer was ensconced among the 4,500 some-odd dictionaries that fill his Dallas home, revising the entry for the adjective “calculated” ahead of Black’s 13th Edition.

But you walk out underwhelmed, which is not an adjective that generally applies to anything Bruce Springsteen does.

“There’s no more adjectives you can use to describe him.”