adjective

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

By the 17th and 18th centuries, hedge had become an insulting adjective:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

If neither goes with an adjective, then so does nor: Peas are neither tasty nor appetizing.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

Yet a few paragraphs later she describes the country with three adjectives, “big, cruel, and transcendent,” none of which is unambiguously positive, and urges readers to “make of it what we can.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 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

“We try to come up with new adjectives every time,” said Nuna, who provides the singing voice for Mira.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025

As a child I was taught, for example, that the words soap in soap flakes and that in that boy were adjectives, because they modify nouns.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker