adjectives

In that blistering moment of twisted candor, “Orwellian” became the adjective of our era.

Philadelphians, who lay claim to the sandwich, barely let you utter the word unless you have the birthright and disdain people who use the implicit — and therefore silent — adjective Philly before cheesesteak.

Dear Thief is worthy of the abused critical adjectives philosophical, atmospheric, and masterful.

Just as often, and to more stinging effect, the adjectives come from black people in this town an hour north of Detroit.

Pinker notes that roughly a fifth of English verbs began life as nouns or adjectives.

And anyone who disagrees need look no further than the addition of adjectives to the Gamer.

In writing the report, controversial adjectives were removed.

Mr. Asquith evidently has given in his adhesion to the new system of "colour adjectives."

Each of these pairs, he realised, was really a single state of which the adjectives represented the extremes at either end.

Like the corresponding French nouns in -eur, these nouns in -aire, as well as those in -èire, are also used as adjectives.

One third of the words in this paragraph are descriptive nouns and adjectives, none of which the reader wishes to change.

To show the use of adjectives and nouns in description, the following from Kipling is a good illustration.