adjective

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

There are specific times when it’s a genuinely appropriate word to use, one that covers ground no other adjective can.

From Salon ● May 10, 2026

I mentioned that in 17th-and 18th-century Britain, “hedge,” as an adjective, meant “mean” or “vile.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

The other rationale is that Toni Morrison’s is an adjective, and pronouns must refer back to nouns.

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

Humbled, I move on, again resolved not to let our unhoused neighbors feel invisible, nor to forget that homelessness is, among other adjectives, abnormal.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 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

"Instead, that opportunity has been squandered, and we're faced with a continuation of the bad old days dressed up in a new set of adjectives."

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025

Apparently, all my adjectives are lost in this haze of wonder I’m floating around in.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed