online – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of online

Adjective: online

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore online
Superlativemost online

Sample Sentences

  • Is this modem online?
  • In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. [2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:]
  • The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations. [2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian:]
  • I prefer to read online newspapers.
  • I'll be online tonight, so I'll be able to reply to your email.
  • Press the F1 key to access the online help.
  • The program comes with an online manual, supplied on compact disc.
  • The power is online.
  • Once this factory comes online, it will double car production in our country!
  • terminally online
  • To borrow an idiom from the extremely online, late Godard is a mood. [2019, A.O. Scott, “'The Image Book' Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies”, in The New York Times:]
  • “If we were doing a family vlog inside the house, I would not want my feet in the video. At all.” He would wear socks. He is very online. He sees the conversations. [2025 April 27, Lisa Miller, Maggie Shannon, “When a Child’s Life Becomes the Family Business”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]

Etymology

1950, from on + line.

Verbs referencing "online"

Dutch Adjectives online, Italian Adjectives online, Spanish Adjectives en línea, French Adjectives en ligne.