Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to adjective
Participle: adjectived
Gerund: adjectiving
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | adjective |
| you | adjective |
| he;she;it | adjectives |
| we | adjective |
| you | adjective |
| they | adjective |
Perfect
| I | have adjectived |
| you | have adjectived |
| he;she;it | has adjectived |
| we | have adjectived |
| you | have adjectived |
| they | have adjectived |
Past
| I | adjectived |
| you | adjectived |
| he;she;it | adjectived |
| we | adjectived |
| you | adjectived |
| they | adjectived |
Pluperfect
| I | had adjectived |
| you | had adjectived |
| he;she;it | had adjectived |
| we | had adjectived |
| you | had adjectived |
| they | had adjectived |
Future
| I | will adjective |
| you | will adjective |
| he;she;it | will adjective |
| we | will adjective |
| you | will adjective |
| they | will adjective |
Future Perfect
| I | will have adjectived |
| you | will have adjectived |
| he;she;it | will have adjectived |
| we | will have adjectived |
| you | will have adjectived |
| they | will have adjectived |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | adjective |
| you | adjective |
| he;she;it | adjective |
| we | adjective |
| you | adjective |
| they | adjective |
Perfect
| I | have adjectived |
| you | have adjectived |
| he;she;it | have adjectived |
| we | have adjectived |
| you | have adjectived |
| they | have adjectived |
Imperfect
| I | adjectived |
| you | adjectived |
| he;she;it | adjectived |
| we | adjectived |
| you | adjectived |
| they | adjectived |
Pluperfect
| I | had adjectived |
| you | had adjectived |
| he;she;it | had adjectived |
| we | had adjectived |
| you | had adjectived |
| they | had adjectived |
Conditional
Present
| I | would adjective |
| you | would adjective |
| he;she;it | would adjective |
| we | would adjective |
| you | would adjective |
| they | would adjective |
Perfect
| I | would have adjectived |
| you | would have adjectived |
| he;she;it | would have adjectived |
| we | would have adjectived |
| you | would have adjectived |
| they | would have adjectived |
Imperative
| you | adjective |
| we | Let's adjective |
| you | adjective |
Verbs conjugated like 'adjective'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'adjective'
adjectivise,
adjectivize,
adject,
advertise,
advertize,
deceive,
objectize,
abject,
abortive,
acetise,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1414, from O.Fr.
adjectif, from L.
adjectivum "that is added to (the noun)," neut. of
adjectivus "added," from pp. of
adicere "to throw or place (a thing) near," from
ad- "to" + comb. form of
jacere "to throw" (see jet (v.)). In 19c. Britain, often a euphemism for
bloody."They ... slept until it was cool enough to go out with their 'Towny,' whose vocabulary contained less than six hundred words, and the Adjective." [Kipling, "Soldiers Three," 1888]
2. From Middle English adjectif, adjective, from Old French adjectif, from Latin adiectivus, from adiciō + -īvus, from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + iaciō (“throw”). The Latin word adiectivus in turn was a calque of Ancient Greek ἐπιθετικόν (epithetikón, “added”), a derivative of the compound verb ἐπιτίθημι (epitíthēmi), from which also comes epithet.
Sample Sentences
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Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has […] adjectived all three. [1805, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta: or The Diversions of Purley Part 2]
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In English, instead of adjectiving our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, adjectived signs from other languages[…] [1832, William Hunter, An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives, page 46:]
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For quotations using this term, see Citations:adjective.