Adjectives

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Adjectives In grammar, an adjective is a 'describing' word; the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified. Adjectives are one of the traditional eight English parts of speech, though linguists today distinguish adjectives from words such as determiners that were formerly considered to be adjectives. In this paragraph, "traditional" is an adjective, and in the preceding paragraph, "main" and "more" are. List of Adjectives Appearance Adjectives adorable beautiful clean drab elegant fancy glamorous handsome long magnificent old-fashioned plain quaint sparkling ugliest unsightly wide-eyed Color Adjectives red orange yellow green blue purple gray black white Condition Adjectives alive better careful clever dead easy famous gifted helpful important inexpensive mushy odd powerful rich shy tender uninterested vast wrong. Feelings (Bad) Adjectives angry bewildered clumsy defeated embarrassed fierce grumpy helpless itchy jealous lazy mysterious nervous obnoxious panicky repulsive scary thoughtless uptight

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  • 1. Adjectives In grammar, an adjective is a describing word; the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified. Adjectives are one of the traditional eight English parts of speech, though linguists today distinguish adjectives from words such as determiners that were formerly considered to be adjectives. In this paragraph, "traditional" is an adjective, and in the preceding paragraph, "main" and "more" are. List of AdjectivesAppearance Color Adjectives Condition Feelings (Bad)AdjectivesAdjectives red Adjectivesadorable orange alivebeautifulyellow better angrycleangreencarefulbewildereddrab blue clever clumsyelegantpurple dead defeatedfancygray easy embarrassedglamorousblackfamous fiercehandsome whitegifted grumpylonghelpfulhelplessmagnificent importantitchyold-fashioned inexpensivejealousplain mushylazyquaintoddmysterioussparkling powerful nervousugliest rich obnoxiousunsightly shypanickywide-eyed tender repulsiveuninterested scaryvast thoughtlesswrong. uptight worried Shape Adjectives Size AdjectivesSound AdjectivesFeelings (Good)Adjectives broadbigcooing chubby colossal deafeningagreeablecrookedfatfaintbravecurved gigantic hissingcalm

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