adjectiveとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.d͡ʒɛk.tɪv/, /ˈæ.d͡ʒɪk.tɪv/, /ˈæ.d͡ʒək.tɪv/

名詞

adjective (複数形 adjectives)

1. (grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.

   The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives.

   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 8:

     "They'll have to invent new adjectives when I come back. You wait!"

2. (obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
   • 1648, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge since the Conquest

     it must be an adjective of dain

同意語

• See Thesaurus:adjective

下位語

派生語

形容詞

adjective (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Incapable of independent function.
   • 1899, John Jay Chapman, Emerson and Other Essays, AMS Press (1969) (as reproduced in Project Gutenberg)

     In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.

   Synonyms: dependent, derivative

2. (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.

   Synonym: adjectival

3. (law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 10, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     The whole English law, substantive and adjective.

   Synonym: procedural

   Antonym: substantive

4. (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.

   Antonym: substantive

動詞

adjective (三人称単数 現在形 adjectives, 現在分詞 adjectiving, 過去形および過去分詞形 adjectived)

1. (transitive) To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
   • 1805, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta: or The Diversions of Purley Part 2

     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.

   • 1832, William Hunter, An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives, page 46:

     In English, instead of adjectiving our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, adjectived signs from other languages […]

2. (transitive, chiefly as a participle) To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.