adjectival noun
-ess
-ly
-eous
-lytic
-static
-astic
adnoun
-ful
-like
-ary
-osity
-ferous
-ers
-riffic
-rific
-ite
some kind of
-acious
-ize
descriptive adjective
-ical
-ern
adjective
synathroesmus
commoratio
descriptive
to
quite
limiting adjective
heterobasionym
no
Roget
-etic
denominative
-ory
-cidal
be
-ed
-y
adjectivism
-ean
possessional adjective
-ity
-metric
nouny
-er
more
superlative
-cratic
prepositive adjective
-istic
apposition
-ar
-ancy
e-
-ibly
-trophic
-mantic
attributive adjective
substantively
-izer
Saker falcon
synonymy
-ic
-an
-se
adjectively
big
most
-phobiac
of
in-
-ness
-phobic
determinative
determiner
advectionally
-mony
privative adjective
-licious
-imundo
-ial
positive
な-adjective
-graphic
synonymics
less
deadjectival
why
of all
nouny
big
some kind of
quite
no
more
substantively
adjectively
most
advectionally
less
why
of all
adjectival noun
adnoun
descriptive adjective
synathroesmus
commoratio
descriptive
limiting adjective
heterobasionym
denominative
adjectivism
possessional adjective
superlative
prepositive adjective
apposition
attributive adjective
Saker falcon
synonymy
determinative
determiner
privative adjective
positive
な-adjective
synonymics
deadjectival
adjective
Roget
be
noun
- Nouns that have the form of adjectives (often originally adjectives used as nouns).
- A noun that functions as an adjective
- A specific part of speech, categorized in Japanese as 形容動詞 (keiyō dōshi). Some of these words can be used as regular nouns, and all can be used as adjectives when followed by the postfix な (na), in contrast to Japanese common adjectives, 形容詞 (keiyōshi).
suffix
- Used to form adjectives from nouns, the adjectives having the sense of "appearing like, resembling, or having the likeness of what is denoted by the noun".
- Used to form adjectives from nouns, the adjectives having the sense of "behaving like, or having a nature typical of what is denoted by the noun".
- Used to form adverbs from adjectives and nouns.
- Used to form adjectives from nouns specifying time intervals, the adjectives having the sense of "occurring at such intervals".
suffix
- Forms adjectives.
- Used to form names of certain chemical compounds, especially salts or esters of acids whose name ends in -ous.
- Used to form nouns denoting descendants of a specified historical person, especially a biblical figure.
- Used to form nouns denoting the product of a specified process or a commercially manufactured product.
- Used to form nouns denoting segments or components of the body or an organ of the body.
- Used to form demonyms.
- Used to form nouns denoting rocks or minerals.
- Used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc.
- Used to form nouns denoting fossil organisms.
noun
adj
prep
- Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
- Used to indicate the target or recipient of an action.
- Used to indicate result of action.
- Used to indicate a ratio or comparison; compared to, as against.
- Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
- At.
- Preceding the next hour.
- Indicating destination: In the direction of, so as to arrive at.
- Denotes the end of a range.
- Often used without the hour
- Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
- according to
- Used to indicate a resulting feeling or emotion.
adv
particle
adv
- With predicative adjectives.
- With adverbs of manner.
- With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs.
- Before a noun preceded by an indefinite article; now often with ironic implications that the noun in question is particularly noteworthy or remarkable.
- Before a noun preceded by the definite article.
- To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather.
- Coming before the definite article and an attributive superlative.
- With verbs, especially past participles.
- With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.
- With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc.
- Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.)
- Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions.
intj
noun
noun
adv
- Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives.
- Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.
- not
prep
det
- Not any.
- Hardly any.
- Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
- Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).
intj
noun
- a negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval
- a vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition
particle
verb
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective.
- To occur, to take place.
- Used to link a subject to a measurement.
- Used to express future action as well as what is due to, intended to, or should happen.
- Used to state the age of a subject in years.
- Used to form the continuous aspect.
- To occupy a place.
- Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
- To exist.
- Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
- Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
- Used to indicate the time of day.
- Used to link two noun clauses, the first of which is a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place), and the second of which is a period of time indicating how long ago that day was.
- To exist or behave in a certain way.
- Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
- To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect.
- Used to form the passive voice.
- Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs; this was more common in archaic use, especially with verbs indicating motion. "He is finished", and "He is gone" are common, but "He is come" is archaic.
- Used to indicate that the subject is an instance of the predicate nominal.
- Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
- To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
- Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
noun
suffix
- Used to form possessional adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun.
- As an extension of the above, used to form possessional adjectives from adjective-noun pairs.
- Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.
- Used to form past participles of (regular) verbs. See -en and -t for variants.
suffix
- Added to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives meaning “having the quality of”, either “involving the referent” or “analogous to it”.
- Added to verbs to form adjectives meaning "inclined to".
- Used in the name of some locations which end in -ia in Latin.
- Forming abstract nouns denoting a state, condition, or quality.
suffix
- Used to form nouns shorter than more formal synonyms.
- A thing that is related in some way to the root, such as by location or purpose.
- Used to form diminutives.
- Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words.
- A person or thing to which the root verb is done or can be done satisfactorily.
- A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun.
- More; used to form the comparative.
- Person or thing connected with.
- Suffix denoting residency in or around a place, district, area, or region.
- A person who is associated with, or supports a particular theory, doctrine, or political movement.
- A suffix creating adjectives from verbs, indicating aptitude, proneness, or tendency toward a specified action
- Junior, child, younger person. (Attached to a name, usually a portion of the given name.)
- Suffix denoting a resident or inhabitant of (the place denoted by the proper noun); used to form a demonym.
- Frequently; used to form frequentative verbs.
- Instance of (the verbal action); used to form nouns from verbs.
- A person whose occupation is the root noun; (more broadly, occasionally with adjectives) a person characterized by the root.
- A person or thing to which a certain number or measurement applies.
noun
- The form of an adjective that expresses which of several items has the highest degree of the quality expressed by the adjective; in English, formed by appending "-est" to the end of the adjective (for some short adjectives only) or putting "most" before it.
- The extreme (e.g. highest, lowest, deepest, farthest, etc) extent or degree of something.
- An adjective used to praise something exceptional.
adj
noun
- The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
- A public disputation by scholars.
- A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
- The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
- Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
- The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
- A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
- A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.
suffix
- Forming nouns such as beggar, liar, pedlar, etc.
- Forming nouns such as vicar, exemplar, bursar, etc.
- Of, near, or pertaining to; adjective suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also.
- Used to form names of star types, such as magnetar, collapsar, etc.
prefix
- Used to form adjectives with the sense of something being lacking or removed.
- Electric
- Used to prefix product names, to indicate an electrified or all-electric variant of the product, particularly cars.
- Used to prefix items that are embedded into devices, instead of being discrete or removable elements.
- For emergency purposes.
- Used to prefix product names, to indicate a battery-powered or onboard electric power source variant.
- In an electronic form, usually and especially computerized and digital; often in association with the Internet.
noun
noun
- The study of synonyms.
- The collective synonyms (all the names referring to a particular taxon, except the correct name)
- The state of not being a correct name, of being a synonym
- The quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.
- A list or collection of synonyms, often compared and contrasted.
- A system of synonyms.
- The collective synonyms (all the names referring to the same taxon, including the correct name)
suffix
- Used to form adjectives from nouns with the meaning “of or pertaining to”.
- Used to denote certain chemical compounds in which a specified chemical element has a higher oxidation number than in the equivalent compound whose name ends in the suffix -ous. For example sulphuric acid (H₂SO₄) has more oxygen atoms per molecule than sulphurous acid (H₂SO₃).
suffix
- Of or pertaining to; an adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form. (Often added to words of Latin origin, but also used with words of other origins. When a word ends in a, -n is used instead.)
- Appended to nouns to form an agent noun. (When males with a profession are distinguished from females, males are -an, females -(i)enne.)
adv
adj
- Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
- Important or significant.
- Mature, conscientious, principled; generous.
- Popular.
- Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
- Enthusiastic (about).
- Fat.
- Adult; (of a child) older.
- Populous.
- Of great size, large.
- Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
- Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.
- Old, mature. Used to imply that somebody is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
adv
- In a large amount or to a large extent.
- On a large scale, expansively.
- You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.
- In a boasting manner.
- Hard.
- In a loud manner.
noun
prep
- Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also 'Possession' senses below).}}
- Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.
- Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.
- Indicates a quality or characteristic; "characterized by".
- Often used without the hour
- Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).
- Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.
- Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.
- Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning.
- Indicates a given part.
- Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to.
- Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
- Used to indicate the material or substance used.
- Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.}}
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.
- Denotes the number of minutes before the hour;Before (the hour); to.
- During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
- From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
- Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of.
- Indicates the source or cause of the verb.
- Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.
- Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).
- Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.
- Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; "which is also".
- Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; "from among".
- Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
- Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under "agency" senses.)
- Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.
- Forming the "objective genitive".
- Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.
- Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.
- Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.
- Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives modified by certain common adverbs of degree.
- Introduces its subject matter.
- For (a given length of time).
suffix
- Appended to adjectives to form nouns meaning "the state of being (the adjective)", "the quality of being (the adjective)", or "the measure of being (the adjective)".
- Appended to words of other parts of speech to form nouns (often nonce words or terms in philosophy) meaning the state/quality/measure of the idea represented by these words.
noun
- An adjective indicating that a noun lacks some other noun, or a quality of that noun; usually formed in English by the affixation of the suffix -less or suffixoid -free to the noun that is absent.
- An adjective indicating that a noun refers to an object that is not of the class which that noun ordinarily refers to.
noun
- A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- A positive result of a test.
- An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
- The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
adj
- Not negative or neutral.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
- Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
- Optimistic.
- Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
- Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- Of number, greater than zero.
- Having more protons than electrons.
- HIV positive.
- Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
- Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
- Formally laid down.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
- Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- electropositive
- Fully assured in opinion.
- Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
- Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
- basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
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