Grammatical category (part of speech) that is used attributively with nouns (a white fence) or is governed by a copular verb (The fence is white). In some languages, adjectives may also exhibit valence (e.g. Ger. sicher sein+gen. ‘to be sure of...

. An adjective stands in attributive position if it goes with its noun. (‘A red house’), and in predicative position if it occurs after a verb (‘The house is red’). It is grammatically attributive if it can only occur...

// n. (Adj or A) A lexical category, or a lexical item belonging to this category, found in many, though not all, languages, inflectionally and distributionally distinct from the categories Noun and Verb, with which it typically shares the...

// adj. 1. (of a word) Denoting an item which occurs inside a noun phrase and serves to qualify or restrict the meaning of the head noun of that NP. Examples include red in the red book, in the garden in the people in the garden, Lisa’s in...

In grammar, an adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun (called the adjective's subject), giving more information about what the noun or pronoun refers to. Collectively, adjectives form one of the traditional eight...