a word that describes a person or thing, for example big, red and clever in a big house, red wine and a clever idea 形容词 ‘Reliable’ is not an adjective that could be applied to my car. “可靠”这个形容词不能用于我的汽车。
Extra ExamplesTopics Languagea1‘My’ is a possessive adjective. my 是个所有格形容词。 Adjectives qualify nouns. 形容词修饰名词。 Attributive adjectives precede the noun. 定语形容词位于名词前。 Predicative adjectives follow the noun. 表语形容词跟在名词后面。 adjectives describing texture 描述质地的形容词
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- attributive
- predicative
- comparative
- …
- apply
- describe
- modify
- qualify
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French adjectif, -ive, from Latin adject- ‘added’, from the verb adicere, from ad- ‘towards’ + jacere ‘throw’. The term was originally used in the phrase noun adjective, translating Latin nomen adjectivum, a translation of Greek onoma epitheton ‘attributive name’.