Thesaurus:adjective

Thesaurus

adjective

English

Noun

Sense: a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun's referent

Synonyms

• adjective
• adjective noun
• adnoun
• describing word
• description word
• noun adjective

Hyponyms

• attributive adjective
• cardinal adjective
• demonstrative adjective
• descriptive adjective
• indefinite adjective
• interrogative adjective
• limiting adjective
• numerical adjective
• ordinal adjective
• participial adjective
• possessive adjective
• predicative adjective
• relative adjective

Hypernyms

• noun    [⇒ thesaurus]
• word    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “adjective” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “adjective” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.