description word

English

Noun

description word (plural description words)

1. (grammar) An adjective.
   • 2006, Tanya Remer Altmann, The Wonder Years: Helping Your Baby and Young Child Successfully Negotiate Major Developmental Milestones (e-book edition without page numbers):

     They learn not just nouns, but description words (adjectives), action words (verbs), and others.

   • 2010, Julie Gray, Get That Job With The Right CV: Teach Yourself, Hodder Education (part of Hachette UK), in the series Teach Yourself (e-book edition without page numbers):

     Adjectives, or description words, are another way to turn a standard role or activity into something special.

   • 2010, Paul Werny, English Filipino Work book, 2nd edition, Median press, p.99:

     Both can be used interchangably but Palá cannot be used with adjectives (description words)

   • 2011/2015, Joan N. Kaderavek, Language Disorders in Children: Fundamental Concepts of Assessment and Intervention. Second Edition, Pearson, p.222:

     It includes vocabulary related to home, people, action words, description words, pronouns, prepositions, and question words.

   • 2013, Alison Amend, Adam Robinson, Cracking the SAT Literature Subject Test, 2013-2014 Edition, Princeton Review, page 43:

     Adjective: description word that modifies a noun

Synonyms

• adjective
• describing word
• noun adjective, adnoun (archaic)

Hypernyms

• part of speech
• word

Related terms

• action word (action-word)
• connecting word
• naming word
• name word (name-word)

Translations

adjective — see adjective