adjective
美音:
[´ædʒıktıv
]英音:
[´ædʒıktıv
]n.形容词
难易程度:
adjective为短语/超纲词汇
词频:5496
词形变化:
副词:adjectively
近义词, 同义词
adjective
/'ædʒɪktɪv; `ædʒɪktɪv/
n (grammar) word that indicates a quality of the person or thing referred to by a noun, eg old, rotten, foreign in an old house, rotten apples, foreign names 形容词(表示作为名词的人或事物的性质的词, 如在an old house, rotten apples, foreign names中的old, rotten, foreign).
adjective
n[C][
Date: 1300-1400;
Language: Old French;Origin: adjectif, from
Latin adjectus, past participle of adjicere, from ad-
'to' + jacere
'to throw']
a word that describes a noun or
pronoun. In the phrase 'black hat', 'black' is an adjective and in the sentence `It makes her happy', 'happy' is an adjective.
>adjectival [,ædʒɪk'taɪvəl/