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List of 228 Common Adjectives

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Adjectives modify perhaps the most common words in the English language, nouns. With a list of common adjectives at hand, you can effectively describe your surroundings in detail. The words on this list of 228 adjectives can all be used to describe feelings or the appearance of objects and can also make it easy to describe yourself, your surroundings and your favorite things.

A-D List of Adjective Words

The first part of this list features commonly used adjectives from the first four letters of the alphabet.

E-K Adjectives List

There are plenty more often-used adjectives that start with letters in the next part of the alphabet. Review these adjective words that begin with the letters “e” through “k.”

L-S Adjective Words

Moving forward in alphabetical order, there are still many more adjectives appropriate for use in everyday conversation. Explore these common words that start with the letters between “l” and “s.”

T-Z List of Adjectives

There are plenty more common adjectives throughout the remainder of the alphabet. Explore these common words that start with the letters between “t” and “z.”

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Why Use an Adjective List?

Whether you are a native English speaker or you are learning English as a second language, using an adjective list like this one can help you expand your language skills and organize your learning.

• Using an adjective list can help you build a more advanced vocabulary and build your ability to use descriptive language. This, in turn, will allow you to become a more effective writer and speaker.
• People who are learning a foreign language often make a list of common descriptive words to study in order to expand their vocabulary beyond just basic nouns and verbs in the new language.

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Adjective Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

Adjectives describe or modify—that is, they limit or restrict the meaning of—nouns and pronouns. They may name qualities of all kinds: huge, red, angry, tremendous, unique, rare, etc.

An adjective usually comes right before a noun: "a red dress," "fifteen people." When an adjective follows a linking verb such as be or seem, it is called a predicate adjective: "That building is huge," "The workers seem happy." Most adjectives can be used as predicate adjectives, although some are always used before a noun. Similarly, a few adjectives can only be used as predicate adjectives and are never used before a noun.

Some adjectives describe qualities that can exist in different amounts or degrees. To do this, the adjective will either change in form (usually by adding -er or -est) or will be used with words like more, most, very, slightly, etc.: "the older girls," "the longest day of the year," "a very strong feeling," "more expensive than that one." Other adjectives describe qualities that do not vary—"nuclear energy," "a medical doctor"—and do not change form.

The four demonstrative adjectives—this, that, these, and those—are identical to the demonstrative pronouns. They are used to distinguish the person or thing being described from others of the same category or class. This and these describe people or things that are nearby, or in the present. That and those are used to describe people or things that are not here, not nearby, or in the past or future. These adjectives, like the definite and indefinite articles (a, an, and the), always come before any other adjectives that modify a noun.

An indefinite adjective describes a whole group or class of people or things, or a person or thing that is not identified or familiar. The most common indefinite adjectives are: all, another, any, both, each, either, enough, every, few, half, least, less, little, many, more, most, much, neither, one (and two, three, etc.), other, several, some, such, whole.

The interrogative adjectives—primarily which, what, and whose—are used to begin questions. They can also be used as interrogative pronouns.

Which horse did you bet on? = Which did you bet on?

What songs did they sing? = What did they sing?

Whose coat is this? = Whose is this?

The possessive adjectives—my, your, his, her, its, our, their—tell you who has, owns, or has experienced something, as in "I admired her candor, "Our cat is 14 years old," and "They said their trip was wonderful. "

Nouns often function like adjectives. When they do, they are called attributive nouns.

When two or more adjectives are used before a noun, they should be put in proper order. Any article (a, an, the), demonstrative adjective (that, these, etc.), indefinite adjective (another, both, etc.), or possessive adjective (her, our, etc.) always comes first. If there is a number, it comes first or second. True adjectives always come before attributive nouns. The ordering of true adjectives will vary, but the following order is the most common:

opinion word→ size→ age→ shape→ color→ nationality→ material.

Participles are often used like ordinary adjectives. They may come before a noun or after a linking verb. A present participle (an -ing word) describes the person or thing that causes something; for example, a boring conversation is one that bores you. A past participle (usually an -ed word) describes the person or thing who has been affected by something; for example, a bored person is one who has been affected by boredom.

They had just watched an exciting soccer game.

The instructions were confusing.

She's excited about the trip to North Africa.

Several confused students were asking questions about the test.

The lake was frozen.

ADJECTIVES - What are ADJECTIVES?

The word consists of 14 letters: first p, second p, third and, fourth l, fifth a, sixth g, seventh a, eighth t, ninth e, tenth l, eleventh b, twelfth n, thirteenth, last e,

The word adjectives in English letters (transliteration) - prilagatelnye

• The letter and occurs 1 time. Words with 1 letter p
• The letter p occurs 1 time. Words with 1 letter p
• The letter and occurs 1 time. Words with 1 letter and
• The letter and occurs 2 times. Words with 2 letters l
• The letter a occurs 2 times. Words with 2 letters a
• The letter d occurs 1 time. Words with 1 letter g
• The letter t occurs 1 time. Words with 1 letter m
• The letter e occurs 2 times. Words with 2 letters e
• The letter e occurs 1 time. Words with 1 letter ь
• The letter н occurs 1 time. Words with 1 letter н
• The letter ы occurs 1 time. Words with 1 letter y

Adjective

ADJECTIVE, adjective (literally translated from Latin nomen adiectivum - adjoining name), lexical-semantic class of words (part of speech), naming the qualities and properties of objects (heavy suitcase), events (high-profile case) . ..

Encyclopedia Around the World

The adjective is an independent part of speech denoting a non-procedural sign of an object and answering the questions “what”, “what”, “what”, “what”, “whose”. In Russian, adjectives change according to gender, cases and numbers...

en.wikipedia.org

ADJECTIVE - an independent part of speech. The general meaning is a sign of the subject (fresh newspaper). This determines the grammar of the adjective. The inflection of an adjective is based on the duplication of the grammatical categories of the noun ...

Literature and language / Ed. P.A. Nikolaev. - (Modern Illustrated Encyclopedia)

German adjective

An adjective in German is an independent part of speech that answers questions welche(r, s) or wie. As a part of speech, the German adjective combines three features: semantic...

en.wikipedia.org

ADJECTIVE IN MODERN RUSSIAN

ADJECTIVE IN THE MODERN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE An adjective is a part of speech that contains words denoting signs of an object or living being: a tall pine tree, a new teacher, a young tiger.

Encyclopedia Around the World

Full adjective

Full adjective (partial adjective, full adjective, pronominal adjective). Qualitative adjectives with endings -th (-oy), -th, -th, -th after the stem into a solid consonant (kind, light, sick) ...

Rosenthal D.E. Dictionary-reference book of linguistic terms. - 1976

Short adjective

Short adjective (non-membered adjective, short form of the adjective, nominal form of the adjective). A quality adjective with a null ending in the singular masculine…

Rosenthal D.E. Dictionary-reference book of linguistic terms. - 1976

Truncated adjectives

Truncated adjectives Adjectives used in the function of defining in formed from the full form, but with a partial truncation of the ending (outwardly resembling a short form).

Rosenthal D.E. Dictionary-reference book of linguistic terms. - 1976

Qualitative adjectives

QUALITATIVE ADJECTS. Adjectives derived from stems denoting the quality or attribute of an object; K. P. are opposed to relative P., derived from the bases denoting the subject, and indicating the relationship of the subject ...

Literary encyclopedia: Dictionary of literary terms

Short form of adjectives

The short form of adjectives is inherent only in qualitative adjectives, relative and possessive adjectives do not have a short form. Qualitative adjectives can have not only attributive (full), but also predicative (short) ...

en.wikipedia.org

MARKED-UNMARKED ADJECTIVES

MARKED-UNMARKED ADJECTIVES Among adjectives that represent the poles of a dimension, often one can be "neutralized" so that it represents the entire dimension as a whole, and it is considered unmarked ...

Oxford Dictionary of Psychology. - 2002

• Words from the word "adjectives"
• Words starting with "p"
• Words starting with "pr"
• Words ending in "e"
• Words with "s" at the end
• Words starting with "at"
• Words starting with adj
• Words ending with "ny"
• Words ending with "ny"

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Morphology of the Russian language 1: nouns, adjectives, pronouns

The adjective is an inflected part of speech that usually designates a sign (of an object, person, thing), and is also semantically and grammatically associated with a noun or pronoun, the meanings or characteristics of which are clarified:

• HouseØ – new , big , wooden , spacious , beautiful , cozy , blue
• Room – light , large , spacious , children , small , blue . ..
• Sea – warm salty huge , deep , black , beautiful , blue ...

98) modern , anti sanitary , beyond polar , pre red ) or suffix-prefix ( school , at sea sk , at so n th ). New adjectives are also formed by adding ( railway , Russian-Czech , light brown ), non-morphological connection of two words: undersigned persons = undersigned , above address = above address or so-called. adjectivation (transition of participles into adjectives), for example. outstanding successes , laughing eyes .

From a syntactical point of view, adjectives usually perform the function of defining or the nominal part of the predicate.

6.1 Lexico-grammatical groups (categories) of adjectives

According to their meaning, adjectives in Russian are divided into three lexical and grammatical categories:

• quality adjectives ( funny , smart , big , small ),
• relative adjectives ( iron , stone , rustic ),
• possessive adjectives

Qualitative adjectives designate qualitative features of an object, person or thing : Form and position ( straight , steep ), dimensions ( Low - high , large - small , narrow - wide ), characteristics - weak , cold - hot , sweet - bitter ), character traits ( evil - kind , gullible - suspicious)0203 sick - healthy , young - old , smart - stupid ).

Due to the fact that qualitative adjectives denote a changing, non-permanent feature, these adjectives have degrees of comparison , for example. high - above ( over / less high ) - highest ( highest / above all , above all ). Other for degrees of comparison, see 8.

Qualitative adjectives can have short form and long form, e.g. sick - sick , young - young , smart - smart , other. for short and long forms, see 7.

Qualitative adjectives can form phrases with the words very , very , much , extremely , not at all , not at all etc.: very large , very smart , much stronger , extremely interesting , not at all stupid .

Relative adjectives , in contrast to qualitative ones, designate a constant, unchanging attribute , therefore these adjectives do not have degrees of comparison. Relative adjectives designate a sign through the relation of a given object (person) to other objects, signs, states, for example. student residence (= "student residence"), reading room (= "reading room / where one can read"), morning newspaper (= "newspaper that came out / comes out in the morning").

Most relative adjectives are formed from nouns, hence the meaning of relative adjectives - "designation of a feature through the relationship of a given object (person) to other objects, features, states": seaport ( sea formed by sea with the suffix -sk- ), eye doctor , wooden table , silverware , plastic window .

Relative adjectives can only have a full form, i. e. marine , eye , wooden etc.

Relative adjectives include adjectives denoting materials, colors, etc.: glass , leather , blue , lilac , black , green .

Possessive adjectives denote an individual or genus affiliation, an individual or genus characteristic, for example. Petin suit , fox hole , mother's bag . Usually these adjectives answer the question whose ? (cf.: qualitative and relative adjectives answer the question which one?) and have their own special indicators:

• special suffixes -ow- , -in- , -ij- (-j-) : fathers , sisters , foxes ,
• In the nominative case of the only and multiple number of possessive adjectives, the end of short forms appears: of the Fathers , sisters , foxes - , sisters , fox , Ottsovo , , , . 0204 , fox - fathers , sisters , foxes .

Russian surnames with a Formant -ov -, - / - in their origin are attractive adjectives ( Petrov , Kozlov , Vdovin , Kureitsyn ).

Forms ending in -ov- , -in- in Russian compete with genitive forms 9. In modern Russian, possessive constructions with the genitive case are used much more often than possessive adjective forms, i.e. father's shoes , mother's bag , Natasha's coat .

Czech type combinations Gorkého ulice , Puškinův institut ruského jazyka , Masarykova univerzita are translated into Russian either using the possessive construction with the genitive case , or using a special construction with the word named after : Gorkogo street , Pushkin Institute of the Russian Language , 9 Masaryk University2 Avšak Karlova univerzita = Charles University . . Constructions with the word named after are often written in an abbreviated form: Pushkin , University. Masaryk .

Examples from the Russian National Corpus:

• But such glare all around, so non-fussy unrestored, homely, county Gogol street , so good that you can do it without coffee. [Tatyana Solomatina. My Odessa language (2011)]
• After reconstruction, the May 1 Library was opened at Gagarin Square in Moscow. [Vyacheslav Surikov. Culture // Expert, 2015]

The boundaries between the lexico-grammatical categories of adjectives are mobile , which means that as a result of semantic development or polysemy, adjectives can move from one lexical-grammatical category to another. Most often, relative adjectives go into the category of qualitative ones, for example. golden ring (= gold ring, relative adjective), golden hands (= skilled hands, figurative, qualitative adjective), heart of gold (= kind, quality adjective), golden words (= clever words, quality adjective).

Next, we give an example from the textbook of the modern Russian language (Modern Russian language 2016, 60):

attraction adj.	Rel. adj.	Quality adj.
bear paw ( lair )	bear coat )

Tasks

1

Form possessive adjectives from the following phrases.

2

Divide the following adjectives into qualitative and relative, justify your answer.

3

Complete the adjective endings.

4*

Write down a fragment from a text of any genre (volume - at least 150 words), find all adjectives in this text. Write down the found adjectives and determine their lexical and grammatical categories. Determine the initial form of all found adjectives (nominative case, singular).

5*

Work with the National Corpus of the Russian Language. Find 10-15 indeclinable adjectives in the corpus.

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