adjective

After an episode filled with warnings about addiction, government deception, processed food and discredited fats, the meal itself receives one adjective and one bite.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

Their long, heavy eyelids give them a look of drowsy calm; the adjective most often associated with them is “chill.”

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

“You don’t often see the adjective ‘warm’ attached to a titan of industry, but it applied to him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

I mentioned that in 17th-and 18th-century Britain, “hedge,” as an adjective, meant “mean” or “vile.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

But Bacon then complicates matters by using the adjective experimentalis to cover all knowledge grounded in experience; and he has no verb for ‘to experiment’ other than experiri.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Patterns of neural activity revealed that the brain could distinguish different parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026

They ignored the numbers and filled their dispatches with adjectives indicating a doom that, hilariously, the study didn’t support.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Humbled, I move on, again resolved not to let our unhoused neighbors feel invisible, nor to forget that homelessness is, among other adjectives, abnormal.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

"On a good day, I might be good. I think of my writing as contemporary accessible fiction and it really isn't for me to add the qualifying adjectives."

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

Each voice has a unique tone color that is described using adjectives or metaphors such as “nasally,” “resonant,” “vibrant,” “strident,” “high,” “low,” “breathy,” “piercing,” “ringing,” “rounded,” “warm,” “mellow,” “dark,” “bright,” “heavy,” “light,” “vibrato.”

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin