adjective

We can reserve that adjective for the 1986 Challenger explosion, which was witnessed live by millions courtesy of CNN.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

In so much of modern cinema, “fun” has replaced “safe,” a new adjective with a better connotation meant to save middling films from themselves.

From Salon ● May 27, 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

“Strange,” said Calixte, and she didn’t mean the adjective strange, which fell immensely short of the sight before them.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Bold, original and necessary are three adjectives that don’t come to mind regarding “Digger,” the expensive, much-anticipated satire-drama from Alejandro González Iñárritu and Tom Cruise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

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

Yet a few paragraphs later she describes the country with three adjectives, “big, cruel, and transcendent,” none of which is unambiguously positive, and urges readers to “make of it what we can.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

Write and define adjectives denoting relating to, like, or being, from the following nouns:—

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton