adjective
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By the 17th and 18th centuries, hedge had become an insulting adjective:
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
"Anything in Wales can be described with the adjective 'Welsh'. Therefore I have a Welsh accent, how mad is that?"
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
If you gift your daughter the house — leaving aside the debate over using “gift” as an adjective — your daughter would lose her step-up in basis.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025
On a recent weekday, the country’s leading legal lexicographer was ensconced among the 4,500 some-odd dictionaries that fill his Dallas home, revising the entry for the adjective “calculated” ahead of Black’s 13th Edition.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025
Malik insists that Jar Jar Binks should be a verb, adjective, and an adverb to describe whack stuff because Jar Jar Binks is the worst character in the Star Wars universe.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing adjective
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Language and Grammar - Introductory
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