In 1954, long before the writer’s name became a ubiquitous adjectival cliché, Arthur Koestler disparaged the Moscow show trials as “Kafka-esque.” Two years later, as Soviet tanks crushed ...

I n the annual tradition of anointing a “song of the summer” that’s ubiquitous from late May to Labor Day, a front-runner for ...

See also Hyphen. centuries and decades: Use an s without an apostrophe to indicate spans of decades (1930s, the ’30s) or centuries (1800s); hyphenate adjectival forms of centuries (18th-century ...

Sexually dimorphic: Adjectival phrase referring to differences in size and shape between males and females of a species. Bilsborough, A., & Wood, B. A. Cranial morphometry of early hominids I.

The adjectival suffixes would add another handful: Piotrowski, Piotraszewski, Petrażycki, Piestrzyński, Pietracki, Pietruszyński, Pietrykowski, Pietrycki, Pietrzykowski ... and many more. This ...

A further citation concerning the adjectival use of trumpery — “worthless, rubbishy, trashy” — comes from Matthew Arnold (1865): “the accents of a trumpery rhetorician.” Of course ...

A series of 40 audio clips and resources to support learning Spanish at Key Stage 2, including ten songs. 5: Soy un genio (I ...

Very few of us will ever be referred to in the adjectival form. Yet Roger Scruton (1944-2020) deserves such an appellation, and as early as 1985, “Scrutonian gusto” appeared in a snide 1985 ...

It appears that the binary opposition of relevance holds for all predicate adjectives. If this is the case, as assume here, then relevance must occur in every adjectival construction. The logical form ...

"Nice" is the adjectival equivalent of meekly smiling and nodding your head. Of course, I'm as guilty as the next person of having thrown English's least powerful descriptor around. There's even a ...

The OSJPS was able to maintain in 2023 a "very satisfactory" adjectival rating, maintaining the same rating from the previous year.