PEPPER and HOT are close, but they don’t quite fit. (It would need to be PEPPERY to match the adjectival forms of the other ...

Adjectives close adjectiveA word used to describe a person or thing. can also be turned into nouns in German. In fact, we sometimes do the same in English too, usually to denote a collective group ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

"I'm well" is also allowed but not for the reasons many think. That response only works if "well" takes on its adjectival form, meaning "in good health" or "good or satisfactory." Now, if someone ...