What does adjective mean?

Answer 1

An adjective is a word that describes a noun. The word 'adjective' comes from the Latin root that means 'add to' , and adjectives 'add' characteristics to nouns or pronouns that they modify.

Examples:

• hot water
• favorite movie
• distant thunder
• long walk
• good news

An adjective is a word use to define the quality and describes a noun, pronoun, or another adjective to give more information to the word signified.

That guy gave me a crazy look. (crazy)

I finally finished the book, it was very interesting. (interesting)

The gorgeous woman walked right past me. (gorgeous)

The tall, dark and handsome fellow wore an expensive suit. (tall, dark, handsome, expensive)

Adjectives are added to simple sentences to make the sentence more descriptive, colorful and add more explanation. Adjectives answer the questions what, where, when, how. For example:

"The truck rattled down the street" has no adjectives and doesn't tell the reader a lot about the truck or why it was rattling.

Now we inform the reader of more when we rewrite that sentence "The beat-up yellow pick up truck rattled noisily down the rutted road." So now they know what kind of truck it was, why it was rattling, and what kind of road he is driving on.

Adjectives give us the ability to paint colorful word pictures in our readers mind. That is the objective of adjectives, to be able to insure in our readers minds just what we want them to see, rather than leaving them guessing because of a boring sentence.

Answer 2

A word that describes a noun, such as the word "red" in the sentence "He has a red hat".

Answer 3

A word that describes nouns and pronouns