(a.) Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the author's view, "traumatic" fibromyositis is no more than a verbal construct arrived at by adding an adjectival modifier to the old terms for idiopathic rheumatic disorders.
(2) MDL 72.974A was extremely well tolerated and no treatment-related changes in vital signs or the adjectival check-list (EWL-N) occurred.
(3) These projects typically have just enough decking, white paint and glass balustrades to allow good-looking young couples to be photographed inside them holding glasses of white wine, such that the adjectival nouns "luxury lifestyle" can be attached.
(4) Means, standard deviations, and a series of one-way analyses of variance were computed on the questionnaire's 25 adjectival pairs.
(5) Pain severity was assessed using a visual analogue scale and the adjectival check-list of the McGill Pain Questionnaire.
(6) Participants expressed concern that adjectival descriptors could be misleading.
(7) Standard adjectival descriptors and standard rating scales were used.
(8) The children classed as educable produced more correct responses than those termed trainable for declarative, question, and single-adjectival structures.
(9) The singer's love of animals did not inhibit his adjectival exuberance, which included sneering at the "pot-dog pudginess" of princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.
(10) It is concluded that, despite considerable overlap with subaffective disorders, the current adjectival use of this rubric does not identify a specific psychopathologic syndrome.
(11) The formats reviewed were bar graphs, pie charts, numeric listings, and adjectival descriptors such as high and low.
(12) Mitchell has let it be known he used the word "adjectivally" and was not directing it at the police.
(13) Personological implications of the two new scales were examined in relation to other measures and to observers' adjectival and Q-sort descriptions.
(14) Three aphasic patients are described whose speech contains invented word-forms which are legal combinations of meaningful parts of real words, like "fratellismo" (brother + ness) instead of "fratellanza" (brother + hood), and from combinations of meaningless and meaningful parts, like "terness + ico" (where "ico" is a real adjectival ending).
(15) We classify materials using a four-level adjectival rating system based on (among other factors) the Draize score.
(16) Worse, he has moved from beetle-browed, harrumphing man of flesh and blood, to half of an oft-uttered adjectival compound: "Leveson-compliant".
(17) The indexing program makes use of the MEID dictionary and some auxiliary semantic databases for identifying adjectival forms, synonyms, hypernyms and other semantic relations while searching for the longest consistent match into SNOMED.
(18) The Adjectival format, which provided nutrition profile information in the form of descriptive adjectives, was the most preferred.
(19) Both groups found imperatives easiest, and future, embedded, and double-adjectival structures most difficult.
(20) Yet the 31-page text oozes such high-minded, adjectival good intentions – 400 of them – that one recently ejected Labour cabinet minister snarled: "It's not a programme for government.
Adjective
Definition:
(n.) Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence.
(n.) Not standing by itself; dependent.
(n.) Relating to procedure.
(n.) A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.
(n.) A dependent; an accessory.
(v. t.) To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nine of the 76 adjectives could not be translated satisfactorily.
(2) Incidental teaching and traditional discrete-trial procedures were used to teach two children with autism the expressive use of two color adjectives to describe preferred toys and food items.
(3) In a second experiment schizophrenics were significantly different from the depressives in showing less inclination to select a metaphorical meaning to an ambiguous adjective in a sentence.
(4) The Depression Adjective Check List, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and a battery of factor analytically derived cognitive tests sensitive to anxiety or depression were administered to 50 women between the ages of 30 and 45 during the 4 days prior to the onset of menstruation and again 2 weeks later.
(5) Subjects completed a structured psychiatric interview (Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) and a Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), in addition to a test of self-schema, which involved rating and recall of a variety of "depressed" and "nondepressed" content adjectives.
(6) The psychical state was analysed using the following tests: thorough clinical history, J. Taylor's evident anxiety scale, H. Gough's adjective scale and psychological rehabilitation effectiveness scale according to J. Tylka.
(7) Semantically congruent situations consisted of adjective-noun pairs that were not highly predictable but were nonetheless plausible (e.g., GOOD-AUNT).
(8) The terminology indicates the name of the main vessel followed by the name of the recurrent vessel both combined in an adjective.
(9) Adjectives used to describe pain and factors causing exacerbation and relief of pain, although overlapping, also differed in the two groups.
(10) The relationship between representation of a person and evaluative impression of that person was investigated by presenting two stimulus persons, each by six trait adjectives, to subjects of the impression group, memory group, and category group.
(11) They failed, however, to assign thematic roles and adjectives in center-embedded relative sentences, and instead relied on nonsyntactic information.
(12) The number of the chosen affective-protopathic adjectives was significantly reduced, the number of sensory-epicrtic descriptions, however, remained constant.
(13) The top eight adjectives they chose were: envious, stiff, industrious, nature loving, quiet, honest, dishonest, xenophobic.
(14) Eighty-four undergraduate female students completed Baucom's Masculinity and Femininity Scales, the Bem Sex Role Inventory, and the Adjective Check List.
(15) "Psychogenic" is aetiologically by no means an apposite, or adjective, to organic diseases, for the occurrence of factors that can be defined as psychopathological (either primary or secondary) is always practically and clinically important--especially if these factors are of general psychosocial relevance, or of a latent depressive and neurotic nature.
(16) In order to determine the correlates of depressive mood, members of a women's volunteer organization were surveyed by a mailed questionnaire that included the Depression Adjective Check List (DACL) Form E and 14 depression-related measures.
(17) Subjects with varying levels of self-concept of ability are requested to judge ability-related adjectives with regard to the self.
(18) To study differences in personality characteristics 25 each dyslexic and nondyslexic men and women, ranging in age from 21 to 73 years, completed the 300-word Adjective Check List.
(19) In Experiment 2, we ascertain that the bias is specific to nouns; novel adjectives do not highlight superordinate category relations.
(20) The present counterpart to the MPQ retains the original grouping of adjectives, the identical number of words per group as well as their rank positions within groups.