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adjectival
[ aj-ik-tahy-vuhl ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or used as an adjective.
- describing by means of many adjectives; depending for effect on intensive qualification of subject matter, as a writer, style, or essay.
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Other Words From
- adjec·tival·ly adverb
- nonad·jec·tival adjective
- nonad·jec·tival·ly adverb
- pread·jec·tival adjective
- pread·jec·tival·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of adjectival1
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Example Sentences
When the exact sense was lost, the suffix -al seemed to be adjectival, and the word dismal became at last an adjective.
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We should try to render this in translation, not be content with some bloodless adjectival abstraction plus "is."
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In huss, the German for goose, we may recognise the oose without its adjectival ‘g’.
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Their adjectival energy is greater; they are more given to extravagances of style, both in point of sentiment and of humor.
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So in the adjectival clause; as, 'He struck the poor dog, which (and it, or although it) had never done him harm.'
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