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When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stablilized state of affairs, a bundle of ties that in due course may be used to account for another phenomenon.

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  1. noun The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase.
  2. noun Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as white in the phrase a white house.
  3. adjective Adjectival: an adjective clause.
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  • These verbs link a subject to an adjective, which is why you say, "I am short" instead of "I am shortly."
  • Nationality: Noun and adjective -- Burkinabe (accent on last e).
  • Nationality: Noun and adjective -- Beninese (singular and plural).
  • Nationality: Noun and adjective -- Tanzanian (s); Zanzibari (s).
  • Nationality: Noun and adjective -- Trinidadian (s) and Tobagonian (s).
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  1. Middle English, from Old French adjectif, from Late Latin adiectīvus, from adiectus, past participle of adicere, to add to : ad-, ad- + iacere, to throw; see yē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin adjectivus, that is added (only as a grammatical term), from adjectus, past participle of adjicere, add: see adject.
 

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/ˈædʒɛktɪv/
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