Usually means: Word modifying nouns, expressing attributes.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word adjective:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. adjective: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. adjective: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adjective: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adjective: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adjective: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adjective, adjective: Wordnik
  7. adjective: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adjective: Wiktionary
  9. adjective: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adjective: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adjective: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. adjective: Dictionary.com
  13. adjective: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. adjective: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Adjective: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Adjective: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. adjective: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. adjective: Rhymezone
  19. adjective: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. adjective: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. adjective: MyWord.info
  22. adjective: Free Dictionary
  23. adjective: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. adjective: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. adjective: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. adjective: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Parts of Speech (No longer online)
  2. Adjective: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  4. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adjective: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adjective: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. adjective: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. adjective: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See adjectively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.
noun:  (obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
adjective:  (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
adjective:  (law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
adjective:  (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
adjective:  (obsolete, reflected in the chemical sense, but extinct as a general sense) Incapable of independent function.
verb:  (transitive) To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly as a participle) To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.

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