Other forms: adjectives
An adjective is a word that describes a noun. A descriptive adjective, comparative adjectives, too many adjectives.
English puts them in a fixed order that no native speaker is taught and none gets wrong: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose — a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife, and no other order sounds right.
1nounadjectiveA word that describes a noun.
“Try to use a more interesting adjective than "nice" in your essay.”
adjective is a word class.
Latin adiectivus means added to, from adicere, to throw towards — ad plus iacere, to throw.
Latin
adiectivus
Old French
adjectif
Middle English
adjectif
English, today
adjective
Built from
From Middle English adjectif, adjective, from Old French adjectif, from Latin adiectivus, from adiciō + -īvus, from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + iaciō (“throw”). The Latin word adiectivus in turn was a calque of Ancient Greek ἐπιθετικόν (“added”), a derivative of the compound verb ἐπιτίθημι, from which also comes epithet.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA