adjective

part of speech that describes a noun or pronoun
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adjective

Summary

adjective is a part of speech[1]. adjective ranks in the top 8% of part_of_speech entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,359 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • adjective's instance of is recorded as part of speech[3].
  • adjective is a type of word[4].
  • adjective is a type of nominal[5].
  • adjective's Commons category is recorded as Adjectives[6].
  • adjective's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Adjectives[7].
  • adjective's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Individual adjectives[8].
  • adjective's represents is recorded as property[9].
  • adjective's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[10].
  • adjective's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • adjective's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • adjective's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • adjective's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14].
  • adjective's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • adjective's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[16].
  • adjective's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[17].
  • adjective's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/adjectives[18].
  • adjective's used by is recorded as Universal Dependencies[19].
  • adjective's equivalent class is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#Adjective[20].
  • adjective's equivalent class is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/2.0/lexinfo#Adjective[21].
  • adjective's equivalent class is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#Adjective[22].
  • adjective's short name is recorded as ADJ[23].
  • adjective's short name is recorded as adj.[24].
  • adjective's exact match is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#adjective[25].
  • adjective's exact match is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/2.0/lexinfo#adjective[26].
  • adjective's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133075826[27].

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Definition and Type

adjective's instance of is recorded as part of speech[3]. Recorded subclass of include word[4] and nominal[5].

Use and Application

adjective's used by is recorded as Universal Dependencies[19].

Why It Matters

adjective ranks in the top 8% of part_of_speech entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,359 views/month).[2] adjective has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] adjective is known by 80 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 27d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#Adjective, http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/2.0/lexinfo#Adjective, http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#Adjective
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1709]]: http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#Adjective"
  2. 8w ago · Superraptor123 · 2026-08-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Model lexeme → L685817, L52488, L1318 +10
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q8171]]"
  3. 8w ago · Penguin112358 · 2026-08-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Model lexeme → L685817, L52488, L1318 +10
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11464]]: [[Lexeme:L9276]]"
  4. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → adjective
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: adjective, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289915540|adjective (#289915540)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
  5. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003748-pridavna-jmena
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0003748-pridavna-jmena, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
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