| 单词 | descriptive adjective |
| 例句 | They also said it publicly, as just another descriptive adjective. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Writers is merely a descriptive adjective: it tells you what kind of workshop this is—one for writers. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Whatever their name, they continue to paint pictures before which descriptive adjectives retreat in disorder,” the article says. Before He Was a Cubist, Picasso Was an Invertebrate 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z His parents taught him that being blind was just another descriptive adjective - like being "fair-complexioned or dark", or tall or "not so tall". Cobhams Asuquo: The Nigerian singer who hated his own voice 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z It turns a descriptive adjective into a defining noun and can make the subject sound distant and foreign, like they’re something else first and a person second. Why It's Best to Avoid The Word 'Transgendered' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Hail′-fell′ow, a familiar friend.—adj. on hearty and intimate terms—'Hail, fellow! well met,' often used as a kind of descriptive adjective.—Hail from, to come from. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z They may be able to communicate, but their language has presumably fewer descriptive adjectives than ours. Life's Minor Collisions 2011-11-03T02:00:17.547Z It consists usually of a surname and a descriptive adjective: Mary Jones, white oak, Quercus alba. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Miss Delmege possessed an almost technical vocabulary of descriptive adjectives which she applied prodigally and exclusively to matters of wardrobe. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z The newspaper statistics cease to be significant, and the descriptive adjectives become the tamest blanks. The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z The word "asper" is the first descriptive adjective applied by Michelius. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth An epithet is a word, generally a descriptive adjective or a noun, used, not to give information, but to impart strength or ornament to diction. English: Composition and Literature Broad-minded, catholic, tolerant, cosmopolitan—those were the descriptive adjectives which all desired to earn for themselves. The Message Dorothea on the other hand found it painfully difficult to conceal her disgust at the mere sight of Philippina: her ugliness defied descriptive adjectives. The Goose Man Our best descriptive adjectives are so recklessly used in daily life over minute matters, that absolutely nothing is left for this rare combination. A Truthful Woman in Southern California He was Conrad Pile—or "Old Coonrod," as he is known, the descriptive adjectives and byname ever coupled as though one word. Sergeant York And His People Such is the function of all the names of colours, sounds, tastes, contrasts of temperature, of hardness, of pleasantness; in short, of all descriptive adjectives, and all names for the parts and processes of things. Logic Deductive and Inductive The first pupil called upon must describe the subject with a descriptive adjective beginning with "A". School, Church, and Home Games Well, friend, when you have satisfied yourself with the limiting, you begin on the descriptive adjectives, and pronounce me egotistical. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 But it is better to consider them as nouns, for these reasons: they do not give up their identity as nouns; they do not express quality; they cannot be compared, as descriptive adjectives are. An English Grammar But I question the correctness of the descriptive adjective. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic The reason for abandoning the exposed location on the hills for the sheltered nook by the river may be inferred from the descriptive adjectives. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 But once when a rival made a particularly nasty attack upon him, he named a new plant after him, adding the descriptive adjective detestabilis—the detestable so-and-so. Hero Tales of the Far North Mr. Chiffield had contracted the use of a certain class of highly descriptive adjectives in selling dry goods. Round the Block Bring up sentences with twenty descriptive adjectives, having some of each subclass named in Sec. An English Grammar A very large per cent of all adjectives belong to the first class,—descriptive adjectives. Composition-Rhetoric It is not clear whether the word is used here as a descriptive adjective or as the name of the monarch. Selections from Poe Most definitive and many descriptive adjectives cannot be compared, as their meaning will not admit of different degrees. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition Build simple sentences in which the following descriptive adjectives shall be employed as attribute complements. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Sometimes the has a strong force, almost equivalent to a descriptive adjective in emphasizing a word,— No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.—Bible. An English Grammar Alert, neurotic or high-strung, magnetic, and imaginative are some of the descriptive adjectives applicable. The Glands Regulating Personality "Stand steady, you there!" roared the sergeant major, who having got control of his men, began to indulge himself in a few telling and descriptive adjectives. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land "Fat, but fine and frisky," was ever his own comment upon the descriptive adjective by which his friends distinguished him. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Build simple sentences in which the following descriptive adjectives shall be employed. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room |
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