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Crosswords: ADJ |
| English words defined with "ADJ": Barmecide ♦ Dueling ♦ Fault-finding, flat-top ♦ Hallowe'en, hard-core, hard-line, Hiberno-Celtic ♦ knock-down ♦ light-headed, long-wool ♦ o.k., out and out ♦ Phlogisticate ♦ semi-formal ♦ tip-top. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ADJ": String. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| Adj. | Dutch | Adjudant | Military & Defense |
| Adj. | English | Adjustable | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Artlessness | Verb: be artless; adj; look one in the face; wear one's heart upon his sleeves for daws to peck at; think aloud; speak out, speak one's mind; be free with one, call a spade a spade. |
Noun: artlessness; adj; nature, simplicity; innocence; bonhomie, naivete, abandon, candor, sincerity; singleness of purpose, singleness of heart; honesty; plain speaking; epanchement. | |
Impiety | Hypocrisy; (falsehood); pietism, cant, pious fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence; misdevotion, formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness; adj; pharisaism, precisianism; sabbatism, sabbatarianism; odium theologicum, sacerdotalism; bigotry; (obstinacy), (prejudice); blue laws. |
Innocence | Verb: be innocent; adj; nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa. |
Insanity | Become insane; adj; lose one's senses, lose one's reason, lose one's faculties, lose one's wits; go mad, run mad, lose one's marbles, go crazy, go bonkers, flip one's wig, flip one's lid, flip out, flip one's bush. |
Intelligence Wisdom | Wisdom, sapience, sense; good sense, common sense, horse sense, plain sense; rationality, reason; reasonableness; adj; judgment; solidity, depth, profundity, caliber; enlarged views; reach of thought, compass of thought; enlargement of mind. |
Narrowness Thinness | Verb: be narrow; Adjective: narrow, taper, contract; render narrow; adj; waste away. |
Pain | Adverb: painfully; adj; with pain; deuced. |
Probity | Dignity; (repute); respectability, respectableness; adj; gentilhomme, gentleman; man of honor, man of his word; fidus Achates, preux chevalier, galantuomo; truepenny, trump, brick; true Briton; white man. |
Sanity | Render sane; adj; bring to one's senses, sober. |
Sensibility | Adverb: sensibly; adj; to the quick, to the inmost core. |
Speech | Be eloquent; adj; have a tongue in one's head, have the gift of the gab; n. |
Taciturnity | Verb: be silent; adj.; keep silence, keep mum; hold one's tongue, hold one's peace, hold one's jaw; not speak.; say nothing, keep one's counsel; seal the lips, close the lips, button the lips, zipper the lips, put a padlock on the lips, put a padlock on the mouth; put a bridle on one's tongue; bite one's tongue, keep one's tongue between one's teeth; make no sign, not let a word escape one; keep a secret; not have a word to say; hush up, hush, lay the finger on the lips, place the finger on the lips; render mute. |
Untimeliness | Intempestivity, unseasonableness, inexpedience; unsuitable time, improper time; unreasonableness; adj; evil hour; contretemps; intrusion; anachronism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | The honourable Major Cathcart, Dep. As. Adj. Gen. to the Light Division. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Major General Estcourt, Adj.-Gen. Major De Morel, Captain Thompson, Lieutenant-Colonel Blane, Major Kirkland, Lieutenant-Colonel the Honour[able] W.L. Pakenham, officers of his staff. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Adj vert!. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ADJ" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 28.57% of the time. "ADJ" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 28.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 28.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Unclassified Items | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adj | 20 |
adj indoor volleyball | 11 |
adj indoor not outdoor volleyball | 7 |
adj network wireless | 4 |
adj lm2575t | 3 |
adj dita von | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ADJ"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 调整 (Adjust, Adjusted, Adjusting, Adjustment, modulate, modulated, Modulating, restructure, restructuring). (various references) | |
Danish | Adj = sæsonkorrigerede (ADJ = seasonally adjusted). (various references) | |
Dutch | SB-gecorrigeerd voor seizoensinvloeden (ADJ = seasonally adjusted). (various references) | |
Finnish | kausitasoitettu (ADJ = seasonally adjusted). (various references) | |
French | corrigé des variations saisonnières-désaisonnalisé (ADJ = seasonally adjusted). (various references) | |
German | SB = saisonbereinigt (ADJ = seasonally adjusted). (various references) | |
Greek | ADJ = χωρίς εποχιακές διακυμάνσεις (ADJ = seasonally adjusted). (various references) | |
Italian | CVS=destagionalizzato (ADJ = seasonally adjusted). (various references) | |
Korean | 조정 (Adjusting, Adjustment, fixed, setting, tuning). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adjay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | CVS-corrigido sazonalmente (ADJ = seasonally adjusted). (various references) | |
Russian | прилагательное (adjective). (various references) | |
Spanish | CVS=corregidos estacionalmente (ADJ = seasonally adjusted). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | consimilis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ADJ": adjacencies, adjacency, adjacent, adjacently, adjectival, adjectivally, adjective, adjectively, adjectives, adjoin, adjoined, adjoining, adjoins, adjoint, adjoints, adjourn, adjourned, adjourning, adjournment, adjournments, adjourns, adjudge, adjudged, adjudges, adjudging, adjudicate, adjudicated, adjudicates, adjudicating, adjudication, adjudications, adjudicative, adjudicator, adjudicators, adjudicatory, adjunct, adjunction, adjunctions, adjunctive, adjunctly, adjuncts, adjuration, adjurations, adjuratory, adjure, adjured, adjurer, adjurers, adjures, adjuring, adjuror. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ADJ": hadj. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ADJ": coadjutor, coadjutors, coadjutrices, coadjutrix, hadjee, hadjees, hadjes, hadji, hadjis, maladjusted, maladjustive, maladjustment, maladjustments, misadjust, misadjusted, misadjusting, misadjusts, nonadjacent, overadjustment, overadjustments, readjust, readjustable, readjusted, readjusting, readjustment, readjustments, readjusts, unadjudicated, unadjusted. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-j" | |
-1 letter: ad. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-j" | |
+1 letter: hadj, jade. | |
+2 letters: hadji, jaded, jades, japed, jawed, jehad, jihad, judas. | |
+3 letters: adjoin, adjure, adjust, deejay, hadjee, hadjes, hadjis, jabbed, jacked, jading, jadish, jagged, jailed, jambed, jammed, jarred, jassid, jauked, jauped, jazzed, jehads, jihads, jordan, judoka, masjid. | |
+4 letters: abjured, adjoins, adjoint, adjourn, adjudge, adjunct, adjured, adjurer, adjures, adjuror, adjusts, cajoled, deejays, dejecta, hadjees, jackdaw, jadedly, jadeite, jaditic, jangled, jarhead, jarldom, jassids, jaunced, jaunted, jaybird, jemadar, jemidar, jeopard, jetbead, jordans, judases, judokas, jughead, majored, masjids, unjaded. | |
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