ADJ

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ADJ

Crosswords: ADJ

English words defined with "ADJ": BarmecideDuelingFault-finding, flat-topHallowe'en, hard-core, hard-line, Hiberno-Celticknock-downlight-headed, long-woolo.k., out and outPhlogisticatesemi-formaltip-top. (references)
Etymologies containing "ADJ": String. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: ADJ

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField
Adj.DutchAdjudantMilitary & Defense
Adj.EnglishAdjustableN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: ADJ

ContextSynonyms 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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Commercial Usage: ADJ

DomainTitle

Books

  • Adj Ideâakat az idîonek! : Kerâenyi Kâaroly âes Gulyâas Pâal barâatsâagâanak dokumentumai (reference)

  • CEN (Ceridian): Q4 In-Line; Adj. Ests. For Acct. Change [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Im Psych of Adj (reference)

  • Psych of Adj (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

  • Adj Kybrd Tray Indep. Platform Gel Wristrest Gliding Mouse Pltfrm (reference)

  • Desktop Doc Holder Adj Sng Clipgrooved Ledge Up To 150docs Gry/grn (reference)

  • Genicom 3870 Serial Matrix Printer 900 Cps 18Wire Autogap Adj Dualpath (reference)

    (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: ADJ

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & 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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ADJ

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: ADJ

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (common)28.57%2245,945
Adjective (general or positive)28.57%2245,945
Unclassified Items14.29%1339,140
Noun (proper)14.29%1339,140
Noun (singular)14.29%1339,140
                    Total100.00%7N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: ADJ

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: ADJ

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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: ADJ

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

consimilis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: ADJ

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).

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Anagrams: ADJ

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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