adjective phrase

English

Alternative forms

• adjectival phrase

Noun

Examples
That house down the block is a hideous shade of red. The road tarred on Thursday is the one we need to take.

adjective phrase (plural adjective phrases)

1. (grammar) A phrase that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun and which can usually be used both attributively and predicatively, can be graded, and can include an adverbial phrase as a modifier within it.

   Hypernym: phrase

   Coordinate terms: adjective clause (relative clause); (other phrase types) adverbial phrase, conjunctional phrase, interjectional phrase, noun phrase, phrasal preposition, prepositional phrase, pronominal phrase, verb phrase

Translations

Phrase that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun

• Finnish: adjektiivilauseke (fi)
• French: locution adjectivale (fr) f
• German: Adjektivphrase (de) f, adjektivisches Satzglied (de) n
• Khmer: កន្សោមគុណនាម (kɑnsaom kun niem)
• Northern Sami: adjektiivagihppu
• Portuguese: locução adjetiva f
• Romanian: locuțiune adjectivală f
• Swedish: adjektivfras (sv) c

Further reading

• adjective phrase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia