nominalized adjective

English

Examples
"The presidential hopefuls will meet for a debate on Tuesday night." "The store began selling inflatables." "The poor you will always have with you" (Matthew 26:11) "Eat the rich" "Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law."

Noun

nominalized adjective (plural nominalized adjectives)

1. (grammar) An adjective used as a noun, having undergone nominalization.

   Hypernyms: adjective; noun; < word, term

   Coordinate term: adjectival noun (a noun used as an adjective)

Usage notes

In modern grammars informed by linguistics, a distinction is made whereby only a subclass of this phenomenon qualifies as true nouns: it is the subclass in which plural forms can occur and the noun can refer to entities besides people, whereas the others remain adjectives in a class of noun phrases without an expressed noun head whose referent (persons, plural) is implied.

Translations

an adjective that is used as a noun

• Turkish: adlaşmış sıfat