adjectival

comparative more adjectival · superlative most adjectival

1. grammarOf or relating to or functioning as an adjective.

   adjectival noun

   3 more examples

   adjectival syntax

   As we can have the adjectival forms bright, brighter, brightest, so we can have the adverbial forms brightly, brightlier, brightliest, but degree is alike inconceivable in the adjective ‘round,’ and the A. ‘here.’

   1876, “Ad′verb”, in John M[erry] Ross, editor, The Globe Enyclopædia of Universal Information, volume I, Boston, Mass.: Estes & Lauriat, […], page 25, column 1

   Almost all of these names are adjectival in form, derived from some other personal or place-name, usually by the addition of the suffix -ius, -aeus, -eius, or -eus; […]

   1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv

   Synonyms: adjective

2. lawOf or relating to procedure, especially to technicalities thereof.

plural adjectivals

1. An adjectival phrase or clause.

   Within this line of reasoning, then, Tagalog is classified as a language in which adjectivals are essentially neutral between a nouny and a verby interpretation.

   2013, Harrie Wetzer, The Typology of Adjectival Predication, page 240