As an adjective, the word Afghan also means " of or relating to Afghanistan or its people, language, or culture ".

This term derived from the Greek adjective ( ataraktos ) which means " not disturbed, not excited, without confusion, steady, calm ".

In Greek, the adjective kyriak-ós /- ē /- ón means " belonging, or pertaining, to a Kýrios " (" Lord "), and the usage was adopted by early Christians of the Eastern Mediterranean with regard to anything pertaining to the Lord Jesus Christ: hence " Kyriakós oíkos " (" house of the Lord ", church ), " Kyriakē " (" day of the Lord ", i. e. Sunday ), or " Kyriakē proseukhē " ( the " Lord's prayer ").

The word maritime is an adjective that simply means " of the sea ", thus any land associated with the sea can be considered a maritime state or province ( e. g. All the provinces of Canada except Alberta and Saskatchewan border water ).

The adjective francophone means French-speaking, typically as primary language, whether referring to individuals, groups, or places.

Like in German, the adjective rijk means " rich ".

In 1931 the Merriam-Webster dictionary adopted the word " Rube Goldberg " as an adjective defined as accomplishing something simple through complex means.

The adjective cutaneous means " of the skin " ( from Latin cutis, skin ).

The adjective submarine, in terms such as submarine cable, means " under the sea ".

Also, together with the adjective ağır, which means " heavy " or " slow " in Turkish, Roman is the designation for a special kind of street music, played by some of the novel's protagonists.

The adjective surgical means pertaining to surgery ; e. g. surgical instruments or surgical nurse.

The adjective Tridentine ( as in " Tridentine Mass ") literally means pertaining to Trento, but can also refer to that specific event.

Thus, closet as an adjective means secret — usually with a connotation of vice or shame, as in " a closet alcoholic " or " a closet homosexual ," though sometimes used as a humorous exaggeration for any potential embarrassment, as in " a closet comic book fan.

The word piety comes from the Latin word pietas, the noun form of the adjective pius ( which means " devout " or " good ").

Note that, however, in Quebec, déjeuner alone ( without the qualifying adjective petit ) means " breakfast ".

Saraṇyū means " swift " and is derived from the adjective saraṇa (" running ", " swift "), the feminine of which is saraṇā ; this is in every sound cognate with, the form of her name that has no initial digamma.

The adjective " ascetic " derives from the ancient Greek term askēsis, which means training or exercise.

The adjective " mephitic " means " foul-smelling " or " malodorous ".

Jejunum is derived from the adjective jejune, which means " fasting " or " hungry " in Early Modern English.

" Damned " is also used as an adjective synonymous with " annoying " or " uncooperative ," or as a means of giving emphasis.

As an adjective it means " brown ", but as a noun the meaning changes to " chief " ( prince, lord ).

Hence, when used as an adjective, " infinitesimal " in the vernacular means " extremely small ".

As an adjective, " okay " means " adequate ," " acceptable " (" this is okay to send out "), " mediocre " often in contrast to " good " (" the food was okay "); it also functions as an adverb in this sense.

translation " Fragments by an Unknown Author " is misleading ; the German adjective " ungenannt " means " anonymous ".

Draconian is an adjective meaning great severity, that derives from Draco, an Athenian law scribe under whom small offences had heavy punishments ( Draconian laws ).

* schwer — ( 1 ) adjective meaning " heavy ", the word " gross " ( large ) can mean the same ; ( 2 ) hard / difficult.

However, since the adjective " black " in English describes a typeface with heavy font weight, heavy serif typefaces are also called " hēi " in Chinese, which causes confusion.

From the late 1960s the term heavy metal began to be used to describe some hard rock played with even more volume and intensity, first as an adjective and by the early 1970s as a noun.

It has nothing like the meaning of the adjective OK, which in the earliest recorded examples means'all right, good ,' though it later acquires other meanings, but even when used as an interjection does not express surprise, expostulation, or anything similar.

For example, one says der guter man ' the good man ' with the adjective guter inflected for masculine singular nominative, but Der man iz gut ' The man is good ,' with no suffix on gut.

( The adjective genetic, derived from the Greek word genesis — γένεσις, " origin ", predates the noun and was first used in a biological sense in 1860.

The term " Jewish-Christian " had been used in this sense as early as 1785 in Richard Watson's essay " The Teaching and Witness of the Holy Spirit ", and " Jewish Christian " ( as an adjective ) as early as 1644 in William Rathband's A Briefe Narration of Some Church Courses.

Neither the noun nor the adjective, in themselves, carry the sense of endless or everlasting.

In this process, an adjective that refers to or has referred to a disfavored group has adopted a more generic sense of negativity, sometimes not even referring to a person.

According to Robert Chapman's The Dictionary of American Slang, the adjective " gay " was used by homosexuals, among themselves, in this sense since at least 1920.

All the same, Proto-Celtic had * alamo-‘ treasure, asset ’ and, if the alternation Alaunus ~ Alauna represents the Gaulish and Romano-British pronunciation of a derived adjective * alamo-n-o-( treasure-ADJ. SUFF-GEN -), it may have carried the sense of ‘ rich, opulent, fecund, etc .’

While " ghetto " as an adjective can be used derogatorily, the African American community, particularly the hip hop scene, has taken the word for themselves and begun using it in a more positive sense that transcends its derogatory origins.

The compound adjective " high-octane " was apparently first used in its figurative sense ( i. e., without reference to gasoline ) in a book review of Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park ( 1990 ), which appeared in the newspaper New York Newsday.

This term can also be used in a relative sense, considering " noble " as an adjective for the word " metal ".

Cliché is a noun that is also used as an adjective, although some dictionaries do not recognize the adjectival sense.

Handsfree is an adjective describing equipment that can be used without the use of hands ( for example via voice commands ) or, in a wider sense, equipment which needs only limited use of hands, or for which the controls are positioned so that the hands are able to occupy themselves with another task ( such as driving ) without needing to hunt far afield for the controls.

The terms blind ( adjective ) or to blind ( transitive verb ) when used in this sense are figurative extensions of the literal idea of blindfolding someone.

* vielversprechend → viel versprechend ( literally " much promising ," but the meaning of the long compound adjective is " promising " in the sense of " up-and-coming ", " auspicious "; whereas the second phrase with two words means " promising many things ")

The adjective " Primitive " in the name has the sense of " original.

Generally the terms “ equality of opportunity ” and “ equal opportunity ” are interchangeable, with occasional slight variations: “ equality of opportunity ” has more of a sense of being an abstract political concept, while “ equal opportunity ” is sometimes used as an adjective, usually in the context of employment regulations, to identify an employer, a hiring approach, or law.

The pejorative sense of gweilo ( 鬼佬 ) can be specified when the term is prefaced by the adjective sei ( 死, jyutping: sei2, meaning dead or damned ); sei gweilo ( 死鬼佬 ), literally means " dead ghost man ," thus means a bad " gweilo ," or a bad Caucasian.

Directly translated, " klamm " is an adjective that denotes a combination of moisture and chill and can be used in reference both to weather and clothing, which inscribes a sense of unease into the main character's name.

* Elder-used as a comparative adjective in the sense of older.

As an adjective, the Greek word is applied in the sense of " light-bringing " to, for instance, the dawn, the god Dionysos, pine torches, the day ; and in the sense of " torch-bearing " as an epithet of several god and goddesses, especially Hecate but also of Artemis / Diana and Hephaestus.

For instance, " Chinese Filipino student " and " Chinese Filipino community ", but " Chinese-Filipino Catholic " or " Chinese-Filipino Buddhist " given that three consecutive words are capitalized and that Filipino in that sense is linked to Chinese rather than being an adjective to Catholic or Buddhist.

This name is possibly the origin of the British sense of the adjective bloody, which was not considered particularly impolite until the 19th century.

Liaison operates in word sequences whose components are closely linked by sense, e. g., article + noun, adjective + noun, personal pronoun + verb, and so forth.