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.

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.

As an adjective, it means ' heavy ,' or ' weighty ,' in the sense of " heavy with knowledge ," heavy with spiritual wisdom, " heavy with spiritual weight ," " heavy with the good qualities of scriptures and realization ," or " heavy with a wealth of knowledge.

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

In Old Irish " Ciar " meant black or dark brown, and the word continues in use in modern Irish as an adjective describing a dark complexion.

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When used with a grammatical qualifier, the adjective American can mean " of or relating to the Americas ", as in Latin American or Indigenous American.

Less frequently, the adjective can take this meaning without a qualifier, as in " American Spanish dialects and pronunciation differ by country ", or the name of the Organization of American States.

Kenneth Jackson concludes, based on later development of Welsh and Irish, that it derives from the Proto-Celtic feminine adjective * boudīka, " victorious ", derived from the Celtic word * bouda, " victory " ( cf.

Hevelius chose the name Asterion ( from the Greek ' αστέριον, meaning the " little star ", the diminutive of ' αστηρ the " star ", or adjective meaning " starry ") for the northern dog and Chara ( from the Greek χαρά, meaning " joy ") for the southern dog, as Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs, in his star atlas.

The word catholic ( derived via Late Latin catholicus, from the Greek adjective ( katholikos ), meaning " universal ") comes from the Greek phrase ( katholou ), meaning " on the whole ", " according to the whole " or " in general ", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning " about " and meaning " whole ".

Daedalus, in the form of " daedalean ", can be an adjective meaning " complicated " or " convoluted ".

The probable first appearance of the Greek adjective esôterikos is in Lucian of Samosata's " The Auction of Lives ", § 26, written around AD 166.

Essential tremor was also previously known as " benign essential tremor ", but the adjective " benign " has been removed in recognition of the sometimes disabling nature of the disorder.

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

Galen's name, Galēnos comes from the adjective " γαληνός ", " calm ".

The adjective derived from this noun, * þiudiskaz, " popular ", was later used with reference to the language of the people in contrast to the Latin language ( earliest recorded example 786 ).

The name Freki can be traced back to the Proto-Germanic adjective * frekaz, attested in Gothic faihu-friks " covetous, avaricious ", Old Norse frekr " greedy ", Old English frec " desirous, greedy, gluttonous, audacious " and Old High German freh " greedy ".

The English term " Gnosticism " derives from the use of the Greek adjective gnostikos (" learned ", " intellectual ", Greek γνωστικός ) by St. Irenaeus ( c. 185 AD ) to describe the school of Valentinus as he legomene gnostike haeresis " the heresy called Learned ( gnostic )".

Irenaeus ' comparative adjective gnostikeron " more learned ", evidently cannot mean " more Gnostic " as a name.

The word gymnastics derives from the common Greek adjective ( gymnos ) meaning " naked ", by way of the related verb γυμνάζω ( gymnazo ), whose meaning is " to train naked ", " train in gymnastic exercise ", generally " to train, to exercise ".

The adjective karkinopous (" crab-footed ") signified " lame ", according to Detienne and Vernant.