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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.
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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, 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 ".
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A Gallo-Latin adjective carnuātus, " horned ," is also found.
A related term is the adjective gnostikos, " cognitive ," a reasonably common adjective in Classical Greek.
For example, the compound adjective, omnipotens, " all-powerful ," was produced from the adjectives omnis, " all ", and potens, " powerful ", by dropping the final s of omnis and concatenating.
The original meaning of the adjective profane ( from Latin pro fano, " in front of " or " before, outside " the fanum, a sanctuary ) referred to items not belonging to the church, e. g., " The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest building ," or " besides designing churches, he also designed many profane buildings ".
" Hyperbaton " is a word borrowed from the Greek hyperbaton (), meaning " transposition ," which is derived from hyper (" over ") and bainein (" to step "), with the-tos verbal adjective suffix.
The adjective " beat " could colloquially mean " tired " or " beaten down " within the African-American community of the period and had developed out of the image " beat to his socks ", but Kerouac appropriated the image and altered the meaning to include the connotations " upbeat ," " beatific ," and the musical association of being " on the beat ".
In writing, this title is placed before the name of the Chasidus, as in " Admor of Belz "; while the title Rebbe comes after the name of the Chasidus when used as an adjective, as in " Lubavitcher Rebbe ," " Amshinever Rebbe ," and every Rebbe of every Chassidic Dynasty.
All three were members of Daniel O ' Connell's Repeal Association, and would later become to be known as Young Ireland. The name suggested by Duffy for the paper was " The National " but Davis disagreed, suggesting " that the use of an adjective for such a purpose was contrary to the analogies of the English language ," and suggested " The Nation.
Then, the adjective is preceded by nas to say " more ," and as to say " most.
* 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 ")
When used as an adjective, as in “ French Caribbean islands ” or " French Caribbean style ," the term is also ambiguous and dependent upon the user's frame of reference and context.
From Old French rondel, a diminutive of rond meaning " circle, sphere ," originally an adjective from roont.
Hell ( the adjective ) is German for " light ," the adverb is " bright.
Max Vasmer and modern Slavists generally agree that " Halych " is an adjective derived from the East Slavic word for " jackdaw ," " halka.
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.
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Furthermore, Ms. Choksondik is forced to clarify the acceptable context of the word — as a noun or adjective meaning bad, or as an exclamation of disappointment, the word is acceptable, but as a noun or adjective referring to feces, it is apparently unacceptable — thoroughly confusing the children ( this is a reference to the real-life FCC standards of indecency ).
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The word " divine " in the New Testament is the Greek word θείας (" theias "), and is the adjective form of " divinity ".
Trying to identify a contemporary vernacular term and the associated nation with a classical name, Latin writers from the 10th century onwards used the learned adjective teutonicus ( originally derived from the Teutones ) to refer to East Francia (" Regnum Teutonicum ") and its inhabitants.
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 )".
The adjective karkinopous (" crab-footed ") signified " lame ", according to Detienne and Vernant.
A fresco painting, from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco (" fresh "), describes a method in which the paint is applied on plaster on walls or ceilings.
For example, " book " can be a noun (" the book on the table ") or verb (" to book a flight "); " set " can be a noun, verb or adjective ; and " out " can be any of at least five different parts of speech.
The adjective ( philologos ) meant " fond of discussion or argument, talkative ", in Hellenistic Greek also implying an excessive (" sophistic ") preference of argument over the love of true wisdom,
The term " Middle Ages " and especially the adjective medieval can also have a negative ring in colloquial use (" the barbaric treatment of prisoners in such-and-such a prison is almost medieval ") but this does not carry over into academic terminology.
While Shaitan ( شيطان, from the root ) is an adjective ( meaning " astray " or " distant ", sometimes translated as " devil ") that can be applied to both man (" al-ins ", الإنس ) and Jinn, Iblis () is the personal name of the Devil who is mentioned in the Qur ' anic account of Genesis.
The chemical name for vitamin C, ascorbic acid, is derived from the Latin name of scurvy, scorbutus, which also provides the adjective scorbutic (" of, characterized by or having to do with scurvy ").
The word originated as a term used in a neutral context to refer to black people, as a variation of the Spanish / Portuguese noun negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger (" color black ").
* In the Romanian language, the vast majority of adverbs are simply the masculine singular form of the corresponding adjective – one notable exception being bine (" well ") / bun (" good ").
* In Turkish, the same word usually serves as adjective and adverb: iyi bir kız (" a good girl "), iyi anlamak (" to understand well ).
For example, the adjective beau (" beautiful ") changes form from un beau garçon (" a handsome boy ") to un bel homme (" a handsome man ").
Many compound words contain an adjective, such as belle-mère (" mother-in-law "; distinct from belle mère, " beautiful mother ").
Some of them use an archaic form of the feminine adjective that lacks the final-e and sometimes show an apostrophe instead of a hyphen, such as grand ' route (" main country road "; distinct from grande route, " long way ") and grand-mère (" grandmother "; distinct from grande mère, " tall mother ").
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