" The derived adjective " ubuesque " is recurrent in French and francophone political debate.

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 ).

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.

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 ".

The air forces of most other French-speaking countries use the term Force Aérienne before the adjective of their country to describe them, such as the Force Aérienne Belge for the Belgian air force.

Note that an arid desert climate is not typically implied ; one dictionary uses the phrase ' desert island ' to illustrate the use of ' desert ' as an adjective meaning " desolate and sparsely occupied or unoccupied ".

A nerd ( adjective: nerdy ) is a person, typically described as being overly intellectual, obsessive, or socially impaired.

The original use of an adjective to describe a particular variant of an object is typically purely compositional, as in " acoustic guitar ", but gradually over time it becomes a collocation, a name or technical term in its own right with additional nuances, greater specificity and general but implicit agreement on it as the appropriate term versus alternative descriptions of the original type.

Double prefixes have been used in the past, such as micromillimetres ( now nanometres ), micromicrofarads ( now picofarads ), hectokilometres ( now 100 kilometres ) and the derived adjective hectokilometric ( typically used for qualifying the fuel consumption measures ).

The adjective's masculine singular form is its default form ; this is the form listed in dictionaries, and is typically the form used when the adjective is used as a noun.

The term " supernatural " is often used interchangeably with paranormal or preternatural — the latter typically limited to an adjective for describing abilities which appear to exceed the bounds of possibility.

Some present participles function mainly as nouns ( typically, but not always, denoting a doer of the action, such as amante, cantante, estudiante ), while others have a mainly adjectival function ( abundante, dominante, sonriente ), and still others can be used as either a noun or an adjective ( corriente, dependiente ).

In this example, as typically, the subordinate idea originally present in the adjective is transformed into a noun in and of itself.

Alternatively, the name " Funk Brothers " could have been given to the band ex post facto ; the term " funky " as an adjective came to be associated with uptempo and backbeat, southern-styled soul music in the second half of the 1960s ; the term " funk " as a noun is typically associated with uptempo soul music from the 1970s onwards.

As an adjective, it is typically used to describe a customer, rather than an Internet service provider ( ISP ) network.

When used as a compound adjective, the term is typically written as hyphenated, for example, black-body radiation, but sometimes also as one word, as in blackbody radiation.

Instead, it describes in what sense the adjective rigid is typically used in mathematics, by mathematicians.

As with all attributes of nobility, it is typically used with a possessive adjective: " His Highness ", " Their Highnesses ", etc.

It occurs with the adjective " sweet " in three places ( Exodus 30: 22-33, Isaiah 43: 24, Jeremiah 6: 20 ), where kaneh bosm is typically translated as " calamus ," " sweet cane " or " fragrant cane " in English versions.

The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an adjective, to describe characteristics of an object or activity related to female same-sex desire.