adjectify

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adjectify

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From adjective + -fy.

verb adjectifies · adjectifying · adjectified

  1. transitive To convert (a word that is not an adjective) into an adjective. It is remarkable of words denoting dimension, that they all are abstracted into names by subjoining th, as length, breadth, width, and depth, and that these are not ordinarily allowed to be adjectified by adding either y or full.

    Similar: adjective, adjectivize

  2. transitive To describe something. She adjectifies the teens as “iridescent,” the twenties as “glowing,” the thirties as “warning” and the forties as “triumphant.”

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@misc{adjectify_2026,
  title = {adjectify},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/adjectify},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}