Although the noun risk in a financial sense is acceptable, the adjective risky is intended to engender wariness or suspicion.
But, idiomatically, you can only 'bend over backward.' And you must never 'sneak a backwards glance,' because only backward is acceptable as an adjective".
For example, "unacceptable," "untrue," and "ungracious" are phonetically (or, phonologically) similar as far as the first syllable is concerned and are similar in meaning in that each of them is negative by contrast with a corresponding positive adjective ("acceptable," "true," "gracious").
It seems to me perfectly acceptable to use an adjective to emphasize one of the qualities that a noun possesses, even if it always possesses it.
This is ridiculous – or, in an age when it is not considered grammatically acceptable to use a single adjective when four are available, "ridiculous", "ludicrous", "preposterous" and "absurd".
He switched the placement of the adjective international from modifying coalition (acceptable to the Israelis) to modifying terrorism (acceptable to the Palestinians).
In the syntactic condition, correct sentences were judged as acceptable in 86.0% of the cases when the auditory adjective of Task 2 syntactically matched with the adjective in the sentence, and in 84.9% of the cases when it mismatched.
Adjectives like moist, dense, light, heavy, and chewy are all acceptable descriptors because they indicate how the results are distinct.
We have come to the table with a clear objective: a long-overdue, mutually acceptable composite name that includes the designation of Macedonia, but attaches an adjective to it to distinguish it from the broader geographical area of Macedonia.
adjective: unrestrained by convention or morality noun: a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable verb: grow worse The word degenerate has appeared in 43 New York Times articles in the past year, including on June 25 in "Sit Up Straight.
