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An attributive adjective comes, usually, before the noun and modifies it without an intervening verb ("a delicious stew"); a predicative adjective forms the predicate of the sentence, after a verb ("This stew is delicious").

(I like her choice of vapid, which is not a mispronunciation of rapid; the zingy little adjective comes from the Latin vappa, "flat wine," and means "insipid, lifeless, wishy-washy").

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What adjectives come to mind?

I gave up looking for sample quotes, because the same adjectives came up.

And so, alas, is the money to back editorial development in a world where only adjectives come cheap.

It learned to reflect its mood from the work of Dan Ventura, another computer scientist, at Brigham Young University in Utah, who trained a neural network to recognise the emotional attributes of images by sitting thousands of people in front of tens of thousands of paintings and asking them to tag each one with whatever adjectives came to mind.

And yes, those choice adjectives came from Trump supporters.

A language is considered "head first" if the "head" of a phrase — the noun in a noun phrase, the adjective in an adjective phrase — comes first.

"Fun is not the first adjective that comes to mind".

When wine critics indulge in jargon privately, sometimes the adjective "hedonic" comes up, though less often than 15 years ago.

The sense here of the adjective sound comes from the second syllable of the Old English gesund, "health" -- similar to the German Gesundheit! wished upon sneezers.

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