Serial eavesdroppers may have noticed something alarming recently — more alarming than usual, anyway — in the public uses of a common adjective: "epic".
In the view of many, common adjectives are inadequate to summarize his style.
(The Mixilator also randomly generates the names from a list of some 24,000 common adjectives, geographical names and Victorian occupations).
Not really understanding what had happened, a lot of people called the whole movement a group of punks; "vandals" and "troublemakers" were the most common adjectives used to describe the MPL.
The most common adjectives used by Lewis's friends to describe him are "dynamic", "serious" and "ambitious".
"Depressive", "intense" and "awkward" are the most common adjectives used by the press to describe the comedian, musician and actor Julian Barratt.
In this task, lists of two, three or four common adjectives (e.g., black, long) were presented and the participant was required to repeat the opposite of each adjective in order of presentation (e.g., black, short → white, long).
His use of the adjectives "horrible, tasteless, insensitive and soulless" in a single sentence, for example.
It is based on the rate of use of nouns, adjectives, prepositions, and conjunctions.
Lexical signalling: there were some examples of the use of forceful adjectives, verbs, or nouns implying problematic situations.
