Equivalent, is an adjective describing nouns like: capacitance, capacitor and capacity
An adjective is a part of speech, that describes a noun. It enriches a sentence by adding an additional information. There are several types of adjectives and different ways of creating them.
This page is dedicated to the adjective equivalent that describes nouns beginning with amount. Sorting of these words is random. Besides the presented vocabulary is categorized into five groups, just like our entire website. This particular section refers to General vocabulary. You may wonder what is a difference between Verbsearch and other analogus sites. The idea behind our website is to bring the search results as close to your requirements as possible. This means that for the purposes of a business study the vocabulary will be slightly different than for law works. We hope that this split will help you find the most satisfactory nouns. However if you are not fully satisfied with the search results, just check out the second category. Note that the most typical words are showed in the general section, but more specific ones you will find in the other four sections. Notice, that if you want to search for other nouns that are linked to the word equivalent click on a particular word. However, if you want to learn more about adjectives overall, read the text below.
What exactly is an adjective
Adjective is a word that illustrates and converts a noun. This part of speech provides more details about a specific person, a place or a thing. Its role is to enrich a noun. However, it can significantly change the meaning of a described noun.
See examples blow:
• The opposite meaning, adjectives change the meaning of a noun: a nice picture vs an ugly picture
• More details, adjectives enrich a noun with detailed, the descriptive information: a dark and abandoned house
• A different meaning, each adjective describes a noun with a different but not opposite meaning: a medical book or a Dutch book
So, in other words, adjective gives information of a state or quality of the described noun. It gathers and provides details about object, size, colour, age, shape, origin and many more.
Creating an adjective
This part of speech is formed in different ways. Some adjectives are created by adding a suffix –able to a verb, eg: suitable. Other consist of a noun and –ful at the end, like peaceful. Some suffixes with examples are listed below.
• - al: experimental
• - ary: stationary
• - ish: selfish
• - ic: scientific
• - less: meaningless
• - ous: mysterious
• - ive: attractive
Adjective types
There are several types of adjectives, among others:
• Descriptive:
◦ (size): gigantic
◦ (color): grey
◦ (opinion): grey
◦ (age): marvelous
◦ (shape): old
• Quantitative: flat
• Nationality: Irish
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Last updated: Nov 7, 2024
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