Whimsical, is an adjective describing nouns like: fancy, mind and nonsense
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 assigned to the adjective whimsical that illustrates nouns beginning with desire. Sorting of these words is random. In addition the presented vocabulary is split into five sections, 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 goal behind our website is to adjust 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 dissertation. We hope that this split will allow to find the most suited adjectives. However if you are not fully satisfied with the search results, just check out the other category. Note that the most typical words are listed in the general section, but more specific ones you will find in the remaining four categories. Note, that if you want to check other nouns that are linked to the word whimsical 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 describes and transforms 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 big table vs a small table
• More details, adjectives enrich a noun with detailed, the descriptive information: a comic and romantic story
• A different meaning, each adjective describes a noun with a different but not opposite meaning: an empty house or a wooden house
So, in other words, adjective provides details of a state or quality of the described noun. It collects and provides information 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 built by adding a suffix –able to a verb, eg: valuable. Other consist of a noun and –ful at the end, like faithful. Some suffixes with examples are listed below.
• - al: universal
• - ary: literary
• - ish: foolish
• - ic: paradigmatic
• - less: pointless
• - ous: nervous
• - ive: repetitive
Adjective types
There are several types of adjectives, among others:
• Descriptive:
◦ (size): small
◦ (color): silver
◦ (opinion): silver
◦ (age): worthy
◦ (shape): five
• Quantitative: triangle
• Nationality: Norwegian
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Last updated: Sep 21, 2024
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