The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adjectival \Ad`jec*ti"val\, a.
Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the
nature of an adjective; adjective.
--W. Taylor (1797)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context grammar English) Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective. 2 (context legal English) Of or relating to procedure, especially to technicalities thereof. n. An #adjective phrase or clause.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or functioning as an adjective; "adjectival syntax"; "an adjective clause" [syn: adjective]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "adjectival".
Latimer taught me everything there is to know about adjectival inflection.
Ateva is, for instance, the singular, atevi the plural, and the adjectival or descriptive form.
English makes no such distinction its adjectives do not change but it is not surprising that Tolkien built adjectival agreement in number into Quenya, since this was to be a highly inflected language.
Yet one tiny scrap of evidence regarding the superlative has long been available: In Letters:278-279, Tolkien explained the adjectival form ancalima occurring in LotR.
The participles are words with a basically adjectival function, but they are directly derived from verbs, and in the case of active participles, they are still able to take an object.
This participle is an adjectival form derived from the stem of a verb, and it describes the state that something or someone is left in by being exposed to the corresponding verbal action.
I think this is almost certainly the meaning of this word, but perhaps we should see it as an independent adjectival formation derived directly from the root, not as the passive participle of the verb perya-.
Again I think yerna is not actually the participle of yerya-, but rather an independent adjectival formation.
A final note: In some cases, forms in -na that were originally participial or adjectival have themselves become A-stem verbs.
The assumption that the ending -va appears in the variant form -wa after consonants is supported by this fact: The suffix -va is in origin a mere adjectival ending, found in some common adjectives as well, and in such cases it is seen to appear as -wa following a consonant e.
It could be that in both instances, the case ending is not added to the adjective because the adjectival plural inflection and the case inflection would somehow collide.
However, what has already turned up is evidence for another system, and since this system yields less ambiguous forms, it is certainly the system I would recommend to writers anyhow: Independent possessive pronouns can be derived by adding the adjectival ending -ya to the corresponding dative forms!
Shelf and Cart, so the wheels of adjectival justice continue, albeit creakily, to turn.
Adjectival agreement in number: Quenya adjectives must agree in number with the noun they describe.
I object to Manny's use of the adjectival phrase 'pathologically honest.