ADJECTIVE Antonyms

• nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication

• one of a class of artifacts

• a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)

• (grammar) a determiner that may indicate the specificity of reference of a noun phrase

• bind by a contract; especially for a training period

• a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action

• the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition

• a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word

• (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached)

• a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase

• the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence

• a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence

• defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established

• any word or group of words functioning as a noun

• of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something

• being on topic and prompting thought