Adjectively

ad·jec·tive  (jk-tv)

n. Abbr. a. or adj.

1. The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase.

2. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as white in the phrase a white house.

adj.

1. Adjectival: an adjective clause.

2. Law Prescriptive; remedial: adjective law.

3. Not standing alone; derivative or dependent.

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[Middle English, from Old French adjectif, from Late Latin adiectvus, from adiectus, past participle of adicere, to add to : ad-, ad- + iacere, to throw; see y- in Indo-European roots.]

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adjec·tive·ly adv.

Thesaurus

Adv.

1.

adjectively - as an adjective; "nouns are frequently used adjectively"