adjectify

Verb

adjectify (third-person singular simple present adjectifies, present participle adjectifying, simple past and past participle adjectified)

1. (transitive) To convert (a word that is not an adjective) into an adjective.
   • It is remarkable of words denoting dimension, that they all are abstracted into names by subjoining th, as length, breadth, width, and depth, and that these are not ordinarily allowed to be adjectified by adding either y or full.1800, “The Trial and Condemnation of Lengthy”, in The Monthly Magazine, and American Review, for the Year 1800: From July to December Inclusive, volume III, New York: […] T. & J. Swords, page 172
   • If we desire to affirm that the substantive is put in action, we adjectify it by adding to its positive the termination tla; for example atawit, love; adjective affirming action atawit-la, loving.1862, M^([ar]ie). C^([har]les). Pandosy, translated by George Gibbs and J[ohn] G[ilmary] Shea, Grammar and Dictionary of the Yakama Language (Shea’s Library of American Linguistics; VI), New York...

   Synonyms:

   adjective, adjectivize

2. (transitive) To describe something.
   • She adjectifies the teens as “iridescent,” the twenties as “glowing,” the thirties as “warning” and the forties as “triumphant.”1933 June 6, “Barbara Gould Reveals Her Secrets Of Feminine Beauty at Wasson’s Store”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 31, number 1, page 7
   • Adjectifying the “lower” animals to describe dastardly conduct on the part of “Superior” animals is always incorrect because the lower animals never act in a dastardly fashion.1936, Time, volume XXVIII, page 6