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substantive adjectives

substantive adjectives is the plural of substantive adjective.

Meaning of substantive adjective

Noun

substantive adjective (plural substantive adjectives)

  1. An adjective used alone in the absence of the noun that it modifies.

Questions about substantive adjectives

What is substantive adjectives the plural of?
Substantive adjectives is the plural of substantive adjective.

Words near substantive adjectives in the dictionary

  1. substantivating
  2. substantivation
  3. substantivations
  4. substantive
  5. substantive adjective
  6. substantive adjectives
  7. substantive case
  8. substantive cases
  9. substantive due process
  10. substantive genitive
  11. substantive genitives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: substantive adjectives (page history and authors); substantive adjective (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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