Adjective Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/adjectiveAdjective definition, any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing a particular quality of the word they are modifying, as wise in a wise grandmother, or perfect in a perfect score, or handsome in He is extremely handsome. Other terms, as numbers (one cup; twelve months), certain demonstrative pronouns (this magazine; those questions), …
Adjective - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdjectiveAdjective comes from Latin nōmen adjectīvum, a calque of Ancient Greek: ἐπίθετον ὄνομα, romanized: epítheton ónoma, lit. 'additional noun'. In the grammatical tradition of Latin and Greek, because adjectives were inflected for gender, number, and case like nouns (a process called declension), they were considered a type of noun. The words that are today typically called nouns were then called substantivenouns (nōmen substantīvum). The terms noun substantive and nou…