Their findings, published in Communications Psychology, suggest that color-adjective associations are rooted in the structure of language itself and are thus not only learned through experience.

Adjectives are where the elves of language both cheat and illumine reality. Maybe I am overqualifying this article about qualifiers (or is that the point?).

Adjectives come in several varieties, including descriptive, quantitative, superlative and comparative. Using adjectives is particularly important in descriptive writing.

“Police, Adjective” confounds expectations. It’s neither a conventional crime film nor a police drama. Rather it’s a gently subversive intellectual exercise, a philosophical jest wrapped ...

Is there something unforgivably, infuriatingly obfuscatory about the unrestrained use of adjectives and adverbs? Many celebrated stylists think so. Crime writer Elmore Leonard, who died last week, ...

To his surprise, Dahl took the time to write a write to him, warning the 17-year-old to stop using so many “beastly adjectives”, and advising him to study “American short story writers”.

A study of review reports identifies dozens of adjectives that could indicate text written with the help of chatbots.

Psychologists discover our choice of words is a dead giveaway when we’re stressed A HANDFUL of humble words could betray exactly how stressed you really are. And they’re not the swear words ...