Associations to the word «Adnoun»

Wiktionary

ADNOUN, noun. (grammar) an adjective used as a noun (sensu stricto), an absolute adjective
ADNOUN, noun. (grammar) (dated) an adjective

Dictionary definition

ADNOUN, noun. An adjective used as a noun; "`meek' in `blessed are the meek' is an adnoun".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope