adjective form of nouns
‘He is hungry’ or ‘he is hunger’? Adjective form of nouns give characteristics to people, places or things.
We can form adjectives from nouns by adding suffixes to a noun. The Adjectives that are formed by adding -y or -al or -ial as a suffix are given below in the table. If the noun has an ‘e’ in the ending, it is removed and -y or -al or -ial is added as a suffix to the noun to form an adjective.
Let’s take a look at the adjective form of nouns. These words will help you to build your vocabulary and will, hopefully, stop you from using the wrong word in the wrong context. It makes your English sound very strange when you use an adjective instead of a noun (or vice-versa). Take a look at this, mostly complete, A-Z and then choose the correct words to complete the ten sentences below.
Noun | Adjective |
---|---|
Anger | Angry |
Beauty | Beautiful |
Craziness | Crazy |
Danger | Dangerous |
Ease | Easy |
Familiarity | Familiar |
Guilt | Guilty |
Happiness | Happy |
Intelligence | Intelligent |
Juice | Juicy |
Kindness | Kind |
Luck | Lucky |
Misery | Miserable |
Nature | Natural |
Offense | Offensive |
Pain | Painful |
Question | Questionable |
Romance | Romantic |
Strength | Strong |
Truth | True |
Ugliness | Ugly |
Violence | Violent |
Warmth | Warm |
Youth | Young |
Zeal | Zealous |