Subject vs Adjective - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between subject and adjective

is that subject is likely to be affected by or to experience something while adjective is (obsolete) incapable of independent function.

As nouns the difference between subject and adjective

is that subject is (label) in a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with in active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same while adjective is (grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.

As verbs the difference between subject and adjective

is that subject is to cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted while adjective is to make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.

subject

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Likely to be affected by or to experience something.

a country subject to extreme heat

* Dryden

All human things are subject to decay.

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Conditional upon.

Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

(Spenser)

Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.

* John Locke

Esau was never subject to Jacob.

Noun

(en noun)

(label) In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.

The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

the subject for heroic song

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Make choice of a subject , beautiful and noble, which shall afford an ample field of matter wherein to expatiate.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

the unhappy subject of these quarrels

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, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.

A particular area of study.

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A citizen in a monarchy.

A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.

(label) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.

* (1823-1895)

The earliest known form of subject is the ecclesiastical cantus firmus , or plain song.

A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.

* (Conyers Middleton) (1683-1750)

Writers of particular livesare apt to be prejudiced in favour of their subject .

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby

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Synonyms

* (discussion) matter, topic

Derived terms

* subject title

Verb

(en verb)

To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.

Synonyms

Statistics

External links

* * English heteronyms 1000 English basic words

adjective

English

Adjective

(-)

(obsolete) Incapable of independent function.

* 1899 , , Emerson and Other Essays , AMS Press (1969) (as [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13088 reproduced] in Project Gutenberg)

In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.

(grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.

(legal) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.

* Macaulay

The whole English law, substantive and adjective .

(chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.

Synonyms

* (incapable of independent function) dependent, derivative * (functioning as an adjective) adjectival * (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) procedural

Antonyms

* (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) substantive * (of a dye that needs the use of a mordant) substantive

Derived terms

* adjectival * adjective clause * adjective phrase * adjective patterns * proper adjective * common adjective

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia adjective)

(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.

The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives .

(obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.

(Fuller)

Hyponyms

* See also

Verb

(adjectiv)

To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.

* Tooke

Language has as much occasion to adjective' the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has ' adjectived all three.

* 1832 , William Hunter, An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives (page 46)

In English, instead of adjectiving' our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, ' adjectived signs from other languages