Adjective – Bare-bones including only what is most basic or needed a bare-bones Web site a bare-bones wedding ceremony The hotel rooms are bare-bones.
Tag: Adjective
Adjective > Bite-size
Adjective > Clairvoyant
Adjective – Clairvoyant We took this word from French, where it means “clear-sighted.” If you trace that French word back to its Latin roots, you’ll see how it ultimately comes from the Latin clarus (“clear, or loud“) and videre (“to Read More …
Noun & Adjective > Yo-Yoing
Noun & Adjective – Yo-Yoing ou know the toy: one axle, two discs, one long string that can’t wait to get hopelessly tangled. Figuratively speaking, a yo-yo is anything that moves up and down, over and over, in a jerky Read More …
Adjective > Immaculate
Adjective > Concerted
Noun > Piffling
Noun > Piffling As you breathe out, make a dismissive sound with your lips like “ppfff.” It’s a sound that says, “Whatever,” or “That’s dumb,” or “That doesn’t matter.” It’s the sound people probably had in mind when they started Read More …
Adjective > Nomadic
We can trace this word back to the Greek nomas, meaning “roving” or “wandering.” A nomad is a person with no permanent home who lives by roaming from place to place. So, nomadic people live by roaming from place to Read More …
Common errors with adjectives and adverbs
Today we’ll focus on mistakes with adjectives and adverbs. The first one involves the word “enough”: ERROR #1 Don’t say: This box isn’t enough big for all the books. Say: This box isn’t big enough for all the books. Enough Read More …
Adjective > Malevolent
This word has Latin roots that literally mean “bad-wishing.” Malevolent people and things are evil or harmful toward others. Pronunciation: muh LEV uh lunt Part of speech: Adjective: “malevolent hackers,” “the presence they sensed was malevolent.” Other forms: malevolence, malevolently Read More …