Formation of Adjectives from Nouns
Formation of Adjectives from Nouns :
Nouns…. Adjectives
Accident…accidental
Advantage…advantageous
Adventure…adventurous
Advice….advisable
Affection…affectionate
Air….airy
Ancestor…ancestral
Angel…angelic
Angle….angular
Atmosphere….atmospheric
Authority….authoritative
Autumn….autumnal
Beauty….beautiful
Black….black
Black…blackish
Blood….bloody
Body….bodily
Book….bookish
Boy….boyish
Brass….brassy
Brass….brazen
Brother….brotherly
Burden ….burdensome
Bush….bushy
Calamity….calamitous
Capacity….capacious
Centre….central
Ceremony….ceremonial
Ceremony….ceremonious
Character…characteristic
Cheer….cheerful
Child…childish
Child…childlike
Chivalry…chivalrous
Circle…circular
Circumstance…circumstantial
Class…classic
Class…classical
Climate….climatic
Cloud…cloudy
Colony…colonial
Comfort….comfortable
Commerce…commercial
Condition…conditional
Conscience….conscientious
Contempt….contemptible
Contempt….contemptuous
Courage….courageous
Coward….cowardly
Crime….criminal
Custom….customary
Danger ….dangerous
Day….daily
Devil….devilish
Dew….dewy
Discipline….disciplinary
Drama….dramatic
Duty….dutiful
Earth….earthly
Earth….earthen
East….eastern
Economy….economic
Economy….economical
Emperor….imperial
Empire ….imperial
Enemy….inimical
Envy….envious
Envy….enviable
Example….exemplary
Expense….expensive
Fable….fabulous
Face….facial
Faith….faithless
Faith….faithful
Fame…famous
Fancy…fanciful
Fate…fateful
Fate…fatal
Father….fatherly
Fault…faulty
Favour…favourable
Fear….fearful
Fear….fearless
Feather…. feathery
Fever….feverish
Fire….fiery
Fish…fishy
Flesh….fleshy
Flower….flowery
Fog….foggy
Fool….foolish
Force….forcible
Force….forceful
Fortune….fortunate
Friend….friendly
Fruit…fruitful
Fury….furious
Ghost…ghostly
Glory…glorious
God….godly
God….godlike
Gold….golden
Habit….habitual
Hair….hairy
Hand….handy
Harm….harmless
Harm….harmful
Haste….hasty
Health….healthy
Heart….hearty
Heaven….heavenly
Heir….hereditary
Hero….heroic
Hill….hilly
History….historic
History….historical
Home….homely
Honour….honourable
Hope….hopeful
Hope….hopeless
Horror….horrible
Hour….hourly
Humour….humorous
Ignorance….ignorant
Industry….industrial
Industry….industrious
Irony….ironic
Irony….ironical
Joke….jocular
Joke ….jocose
Joy….joyful
Joy….joyous
Judge….judicious
Judge….judicial
King….kingly
Labour….laborious
Law….lawful
Life….lifelike
Life….lively
Life….living
Limit….limited
Limit….limitless
Lord….lordly
Love….lovable
Love….loving
Machine….mechanical
Man….manly
Man….manful
Medicine….medicinal
Memory…memorable
Merchant….mercantile
Mercy….merciful
Mercy….merciless
Merit….meritorious
Metal….metallic
Mind….mental
Miracle….miraculous
Mirth….mirthful
Moment….momentary
Moment….momentous
Money….monetary
Month….monthly
Mother…motherly
Muscle…muscular
Music….musical
Mystery….mysterious
Nation…national
Nature….natural
Navy….naval
Need….needy
Need….needful
Neighbour….neighbourly
Nerve….nervous
Night….nightly
North….northern
Number….numeral
Number….Numerous
Number….numerical
Office….official
Origin….original
Ornament….ornamental
Palace….palatial
Passion….passionate
Peace….peaceful
People….popular
People….populous
Person….personal
Picture…picturesque
Play….playful
Practice….practical
Pride….proud
Profit….profitable
Quarrel….quarrelsome
Queen…queenly
Question….questionable
Ruin….ruinous
Sand….sandy
School….scholastic
Science…scientific
Season…seasonable
Sense…sensible
Sense…sensitive
Service…serviceable
Shame…shameful
Shame…shameless
Sight…sightly
Silk…silken
Slave…slavish
Smoke…smoky
Society…social
Solitude…solitary
Space…spacious
Space….spatial
Star…starry
Storm…stormy
Sun…sunny
Sympathy…sympathetic
System…systematic
Table…tabular
Talk…talkative
Terror…terrible
Thief…thievish
Thought….thoughtful
Thought….thoughtless
Title….titular
Tragedy…tragic
Trifle…trifling
Trifle…trivial
Trouble…troublesome
Tutor…tutorial
Type….typical
Value….valuable
Verb….verbal
Vice….vicious
Vigour….vigorous
Virtue….virtuous
Voice….vocal
War…warlike
Watch…watchful
Water….watery
Week…weekly
Will…wilful
Will….willing
Winter….wintry
Woman….womanly
Woman….womanish
Wool….woollen
World….worldly
Worth….worthy
Wretch….wretched
Year….yearly
Youth….youthful
Zeal….zealous
An economic arrangement between two countries is one that is based upon their wealth and resources.
Economical = not extravagant
An economical day's outing
An economical meal
An economical purchase
Historic means famous or likely to become famous in history.
On the historic occasion
A historic building
Historical means based on or vouched for by history.
Historical evidence
Historical method
Historical novel
Momentary = lasting only a moment
Short-lived momentary
Momentary joys of this life
Momentous = of great importance
A momentous event in history
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