Difference between Adjective and Adjectival

What is the difference between Adjective and Adjectival?

Adjective as a noun is a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun's referent. while Adjectival as a noun is an adjectival phrase or clause.

Adjective

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun's referent.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Incapable of independent function. Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective. Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure. Of a dye that needs the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.

Adjectival

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective; "adjectival syntax"; "an adjective clause" .Of or relating to procedure, especially to technicalities thereof.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An adjectival phrase or clause.

We hope you now know whether to use Adjective or Adjectival in your sentence.

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