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a term to describe an area of language to do with a certain field

the dictionary meaning of a word

the associations or the flavour of a word

refers to how words occur together regularly and in a restricted way

bigger, smaller, more beautiful

biggest, smallest, most beautiful

when an adjective is used to pre modify the noun

when an adjective is the complement of the sentence – as in “the car is big”

describes the objective appearance of a noun

an adjective which is a judgement on its noun, and so is subjective