nominalized adjective

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English

Examples
  • "The presidential hopefuls will meet for a debate on Tuesday night."
  • "The store began selling inflatables."
  • "The poor you will always have with you" (Matthew 26:11)
  • "Eat the rich"
  • "Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law."

Noun

nominalized adjective (plural nominalized adjectives)

  1. (grammar) An adjective used as a noun, having undergone nominalization.
    Hypernyms: adjective; noun < word < term
    Coordinate term: adjectival noun (a noun used as an adjective)

Usage notes

In modern grammars informed by linguistics, a distinction is made whereby only a subclass of this phenomenon qualifies as true nouns: it is the subclass in which plural forms can occur and the noun can refer to entities besides people, whereas the others remain adjectives in a class of noun phrases without an expressed noun head whose referent (persons, plural) is implied.

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References

  1. ^ Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2024) The Truth About English Grammar, Polity Press, →ISBN, page 63
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