50 Examples of Nouns Derived from Adjectives

Nouns Derived from Adjectives

The nouns derived from adjectives (also called "adjectival nouns") are those that come from a adjective but that they become nouns to be the core or center of prayer. For example: cleaning (cleansed), adulthood (adult), modernity (modern).

How do you construct a noun derived from an adjective?

Most nouns that come from an adjective are constructed using a suffix:

On what occasions are nouns derived from adjectives used?

These nouns are often used in sentences with an abstract character. For example: The ugliness Of the lie instead of It ugly of a lie. In this example we see how the adjective ugly becomes a noun derived from an adjective: ugliness.

Examples of nouns derived from adjectives

In the following list, the noun derived from its corresponding adjective will be marked in bold.

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