nominalized adjective

== English == === Noun === nominalized adjective (plural nominalized adjectives) (grammar) An adjective used as a noun, having undergone nominalization. Hypernyms: adjective; noun < word < term Coordinate terms: adjectival noun (a noun used as an adjective); substantive 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. ==== Translations ==== === References ===