As to the adjectives, I said, if I remember right, amiable, unambitious, and absent-minded.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Merriam-Webster
— a word belonging to one of the major form classes in any of numerous languages and typically serving as a modifier of a noun to denote a quality of the thing named, to indicate its quantity or extent, or to specify a thing as distinct from something else
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Macmillan
— a word that gives information about a noun. Some adjectives indicate the qualities of a noun, for example ‘big’, ‘interesting’, and ‘weird’, and others classify a noun, for example ‘global’, ‘male’, and ‘electronic’.
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1 use of ‘adjectives’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle