Category talk:Non-comparable adjectives

This list is a mess. Useless and wrong.

First, the wrong things. The words

   abnormally, above, brimstone, syntactically, "at stake", and "all right"

are not adjectives.

These are adjectives, but they are *comparable*:

    swift, tame, baggy, fluffy, grubby, grumpy, horny, swampy

( and "chief" used to be comparable).

I'm not convinced "in travesti" is English. Several other entries are just junk.

"Magnify" is a verb, not an adjective.

Second, the vast majority of adjectives listed are not comparable because they are in a class of adjectives that *can't* be, either for phonetic or sytactic reasons. But the list contains only a tiny, arbitrary fraction of such adjectives.

It would be much better to construct a list of *interestingly* incomparable adjectives -- ones that don't follow the usual rules or are otherwise important.

Stevan White (talk)

Actually "above" is an adjective. Example:

Please see the above discussion of the problem.

πr² (talk • changes) 16:25, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

So is "brimstone":

I wish your brimstone grandmother was here, and he'd shave her head off. — Charles Dickens, Bleak House

πr² (talk • changes) 16:26, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Past participles should be removed from this category

Many past participles of verbs can be adjectives. Past participles are the form of the verb after have/has/had, e.g. I have written, he has washed, they had cursed the place... Examples of past participles as adjectives: a written message, the washed shirts, the cursed place.

Past participles are also found in the passive voice (a form of "be" + past participle). In the passive voice, past participles can sometimes be considered adjectives. Active: The owners closed the store. Passive: The store was closed by the owners (past participle). Past participle as an adjective: The store was closed. Past participial adjectives can never be in the comparative or superlative form, so it makes no sense to list all these forms in this category. Therefore, I think past participles (abbreviated, abducted, abridged, etc.) should be removed from this category. What do others think? DBlomgren (talk) 16:27, 11 May 2021 (UTC)