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There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success.
The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'
My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'
The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'
I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold.
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.