He makes rich use of decorative language and florid compound adjectives.

Unlike its big brother, small-bore is used only as a compound adjective and is almost always hyphenated.

That compound adjective, more than four centuries old, describes a gentle form of bridle bit.

What single term epitomizes the triumph of the compound adjective?

The most widely understood sense of this compound adjective is the new sense of forthcoming.

In our time, those two short words have fused into a compound adjective with a wholly different meaning, and that modifier is sweeping the language.

Hyphens are unnecessary in other unambiguous, regularly used compound adjectives.

Only for an appreciation of the best coinage of a compound adjective in the 1988 election campaign.

This is the hottest compound adjective around today, leaving all other focuses fuzzy.

I was about to take my colleague to task for failing to hyphenate best known when using it as a compound adjective.