It's just, just - " I failed to come up with a proper adjective.

Having examined the article more closely, and having done some reporting of my own, I'm convinced that the proper adjective would be "inflamed."

Some grammar books go a step further, pointing out that along with proper nouns there is also a category of proper adjectives.

"Trademarks are always proper adjectives," the legal pedagogy at TiVo.com instructs.

The Chinese name is probably a phonetic approximation of the German proper adjective.

The Japanese name is a phonetic approximation of the Dutch proper adjective.

He stood abruptly, leafed back to the second blueprint and inserted the proper adjective, the Sheltering Hills.

But yours are-" He could not quite find the proper adjectives.

In the Bantu languages, the adjectives form a closed class (with some languages having no proper adjectives at all).

Seeing it, Drehkos agreed that pitiful was indeed the proper adjective.