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Adjectives are just one of several different types of noun modifiers, typically used to premodify or describe a noun. Do not confuse adjectives with nouns used attributively to modify other nouns. Adjectives have comparative and superlative degrees, can be used as predicate adjectives in copulae, and can themselves be modified by intensifiers and adverbs but not by other adjectives. Nouns in attribution fail all those tests.
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Is there a word for the belief that everything is possible?
What popped into my head were "hopeless optimist" and "naive idealist". Googling this, you find a blog entitled "Hopelessly Optimistic Naive Idealist"!
Clearly the concept is regarded as humorous.
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Is there a word that means 'deliberately ignorant, choosing to ignore the facts'?
"She deliberately ignored the stench of sweat and urine of the homeless, and treated them as she would any other human beings."
There are many ways of expressing wilful ignorance in a pejorative sens …
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