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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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Incomprehensible vs Unintelligible
Sven's answer evidences the extensive overlap in the meanings of the two words, and that without explicit usage sections which address the difference, dictionaries can do as much or more to tangle rat …
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