adjective phrase

adjective phrase (adjektivfrase): a phrase with an adjective as its head. An adjective can be intensified by an adverb (as in very good, extremely popular, more difficult), and   complemented in various ways. Often an adjective is complemented by a clause, as in the adjective phrases glad to see you, sorry that you couldn't come, smaller than I expected. An adjective phrase can also have an adverb as a postmodifier, as in big enough. Adjective phrases function as modifiers of nouns or as predicatives.