Adjective may be more rigid in some languages than others; in some, like Spanish, it may only be a default ("unmarked") word order, with other orders being permissible. Other languages, such as Tagalog, follow their adjectival orders as rigidly as English. The normal adjectival order of English may be overridden in certain circumstances, especially when one adjective is being fronted. In addition, the usual order of adjectives in English would result in the phrase "the bad big wolf" (opinion before size), but instead the usual phrase is "the big bad wolf", perhaps because the ablaut reduplication rule that high vowels precede
Nominalized adjective "headwind" is then assumed. The third type is known as the "permanent" adjectival noun and has an adjective that stands alone as a noun. Such adjectives have become nouns over time, and most speakers are aware of their implicit adjectival meaning. Nominalized adjectives occur frequently in both Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic. An example would be "things (that are) Islamic", which is derived from the adjective "Islamic" in the inanimate plural inflection. Another example would be "the big one" (said of a person or thing of masculine gender), from "big" inflected in the masculine singular. Nominalized adjective A nominalized