9.38 other adjectives

You can also use a variety of other adjectives to indicate that something is similar to, different from, or connected with something that has already been mentioned. Some of these adjectives are only used attributively and others can also be complements of a link verb.

• It's really fabulous. Do you think that there are any other comparable tombs left at all?
• She wore a red dress with a red matching straw hat.
• West Germany, Denmark and Italy face declines in young people. Ireland is confronted with a contrasting problem.
• That's what I would say. But his attitude was different altogether.

Here is a list of adjectives which can only be used attributively to refer back:

• adjacent, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrasting, corresponding, equal, equivalent, matching, opposing, parallel

Here is a list of adjectives which can be used both attributively and as complements to refer back:

• analogous, comparable, compatible, different, identical, related, separate, similar, unrelated