participial adjective

English

Noun

participial adjective (plural participial adjectives)

A participle used as an adjective; it may be either a present participle or a past participle, and used either attributively or predicatively.

Examples
drowning (pres. part.): the drowning man drowned (p. part.): the drowned man hammering (pres. part.): the hammering carpenter hammered (p. part.): the hammered nail mesmerizing (pres. part.): the show was mesmerizing mesmerized (p. part.): the audience was mesmerized

Coordinate terms

gerund (present participle used as a noun)
adverbial participle (participle used as an adverb, in some languages)
nominalized past participle (as in "the voyage of the damned")

See also

participle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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