ملخص الدراسة:

The aim of the study is to find out the characteristics of the Arabic adjectives and what they can do in information storage and retrieval operations. It displays their relationship with Arabic nouns; presents their formation; shows their location, sex, number and cases; states each one’s advantages in information storage and retrieval with references to their counterparts (if any) in English. It presents a summary of the indications of Arabic adjectives to the nouns they describe. It concludes that Arabic adjectives have far better indications to the nouns they describe than the English ones. It gives three recommendations aiming at raising the efficiency of information storage and retrieval through investing the characteristics of Arabic adjectives.