noun
A grammatical term for a word or phrase that modifies another element, such as an adjective modifying a noun or an adverb modifying a verb.
「美しい花」の「美しい」は修飾語です。
In 'beautiful flower,' 'beautiful' is a modifier.
修飾語が多すぎると文が
Too many modifiers make a sentence hard to understand.
被修飾語 is the word being modified, the opposite role of 修飾語.
Compound of 修飾 (modification) + 語 (word). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the term is a standard linguistic coinage.