Absolute magnitude light curves of SN 2016adj compared to the CSP-I SE SN template light curve scaled in time and to the average peak absolute magnitude determined from the CSP-I SN Ic sample. The light curves of SN 2016adj are plotted with and without host-extinction correction as indicated in the legend. The prevalent reddening is visible in the bluer bands with the Milky Way reddening corrected light curves of SN 2016adj being much fainter compared with the average SN Ic light curves. Also shown for comparison are the light curves of the type Ic SN 2005az (Bianco et al. 2014) which, as demonstrated in Fig. 6, is spectroscopically similar to SN 2016adj. The error bars accompanying the magnitudes of SN 2016adj account for the uncertainties in the distance and the reddening parameters $R_V^{\text{host}}$ and $A_V^{\text{host}}$.