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Adjective Reference Guide

The document lists a variety of adjectives categorized by their meaning or use. It includes common adjectives, adjectives describing appearance, color, condition, personality, shape, size, sound, time, taste/touch, and quantity. The extensive list provides adjectives that can be used to describe nouns in more detail within each general category.

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Adjective Reference Guide

The document lists a variety of adjectives categorized by their meaning or use. It includes common adjectives, adjectives describing appearance, color, condition, personality, shape, size, sound, time, taste/touch, and quantity. The extensive list provides adjectives that can be used to describe nouns in more detail within each general category.

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Common adjectives

 Good
 New
 First
 Last
 Long
 great
 little
 own
 other
 old
 right
 big
 high
 different
 small
 large
 next
 early
 young
 important
 few
 public
 bad
 same
 able

Appearance adjectives
 adorable
 beautiful
 clean
 drab
 elegant
 fancy
 glamorous
 handsome
 long
 magnificent
 old-fashioned
 plain
 quaint
 sparkling
 ugliest
 unsightly
 wide-eyed

Color adjectives
 red
 orange
 yellow
 green
 blue
 purple
 gray
 black
 white

Condition adjectives
 alive
 better
 careful
 clever
 dead
 easy
 famous
 gifted
 helpful
 important
 inexpensive
 mushy
 odd
 powerful
 rich
 shy
 tender
 uninterested
 vast
 wrong

Personality adjectives – Positive


 agreeable
 brave
 calm
 delightful
 eager
 faithful
 gentle
 happy
 jolly
 kind
 lively
 nice
 obedient
 proud
 relieved
 silly
 thankful
 victorious
 witty
 zealous

Personality adjectives – Negative


 angry
 bewildered
 clumsy
 defeated
 embarrassed
 fierce
 grumpy
 helpless
 itchy
 jealous
 lazy
 mysterious
 nervous
 obnoxious
 panicky
 repulsive
 scary
 thoughtless
 uptight
 worried

Shape adjectives
 broad
 chubby
 crooked
 curved
 deep
 flat
 high
 hollow
 low
 narrow
 round
 shallow
 skinny
 square
 steep
 straight
 wide

Size adjectives
 big
 colossal
 fat
 gigantic
 great
 huge
 immense
 large
 little
 mammoth
 massive
 miniature
 petite
 puny
 scrawny
 short
 small
 tall
 teeny
 teeny-tiny
 tiny

Sound adjectives
 cooing
 deafening
 faint
 hissing
 loud
 melodic
 noisy
 purring
 quiet
 raspy
 screeching
 thundering
 voiceless
 whispering

Time adjectives
 ancient
 brief
 early
 fast
 late
 long
 modern
 old
 old-fashioned
 quick
 rapid
 short
 slow
 swift
 young

Taste/touch adjectives
 bitter
 delicious
 fresh
 greasy
 juicy
 hot
 icy
 loose
 melted
 nutritious
 prickly
 rainy
 rotten
 salty
 sticky
 strong
 sweet
 tart
 tasteless
 uneven
 weak
 wet
 wooden
 yummy

Touch adjectives
 boiling
 breeze
 broken
 bumpy
 chilly
 cold
 cool
 creepy
 crooked
 cuddly
 curly
 damaged
 damp
 dirty
 dry
 dusty
 filthy
 flaky
 fluffy
 freezing
 hot
 warm
 wet

Quantity adjectives
 abundant
 empty
 few
 full
 heavy
 light
 many
 numerous
 sparse
 substantial
abhorrent
ablaze
abnormal
abrasive
acidic
alluring
ambiguous
amuck
apathetic
aquatic
auspicious
axiomatic
B
barbarous
bawdy
belligerent
berserk
bewildered
billowy
boorish
brainless
bustling
C
cagey
calculating
callous
capricious
ceaseless
chemical
chivalrous
cloistered
coherent
colossal
combative
cooing
cumbersome
cynical
D
daffy
damaged
deadpan
deafening
debonair
decisive
defective
defiant
demonic
delerious
deranged
devilish
didactic
diligent
direful
disastrous
disillusioned
dispensable
divergent
domineering
draconian
dynamic
E
earsplitting
earthy
eatable
efficacious
elastic
elated
elfin
elite
enchanted
endurable
erratic
ethereal
evanescent
exuberant
exultant
F
fabulous
fallacious
fanatical
fearless
feeble
feigned
fierce
flagrant
fluttering
frantic
fretful
fumbling
furtive
G
gainful
gamy
garrulous
gaudy
glistening
grandiose
grotesque
gruesome
guiltless
guttural
H
habitual
hallowed
hapless
harmonious
hellish
hideous
highfalutin
hissing
holistic
hulking
humdrum
hypnotic
hysterical
I
icky
idiotic
illustrious
immense
immenent
incandescent
industrious
infamous
inquisitive
insidious
invincible
J
jaded
jazzy
jittery
judicious
jumbled
juvenile
K
kaput
keen
knotty
knowing
L
lackadaisical
lamentable
languid
lavish
lewd
longing
loutish
ludicrous
lush
luxuriant
lyrical
M
macabre
maddening
mammoth
maniacal
meek
melodic
merciful
mere
miscreant
momentous
N
nappy
nebulous
nimble
nippy
nonchalant
nondescript
noxious
numberless
O
oafish
obeisant
obsequious
oceanic
omniscient
onerous
optimal
ossified
overwrought
P
paltry
parched
parsimonious
penitent
perpetual
picayune
piquant
placid
plucky
prickly
probable
profuse
psychedelic
Q
quack
quaint
quarrelsome
questionable
quirky
quixotic
quizzical
R rabbid
rambunctious
rampat
raspy
recondite
resolute
rhetorical
ritzy
ruddy
S
sable
sassy
savory
scandalous
scintillating
sedate
shaggy
shrill
smoggy
somber
sordid
spiffy
spurious
squalid
statuesque
steadfast
stupendous
succinct
swanky
sweltering
T
taboo
tacit
tangy
tawdry
tedious
tenuous
testy
thundering
tightfisted
torpid
trite
truculent
U
ubiquitous
ultra
unwieldy
uppity
utopian
utter
V
vacuous
vagabond
vengeful
venomous
verdant
versed
victorious
vigorous
vivacious
voiceless
volatile
voracious
vulgar
W
wacky
waggish
wakeful
warlike
wary
whimsical
whispering
wiggly
wiry
wistful
woebegone
woozy
wrathful
wretched
wry
X xenial
xenophilic
Y
yummy
yappy
yielding
Z
zany
zazzy
zealous
zesty
zippy
zoetic
zoic
zonked
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