Adjectives
Adjectives tell us more about nouns. These are describing words. They add
something to the meaning of a noun E.g. Pune is a clean city. (The word ‘clean’
tells us about Pune city)
Types of adjectives:
Adjectives of quality: They show the kind or quality of a person or thing.
(Example. Happy, intelligent, thin, clean)
Adjectives of quantity: They talk about quantity of a thing. (E.g. some, little,
less, enough)
Adjectives of number: They talk about how many numbers of persons or
things. (Seven, five, first)
Possessive adjectives: They talk about ownership/possession. (E.g. My pencil,
our car)
Interrogative adjectives: They ask question. (E.g. Whose pen is this?)
Demonstrative adjectives: They point out the things. (e.g.This, That etc.)
Degree – forms of adjectives
Positive - Simple form of an adjective.
Comparative - Comparison between two persons and things.
Superlative - Comparison among more than two.
Positive Comparative Superlative
Good better best
Easy easier easiest
Beautiful more beautiful most beautiful
If adjectives are of two syllables use more, much and most.
Use suitable adjectives. The adjectives used must be relevant. (Beautiful boy is
wrong)
Verb + ed = Participle Adjective E.g. Fried rice, boiled eggs, typed report,
computerised statement.
Verb + ing = Participle Adjective E.g. Dancing doll, Jumping jack, inspiring
thought.
Order of adjectives –
Remember COMP – Colour, Origin , Material & Purpose ( Sequence)
*Size, shape adjectives come before colour material adjectives . (Round
leather purse, huge white building)
After a ‘copula verb’ (seem, look, appear, feel) He looks healthy. (‘Healthy’ is an
adjective, look is a copula verb)
List of Adjectives.
1. Active
2. Aggressive
3. Aimless
4. Alive
5. Angry
6. Artificial
7. Asleep
8. Awake
9. Awkward
10. Beautiful
11. Bitter
12. Black
13. Boring
14. Brave
15. Bright
16. Busy
17. Calm
18. Careful
19. Cheap
20. Cheerful
21. Clean
22. Cold
23. Commercial
24. Complicated
25. Confident
26. Coward
27. Crazy
28. Crisp
29. Critical
30. Dear
31. Deep
32. Different
33. Difficult
34. Dirty
35. Dishonest
36. Divine
37. Dry
38. Dull
39. Eager
40. Easy
41. Economical
42. Efficient
43. Emotional
44. Empty
45. Enthusiastic
46. Faithful
47. Faithful
48. False
49. Famous
50. Far
51. Fashionable
52. Fat
53. Favourable
54. Financial
55. Fine
56. Fool
57. Fortunate
58. Fresh
59. Frightened
60. Full
61. Great
62. Guilty
63. Happy
64. Hardworking
65. Harsh
66. Healthy
67. Heavy
68. Helpful
69. Holy
70. Honest
71. Horrible
72. Hot
73. Hungry
74. Ill
75. Imaginary
76. Important
77. Impressive
78. Informal
79. Innocent
80. Intelligent
81. Interesting
82. Jealous
83. Joyful
84. Keen
85. Large
86. Light
87. Loud
88. Low
89. Loyal
90. Manner less
91. Massive
92. Modern
93. Musical
94. Narrow
95. Natural
96. Near
97. Nervous
98. New
99. Noisy
100. Notorious
101. Old
102. Ordinary
103. Original
104. Oval
105. Painful
106. Particular
107. Pleasant
108. Polite
109. Poor
110. Powerful
111. Practical
112. Praiseworthy
113. Precious
114. Private
115. Professional
116. Proud
117. Public
118. Qualified
119. Quick
120. Quick
121. Quiet
122. Rare
123. Raw
124. Reasonable
125. Recent
126. Regular
127. Reliable
128. Rich
129. Right
130. Ripe
131. Risky
132. Rough
133. Round
134. Rude
135. Rural
136. Sad
137. Safe
138. Salty
139. Satisfactory
140. Sensible
141. Sentimental
142. Separate
143. Serious
144. Sharp
145. Shy
146. Silent
147. Silly
148. Similar
149. Skilled
150. Small
151. Solid
152. Sour
153. Spacious
154. Special
155. Straight
156. Strange
157. Strict
158. Strong
159. Studious
160. Stupid
161. Sudden
162. Sufficient
163. Sure
164. Suspicious
165. Sweet
166. Tall
167. Tasteless
168. Temporary
169. Terrible
170. Thin
171. Thin
172. Thirsty
173. Tired
174. Touching
175. True
176. Ugly
177. Uncertain
178. Unhappy
179. Unusual
180. Urban
181. Urgent
182. Useful
183. Valid
184. Various
185. Warm
186. Watchful
187. Weak
188. Wealthy
189. Wet
190. White
191. Wicked
192. Willing
193. Wise
194. Witty
195. Wonderful
196. Wooden
197. Worst
198. Wrong
199. Young
200. Zigzag
