Very Useful Adjectives List

An adjective is a word used to modify or describe a noun or pronoun. They are always near the noun or pronoun they are describing. Adjectives are often overused and add little to a sentence. To avoid this problem, try using verbs and nouns creatively. Choose your adjectives carefully and use them when they have the greatest impact! Adjectives are often used to describe the degree of modification. The adjective forms are positive, comparative, and superlative.

This boy is tall. (positive)
That girl is taller. (comparative)
The last boy in the row is the tallest. (superlative)

Appearance adjectives list

attractive
bald
beautiful
chubby
clean
dazzling
drab
elegant
fancy
fit
flabby
glamorous
gorgeous
handsome
long
magnificent
muscular
plain
plump
quaint
scruffy
shapely
short
skinny
stocky
ugly
unkempt
unsightly

Use of appearance adjectives

The waterfall is one of the most attractive sites in the vicinity of Sarajevo.
Hottie is a slang term for a physically attractive person.
A new study has revealed that bald men may actually be happier than men with hair.
Ethan is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met.
A new study breaks down the foods most strongly associated with chubby children.
We must preserve Wisconsin's clean water, clean air, and natural heritage.
It was a dazzling diamond, and it impressed her enormously.
We saw sudden splashes of color in the drab landscape.
She had an elegant figure and she walked well.
There are two principal causes of flabby arms.
Glamorous shoes are perfect for finishing off evening ensembles in style.
She wore a gorgeous Victorian gown.
We're so proud of our splendid, handsome boy.
In this valley were magnificent gardens planted by him
We don't see many muscular women in popular culture.
White rabbits have large, broad, and muscular bodies.
The boss prefers his female employees to wear plain clothing to work.
When shopping, choose plump blueberries with no old, crushed berries.
The males had the most unusual colors and unsightly patterns.

Color adjectives list

ashy
black
blue
gray
green
icy
lemon
mango
orange
purple
red
salmon
white
yellow

Use of color adjectives

Ashy skin is usually whitish or grayish in color.
She had black hair and eager blue eyes.
John noticed a green ribbon on a branch.
The girl had icy blue lips, similar to that of a corpse.
Lemon colored bridesmaid dresses brighten-up any wedding.
Her toenails shine with freshly applied, mango polish.
The wings and tail are brown with purple edgings.
There are orange and yellow bands on the abdomen.

Condition adjectives list

alive
better
careful
clever
dead
easy
famous
gifted
hallowed
helpful
important
inexpensive
mealy
mushy
odd
poor
powerful
rich
shy
tender
unimportant
uninterested
vast
wrong

Use of Condition adjectives

When his wife gave birth to a son, he was the proudest man alive .
We're hoping for better results tomorrow.
She was a very careful worker.
Gulliver was a clever young man, who loved to travel.
Perhaps this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent.
It remains Shelly's most famous work.
He was a gifted pilot, a good fellow, and had both wit and humor in him.
As a gifted young woman, she excelled academically and exhibited leadership.
Of the three, she is perhaps the most gifted painter.
Standing on the hallowed precincts of the quarter-deck, they were careful not to speak.
Her work has made her an important role model.
Everyone was searching for an easy, inexpensive solution to the problem.
He abhors mushy bananas and mealy peaches.
Rambutan is an odd fruit that looks like a furry strawberry.
The poor peasants were forced to sell the young girls to the powerful communist party leaders.
The shy girls from the village had very little experience with men.
The village girls had tender skin which was very sensitive to the touch.
I saw the tender regard which he cast upon her.
Kumar claims to be uninterested in the theory of feminism.

Positive Personality adjectives list

aggressive
agreeable
ambitious
brave
calm
delightful
eager
faithful
gentle
happy
jolly
kind
lively
nice
obedient
polite
proud
silly
thankful
victorious
witty
wonderful
zealous

Use of positive personality adjectives

John has an agreeable character.
She has an affectionate boyfriend.
He has a charismatic personality.
“Don't cry,'' said the gentle Mr. Lorry.
They were a proud family, heir to a long and distinguished lineage.
I enjoyed the classes given by Gangya, a jolly dance teacher.
We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect.

Negative Personality adjectives list

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

Use of negative personality adjectives

Ron was an clumsy character.
He was an angry young man.
The jealous girl always caused problems at school.
The mysterious illness arrived on a boat from the far east.
The thoughtless boy made an imprudent request.
Crammed with blood and violence, it was the most repulsive movie I've ever seen.

Shape adjectives list

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

Use of shape adjectives

A small, dim, crooked shop, kept in a tortuous thoroughfare, by a crooked man.
The dense, untouched forest overhung both banks of the narrow little crack.
“What a lovely, refined staircase,'” said Chateau Renaud with a smile.
Sediment may be deposited to any thickness and extent over a shallow bottom.
Iggy was a six feet tall and skinny young boy.

Size adjectives list

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

Use of size adjectives

Christie Pitts has a mammoth plaster sculpture in his front yard.
The building had a huge entry, and was altogether of colossal dimensions.
There was a feeling of being lifted out of one's puny self to something bigger.
The deer passed across the narrow lane, and disappeared into the forest.
A virus is one type of microscopic parasite that infects cells in biological organisms.

Sound adjectives list

crashing
deafening
echoing
faint
harsh
hissing
howling
loud
melodic
noisy
purring
quiet
rapping
raspy
rhythmic
screeching
shrilling
squeaking
thundering
tinkling
wailing
whining
whispering

Use of sound adjectives

He has a slurred and screeching speech, and is clumsy and flailing in his movement.
She was renowned for her quick wit, raspynarrow voice, and ever-present cigarettes.
After hearing the faint sound, he had an expression of perplexity as though he were trying to reconcile some doubts in his mind.
He added a melodic passage for an acoustic guitar in the third verse of the song.
He was a happy boy before that dark day which arrived with a deafening thud upon humanity's collective cranium.

Time adjectives list

ancient
brief
early
fast
future
late
long
modern
old
old-fashioned
prehistoric
quick
rapid
short
slow
swift
young

Use of time adjectives

The flight had a long delay.
There was a short delay on the road because of an accident.

Taste adjectives list

acidic
bitter
cool
creamy
delicious
disgusting
fresh
greasy
juicy
hot
moldy
nutritious
nutty
putrid
rancid
ripe
rotten
salty
savory
sour
spicy
spoiled
stale
sweet
tangy
tart
tasteless
tasty
yummy

Use of taste adjectives

I had a taste of a deliciously creamy coffee.
The cheese souffle had a savory crust.
She selected a ripe apple from the shelf.
He ate the nutritious fresh lettuce.

Touch adjectives list

breezy
bumpy
chilly
cold
cool
cuddly
damaged
damp
dirty
dry
flaky
fluffy
freezing
greasy
hot
icy
loose
melted
prickly
rough
shaggy
sharp
slimy
sticky
strong
tight
uneven
warm
weak
wet
wooden

Use of touch adjectives

This is a black spider with a velvety texture.
There had been rain all day, and there was a damp feeling in the air.
The insect has a strong preference for trees with fine flaky bark.
The dense, small prickly plant is usually less than a metre high.
Many succulent plants cannot endure a damp climate.
I tripped on the uneven floor almost breaking my arm.

Quantity adjectives list

abundant
billions
enough
few
full
hundreds
incalculable
limited
little
many
most
millions
numerous
scarce
some
sparse
substantial
thousands

Use of quantity adjectives

Evidently, there is abundant fascination with this “sport”.
There were numerous complaints before the institution of those regulations.
I had allowed him such a limited time; I thought he might have a fit.
It also occurs where water seems unlimited but where nutrients are scarce.
He was the most-gifted student.
She has few friends.
I received the most awards in the school.
I have little interest in the topic.

More example sentences using adjectives

It hushed the eloquent, struck down the powerful, abolished the beautiful and good.
I was sure you could not be so beautiful for nothing!
Great pictures have been made of beautiful people in beautiful clothes and of squalid people in ugly clothes, of beautiful architectural buildings and the ugly hovels of the poor.
He has worked on numerous films with Steven Spielberg.
After the war, he traveled and went on numerous safaris.
The soundtrack included numerous songs, including:
The surnames which derive from a nickname are numerous and varied.
But, when the place was left behind, and especially when Steerforth and I were happily seated over our dinner by a blazing fire, it was delicious to think of having been there.
As I stood there in the gathering dark I thought that in this simple explanation I had mastered the problem of the world--mastered the whole secret of these delicious people.
Her childish way was the most delicious way in the world to me, but it was necessary to be explicit, and I solemnly repeated: 'Dora, my own life, I am your ruined David!'
So, the close of every week was a delicious time for me; and I got through the rest of the week by looking forward to it.
To an unfortunate bachelor of a fellow who has lived alone all his life, you know, it's positively delicious.

Additional example sentences using adjectives

The beautiful form and color of the cloud seem to be unobserved.
The variations in a beautiful drawing are so subtle as often to defy detection.
The most beautiful profiles are usually those in which variety is subordinated to the unity of the contour.
They are very numerous and very loud, though, are they not?
But these within the ice are not so numerous nor obvious as those beneath.
The hunters were formerly a numerous and merry crew here.
I sat down to my brown loaf, my egg, and my rasher of bacon, with a basin of milk besides, and made a most delicious meal.
I am lost in the recollection of this delicious interview, and the waltz, when she comes to me again, with a plain elderly gentleman who has been playing whist all night, upon her arm, and says: 'Oh!
So in dreams, have I seen majestic Satan thrusting forth his tormented colossal claw from the flame Baltic of Hell.
Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs.
But as the colossal skull embraces so very large a proportion of the entire extent of the skeleton; as it is by far the most complicated part; and as nothing is to be repeated concerning it in this chapter, you must not fail to carry it in your mind, or under your arm, as we proceed, otherwise you will not gain a complete notion of the general structure we are about to view.
Titanisaur is a colossal dinosaur/dragon monster that serves Captain Mutiny.
But still the 1895 edition of was not the colossal triumph that has been accepted as fact in modern times.
They are typically life-sized, though early colossal examples are up to 3 meters tall.

How to use adjectives in a sentence

However, some beautiful things have been done with it.
Many wonderful and beautiful things have been done with this simple means.
Both have been reprinted numerous times.
There are numerous upgrade criteria to choose from.
After tea, when the door was shut and all was made snug (the nights being cold and misty now), it seemed to me the most delicious retreat that the imagination of man could conceive.
The building had a huge entry, and was altogether of colossal dimensions.
Well, one very hot morning--my fourth, I think--as I was seeking shelter from the heat and glare in a colossal ruin near the great house where I slept and fed, there happened this strange thing: Clambering among these heaps of masonry, I found a narrow gallery, whose end and side windows were blocked by fallen masses of stone.
Then we came to a gallery of simply colossal proportions, but singularly ill-lit, the floor of it running downward at a slight angle from the end at which I entered.

The use of adjectives in a sentence

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature.
Both athletes are given numerous, violent punches.
He was the author of numerous articles and several books.
It is also a common name in numerous other countries.
All were agreed upon one point, however: if Congress would make a sufficient appropriation, a colossal benefit would result.
This was a colossal combination of robbers, horse thieves, negro stealers, and counterfeiters, engaged in business along the river some fifty or sixty years ago.
To such a man a funeral is a colossal financial disaster.
It was perfect, it was rounded, symmetrical, complete, colossal!
Franz had so managed his route, that during the ride to the Colosseum they passed not a single ancient ruin, so that no preliminary impression interfered to mitigate the colossal proportions of the gigantic building they came to admire.
He thought several times of the project the count had of visiting Paris; and he had no doubt but that, with his eccentric character, his characteristic face, and his colossal fortune, he would produce a great effect there.
A colossal figure, carved apparently in some white stone, loomed indistinctly beyond the rhododendrons through the hazy downpour.
Tied by the head to the stern, and by the tail to the bows, the whale now lies with its black hull close to the vessel's and seen through the darkness of the night, which obscured the spars and rigging aloft, the two--ship and whale, seemed yoked together like colossal bullocks, whereof one reclines while the other remains standing.

More types of adjectives

The walls would have had numerous stone lined openings.
The park hosts numerous theater and other events.
In the cool season it can get decidedly chilly: it is one of the few places in Thailand that ever gets down to zero degrees Celsius.
Seasons are fairly well defined, and in most of Uruguay spring is usually damp, cool, and windy; summers are warm; autumns are mild; and winters are chilly and uncomfortably damp.
A winter warm spell can be abruptly broken by a strong pampero, a chilly and occasionally violent wind blowing north from the Argentine pampas.
It would be such a delicious scheme; and I dare say would hardly cost anything at all. Solitude This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.
We had dinner on a ground veranda over the water the chief dish the renowned fish called the pompano, delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.
At length the boat touched the shore, but without effort, without shock, as lips touch lips; and he entered the grotto amidst continued strains of most delicious melody.
Every delicious fruit that the four quarters of the globe could provide was heaped in vases from China and jars from Japan.
s zephyr played along the coasts of the Mediterranean, and wafted from shore to shore the sweet perfume of plants, mingled with the fresh smell of the sea.
Never have I read anything more refined, anything more after the ancient type, anything more delicious, anything more Latin.
They are the lightest and smallest category of air compressors available in market with no air storage tank and runs of direct supply of compressed air.
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