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100 Exquisite Adjectives

By Mark Nichol

Adjectives — descriptive words that modify nouns — often come under fire for their cluttering quality, but often it’s quality, not quantity, that is the issue. Plenty of tired adjectives are available to spoil a good sentence, but when you find just the right word for the job, enrichment ensues. Practice precision when you select words. Here’s a list of adjectives:

Adamant: unyielding; a very hard substance
Adroit: clever, resourceful
Amatory: sexual
Animistic: quality of recurrence or reversion to earlier form
Antic: clownish, frolicsome
Arcadian: serene
Baleful: deadly, foreboding
Bellicose: quarrelsome (its synonym belligerent can also be a noun)
Bilious: unpleasant, peevish
Boorish: crude, insensitive
Calamitous: disastrous
Caustic: corrosive, sarcastic; a corrosive substance
Cerulean: sky blue
Comely: attractive
Concomitant: accompanying
Contumacious: rebellious
Corpulent: obese
Crapulous: immoderate in appetite
Defamatory: maliciously misrepresenting
Didactic: conveying information or moral instruction
Dilatory: causing delay, tardy
Dowdy: shabby, old-fashioned; an unkempt woman
Efficacious: producing a desired effect
Effulgent: brilliantly radiant
Egregious: conspicuous, flagrant
Endemic: prevalent, native, peculiar to an area
Equanimous: even, balanced
Execrable: wretched, detestable
Fastidious: meticulous, overly delicate
Feckless: weak, irresponsible
Fecund: prolific, inventive
Friable: brittle
Fulsome: abundant, overdone, effusive
Garrulous: wordy, talkative
Guileless: naive
Gustatory : having to do with taste or eating
Heuristic: learning through trial-and-error or problem solving
Histrionic: affected, theatrical
Hubristic: proud, excessively self-confident
Incendiary: inflammatory, spontaneously combustible, hot
Insidious: subtle, seductive, treacherous
Insolent: impudent, contemptuous
Intransigent: uncompromising
Inveterate: habitual, persistent
Invidious: resentful, envious, obnoxious
Irksome: annoying
Jejune: dull, puerile
Jocular: jesting, playful
Judicious: discreet
Lachrymose: tearful
Limpid: simple, transparent, serene
Loquacious: talkative
Luminous: clear, shining
Mannered: artificial, stilted
Mendacious : deceptive
Meretricious: whorish, superficially appealing, pretentious
Minatory: menacing
Mordant: biting, incisive, pungent
Munificent: lavish, generous
Nefarious: wicked
Noxious: harmful, corrupting
Obtuse: blunt, stupid
Parsimonious: frugal, restrained
Pendulous: suspended, indecisive
Pernicious: injurious, deadly
Pervasive: widespread
Petulant: rude, ill humored
Platitudinous: resembling or full of dull or banal comments
Precipitate: steep, speedy
Propitious: auspicious, advantageous, benevolent
Puckish: impish
Querulous: cranky, whining
Quiescent: inactive, untroublesome
Rebarbative: irritating, repellent
Recalcitrant: resistant, obstinate
Redolent: aromatic, evocative
Rhadamanthine: harshly strict
Risible: laughable
Ruminative: contemplative
Sagacious: wise, discerning
Salubrious: healthful
Sartorial: relating to attire, especially tailored fashions
Sclerotic: hardening
Serpentine: snake-like, winding, tempting or wily
Spasmodic: having to do with or resembling a spasm, excitable, intermittent
Strident: harsh, discordant; obtrusively loud
Taciturn: closemouthed, reticent
Tenacious: persistent, cohesive,
Tremulous: nervous, trembling, timid, sensitive
Trenchant: sharp, penetrating, distinct
Turbulent: restless, tempestuous
Turgid: swollen, pompous
Ubiquitous: pervasive, widespread
Uxorious: inordinately affectionate or compliant with a wife
Verdant: green, unripe
Voluble: glib, given to speaking
Voracious: ravenous, insatiable
Wheedling: flattering
Withering: devastating
Zealous: eager, devoted

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List of 228 Common Adjectives

Adjectives modify perhaps the most common words in the English language, nouns. With a list of common adjectives at hand, you can effectively describe your surroundings in detail. The words on this list of 228 adjectives can all be used to describe feelings or the appearance of objects and can also make it easy to describe yourself, your surroundings and your favorite things.

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A-D List of Adjective Words

The first part of this list features commonly used adjectives from the first four letters of the alphabet.

E-K Adjectives List

There are plenty more often-used adjectives that start with letters in the next part of the alphabet. Review these adjective words that begin with the letters “e” through “k.”

L-S Adjective Words

Moving forward in alphabetical order, there are still many more adjectives appropriate for use in everyday conversation. Explore these common words that start with the letters between “l” and “s.”

T-Z List of Adjectives

There are plenty more common adjectives throughout the remainder of the alphabet. Explore these common words that start with the letters between “t” and “z.”

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Why Use an Adjective List?

Whether you are a native English speaker or you are learning English as a second language, using an adjective list like this one can help you expand your language skills and organize your learning.

• Using an adjective list can help you build a more advanced vocabulary and build your ability to use descriptive language. This, in turn, will allow you to become a more effective writer and speaker.
• People who are learning a foreign language often make a list of common descriptive words to study in order to expand their vocabulary beyond just basic nouns and verbs in the new language.

Expand Your Descriptive Language Skills

While a list of 228 adjectives sounds like a lot, these are actually just a few examples of the many adjectives in the English language. When you’re ready to build out an even more extensive vocabulary of descriptive words, explore this list of more than 125 positive adjectives. Put a positive spin on your whole day with these uplifting descriptive words. Then, discover adjectives that describe tone, feelings and emotions. Get ready to boost your creativity and start building up your list of adjective words today!

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Adjectives characterizing a person - list

Here are collected words (adjectives) that characterize a person (both a man and a woman). Words are arranged in a list, for convenience, divided by letters of the alphabet. This list can be useful to you for compiling a resume, characterization, compiling announcements (for hiring or searching for a person) and simply for describing people (if necessary).

Please note: Not all adjectives that can describe a person are collected here, but only those that can characterize people (that is, there are no such words as “beautiful”, “tall”, “small”, “barrel-shaped”, "shaved", etc. They refer to the description of appearance and are not related to the description of personality, character, behavior).

A

• Adventurized
• Authority
• Aggressive
• adequate
• Azartic
• Neat
• ALCH
• Elogical (illologian - opposite - opposite logic)
• Altruistic (altruistic)
• Alcohol addict
• Immoral
• Ambitious
• Amorphous
• Anecdotal
• Apathetic
0011 Apathetic
• Apolitical
• Ascetic
• Assertive rights, not to depend on external assessments, influences and do it without violating the rights others)
• Asocial
• Autical
• Artistic
• aristocratic

B

• Palled
Vigilant
• Black
• Perepsychia
• Dilanthin0012
• Windle
• Nonsense
• Explosive
• Scruffy
• Guilty
• Fitty
• ACTIVITIVE
• Available
• exalted
• exalted
• exalted attitude towards something or someone)
• Strong-willed
• Free
• Free-thinking
• Freedom-loving
• Thievish
• Grouchy
• Receptive
• Enthusiastic
• Impressive
• Hostile (hostile, hostile-cold)
• Harmful
• Omnivorous (here - promiscuous, not the one who eats everything)
• Fixing
• vulgar
• Office
• Outstanding
• Highly moral
• Highly exaggerated
highly developed
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• Great
• Trusty
• Hasty
• Lolder -out
• Dominative
• House
• Decent
Bulbed
• NEDARICAL (here, DEMODICAL
• DRIMEN ignorant)
• Friendly
• Dirty
• Bad
• Foolish
• Spiritual and moral
• Spiritual
• Mental
• Mentally ill
• 0012

E

• Broken
• Bossy
• Natural
• Echered

• greedy
• Miserable
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• Bile
• Effeminate
• Feminine
• Womanly
• Cute
• Cruel
• Rigid
• Critical
• Painting
• MORY
• Cultural

• LABIL (here is mood)
• Laconic
• Latent Latent
• Light (not for weight. easy "on the rise")
• Gullible
• Frivolous
• Frivolous
• Easily irritable (easily irritated)
• Easily controllable
• Easily vulnerable
• Unseasoned (not about cognac, but about the lack of endurance in a person)
• Unbearable
• Unbearable
• Disharmonious
• Negative (negatively tuned) , thinking)
• Shallow (here is not about the depth of the reservoir, but about the depth of the inner content of a person)
• Non-proud
• Inhospitable
• Illiterate
• Unnecessary
• optional (here is not loving obligations that does not recognize them, avoiding duties, etc.)
• incorpected
• Fear
• Fisherous
• Direct
• NOTSED
• NOTSED NOW THE
• NOT Untrue
• Non-idle
• Impractical
• Unpredictable
• Unforeseen
• Inflexible
• Moral
• Cut

O

• Charming
• Obvornoye
• Offective
• Offended (here in the meaning - offended by life, on fate, etc. )
• deceitful
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• Sociable
• Objective
• Compulsory
• Gifted
• Possessed (here in the meaning - obsessed with work, work, the devil, etc.)
• Standard
• dull
• Lastly
• desperate
• Owl
• Oygnidic
• numb, charming
• Outline

P.

• PADKI ; avid for everything new, etc.)
• Dirty
• Memoryful
• Paradoxical
• Paranoid (here - a paranoid type of personality and as a result - a certain style of thinking, behavior, etc., characteristic of a person of this type)
• Consistent
• Obedient
• Mediocre
• Constant (here in the meaning - constant in his views, principles, attitude, etc.)
• Shabby
• Lost (here in the meaning - lost to society, life, etc.)
• Amusing
• Terrific
• Lustful
• Respectful
• Vulgar
• Vulgar
• Truthful
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• Generally
• Great
• Admissive
• Disgrasting
• Unpleasant
• Present
• Fresh (here about a person in the significance - boring, without "dysfunction"
, without "pepper).
• Boring
• Criminal
• Terrible
• Successful
• Fastidious
• Affable
• Silly
• Director
• Rectoline
• Mice
• Scarecrow
• Bulbed
• Punctual
• Empty (empty person, “Pie with nothing”, etc.)
• Emilland
• Putic 9001
• Empty-headed
• Inquisitive

Р

• Submissive
• Indifferent
• Equal in rights
• Equal in rights
• Radical1
• 0012
• wasteful
• Calculated
• Refined
• rational
• reactive (here in the value - high -acting, quick, energetic, etc.)
• Realistic
• Jealous
• Rare
• Rare
• Rent -icing
• Sharp
• Retrograde
• Decisive
• Risky
• Timid
• Respectable
• Romantic
• Sharp (here in the meaning - much capable of hands, capable of much capable of hands)
• Private (in the sense of ordinary)

C

• Demonial
• Herly
Self -sufficient
• Self -sufficient
• Self-forgetting
• Self-proclaimed
• Self-loving
• Self-confident
• Self-confident
• Self-critical
• Self-confident
• Angry
• Compassionate (here - compassionate, compassionate)
• Serious
• Grey-footed (here it means ill-mannered, awkward, unable to behave, unable to behave, not allowed in a decent society, etc. )
• Strong (not necessarily physically strong, for example: a strong-minded person, mentally strong, mentally strong, etc.) .)
• Scaby
• Scandalous
• Skaed
• Bad
• Skeptical
• Small
• constrained (here is clamped, numb, constrained)
• Slippery (here in the meaning is slippery, unreliable person, i.e. dishonest, ambiguous, obscene, dubious)
• Modest
• Secretive
• Scrupulous
• Poor-minded
• Stingy
• Stingy
• capable (in the meaning-gifted, talented)
• stable (constant, durable, sane, emotionally stable, socially stable, etc.)
• Street
• shy
• STARTICAL
• CESTURE
• Strange
• Passionate Passionate
• Impetuous
• Stress resistant
• Strict
• Obstinate
• Shy
• Subjective
• Superstitious
• Fussy
• vain
• Business
• Crazy
• Happy

• mysterious
• Talented
• solid (here in the meaning - reliable, insistent, disgusting, disgraced, non -imminent man) , narrow-minded, stubborn, etc. )
• Creative
• Dark (here - dense, uneducated, caveman)
• Temperamental
• Patient
• Fulb
• Fatovskaya
• feminine
• FISH
• Philosophical (for example: Philosophical, Philosophical, Juits, etc.)
• Flematic
• Frivolny (for example:: for example:: Fundamental

Х

• Charismatic
• Boastful
• Crappy
• Cunning
• Cunning
• Cunning ass
• Cunning
• Cold-blooded
• Hospitable
• Choleric (having a choleric temperament, not the one who is sick with cholera)
• Cold (this is not about temperature, but about mental Colds)
• Holey
• Commercial
• Good
• Brave
• Hooligan
• Khrenovy

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• Purposeful
• Zinichny
• Colore0012
• tongued
• bright
• ardent (about any inclinations of a person. For example: an ardent defender of children, an ardent reformer, an ardent loafer and a lazy person, an ardent hater of fools)
• Furious
• Clairvoyant

Note:

• All of the above words (adjectives) can describe any person - a man, a woman, a teenager, and in many cases a child. To do this, you just need to change the ending of the desired word.
• Also, remember: according to the rules of the Russian language, some of the above words can be both an adjective and a participle (depending on the context in which the word is used).
• This list does not include obscene words and words that are specific terms used by narrow specialists for professional purposes.

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• Mon 09.00-19 The choice of tasty words is especially important. The words you use to describe dishes can both lure customers and increase the sale of dishes if you choose them well, or scare or confuse customers if you're not careful.

  Below we will analyze the key components of a sales text for a menu, as well as offer a list of delicious words with which you can write a colorful description of any dish or drink.

  Taste words

  The taste of food is what diners focus on most when choosing what to order. The way you describe dishes on the menu can create anticipation and sometimes even convince a hesitant customer to try something new. Taking this into account, it is important to choose the most accurate and complete wording to convey the taste sensations of the dish in the description.

  The most successful words for taste:

  Sour: Food with a pronounced spicy bite. Often used to refer to wines, fruits, dairy products, meats, fish

  Bitter: tart, sharp, and sometimes quite harsh repulsive taste. The clearest examples are radish, horseradish, mustard

  Bittersweet: Less harsh than just bitter taste. Combines tartness and sweetness. Can be found in dark chocolate, coffee, grapefruit

  Citrus: Bright taste with hints of lemon, lime, orange, tangerine or grapefruit

  Refreshing: taste that conveys a feeling of coolness. Often used to describe lemonade, mint

  Earthy: reminiscent of fresh soil. Often used to describe red wines, root vegetables and mushrooms

  Burning: a taste that feels like something is giving off heat. Synonym for spicy

  Fresh: light and invigorating taste. Applicable to many foods (fruits, vegetables, meat) and herbs

  Fruity: any flavor reminiscent of sweet fruit

  Rich: rich flavor, may feel a bit heavy in the mouth. Often used to describe wines

  Herbal: bright, fresh and sometimes earthy flavors with hints of herbs

  Honey: sweet or candied flavors that may resemble honey

  Nutty: nutty. Often used to describe cheeses

  Nutritious: rich, dense taste. Often used in relation to products containing cream

  Strong: rich flavor with some earthiness. Suitable for alcoholic beverages: whiskey, wine, aged liqueurs

  Pungent: sharp, bitter or astringent taste. Used to describe sour foods

  Smoky: Taste reminiscent of smoke. Used to describe varieties of tea, whiskey, sauces

  Spicy: pungent taste from hot spices

  Sweet: cloying taste

  Pungent: tart, pungent taste that creates a tingling sensation in the mouth

  Astringent: pungent, bitter or sour taste. Often used to describe acidic foods.

  Yeasty: earthy taste with yeasty undertones. Often used to describe beer or bread

  Woody: earthy, sometimes nutty flavor. Suitable for coffee and cheeses

  Spicy: fresh, colorful or invigorating taste

  Words for texture

  Another criterion for describing dishes is texture. Matching the right texture words to your dishes will help your restaurant guests visualize the tactile sensations of eating.

  Best word for texture:

  Airy: light, soft texture, often created with air

  Oily: soft creamy texture reminiscent of butter

  Sticky: food texture that must be chewed thoroughly before swallowing. May be light and springy or heavy and sticky

  Creamy: soft, thick texture derived from dairy content

  Crunchy: firm texture, often recognizable by a sharp, audible noise when biting

  Crumbly: texture of food with a crumbly structure, falling apart into small pieces or crumbs

  Crusty: texture with a hard layer on the outside and a soft filling inside

  Delicate: light soft texture that instantly loses shape when pressed

  Fluffy soft and thick texture

  Sparkling: texture due to the presence of small bubbles, applied to carbonated drinks

  Puff: light texture, formed in layers that fall apart during eating

  Lush: light and airy texture

  Sticky: viscous, sometimes sticky texture due to the presence of moisture in dense solid food

  delicate texture characterized by the presence of a large amount of liquid

  Silky: fine, soft texture, evoking a sensation with something smooth in the mouth

  Smooth: Homogeneous texture without grains of sand, tubercles and dent

  Fly: Soft, juicy texture

  velvety: Smooth and saturated texture

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  Cooking words

  One of the best ways to colorfully describe a meal on a menu is how it was prepared. Use words to create a picture in the head of the visitor that will give a clear idea of ​​the taste and appearance of the dish.

  The following words will help you:

  Baked: food that has been cooked in the oven, often resulting in a crispy crust

  cold. Soft texture is characteristic

  Stewed: food that is first briefly fried and then slowly simmered in a covered saucepan. The result is a dry, slightly crispy shell with a delicate texture inside

  Breaded: food that is covered with a mixture of breadcrumbs or batter that is baked or fried. More blackened and smoky when cooked

  Caramelized: food cooked slowly until browned and sweeter

  Fermented: combining food with bacteria, yeast, and other micro-organisms to produce organic acids, alcohol, or gas .

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