List of Adjectives

List of Adjectives
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What is an Adjectives? Adjectives are, quite simply, descriptive words. An adjective is a word which qualifies a noun, that is,
shows or points out some distinguishing mark or feature of the noun. Glancing at the following list of common English adjectives
clarifies the meaning and function of adjectives.

 List of Descriptive Adjectives

Descriptive adjectives can be divided into different categories such as colors, sizes, sound, taste, touch, shapes, qualities, time,
personality and ages. The following lists provide a few examples of descriptive adjectives in each of their categories:
 

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Colors are adjectives - list: black, blue, white, green, red

Sizes - list: big, small, large, thin, thick

Shapes- list: triangular, round, square, circular

Qualities- list: good, bad, mediocre

Personality - list: happy, sad, angry, depressed

Time - list: Yearly , monthly, annually

Ages - list: new, young, old, brand-new, second-hand

Sound related Adjectives - list: loud, noisy, quiet, silent

Touch related Adjectives - list: slippery, sticky

Taste related Adjectives - list: juicy, sweet

The following list of common English adjectives can be further sorted into such categories for ease of use

List of Adjectives
The following List of Adjectives are in common use in the English language:

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afraid defeated gorgeous mammoth repulsive successful
 agreeable  defiant  greasy  many  resonant  sweet
 amused  delicious  great  massive  ripe  swift
 ancient  delightful  green  melodic  roasted  tall
 angry  depressed  grieving  melted  robust  tame
 annoyed  determined  grubby  mighty  rotten  tan
 anxious  dirty  grumpy  miniature  rough  tart
 arrogant  disgusted  handsome  moaning  round  tasteless
 ashamed  disturbed  happy  modern  sad  tasty
 average  dizzy  hard  mute  salty  tender
 awful  dry  harsh  mysterious  scary  tender
 bad  dull  healthy  narrow  scattered  tense
 beautiful  dusty  heavy  nasty  scrawny  terrible
 better  eager  helpful  naughty  screeching  testy
 big  early  helpless  nervous  selfish  thirsty
 bitter  elated  high  new  shaggy  thoughtful
 black  embarrassed  hilarious  nice  shaky  thoughtless
 blue  empty  hissing  nosy  shallow  thundering
 boiling  encouraging  hollow  numerous  sharp  tight
 brave  energetic  homeless  nutty  shivering  tiny
 breezy  enthusiastic  horrible  obedient  short  tired
 brief  envious  hot  obnoxious  shrill  tough
 bright  evil  huge  odd  silent  tricky
 broad  excited  hungry  old  silky  troubled
 broken  exuberant  hurt  orange  silly  ugliest
 bumpy  faint  hushed  ordinary  skinny  ugly
 calm  fair  husky  outrageous  slimy  uneven
 charming  faithful  icy  panicky  slippery  upset
 cheerful  fantastic  ill  perfect  slow  uptight
 chilly  fast  immense  petite  small  vast
 clumsy  fat  itchy  plastic  smiling  victorious
 cold  few  jealous  pleasant  smooth  vivacious
 colossal  fierce  jittery  precious  soft  voiceless
 combative  filthy  jolly  pretty  solid  wasteful
 comfortable  fine  juicy  prickly  sore  watery
 confused  flaky  kind  proud  sour  weak
 cooing  flat  large  puny  spicy  weary
 cool  fluffy  late  purple  splendid  wet
 cooperative  foolish  lazy  purring  spotty  whispering
 courageous  frail  light  quaint  square  wicked
 crazy  frantic  little  quick  squealing  wide
 creepy  fresh  lively  quickest  stale  wide-eyed
 cruel  friendly  lonely  quiet  steady  witty
 cuddly  frightened  long  rainy  steep  wonderful
 curly  funny  loose  rapid  sticky  wooden
 curved  fuzzy  loud  rare  stingy  worried
 damp  gentle  lovely  raspy  straight  yellow
 dangerous  giant  low  ratty  strange  young
 deafening  gigantic  lucky  red  striped  yummy
 deep  good  magnificent  relieved  strong  zany
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We hope the above information and words contained in the list of common English adjectives will be of some assistance.

 List of Adjectives
Types of Adjectives - Positive, Comparative and
Superlative

Examples of Positive, Comparative and Superlative

Adjectives

Adjectives and English Grammar

Descriptive Adjectives

List of English Descriptive Adjectives - colors, sizes,

sound, taste, touch, shapes, qualities, time,
personality and ages

Types of English Adjectives - Positive, Comparative

and Superlative

Descriptive

Definition, and Examples of Adjectives

English Descriptive Adjectives List - colors, sizes,

sound, taste, touch, shapes, qualities, time,
personality and ages

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List of Adjectives
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