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Friday, February 11, 2011

Adjective Lists- Expand Your Vocabulary

List of Adjective Words

Below is a short adjective list that can get you started on your way to building an adjective list. These words can be used to describe feelings and appearances of objects and can make it easy to describe yourself, your surroundings, and your favorite things. You can use this list to build your own list, adding words you like and removing words you do not, replacing them with even more descriptive words.  By keeping this list on your desk as you write, you can refer to is and learn to add more descriptive words into your writing. 
  • adorable
  • adventurous
  • aggressive
  • agreeable
  • alert
  • alive
  • amused
  • angry
  • annoyed
  • annoying
  • anxious
  • arrogant
  • ashamed
  • attractive
  • average
  • awful
  • bad
  • beautiful
  • better
  • bewildered
  • black
  • bloody
  • blue
  • blue-eyed
  • blushing
  • bored
  • brainy
  • brave
  • breakable
  • bright
  • busy
  • calm
  • careful
  • cautious
  • charming
  • cheerful
  • clean
  • clear
  • clever
  • cloudy
  • clumsy
  • colorful
  • combative
  • comfortable
  • concerned
  • condemned
  • confused
  • cooperative
  • courageous
  • crazy
  • creepy
  • crowded
  • cruel
  • curious
  • cute
  • dangerous
  • dark
  • dead
  • defeated
  • defiant
  • delightful
  • depressed
  • determined
  • different
  • difficult
  • disgusted
  • distinct
  • disturbed
  • dizzy
  • doubtful
  • drab
  • dull
  • eager
  • easy
  • elated
  • elegant
  • embarrassed
  • enchanting
  • encouraging
  • energetic
  • enthusiastic
  • envious
  • evil
  • excited
  • expensive
  • exuberant
  • fair
  • faithful
  • famous
  • fancy
  • fantastic
  • fierce
  • filthy
  • fine
  • foolish
  • fragile
  • frail
  • frantic
  • friendly
  • frightened
  • funny
  • gentle
  • gifted
  • glamorous
  • gleaming
  • glorious
  • good
  • gorgeous
  • graceful
  • grieving
  • grotesque
  • grumpy
  • handsome
  • happy
  • healthy
  • helpful
  • helpless
  • hilarious
  • homeless
  • homely
  • horrible
  • hungry
  • hurt
  • ill
  • important
  • impossible
  • inexpensive
  • innocent
  • inquisitive
  • itchy
  • jealous
  • jittery
  • jolly
  • joyous
  • kind
  • lazy
  • light
  • lively
  • lonely
  • long
  • lovely
  • lucky
  • magnificent
  • misty
  • modern
  • motionless
  • muddy
  • mushy
  • mysterious
  • nasty
  • naughty
  • nervous
  • nice
  • nutty
  • obedient
  • obnoxious
  • odd
  • old-fashioned
  • open
  • outrageous
  • outstanding
  • panicky
  • perfect
  • plain
  • pleasant
  • poised
  • poor
  • powerful
  • precious
  • prickly
  • proud
  • puzzled
  • quaint
  • real
  • relieved
  • repulsive
  • rich
  • scary
  • selfish
  • shiny
  • shy
  • silly
  • sleepy
  • smiling
  • smoggy
  • sore
  • sparkling
  • splendid
  • spotless
  • stormy
  • strange
  • stupid
  • successful
  • super
  • talented
  • tame
  • tender
  • tense
  • terrible
  • testy
  • thankful
  • thoughtful
  • thoughtless
  • tired
  • tough
  • troubled
  • ugliest
  • ugly
  • uninterested
  • unsightly
  • unusual
  • upset
  • uptight
  • vast
  • victorious
  • vivacious
  • wandering
  • weary
  • wicked
  • wide-eyed
  • wild
  • witty
  • worrisome
  • worried
  • wrong
  • zany
  • zealous
http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammar/adjectives/list-of-adjective-words.html

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