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    This document organizes descriptive adjectives into three categories: simple adjectives which express qualities like feelings, appearance, size; compound adjectives which are formed by combining two words with a hyphen; and proper adjectives which are derived from proper nouns and describe nations, regions, religions. Tables provide examples of common adjectives that fall into each category. The document also discusses the preferred order of multiple adjectives in a sentence and encourages writers to use descriptive adjectives to better explain nouns.

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    An Organized List of Descriptive Adjectives

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    This document organizes descriptive adjectives into three categories: simple adjectives which express qualities like feelings, appearance, size; compound adjectives which are formed by combining two words with a hyphen; and proper adjectives which are derived from proper nouns and describe nations, regions, religions. Tables provide examples of common adjectives that fall into each category. The document also discusses the preferred order of multiple adjectives in a sentence and encourages writers to use descriptive adjectives to better explain nouns.

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    AN ORGANIZED LIST OF

    DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES
    A list of descriptive adjectives can be organized into three categories to
    help writers and speakers better manage this large class of words.

    2. Simple Adjectives

    Simple adjectives, as their name suggests, are the most basic kind of
    descriptive adjectives. They function to express quality.

    Aspects such as feelings, time, sound, quantity, taste, appearance, size,


    age, color, shape, and material are expressed through simple adjectives.
    The following table highlights some common examples:

    aggressive alert alive ancient


    anxious arrow attractive average
    bad beautiful beige better
    big bitter black blue
    brown bumpy busy careful
    cheap chestnut clear cold
    combative cool cotton crazy
    crooked crystal dangerous dead
    delicious dim drab dry
    dull dusty elderly excited
    expensive fancy fat few
    filthy fresh fuzzy giant
    good graceful granite green
    handsome happy hard harsh
    hollow hot huge hungry
    large lazy light long
    low massive mellow melodic
    miniscule modern new noisy
    oak octagonal old orange
    oval petite pink plain
    plastic poor puny purple
    quiet rainy red rich
    right round sad safe
    salty sane scared shallow
    sharp shiny short shrill
    shy skinny small soft
    solid sore sour square
    steep sticky strong superior
    sweet swift tan tart
    teak teeny terrible tiny
    tired tremendous triangular ugly
    unusual weak weary wet
    whispering white wild wooden
    woolen wrong yellow young

    3. COMPOUND ADJECTIVES

    Compound adjectives are created when two words are combined to


    create a descriptive adjective.

    The two words are typically connected with a hyphen. The following table
    provides some common examples of compound adjectives:

    baby-faced bow-legged broken-hearted bull-headed


    candy-stripped four-sided freckle-faced hard-hearted
    hard-nosed heavy-handed high-heeled ice-cold
    left-handed life-giving long-legged long-winded
    next-door pigeon-toed red-blooded self-centered
    short-tempered sure-footed thin-skinned tight-fisted

    4. PROPER ADJECTIVES

    The following table lists a number of descriptive adjectives that are


    derived from proper nouns.

    Nations, regions, and religions are common qualities described by proper


    adjectives. Because they are derived from proper nouns, proper adjectives
    are always capitalized. For example:

    American Antarctic Atlantic Buddhist


    Californian Canadian Chinese Christian
    Cuban Ecuadorian English French
    German Greek Hindu Indonesian
    Italian Mayan Mexican Pacific
    Peruvian Roman Romanian Satanic
    Spanish Turkish Victorian Welsh

    5. Putting Adjectives in Order


    When using multiple descriptive adjectives in a sentence, there is an order
    in which they should be arranged. Adjectives that describe opinion
    typically precede adjectives that describe color, size, shape, etc. For
    example, the sentence "The ugly, red chair sat in the corner," is preferable
    to "The red, ugly chair sat in the corner."

    In addition, adjectives are usually arranged in a sentence from those that


    are more general in scope to those that are more specific. For example,
    "The big, Egyptian mask hung on the wall," is preferable to "The Egyptian,
    big mask hung on the wall," and "The blue, silken curtains are perfect in
    the bedroom," is preferable to "The silken, blue curtains are perfect in the
    bedroom."

    6. Using Adjectives
    Writers and speakers can refer to a list of descriptive adjectives for ideas
    on how to better explain the action, state, or quality that a noun in a
    sentence refers to. Understanding that there are three main types of
    descriptive adjectives can provide further insight on how these important
    words can be used.

    With a good descriptive adjective resource and a little creativity, you can
    begin to add more personality to your writing. Speaking of which, enjoy
    this article: Examples of Personality Adjectives. It might help bring your
    characters to life!

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