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What Are Adjectives?

Adjectives are words that describe or modify nouns and pronouns. There are 15 major categories of adjectives including color, size, shape, feelings, qualities and appearance, condition, quantity, weather and temperature, time, nationality and origin, material, age, purpose, taste/touch, and sound. Some examples of adjectives in each category are provided such as blue, big, round for feelings, good, beautiful; important, alive, easy; one, numerous; cold, sunny; late, old; American, woolen; old, youthful; sleeping, boiling.

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What Are Adjectives?

Adjectives are words that describe or modify nouns and pronouns. There are 15 major categories of adjectives including color, size, shape, feelings, qualities and appearance, condition, quantity, weather and temperature, time, nationality and origin, material, age, purpose, taste/touch, and sound. Some examples of adjectives in each category are provided such as blue, big, round for feelings, good, beautiful; important, alive, easy; one, numerous; cold, sunny; late, old; American, woolen; old, youthful; sleeping, boiling.

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Adjectives

What are adjectives?


An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words. An
adjective often precedes the noun or the pronoun which it modifies.
'Big', 'boring', 'purple', 'quick' and 'obvious' are all adjectives

Categories of adjectives
The following are the fifteen major categories of meaning that are expressed with English
adjectives. A few exemples are listed for each category, but there are several more possibilities.
COLOR:
blue, red, green, brown, yellow, black, white, purple, pink, etc...
SIZE:
big, huge, immense, enormous, mammoth, massive, vast, large, wide, spacious, small, little, tiny,
high, long, tall, low , short, same as, gigantic, teeny (weeny), petite, scrawny, etc...
SHAPE:
round (a ball), circle (a door knob), triangular, rectangular (a flag), square (a cake), oval (an egg),
broad, curved, flat, etc...
FEELINGS:
happy, gald, beatific, blissful, cheerful, chirpy, content, pleased, satisfied, delighted, ecstatic ,
exalted, elated, sad, bereft, blue, broken, broken-hearted, broody, bruised, broody, careworn,
deflated, dark, demoralised, depressed, desolate, despondent, disaffected, disappointed,
disconsolate, discouraged, dismal, disillusioned, disheartened, dismayed, displeased, dissatisfied,
distressed, distraught, doleful, down, downcast,downhearted, forlorn, tender, angry, excited,
envious, embarassed, frightened, etc...
QUALITIES AND APPEARANCE:
good,excellent, brilliant ,splendid, fantastic, magnificent, bad, terrible, awsome, awful, nice,
beautiful, pretty,gorgeous, cute, glamorous,
elegant, good-looking, handsome, ugly, unsightly, right, wrong, funny, amusing, entertaining,
light, heavy, fat, stout, thin, slim, clean, dirty, filthy, straight, noisy, quiet, still, tranquil, calm,
powerful, nutritious, adorable, adventurous, aggressive, alert, attractive, bloody, blushing,
colorful, exciting, graceful, grotesque, drab, dull, homely, plain, precious, sparkling, fragile,
frail, weak, strong, doubtful, bewildred, confused, puzzled, cautious, careful, concerned,

innocent, guilty, crazy, silly, stupid, foolish, clumsy, intelligent, clever, cunning, shy, timid, rich,
poor, wild, defiant, courageous, brave, helpful, helpless, unhelpful, etc...
CONDITION:
important, principal, paramount, famous, notorious, fictitious, real, true, false, imaginary, alive,
dead, odd, weird, unsusual, strange, outsanding, impossible, improbable,easy, difficult, closed,
open, etc...
QUANTITY:
one, two, three, ... first, second, third, ... abundant, empty,heavy, light, numerous, substantial,
significant, insignificant etc...
WEATHER AND TEMPERATURE:
cold, warm, hot, cool, rainy, windy snowy,foggy, sunny, cloudy, stormy, frozen, etc...
TIME:
late, early, punctual, behindhand, delayed, ill-timed, premature, tardy, unearthly, modern,
traditional, old-fashioned, young, old, new, slow, swift,quick, rapid, brief, short, long, etc...
NATIONALITY AND ORIGIN:
American, Mexican, Moroccan,, African, Martian, etc...
MATERIAL:
wooden, woolen, cottony, fibrous, metallic, bronze, etc...
AGE:
old, ancient, aged, senile, elderly, ageless, oldish, overage, young, juvenile, adolescent, teenage,
underage, youthful, etc...
PURPOSE:
(These adjectives usually end in /ing/) sleeping bag, frying pan, swinging door, time-saving
gadget, driving licence, etc...
Taste/Touch:
bitter, delicious, fresh, juicy, ripe, rotten, salty, sour, spicy, stale, sticky, sweet, tart, tasteless,
tasty, thirsty, fluttering, fuzzy,greasy, grubby, hard, hot, icy, loose, melted, plastic, prickly,
rough, scattered, shaggy, shaky, sharp, shivering, silky, slimy, slippery, smooth, soft, solid,
steady, sticky, tight, uneven, weak, wet, wooden, yummy, boiling, etc...
SOUND:

cooing, deafening, faint, harsh, high-pitched, hissing, hushed, husky, loud, melodic, moaning,
mute, noisy, purring, quiet, raspy, resonant, screeching, shrill, silent, soft, squealing, thundering,
voiceless, whispering, etc...

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