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Character Description

This document provides a long list of descriptive words that could be used to describe characters' physical appearances, including their physique, skin color, hair color and style, facial features, and voice. It includes words for physique, complexion, hair, facial hair, eyes, lips, teeth, nose, arms, hands, fingernails and voice.

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Character Description

This document provides a long list of descriptive words that could be used to describe characters' physical appearances, including their physique, skin color, hair color and style, facial features, and voice. It includes words for physique, complexion, hair, facial hair, eyes, lips, teeth, nose, arms, hands, fingernails and voice.

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Character description!

Whether describing a character for a story or a report, try using some of these wow
words!

Physique
gangling; gaunt; haggard; lanky; scrawny; skinny; spindly; withered / agile; athletic; lean;
lithe; petite; rangy; reedlike; slender; slight; slim; thin; trim; willowy / barrel-chested;
beefy; big-boned; brawny; buxom; chubby; fat; muscular; well-muscled; voluptuous; stocky

Skin Colour
apricot; black; bronze; brown; caramel; cream; ebony; fair; ivory; lily-white; milky; nut-brown;
olive; red; white; yellow;

Complexion
Appearance - blush; flush; freckled; glowing; jaundiced; mottled; pallid; pale; pasty; rosy;
ruddy; russet; sallow; splotchy;
Texture - acned; cadaverous; craggy; greasy; leathery; peeling; pitted; pocked; scarred;
sunburnt; wrinkled

Hair colour
Black - coal black; jet black; raven; sable; ebony; charcoal; ink-black; sooty;
Dark Brown - brunet/te (male/female - male form rarely used); auburn; chestnut; chestnut
brown; walnut;
Light Brown - ash brown; mousey; chocolate; sandy; tawny; golden brown; nutmeg; nut brown;
cinnamon;
Red - fiery red; ginger; rusty; rust red; redhead; honey red; reddish brown; russet; copper;
burnt sienna;

Blonde- ash blonde; strawberry blonde; platinum blonde; flaxen; honey-coloured; towheaded;
light blonde; yellow-brown; fair-haired; champagne; tawny-gold; golden-haired; yellow-haired;

White - grey; silver; hoary; hoaryhead; snow-white; silver-grey;

Hair style
Afro; beehive; bob; braids; bun; coiffure; corkscrew curls; curls; crew cut; dreadlocks;
French braid; mohawk; page boy; pigtails; pompadour; ponytail; shorn; skinhead; topknot;
wedge / crop; fringe; locks; ringlets; strands; wisps;
Hair condition
disarrayed; disheveled; ill-kempt; knotted; messed up; messy; mussed up; mussy; uncombed;
unkempt; ragged; ruffled; shaggy; tangled; tousled; twisted; untidy; matted / combed;
kempt; neat; neatly combed; thick; thinning; tidy; / greasy; oily / dry; split-ended / flecked;
grizzled; wiry; receding; unshorn
Facial Hair
beard; bristles; five o'clock shadow; fuzz; goatee; moustache; muttonchops; sideburns;
stubble; whiskers

Eye colour
Blue - bright blue; dark blue; light blue; luminous blue; piercing blue; sky blue;
Brown - dark brown; light brown;
Green - emerald; jade; light green; dark green; bright green; sea green;
Grey - light grey; dark grey; deep grey; stone; stone grey; cobalt; slate grey;
Hazel - light hazel;

Lips - blue; cracked; dry; fat; full; luscious; parched; parted; red; ruby; thin; wet

Teeth - buck; crooked; gap-toothed; gappy; gleaming; large; protruding; razor-like; small;
sharp; shining; straight; white; yellow;

Nose - aquiline; beaky; broad; bulbous; button; button-like; curved; eagle-like; hatchet-like;
hooked; prominent; straight; turned up;

Arms - long; thick; skinny; pudgy; strong; muscular

Shoulders - broad; ox-like; sloping; drooping; hunched; rounded;

Hands - elegant; long; long-fingered; rough; stubby; shovel-like; slender; spade-like

Fingernails - bitten; broken; claw-like; dirty; hooked; long; painted; sharp; talon-like;

Voice
bass; bellowing; booming; breathy; cackling; childlike; croaking; crackling; drawling; droning;
falsetto; faltering; feeble; flat; fluting; gravel; guttural; harsh; hoarse; hollow; husky;
hypnotic; lilting; lisping; monotone; nasal; piercing; ponderous; purring; quavering; rasping;
reedy; resonant; robust; sensuous; sharp; shrill; soothing; soporific; spluttering; squawking;
squeaky; sultry; thick; thin; throaty; thunderous; tremulous; velvet; warbling; wheezing;
whining;

Facial
bewildered; disbelieving; disgust; frown; puzzled; nonplussed; scowl; smile;
Visual
blank look; gaze; glance; glaring; glowering; hard stare; piercing; sideways glance; vague;
vacuous; vacant; searching; empty;

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