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Adjective Types

The document lists and describes different types of adjectives used to modify nouns. It provides examples of adjectives relating to color, size, shape, feelings, qualities and appearance, condition, quantity, weather and temperature, time, nationality and origin, material, age, purpose, taste, sound and more. The adjectives give descriptive details about attributes such as visual characteristics, measurements, emotions, states of being, and other properties.

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Adjective Types

The document lists and describes different types of adjectives used to modify nouns. It provides examples of adjectives relating to color, size, shape, feelings, qualities and appearance, condition, quantity, weather and temperature, time, nationality and origin, material, age, purpose, taste, sound and more. The adjectives give descriptive details about attributes such as visual characteristics, measurements, emotions, states of being, and other properties.

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Adjective types

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...

EATHER AND TE!PERATURE:


cold, warm, hot, cool, rainy, windy snowy,foggy, sunny, cloudy, stormy, frozen, etc...

TI!E:
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:


merican, !exican, !oroccan,, frican, !artian, etc...

!ATERIAL:
wooden, woolen, cottony, fibrous, metallic, bronze, etc...

AGE:
old, ancient, aged, senile, elderly, ageless, oldish, overage, young, "uvenile, adolescent, teenage, underage, youthful, etc...

PURPOSE:
(#hese ad"ectives usually end in $ing$) sleeping bag, frying pan, swinging door, timesaving gadget, driving licence, etc...

T"ste#T$%c&:
bitter, delicious, fresh, "uicy, 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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