Adjectives to Describe People Personalities and Character More than 500 adjectives that describe people, personality and character will breathe life into your characters when writing and create clear visuals when speaking.
A Able Abnormal Above Average Absent-Minded Achiever Active Adaptable Adventurous Affectionate Agile Agreeable Alert Amazing Ambitious Amiable Amusing Analytical Angelic Apathetic Apprehensive Ardent Arrogant Artificial Artistic Assertive Attentive Average Awesome Awful
B Balanced Beautiful BelowAverage Beneficent Blue Blunt Boisterous Brave Bright Brilliant Broad-Minded Buff
C Callous Candid Cantankerous Capable Careful Careless Caustic Cautious Challenge-Oriented Charming Cheerful Chic Childish Childlike Churlish Circumspect Civil Clean Clever Clumsy Coherent Cold Competent Composed Conceited Condescending Confident Confused Conscientious Considerate Constructive Content Cool Cool-Headed Cooperative Cordial Courageous Courageous Cowardly Crabby Crafty Cranky Crass Creative Critical Cruel Curious Cynical
D Dainty Decisive Dedicated Deep Deferential Deft Delicate Delightful Demanding Demonic Demure Dependable Dependent Depressed Determined Devoted Dexterous Diligent Diplomatic Direct Dirty Disagreeable Discerning Disciplined Discreet Disruptive Distant Distraught Distrustful Dowdy Dramatic Dreary Drowsy Drugged Drunk Dull Dutiful Dynamic
E Eager Earnest Easy-Going Eccentric Economical Effective Efficient Egotistical Elfin Emotional Endurance Energetic Enterprising Enthusiastic Evasive Even-Tempered Exacting Excellent Excitable Experienced Exuberant
F Fabulous Far-Sighted FastLearner Fastidious Ferocious Fervent Fiery Firm Firmly Flabby Flaky Flashy Flexible Forgiving Frank Friendly Funny Fussy
G Generous Gentle Gloomy Glutinous Good Good-Natured Grave Great Groggy Grouchy Guarded
H Hateful Healthy Hearty Helpful Hesitant Honest Hopeful Hot-Headed Humble Humorous Hypercritical Hysterical
I Idiotic Idle Illogical Imaginative Immature Immodest Impatient Imperturbable Impetuous Impractical Impressionable Impressive Impulsive Inactive Incisive Incompetent Inconsiderate Inconsistent Indefatigable Independent Indiscreet Individualistic Indolent Industrious Inexperienced Insensitive Insightful Inspiring Intelligent Interesting Intolerant Inventive Irascible Irritable Irritating
J Jocular Jovial Joyous Judgmental
K Keen Kind
L Lame Lazy Lean Leery Lethargic Level-Headed Likable Listless Lithe Lively Local Logical Long-Winded Lovable Lovelorn Lovely Loyal
M Maternal Mature Mean Meddlesome Mercurial Methodical Meticulous Mild Miserable Modest Moronic Morose Motivated Musical
N Naive Nasty Natural Naughty Negative Nervous Noisy Normal Nosy Numb
O Obliging Obnoxious Old-Fashioned One-Sided Open-Minded Optimistic Orderly Organized Original Ostentatious Outgoing Outspoken
P Passionate Passive Paternal Paternalistic Patient Peaceful Peevish Pensive Perceptive Persevering Persnickety Personable Petulant Picky Plain Plain-Speaking Playful Pleasant Plucky Poised Polite Popular Positive Powerful Practical Precise Prejudiced Pressure Pretty ProblemSolver Productive Proficient Progressive Proud Provocative Prudent Punctual Purposeful
Q Quarrelsome Querulous Quick Quick-Tempered Quick-Witted Quiet
R Realistic Reassuring Reclusive Reliable Reluctant Resentful Reserved Resigned Resourceful Respected Respectful Responsible Restless Revered Ridiculous Risk-Taker
S Sad Sassy Saucy Sedate Self-Assured Self-Confident Selfish Selfless Self-Reliant Self-Starter Sensible Sensitive Sentimental Serene Serious Serious Sharp Short-Tempered Shrewd Shy Silly Sincere Skilled Sleepy Slight Sloppy Slothful Slovenly Slow Smart Snazzy Sneering Snobby Sober Sociable Somber Sophisticated Soulful Soulless Sour Spirited Spiteful Spontaneous Stable Staid Steady Stern Stoic Striking Strong Strong-Willed Stupid Sturdy Subtle Successful Sulky Sullen Supercilious Superficial Surly Suspicious Sweet Systematic
T Tactful Tactless Talented TeamMember Tenacious Testy Thinking Thorough Thoughtful Thoughtless Timid Tired Tolerant Touchy Tranquil Trusting Trustworthy
U Ugly Unaffected Unbalanced Uncertain Unconventional Uncooperative Undependable Understanding Unemotional Unfriendly Unguarded Unhelpful Unimaginative Unmotivated Unpleasant Unpopular Unreliable Unsophisticated Unstable Unsure Unthinking Unwilling
V Venal Verbal Versatile Vigilant Visionary Volcanic Vulnerable
W Warm Warmhearted Wary Watchful Weak Well-Behaved Well-Developed Well-Intentioned Well-Respected Well-Rounded Willing Wise Witty Wonderful
Z Zany Zealous
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