The following List of Adjectives are in common use in the English language:

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afraid defeated gorgeous mammoth repulsive successful
agreeable defiant greasy many resonant sweet
amused delicious great massive ripe swift
ancient delightful green melodic roasted tall
angry depressed grieving melted robust tame
annoyed determined grubby mighty rotten tan
anxious dirty grumpy miniature rough tart
arrogant disgusted handsome moaning round tasteless
ashamed disturbed happy modern sad tasty
average dizzy hard mute salty tender
awful dry harsh mysterious scary tense
bad dull healthy narrow scattered terrible
beautiful dusty heavy nasty scrawny testy
better eager helpful naughty screeching thirsty
big early helpless nervous selfish thoughtful
bitter elated high new shaggy thoughtless
black embarrassed hilarious nice shaky thundering
blue empty hissing noisy shallow tight
boiling encouraging hollow numerous sharp tiny
brave energetic homeless nutty shivering tired
breezy enthusiastic horrible obedient short tough
brief envious hot obnoxious shrill tricky
bright evil huge odd silent troubled
broad excited hungry old silky ugliest
broken exuberant hurt orange silly ugly
bumpy faint hushed ordinary skinny uneven
calm fair husky outrageous slimy upset
charming faithful icy panicky slippery uptight
cheerful fantastic ill perfect slow vast
chilly fast immense petite small victorious
clumsy fat itchy plastic smiling vivacious
cold few jealous pleasant smooth voiceless
colossal fierce jittery precious soft wasteful
combative filthy jolly pretty solid watery
comfortable fine juicy prickly sore weak
confused flaky kind proud sour weary
cooing flat large puny spicy wet
cool fluffy late purple splendid whispering
cooperative foolish lazy purring spotty wicked
courageous frail light quaint square wide
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creepy fresh lively quickest stale witty
cruel friendly lonely quiet steady wonderful
cuddly frightened long rainy steep wooden
curly funny loose rapid sticky worried
curved fuzzy loud rare stingy yellow
damp gentle lovely raspy straight young
dangerous giant low ratty strange yummy
deafening gigantic lucky red striped zany
deep good magnificent relieved strong S-Z
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Adjectives can add that extra something to your writing. They are used to describe
nouns and pronouns so you can use them to bring your writing to life. This can be
especially helpful if youre writing a descriptive essay or some kind of creative
writing. Use adjectives to write a story for children. If you need to refresh
yourself on how to use adjectives, check out this list of kinds of adjectives.

Articles
These adjectives indicate the reference made by the noun. They are a, an, the,
some, and no. Some and no are also considered quantity adjectives, which will be
discussed later. Here are examples of these kinds of adjectives used in a sentence:

A dog ran after the ball.

The cat is tired.
An apple comes in many different colors.
 Some cats have stripes.
No dogs have ever lived here.

Quality and Opinion Adjectives

These kinds of adjectives are adjectives that can describe the characteristics of a
noun. They answer the question what kind. Some good examples of quality
adjectives include colors and sizes. Here are some other quality adjectives:
beautiful, sweet, large, good, strong, big. Here are some of these adjectives used in
sentences:

This piece of candy is sweet.

My husband is handsome.
My daughter is good, most of the time.
The cat is hungry.
This shirt is purple.

If you ever wonder if youre using a quality adjective, just ask yourself if you are
trying to answer the question, What kind? Use these adjectives when
writing your novel in a novel writing workshop.

Possessive Adjectives
These adjectives show who owns or possesses the noun. Some of these adjectives
are also used as pronouns so they tend to get confused. Here are some common
possessive adjectives: mine, theirs, his, hers, yours. The sentences below are
examples of using possessive adjectives in a sentence:

My dog has a yellow ball.

The students did their homework.
Natalie cleaned her car.
I have her book.
Is this your sweater?

Quantity Adjectives
These kinds of adjectives are used to give an approximate amount or an amount
relative to the whole amount. They are not exact numbers. Some of the terms
include all, some, half, few, most, little, no, and enough. Here are some examples of
these adjectives used in sentences:

Maria had many oranges growing on her tree in the backyard.

Adelie ate some of her rice.
Jessica had none of the pudding.
Edgar ate the whole bag of chips.
Hugo drank half of the soda.

These kinds of adjectives are great to use when the exact number is not necessary.
No one wants to count out how many grains of rice Adelie ate, and no one would be
sitting around with a measuring cup saying she ate half a cup of a whole cup
serving. You can use these types of adjectives when writing on your blog
too by taking a blog writing workshop.

Distributive Adjectives
These adjectives are used to refer to members of a group individually. It can be
people or objects. These adjectives are each, every, either, and neither. Here are
some sentences using distributive adjectives:

Each book in the series starts with the same word.

Every computer comes with a power cable.
I need to find out if either book is age-appropriate.
Neither my daughter nor I could find her shoes.
I need each item on this list.

Number Adjectives
There are times when an exact number may be what you need to describe a noun,
and you can do that by using the ordinal or cardinal value. Ordinals are the word
values to replace the numbers like one, two, three, twenty, and so on. Cardinals are
words like first, second, fifth, and so on. It will be up to you and what youre
writing to decide which one you need. Here are some example sentences of both:

Erika got the first slice of cake.

Karen had five apples.
My cat Spider had four kittens.
 Im going to buy one cucumber.
I was fifth in line today.

While these adjectives are used less often, they are still useful when writing. You
can use these adjectives and the others when writing young adult fiction
in a writing workshop.

Demonstrative Adjectives
These kinds of adjectives are used to point out a particular noun. These adjectives
are that, this, these, and those. Here are some examples of these particular
adjectives in use:

I like this soda.

That plate is mine.
Those shoes look fabulous.
These cookies taste amazing.
This TV has great reception.

Interrogative Adjectives
These adjectives ask questions about the nouns or relating to the nouns in the
sentence. They are where, what, which, and whose. Here is an example of these
used in sentences:

Where is Edgar going?

What did she say?
Which pair of shoes do you want?
Whose bag is this?
What color was the car?

Now that we know the different kinds of adjectives, it would be good to know the
rules about the order of placing certain adjectives.

The Rules of Ordering Adjectives

When writing a sentence using a number of different adjectives, its important to
know which ones you should have first in the sentence. You should know that you
can easily use just one adjective to have a complete sentence like saying She has
children. However, if you want to go into further detail about her children, you
should know in what order to use the adjectives. Here are the rules.

Determiners

The first adjective in your sentence should be an article, demonstrative, possessive,

quantifier, numerical, or distributive adjective. Here is an example sentence using
a numerical adjective first in the sentence.

She has two good children.

Now, to give you an example as to why its important that the numerical adjective
come first, the sentence will be rewritten with the quality adjective written first.

She has good two children.

As you can see, writing the quality adjective before the numerical adjective doesnt
make any grammatical sense. Lets hold onto the first example sentence used here
to move on through the rules of order.

Quantity, Number, and Opinion

Its important to note that if use an article, demonstrative, possessive, quantifier,

or distributive adjective first in your sentence, the numerical adjective should
follow after that and not before. However, if a numerical adjective is your first
adjective, you should follow it with an opinion or quality adjective. As an example,
well use the first sentence from the example above:

She has two good children.

In this sentence, good would be the quality or opinion adjective. It follows after
the numerical adjective from above.

Size
Once you have your numerical adjective, article, or other first adjective followed by
your opinion adjective, you can follow it by using an adjective to describe the size of
the noun.

She has two good little children.

Age

When describing something, age can make a big difference. For the example
sentence above, the word little does give some image of the childrens age.
Because of this, actually including their age would require a separate sentence, a
change of the noun used, or a descriptive phrase. Here are a few examples of how
to include age for the example sentence:

She has two good little toddlers.

She has two good little children. They are five and seven.

She has two good little school-age children.

How you add the age depends on what your assignment is. If youre writing an
essay or some other form of non-fiction, you might consider just changing the noun
to reflect their age or using the last example with school-age. However, using
school-age can also leave the reader with a confusing image as school-age can be
anywhere from five years old to as old as eighteen before college level. When
writing creatively, adding a second sentence like the second example may be
exactly what youre looking for.

Shape

When discussing shape, you would use the regular shapes for objects like square,
triangle, and the like. If your noun is a person, you would describe their
appearance. For this example, lets change the example so we can actually use a
shape:
That is one squishy little old oval ball.

You can see that with certain nouns, the sentence would start to get rather long.
Again, this is only as an example as many of these details would be unnecessary
unless writing creatively, and with writing creatively, you would likely separate
some of these details into separate sentences.

Color

After adding the shape, you can add the color adjective. Here is the example from
above again:

That is one squishy little old oval blue ball.

As stated before, your sentence will only get longer, and when writing creatively,
you should consider separating some of these details into separate sentences. If you
were using the above sentence, you might consider separating it like this:

The small, squishy ball was old. Its shape, once round, now appeared to be more of
an oval, and the blue color had faded in some areas.

Origin

When using adjectives to describe the origin, youll want to consider whether youre
trying to describe what heritage the item is from or the location it was purchased
from. The same can be said when describing people as well you can use it to
describe their heritage or simply where they are from. Using their heritage can also
be considered part of the shape adjective as it could describe their appearance.
Here are two examples using the same ball sentence from before:

That is one squishy little old oval blue French ball.

That is one squishy little old oval blue ball from the South.
As you can see, the first describes the heritage and likely where the item was made.
The second sentence is more vague and is likely just where the ball was purchased.

Material

Like shape and origin, this particular part of adding adjectives to a sentence would
depend on whether youre talking about an object or a person. When talking about
an object, you would simply describe what the item is made of wood, plastic,
rubber, etc. When talking about a person, you would describe their behavior.
Heres an example of each:

That is one squishy little rubber ball.

She has two good little energetic children.

Grammatical Modifier

There are times when nouns or other forms of speech can be used to modify nouns.
These are a special kind of adjectives known as grammatical modifiers. These kinds
of adjectives are the last to be added to a sentence. Some examples of these include
the phrase royal treatment and the item hot fudge. Heres an example of a
grammatical modifier in a sentence:

She had a little pink wooden doll house.

The word house would be the noun, and doll would be the grammatical
modifier because in this sentence, it is not a human-sized house being described
but a house for dolls.

Final Words
Whenever youre describing something, its important to keep your assignment in
mind. If youre writing an essay or some other non-fiction, you should consider
keeping the detail as minimal as possible unless important. If youre writing
creatively, youre going to want to paint a picture as best as you can, but youre
going to want to describe only the most important things. Describing every detail of
every item in your story is not only going to be time-consuming, but it would be
very boring for your reader.

What is an Adjective and its Functions?

An adjective is a part of speech which describes, identifies, or quantifies a noun or a pronoun. So
basically, the main function of an adjective is to modify a noun or a pronoun so that it will become
more specific and interesting. Instead of just one word, a group of words with a subject and
a verb, can also function as an adjective. When this happens, the group of words is called
an adjective clause.
For example:

For example: My brother, who is much older than I am, is an astronaut.

In the example above, the underlined clause modifies the noun brother. But what if the group of
words doesnt have a subject and a verb? What do you think the resulting group of words will be
called?

If you think its called an adjective phrase, you are right. As you might recall, phrases and clauses
are both groups of words and the main difference is that clauses have subjects and verbs, while
phrases dont.
For example: She is prettier than you.
What are the Different Kinds of Adjectives?

Now that you already know the answer to the question, What is an adjective? you should know that
not all adjectives are the same. They modify nouns and pronouns differently, and just like the other
parts of speech, there are different kinds of adjectives. These are:
1. Descriptive Adjectives
Among the different kinds of adjectives, descriptive adjectives are probably the most common ones.
They simply say something about the quality or the kind of the noun or pronoun theyre referring to.

Examples:
 Erika is witty.
She is tired.
Adrians reflexes are amazing.
2. Adjectives of Number or Adjectives of Quantity
As the name suggests, this kind of adjective answers the question, How many? or How much?

Examples:
Twenty-one students failed the exam.
The plants need more water.
3. Demonstrative Adjectives
Demonstrative adjectives point out pronouns and nouns, and always come before the words they
are referring to.

Examples:
I used to buy this kind of shirts.
When the old man tripped over that wire, he dropped a whole bag of groceries.
4. Possessive Adjectives
Obviously, this kind of adjectives shows ownership or possession. Aside from that, possessive
adjectives always come before the noun.

Examples:
I cant answer my seatwork because I dont have a calculator.
Trisha sold his dog.
5. Interrogative Adjectives
Interrogative adjectives ask questions and are always followed by a noun.

Examples:
What movie are you watching?
Which plants should be placed over here?
What are the Degrees of Adjectives?
There are only three degrees or levels of adjectives (also known as degrees of comparison)
namely, positive,comparative, and superlative. When you talk about or describe only a single
person, place, or thing, you should use the positive degree.
Examples:

She is a beautiful lady.

It was a memorable trip.
If on the other hand, you are comparing two persons, places, or things, it is appropriate to use the
comparative degree of the word. Normally, you will need to add -er to transform the word into its
comparative form or add the word more. Also, the word than should be added after the adjective
in the comparative degree.
Examples:

This swimming pool is bigger than that one.

Ashley is more intelligent than Aldrin.
*Note: For words ending in y, you should first change the y into i, and then add -er (e.g.,
lovely-lovelier; pretty- prettier; tasty- tastier)
Lastly, if you are comparing more than two things, the superlative form of the adjectives should be
used and the word the should be added before the adjective. In order to transform the adjective
into its superlative form, you just have to add the suffix -est or the word most.
Examples:

That is by far, the tallest tree I have ever seen in my entire life.
This is the most crucial match of the season.
*Note: For words ending in y, you should first change the y into i, and then add -est (e.g.,
lovely-loveliest; pretty- prettiest; tasty- tastiest)
Final Thoughts
This article entitled Basic Grammar: What is an Adjective? can be very helpful for beginners who
want to improve their grammar skills and ace the English subject. If you really have a deep
understanding of what is an adjective, you will surely be able to apply this concept to your
compositions properly. Just remember that although adjectives seem a little trivial, an effective use
of this part of speech can actually strengthen your writing.