Personality Adjectives - 'What like?'

Personality Adjectives - 'What like?'Be + adjective + noun'How would you describe her personality?'When we ask'What is she like?', we are asking about herpersonality/character. 'She is tall' isnota good answer to this question because 'tall' is used to describe appearance.Just to stop any confusion, take a look at these three questions which look similar, but have very different meanings:What is she like?This question asks about personality and can be answered with:'She is outgoing and talkative.What does she look like?This questions asks about appearance and can be answered:'She is short, slim and she has big brown eyes.What does she like?This question asks about her tastes, likes and interests. It can be answered:'She likes talking, reading and eating cheese.'Now let's get back to the original question, 'What is she like?' Here is an A-Z of adjectives we can use to answer this question:A- Active: she likes to play sport or do physical things.B-Bright: she is intelligent.C- Cunning: she uses her intelligence secretly/mysteriously to get what she wants.D- Diligent: she is hardworking.E- Extroverted: she is very outgoing. She likes to be the centre of attention.F- Funny: she makes people laugh.G-Generous: she likes to give to help others.H- Honest: she tells the truth.I- Imaginative: she has a good imagination.J- Jealous: (negative) she wants what other people have. She doesnt like others to succeed

K-Kind: nice, gentle and helpfulL-Lazy: (negative) she doesnt like to work or exercise. Shes happy doing nothing.M- Moody: (negative) she often becomes angry and unfriendly because she is unhappy.N- Naughty:(negative):usually for children) her behaviour is bad.O- Optimistic: she is a positive person and positive about the future.P- Pessimistic: she is a negative person. She thinks things will end badly. The opposite of optimistic.Q- Quiet: she doesnt say much. She prefers to listen.

R- Rude:(negative)she is not polite and she offends people.S- Sensible: she has good common sense and judgment.T- Thoughtful: she carefully thinks about other people and how to help them.U- Upbeat: she is positive and in a good mood.V- Violent:(negative)she will hurt you. She is aggressiveso be careful!W-Wonderful: she is great!X- Xenophobic: she dislikes people from foreign countries. She is racist.Y-Youthful: she is young at heart.Z-Zany: she is a little crazy, but in a fun way.Examples of Personality Adjectives

Describing EnemiesSometimes describing your enemies with intelligence and wit is difficult. The times that negative feelings demand description aren't usually conducive to accurate use of vocabulary. Keep these few personality adjectives in mind the next time you have to appear calm and collected when dealing with a difficult person. You might get the upper linguistic hand.

Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol pinches every penny. That component of his personality, more than any other, has demonized for generations of readers. People like Scrooge are calledparsimonious.Parsimoniouspeople are stingy of every petty thing, they horde and refuse to share despite being the position to do so. Example: John just bought a Bentley but refused to loan me a dollar,parsimoniousjerk!Nonchalant: Someone who isnonchalantis unconcerned or too cool to care. Describing someone asnonchalantis saying that he lacks all the warmth and enthusiasm normally attributed to a member of the human race.Example:John doesn't know how many homes he has; no wonder he'snonchalantabout poverty.

Obtuse:Obtusepeople are those who are dull, negligent, or just bored with life. They bore you because they themselves are so bored. They are annoyingly slow to understand even the simplest of ideas.Example:Chad writes poetry that puts you to sleep; hisobtuseview of life tires even the mostardentlovers of verse.Abecedarian: It might not always be grounds for enemy making, but calling someone abecedarian is certainly useful. Someone who isabecedarianis elementary, a beginner. Temporarily, everyone can be described asabecedarian, e.g., in a new job, but not perpetually. Literally, it means someone who is learning his or her A, B, C's.Example:Sarah is unfit to lead; though charming, she's inexperienced andabecedarian.The underlined words in the sample sentences below can be classified as personality adjectives.I was surprised to know that Carrie is actually apolitechild.The people in our neighborhood are allfriendly.He was such anirresponsiblestudent!Despite of his achievements, Nico stays ahumbleperson.As a child, she was verycuriousandobservant.Celina is amoodyself-consciousteenager.Dario is soselfishandegotistical! I hate him!My neighbor is agrouchyman.The lady next door is sogenerous. She always gives me homemade cookies.I think Walter is tooself-confidentandarrogant.

What look like?Order Of AdjectivesThe ORDER of adjectives is quite important in English. There is an order of adjectives that native speakers of English normally follow. The list below shows how the order of adjectives is usually presented; however, there are exceptions and different combinations depending on the situation.OPINIONAPPEARANCEAGECOLORORIGINMATERIALgoodbadbeautifuluglysmartdumbusually follows this order:size/measurebigsmallhighlowshaperoundcircularsquareconditionbrokencrackedrippedfreshrottennewantiqueoldyoungtwo-year-old*redpurplepinkdark greennavy blueKoreanChineseFrenchItalianAmericanironbrasscottongoldwoodenvegetable*Adjectives are never plural. Therefore, when the adjective contains a number and noun, the noun associated with the number is singular.This is a three-year-old car.CORRECTThis is a three-years-old car.INCORRECTUsing the above list, we can put all four adjectives together to get the following sentence:

I want to buy a beautiful, new, blue, European car.

Adding adjectives is very important if you want to make your writing more interesting. It helps the reader/listener form a picture in his/her mind.For example, which of these two sentences is more descriptive and interesting? Which draws a picture in the reader's mind?

I want to buy a car. -OR- I want to buy a beautiful, new, blue, European car.

Of course the second sentence is more descriptive and interesting.Adjectives usually come in this order:12345678GeneralopinionSpecificopinionSizeShapeAgeColourNationalityMaterial

Examples:Question: What look like?What do you look like?What does he/she look like?What do they/we look like?

Sentences: Anicehandsomeyoungman; Abigblackamericancar; Thathorriblebigfiercedog

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/english-grammar/adjectives/order-adjectives#sthash.FJeMTBKo.dpufQuiz:Directions: Look at the following sentences and adjectives. Rewrite the sentences using the adjectives inblue. Be sure to write them in the correct order.

Aunt Betty wants a coffee table.(stone, square, gray)The king took a trip.(2-week, exhausting)These are cookies!(chocolate chip, delicious, huge)Alice prefers furniture.(leather, Italian, black)Archeologists get very excited when they find bones.(animal, large, prehistoric)1. Aunt Betty wants a square, gray, stone coffee table.

2. The king took an exhausting, 2-week trip. (exhausting refers to opinion)

3. These are delicious, huge, chocolate chip cookies! (chocolate chip refers to a material used to make the cookies)

4. Alice prefers black, Italian, leather furniture.

5. Archeologists get very excited when they find large, prehistoric, animal bones. (prehistoric refers to age)

Rules to Remember!1: Use commas after each adjective except the last one (no comma between the last adjective and the noun). For example,

Alice prefers black, Italian, leather furniture.

2: If an adjective has 2 words, do not put a comma between the words. For example,

These are delicious, huge, chocolate chip cookies!

3: It is not necessary to use adjectives with all nouns. It is suggested that you use adjectives to describe things that are important to both the writer and the reader.