Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Why write, like, "This was great" when you could write "That was crisp," or "That was hideous"


Portland / Powell's Books
Originally uploaded by trudeau
TASTE/TOUCH ADJECTIVES
bitter, delicious, fluttering, fresh, fuzzy, greasy, grubby, hard, hot, icy, juicy, loose, melted, nutritious, plastic, prickly, ripe, rotten, rough, salty, scattered, shaggy, shaky, sharp, shivering, silky, slimy, slippery, smooth, soft, solid, sour, spicy, steady, sticky, strong, sweet, tangy, tasteless, tasty, tender, thirsty, tight, uneven, weak, wet, wooden, yummy.
SHAPE ADJECTIVES
broad, chubby, crooked, curved, deep, flat, high, hollow, low, narrow, round, shallow, skinny,, square, steep, straight, wide.
APPEARANCE ADVERBS
adorable, adventurous, aggressive, alert, attractive, average, beautiful, blond, blonde, blue-eyed, bloody, blushing, bright, clean, clear, cloudy, colorful, crowded, cute, dark, drab, distinct, dull, elegant, excited, fancy, filthy, glamorous, gleaming, gorgeous, graceful, grotesquee, handsome, homely, light, long, magnificent, misty, motionless, muddy, old-fashioned, plain, poised, precious, quaint, shiny, smoggy, sparkling, spotless, stormy, strange, ugly, ugliest, unsightly, unusual,
CONDITION ADJECTIVES
alive, bad, better, beautiful, brainy, breakable, busy, careful, cautious, clever, clumsy, concerned, crazy, curious, dead, different, difficult, doubtful, easy, expensive, famous, fragile, frail, helpful, helpless, horrible, important, impossible, inexpensive, innocent, inquisitive, modern, mushy, odd, open, outstanding, poor, powerful, prickly, puzzled real, rich, shy, sleepy, stupid, super, talented, tame, tender, tough, uninterested, vast, wandering, wild, wrong.
SOUND ADJECTIVES
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.
FEELINGS (GOOD) ADVERBS
agreeable, amused, brave, calm, charming, cheerful, comfortable, cooperative, courageous, delightful, determined, eager, elated, enchanting, encouraging, energetic, enthusiastic, excited, exuberant, fair, faithful, fantastic, fine, friendly, funny, gentle, glorious, good, happy, healthy, healpful, hilarious, jolly, joyous, kind, lively, lovely, lucky, nice, obedient, perfect, proud, relieved, silly, smiling, splendid, successful, thankful, thoughtful, victorious, vivacious, witty, wonderful, zealous, zany.
PERSONALITY - NEGATIVE ADJECTIVES
abrasive, abrupt, abusive, afraid, aloof, ambiguous, angry, annoyed, anxious, arrogant, ashamed, awful, bad, belligerent, bewildered, boorish, bored, boring, callous, careless, clumsy, combative, confused, cowardly, crazy, creepy, cruel, cynical, dangerous, deceitful, defeated, defective, defiant, demonic, depressed, deranged, disagreeable, disillusioned, disturbed, domineering, draconian, embarrassed, envious, erratic, evasive, evil faded, fanatical, fierce, filthy, finicky, flashy, flippant, foolish, forgetful, frantic, fretful, frightened, furtive, greedy, grieving, grouchy, gruesome, grumpy, guarded, gullible, helpless, hesitant, homeless, horrible, hungry, hurt, ignorant, ill, irresolute, jealous, jittery, lacking, lazy, lonely, malicious, materialistic, mean, mysterious, naive, nasty, naughty, nervous, noisy, outrageous, panicky, pathetic, possessive, quarrelsome, repulsive, ruthless, sad, scary, secretive, selfish, silly, slow, sneaky, snobbish, sore, spendthrift squeamish, stingy, strange, sulky, tacky, tense, terrible, testy, thick-skinned thoughtless, threatening, tight, timid, tired tiresome, troubled, truculent typical, undesirable, unsuitable, unsure, upset, uptight, vague, vengeful, venomous, volatile, voracious, vulgar wary, wasteful, weak, weary, wicked, worried, worthless, wretched.
PLEASURE
relish, savor, take pleasure in amusement, charm, delight, enchantment, enjoy, glee, gratify, happiness, joy, pleasure, satisfaction, savor, take pleasure in, thrill appreciate, glad about, pleased about, thankful for, welcome cherrish, esteem, regard, respect, significance, treasure, value, worth, usefulness

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