Common adjectives: feelings and extremes
Choose precise adjectives for feelings, size, temperature, interest, and surprise.
These eight adjectives make descriptions precise. Delighted and exhausted describe how a person feels. Annoying describes something that causes a little anger. Terrifying, freezing, enormous, and fascinating express strong qualities: very scary, cold, big, and interesting. Incredible describes something very difficult to believe. Use the full context to decide which quality matters.
Key terms
| Adjective | Meaning |
|---|---|
| annoying | making somebody feel a little angry |
| terrifying | very scary |
| freezing | very cold |
| enormous | very big |
| fascinating | very interesting |
| delighted | very pleased |
| exhausted | very tired |
| incredible | very difficult to believe |
Match each adjective to its exact meaning.
- 1Read: Leyla could hardly keep her eyes open after the long day.
- 2Identify: The sentence describes a person who is very tired.
- 3Choose: Exhausted is the precise adjective.
Fascinating is about being very interesting; incredible is about being very difficult to believe.
An annoying thing causes a little anger. Delighted and exhausted describe a person's state.
Rules
- 1Use delighted for somebody who is very pleased and exhausted for somebody who is very tired.
- 2Use annoying for something that makes somebody feel a little angry.
- 3Use terrifying, freezing, enormous, and fascinating for something very scary, cold, big, or interesting.
- 4Use incredible when something is very difficult to believe.
- 5Check whether the context is about a person's feeling, a cause of anger, or a strong quality before choosing.
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