AMAZING ADJECTIVES
Part 1
Created by Elizabeth Chu
ADAMANT
Definition: Refusing to be persuaded or to change one’s mind.
Synonyms: unshakable, unwavering, resolved, determined, firm.
Example: The toddler is adamant about not eating vegetables, so his mother has to sneak vegetables into his meals.
Created by Elizabeth Chu
BOORISH
Definition: Rough and ill-mannered.
Synonyms: coarse, insensitive, oafish, rude, uncivilized, unrefined.
Example: Belle refused to marry Gaston because he was boorish and prideful and lacked common decency.
Created by Elizabeth Chu
CORPULENT
Definition: Large or bulky (often referring to a person).
Synonyms: fat, fleshy, obese, plump, portly, stout.
Example: Homer’s doctor put him on a strict regimen of diet and exercise because he was in danger of becoming too corpulent.
Created by Elizabeth Chu
DOWDY
Definition: Unfashionable and without style in appearance (often referring to a woman)
Synonyms: frowzy, frumpy, old-fashioned, shabby.
Example: Even though Mabel is a successful businesswomen, you would never guess by her dowdy, unkempt appearance.
Created by Elizabeth Chu
EGREGIOUS
Definition: Extraordinary in some bad way; outstandingly bad.
Synonyms: abominable, appalling, atrocious, flagrant, outrageous.
Example: Regina was not sorry even though she spread egregious, life-altering rumors about all the girls in the school.