How to Describe People in English: Appearance, Character Traits and Emotions

 

How to Describe People in English

An adjective is a describing word, the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified.

In this lesson, we will learn useful Adjectives to describe people in three ways:

1. Describing someone’s appearance 

2. Describing someone’s character and personality

3. Describing someone’s feelings & emotions

How to Describe a Person in English

 1. Describing Someone’s Appearance

Appearance is defined as the way someone or something looks.

This is list of adjectives to describe a person’s appearance:

• beautiful (My younger sister is very beautiful.)
• handsome (He’s the most handsome man I’ve ever met.)
• cute (That’s a cute little baby.)
• thin (She was looking pale and thin.)
• tall (She’s tall and thin.)
• chubby (She was eleven years old and pretty in a chubby sort of way.)
• muscular (He was tall, lean and muscular.)
• attractive (The actress is an attractive woman.
  

   

2. Describing Someone’s Character and Personality

Character traits are qualities or characteristics that describe what a person is like. It’s important to be able to describe your own personality or someone else’s.

Here is a list of English Adjectives to describe someone’s personality.

• polite (Please be polite to our guests.)
• friendly (Everyone was very friendly towards me.)
• honest (He was a hard-working honest man.)
• generous (She’s always very generous to the kids.)
• rude (She was very rude about my driving.)
• lazy (He is the laziest boy in the class.)
• angry (I was very angry with myself for making such a stupid mistake.) 

 

 

 

3. Describing Someone’s Feelings & Emotions

Sometimes it’s hard to explain exactly how you feel. This vocabulary list helps you narrow down exactly what word best expresses your current emotional state.

• terrified (She looked at him with wide, terrified eyes.)
• exhausted (You look absolutely exhausted.)
• scared (People are scared to use the buses late at night.)
• nervous (She was so nervous about her exams that she couldn’t sleep.)
• embarrassed (She’s embarrassed about her height.)