Strong Adjectives in English: Expanding Your Vocabulary, Diapositivas de Inglés

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By Raúl J. Suárez Pérez

Adjectives are words we use to describe the reality around us, including both tangible (=concrete) things and abstract concepts.

Mainly, we can use adjectives to describe:

OBJECTS > some dirty clothes PEOPLE > a clever student PLACES > an interesting city FEELINGS / STATES > I’m really hungry NOTIONS / CONCEPTS > a good idea

However, we can use specific adverbs, called intensifiers, in order to change the intensity of these base adjectives and make them stronger in meaning.

The most commonly used intensifiers in everyday writing and conversation are very and really :

very big very hot really funny really interesting

Certain adjectives, however, have this idea of ‘very’ or ‘intensity’ on their own. Therefore, they don’t need any intensifiers to make their meaning stronger… They are already strong themselves!

 Expand your vocabulary  Avoid the overuse of “very”

Using strong adjectives will help you:

These are the two main reasons why it is a very good (I mean, great ) idea to incorporate them into your linguistic repertoire.

Ready to

EXPAND

your vocabulary?

Let’s go through a list of some of the most frequently used strong adjectives in English. It’s not a closed list – you’ll be learning many more as you progress in your language learning!

Very hungry

Very tired

Very angry

Very interesting

Very dirty

Very frightened

Very surprised

 starving  exhausted / shattered  furious  fascinating  filthy  terrified / petrified  astonished / amazed / shocked

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Very happy

Very sad / upset

Very beautiful

Very ugly

Very clever

Very funny

Very pleased

 thrilled  devastated  gorgeous  hideous  brilliant  hilarious  delighted

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It’s really cold today.

I’m very hungry. I think I could eat an elephant!

Sam’s very happy. He’s passed all his exams.

FREEZING

STARVING

THRILLED

The man was really sad when he heard the news

I can’t wait to get home. I’m so tired!

When it’s very hot, I can’t sleep at night.

DEVASTATED

EXHAUSTED /

SHATTERED

BOILING

I find art very interesting.

Josh got very bad results in his A-Levels.

Monsters are usually very ugly creatures.

FASCINATING

AWFUL /

TERRIBLE

HIDEOUS

The differences between me and you are very big.

The kitchen is really dirty.

Kate’s a very intelligent student.

HUGE /

ENORMOUS

FILTHY

BRILLIANT

We’re very pleased to have you here with us.

Chocolate buttercream cake is really tasty!

She didn’t expect his dad’s reaction, so she was very surprised.

DELIGHTED

DELICIOUS

ASTONISHED /

AMAZED /

SHOCKED