Friday, June 30, 2017

ADJECTIVES

Used to something

They say you can get used to anything.
The use of used to do something is explained here. However, used to has another meaning, it can be used as an adjective and we use it to talk about things that have become familiar, and are no longer strange or new.
Used to usually comes after verbs such as be, get or become.
  • After a while you get used to the noise.
  • She will become used to the smell.
  • was used to the web site.
You can also say that someone is used to doing something.
  • I'll never get used to getting up at six o'clock in the morning.
  • It took me a while until I was used to driving on the right-hand side of the road.

POSITIVE

a - ef - pq - z
adaptable
adorable
agreeable 
alert
alluring
ambitious

amusing
boundless
brave 
bright 
calm 
capable
charming 
cheerful 
coherent 
confident
cooperative
courageous
credible
cultured
dashing
dazzling
debonair
decisive
decorous
delightful
determined
diligent
discreet
dynamic
eager
efficient
enchanting
encouraging
enduring 

energetic
entertaining
enthusiastic
excellent
excitable
exuberant
fabulous
fair 
faithful 
fantastic 
fearless
frank
friendly
funny
generous
gentle 
good
happy
harmonious
helpful
hilarious 
honorable
impartial
industrious
instinctive
jolly 
joyous 
kind
kind-hearted
knowledgeable
likeable
lively 
lovely 
loving
lucky 
mature
modern
nice
obedient 
painstaking
peaceful
perfect 
placid
plausible
pleasant 
plucky

productive
protective
proud 
punctual 
quiet
receptive
reflective
relieved 
resolute
responsible
righteous
romantic
sedate
selective
self-assured
sensitive
shrewd
silly 
sincere
skilful
splendid 
steadfast
stimulating
talented
thoughtful 
thrifty
tough
trustworthy
unbiased
unusual
upbeat
vigorous
vivacious 
warm
willing
wise
witty 
wonderful 
zany 
zealous

NEGATIVE

a - ef - pq - z
abrasive
abrupt
abusive
aloof
ambiguous
angry 
annoyed 
anxious 
arrogant 
awful 
bad
belligerent
boorish
boring
callous
careless
clumsy
combative 
confused 
cowardly
crazy
creepy 
cruel 
cynical
dangerous 
deceitful
defective
defiant 
depressed 
deranged
disagreeable
disillusioned
disturbed 
domineering
draconian
embarrassing
envious 
erratic
evasive
evil
fanatical
fierce 
finicky
flashy
flippant
foolish 
forgetful
frantic 
fretful
frightened 
furtive 
greedy
grieving 
grouchy
gruesome
grumpy
guarded
gullible
helpless 
hesitant
horrible
hurtful
ignorant
irresolute
jealous
jittery
lacking
lazy
lonely 
malicious
materialistic
mean
mysterious 
naive
nasty
naughty 
nervous
noisy
obnoxious 

outrageous 
over zealous

panicky 
pathetic
possessive
quarrelsome
repulsive
ruthless
sad
scary
secretive
selfish 
silly
slow
sneaky
snobbish
spendthrift
squeamish
stingy
strange
sulky
tacky
tense 
terrible 
testy
thick-skinned
thoughtless 
threatening
tight
timid
tired 
tiresome
troubled 
truculent
typical
uptight
vague
vengeful
venomous
volatile
voracious
vulgar
wary
wasteful
weak
wicked
worthless
wretched

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