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Strong negative words9/20/2023 The next time someone asks you how your day went, ditch the common “Okay” reply. The weather can significantly influence most people’s moods in different ways. And if it’s a sunny day, you may feel pleasant and uplifted. If it’s a rainy day, you may feel a bit sluggish or tired. The weather can also be a great way to describe your day. For those bad days, you can look to these negative adjectives. After all, life can’t be all rainbows and butterflies, right? Don’t stress yourself more by searching for the right words to describe it. Whatever it is, these adjectives can be used to describe any good situation.īad days can happen now and again. Or maybe you had a wonderful time with your friends and family. It can be because you were able to achieve a lot at work. These adjectives are perfect for when you’re feeling happy and satisfied with your day. Adjectives to Describe a Day Positive AdjectivesĪ great day calls for a positive adjective to describe it. ![]() Check out some great word choices in the section below. Try to elaborate on your day using these adjectives. Did you arrive at work early? Did you have a bad day and feel like something is missing? Recalling things that happened will help you choose a more appropriate word to describe them.Īfter this, list some adjectives that best describe that day. When describing your day, try to quickly look back on the things that happened throughout the day. They can help add more context to your sentence and convey your message clearly. To quickly refresh your memory, adjectives describe nouns or pronouns. A patient who is extremely overweight might well be described by the doctor as obese.Photo by Josh Felise on Unsplash How to Describe Your Dayĭescribing your day becomes much easier with the proper adjectives. Overweight is an adjective that a doctor might use to describe a fat patient. Some ‘fat’ words, on the other hand, are very direct. Similarly, big is sometimes used as a less direct way of saying ‘fat’: Sophie didn’t use to be so big, did she? Plump and chubby mean ‘slightly fat’ but both sound almost pleasant and are often used of young children: She was admiring the baby’s plump little legs./Look at his lovely chubby cheeks! Solid too is often used in this way: As a child, James was always quite solid. Stocky, for example, means ‘strong and wide’: He’s got the stocky build of a rugby player. We sometimes use other, slightly less negative words to describe someone who is a little fat. Fat is probably the most commonly used adjective for describing someone who has too much flesh but, it is very direct. Of course, there are just as many words to describe the opposite situation. Slight, meanwhile, which is neither positive nor negative, means ‘thin and delicate’. Petite, which is positive in tone, means ‘ short and slim’ and is only used for women and girls. Lean describes someone who is slim and strong: Long-distance runners are usually fairly lean. Slender, for example, means ‘slim and graceful’: She was small and slender, like a dancer. Other synonyms for ‘slim’ have an extra meaning in addition to ‘having little fat’. If someone is slim they are quite thin in a way that is attractive: Charlotte was looking lovely and slim in the photos. Probably the most common of these is slim. The above adjectives are generally negative, but there are as many adjectives to describe people who are thin in a way that is positive. It describes the whole of the body: Some of the patients were quite emaciated. The adjective emaciated describes someone who is dangerously thin, usually through illness or extreme hunger. Gaunt, meanwhile, is used to describe a very thin face, sometimes a face that is thin because a person is ill: Her face was gaunt and grey. Someone who is scrawny is so thin that their bones stick out: He was a scrawny little kid. ![]() ![]() Even thinner than ‘skinny’ is scrawny (also a slightly informal word). Skinny, a slightly informal word, means very much the same: I don’t like his looks – he’s too skinny. ‘Thin’ is often used in a negative way: She’s very pretty but she’s too thin. Probably the most commonly used adjective to describe someone who has too little fat is thin. Let’s take a look at some of the more commonly used words for body shapes. The English language is full of words that describe the shape of our bodies, some of them positive and some of them less positive.
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