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Below you will find the largest list of adjectives you are likely to find anywhere! Small lists of adjectives treat
the words that are on the list as the good adjectives or the only adjectives, and the words that are not on the
list as less than desirable adjectives or possibly not even adjectives at all. In short, small lists of adjectives teach
very little about the true nature of adjectives. This large list of adjectives will challenge your understanding of
adjectives, while at the same time catapult your vocabulary to a new level.
But first we must examine a few concepts that will help us understand what we are seeing in this list. We have
three categories of words that are called or function as adjectives:
By function as adjectives, I mean the words can fill an adjective syntactic slot. Traditional grammar still treats
most kinds of determiners as adjectives, so I have included them in this list also. Participles are a highly
effective and sadly neglected form of adjective. Truthfully, most participles do not fall into the category of True
Adjectives; however, all of the participles on this list can be used as adjectives. In other words, all of them can
be placed into at least one adjective slot.
We have two types of adjective slots: 1) Attributive Adjectives, and 2) Predicate Adjectives. These two slots are
found in three locations:
Suffixes are extremely important in word study and vocabulary development for two reasons:
1. Suffixes help us identify what part of speech a word is likely to function as.
2. Suffixes often transform words from one part of speech into another part of speech.
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As concerns adjectives and suffixes, many adjectives are created by adding suffixes to nouns and verbs. In the
table below you will find a number count of the suffixes found in our list of 4,800 adjectives. As the suffix count
illustrates, some suffixes are more common than others. Also as the table indicates, certain suffixes have a few
related variations.
2. -al (216), -ial (71), -ical (80) 7. -ic (236) 12. -ous (140), -ious (116), -eous (21), -ose (10)
4. -ant (75), -ent (124) 9. -ish (47) 14. -ed (768) – PARTICIPLES
Most students learn the same or similar adjectives year after year. But adjectives are not just beautiful; the
right adjectives are also practical. However, we must expand and challenge our understanding of adjectives in
order to grasp this fact, and spending time with this list does exactly that.
I created this list from scratch using a number of techniques and strategies. And in the end, I had to verify
that I could use each and every one of these adjectives in an adjective slot, so I printed out this entire list and
tested all of these adjectives in a few different short sentences. It was an enlightening adjective experience!
You are bound to find at least a few words where you think, “That word can’t be used as an adjective!”
For this reason, I’ve included the following sentences to help you verify for yourselves that all of these are in
fact adjectives. Each of these short sentences contains at least one adjective slot. These slots are not random,
as they are based on English syntax. In most cases, the only word that can fit in the slot is an adjective.
Illustrating this fact is the word VERY, which is used in a few of the sentences. If you remove the word VERY
from two of those sentences, a verb could also fill the slot. In these particular cases, the word VERY guarantees
that the word that follows it is an adjective.
• The dog is ___. • That ___ idea is ___. • She sat next to the ___ NOUN.
• The ___ student is ___. • His ___ NOUN is ___. • He is very ___.
• Life is ___. • It was very ___. • She felt very ___.
As you go through the list of 4,800 adjectives, feel free to create some of your own test sentences—on paper
or just in your mind!
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On the list of 4,800 adjectives, a few special categories are marked with the following numbers: 1, 2, or 3. Let’s
see what the numbers mean.
1. (Total: 493) These words can have –er and –est added to the end of them. Adding these suffixes
creates the Comparative and Superlative forms. Surprisingly, out of 4,800 adjectives, only about 500
accept –er and –est. Keep in mind that we can also place more and most in front of many
adjectives in order to create Comparative and Superlative forms. (See a complete explanation and a
complete list of Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs here.)
2. (Total: 56) Determiners: You’ll see that determiners don’t fit into most of the sample sentences above.
That’s what makes them determiners. It’s ridiculous that traditional grammar still classifies most
determiners as “special adjectives.” Having said that, we should teach students about determiners
when teaching them about adjectives.
3. (Total: 53) Nouns as Adjectives: These are a type of determiner. This topic is surely a topic for further
debate and discussion; however, it’s worth including a few of these on the list for discussion purposes.
In one sense, we can place most nouns in front of another noun in order to create a noun functioning
as a adjective. However, in most cases it will create an informal or colloquial expression. Having said
that, many of 53 listed nouns-as-adjectives are extremely common.
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A Note on The Danger of Word Lists: We should be teaching students that one must
analyze a word in a sentence in order to determine what part of speech it is. While it’s true that all of
the following words CAN BE used as adjectives, many can also be used as nouns, verbs, etc. Put
simply, these words ARE NOT adjectives; however, they can all BE USED AS adjectives. There is a
difference!
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