Personality Adjectives

In this section you will learn a list of adjectives that describe someone’s personality in English.

Positive personality adjectives:

Accurate
Active
Adventurous
Affable
Agreeable
Ambitious
Amiable
Amicable
Amusing
Approachable
Attentive
Audacious
Brave
Bright
Calm
Capable
Careful
Caring
Charming
Cheerful
Clever
Communicative
Compassionate
Competent
Conscientious
Considerate
Cool
Cooperative
Courageous
Courteous
Creative
Determined
Diligent
Dynamic
Easy-going
Efficient
Eloquent
Energetic
Exciting
Extraordinary
Extroverted
Exuberant
Fair
Fair-minded
Faithful
Fearless
Firm
Flexible
Frank
Friendly
Funny
Generous
Gentle
Genuine
Good
Gracious
Great
Gregarious
Hard-working
Helpful
Honest
Honorable
Hopeful
Humble
Humorous
Impressive
Independent
Ingenious
Intellectual
Intelligent
Interesting
Kind
Likeable
Loveable
Loving
Loyal
Lucky
Mature
Neat
Nice
Obedient
Open-minded
Optimistic
Organized
Outgoing
Passionate
Patient
Philosophical
Pleasant
Polite
Popular
Positive
Powerful
Practical
Rational
Realistic
Reasonable
Reliable
Resourceful
Respectful
Responsible
Romantic
Self-confident
Sensible
Sensitive
Sincere
Smart
Sociable
Sociable
Strong
Sympathetic
Tactful
Thankful
Thoughtful
Tidy
Trustworthy
Truthful
Understanding
Versatile
Willing
Wise

Negative personality adjectives:

Abrasive
Absent-minded
Aggressive
Aloof
Amoral
Annoying
Apathetic
Argumentative
Arrogant
Authoritarian
Bad-tempered
Belligerent
Big-headed
Bizarre
Boastful
Boring
Bossy
Callous
Careless
Cheeky
Childish
Clumsy
Cocky
Conceited
Confrontational
Controlling
Cruel
Cunning
Cynical
Deceitful
Defensive
Dense
Desperate
Devious
Dim
Dishonest
Disloyal
Disobedient
Disorganized
Disrespectful
Disruptive
Distant
Dominant
Dull
Ego-centric
Egotistical
Envious
Evasive
Evil
False
Foolish
Forgetful
Fraudulent
Frivolous
Fussy
Gloomy
Gossipy
Greedy
Grumpy
Gullible
Harsh
Hostile
Humorless
Hypocritical
Ignorant
Impatient
Impolite
Impractical
Impulsive
Inconsiderate
Indifferent
Insecure
Insensitive
Insincere
Insolent
Insulting
Interfering
Irrational
Irresponsible
Irritable
Jealous
Judgmental
Lazy
Machiavellian
Malicious
Manipulative
Materialistic
Mean
Messy
Miserable
Moody
Narrow-minded
Nasty
Nosey
Obnoxious
Obsesses
Obstinate
Overcritical
Paranoid
Perverse
Pessimistic
Petty
Picky
Pompous
Possessive
Prejudiced
Pretentious
Quarrelsome
Querulous
Reckless
Resentful
Resentful
Rude
Secretive
Selfish
Self-seeking
Sleazy
Spiteful
Spoiled
Stingy
Strict
Stubborn
Stupid
Superficial
Tactless
Unkind
Unlucky
Unmotivated
Unpredictable
Unreliable
Unreliable
Unsympathetic
Untidy
Untrustworthy
Vague
Vain
Vulgar

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