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100 Exquisite Adjectives May 5, 2011 16:56:30 GMT -5

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100 Exquisite Adjectives
by Mark Nichol
Adjectives — descriptive words that modify nouns — often come under fire for their cluttering quality, but often it is quality, not quantity, that is the issue. Plenty of tired adjectives are available to spoil a good sentence, but when you find just the right word for the job, enrichment ensues. Practice precision when you select words. Here’s a list of adjectives:

Adamant: unyielding; a very hard substance
Adroit: clever, resourceful
Amatory: sexual
Animistic: quality of recurrence or reversion to earlier form
Antic: clownish, frolicsome
Arcadian: serene
Baleful: deadly, foreboding
Bellicose: quarrelsome (its synonym belligerent can also be a noun)
Bilious: unpleasant, peevish
Boorish: crude, insensitive
Calamitous: disastrous
Caustic: corrosive, sarcastic; a corrosive substance
Cerulean: sky blue
Comely: attractive
Concomitant: accompanying
Contumacious: rebellious
Corpulent: obese
Crapulous: immoderate in appetite
Defamatory: maliciously misrepresenting
Didactic: conveying information or moral instruction
Dilatory: causing delay, tardy
Dowdy: shabby, old-fashioned; an unkempt woman
Efficacious: producing a desired effect
Effulgent: brilliantly radiant
Egregious: conspicuous, flagrant
Endemic: prevalent, native, peculiar to an area
Equanimous: even, balanced
Execrable: wretched, detestable
Fastidious: meticulous, overly delicate
Feckless: weak, irresponsible
Fecund: prolific, inventive
Friable: brittle
Fulsome: abundant, overdone, effusive
Garrulous: wordy, talkative
Guileless: naive
Gustatory: having to do with taste or eating
Heuristic: learning through trial-and-error or problem solving
Histrionic: affected, theatrical
Hubristic: proud, excessively self-confident
Incendiary: inflammatory, spontaneously combustible, hot
Insidious: subtle, seductive, treacherous
Insolent: impudent, contemptuous
Intransigent: uncompromising
Inveterate: habitual, persistent
Invidious: resentful, envious, obnoxious
Irksome: annoying
Jejune: dull, puerile
Jocular: jesting, playful
Judicious: discreet
Lachrymose: tearful
Limpid: simple, transparent, serene
Loquacious: talkative
Luminous: clear, shining
Mannered: artificial, stilted
Mendacious: deceptive
Meretricious: whorish, superficially appealing, pretentious
Minatory: menacing
Mordant: biting, incisive, pungent
Munificent: lavish, generous
Nefarious: wicked
Noxious: harmful, corrupting
Obtuse: blunt, stupid
Parsimonious: frugal, restrained
Pendulous: suspended, indecisive
Pernicious: injurious, deadly
Pervasive: widespread
Petulant: rude, ill humored
Platitudinous: resembling or full of dull or banal comments
Precipitate: steep, speedy
Propitious: auspicious, advantageous, benevolent
Puckish: impish
Querulous: cranky, whining
Quiescent: inactive, untroublesome
Rebarbative: irritating, repellent
Recalcitant: resistant, obstinate
Redolent: aromatic, evocative
Rhadamanthine: harshly strict
Risible: laughable
Ruminative: contemplative
Sagacious: wise, discerning
Salubrious: healthful
Sartorial: relating to attire, especially tailored fashions
Sclerotic: hardening
Serpentine: snake-like, winding, tempting or wily
Spasmodic: having to do with or resembling a spasm, excitable, intermittent
Strident: harsh, discordant; obtrusively loud
Taciturn: closemouthed, reticent
Tenacious: persistent, cohesive,
Tremulous: nervous, trembling, timid, sensitive
Trenchant: sharp, penetrating, distinct
Turbulent: restless, tempestuous
Turgid: swollen, pompous
Ubiquitous: pervasive, widespread
Uxorious: inordinately affectionate or compliant with a wife
Verdant: green, unripe
Voluble: glib, given to speaking
Voracious: ravenous, insatiable
Wheedling: flattering
Withering: devastating
Zealous: eager, devoted

The Muse Global Moderator An aide to inspiration, to be called upon when the need is great. Posts: 16,777,581	100 Exquisite Adjectives May 5, 2011 17:36:41 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by The Muse on May 5, 2011 17:36:41 GMT -5 Love that list! hmmm.....makes me want to see if we could add to it....
	The Muse leaves you in a zen cloud of well being, positive energy and creative fire. You find yourself succumbing to the overwhelming urge to write and create.......

Persia Ellis James Poster Posts: 37	100 Exquisite Adjectives May 9, 2011 16:47:09 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Persia Ellis James on May 9, 2011 16:47:09 GMT -5 How divine~ Yes, add to it!

The Muse Global Moderator An aide to inspiration, to be called upon when the need is great. Posts: 16,777,581	100 Exquisite Adjectives May 10, 2011 7:16:44 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by The Muse on May 10, 2011 7:16:44 GMT -5 I think we should change your forum name to The Sage! You have such great techincal knowledge! You could be like the go-to person for people who need the background writing support!
	The Muse leaves you in a zen cloud of well being, positive energy and creative fire. You find yourself succumbing to the overwhelming urge to write and create.......

The Muse Global Moderator An aide to inspiration, to be called upon when the need is great. Posts: 16,777,581	100 Exquisite Adjectives May 10, 2011 7:20:03 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by The Muse on May 10, 2011 7:20:03 GMT -5 here are a few more: Pedantic- narrowly, stodgily and often ostentatiously learned, unimaginative or pedestrian Pungent-affecting the senses of taste and smell, acrid, caustic, biting....can also apply to someones wit.
	The Muse leaves you in a zen cloud of well being, positive energy and creative fire. You find yourself succumbing to the overwhelming urge to write and create.......

Persia Ellis James Poster Posts: 37	100 Exquisite Adjectives May 10, 2011 17:13:14 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Persia Ellis James on May 10, 2011 17:13:14 GMT -5 Thanks for the suggestion~ Digging your words!

The Muse Global Moderator An aide to inspiration, to be called upon when the need is great. Posts: 16,777,581	100 Exquisite Adjectives May 12, 2011 6:12:54 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by The Muse on May 12, 2011 6:12:54 GMT -5 well...sages and muses are for similar purposes...to aid and assist others, be it by knowledge or by inspiration!
	The Muse leaves you in a zen cloud of well being, positive energy and creative fire. You find yourself succumbing to the overwhelming urge to write and create.......

The Muse Global Moderator An aide to inspiration, to be called upon when the need is great. Posts: 16,777,581	100 Exquisite Adjectives May 12, 2011 6:15:14 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by The Muse on May 12, 2011 6:15:14 GMT -5 magnanimous-generously forgiving, eschewing resentment or revenge.
	The Muse leaves you in a zen cloud of well being, positive energy and creative fire. You find yourself succumbing to the overwhelming urge to write and create.......

The Muse Global Moderator An aide to inspiration, to be called upon when the need is great. Posts: 16,777,581	100 Exquisite Adjectives Mar 9, 2012 7:49:56 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by The Muse on Mar 9, 2012 7:49:56 GMT -5 THIS was fun. Lets try to add to it!
	The Muse leaves you in a zen cloud of well being, positive energy and creative fire. You find yourself succumbing to the overwhelming urge to write and create.......

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