Adjectives to describe a person

Accomplished

- highly skilled

- successfully completed or brought to an end

- settled securely and unconditionally

Adaptable

- capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use

Adept

- having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

Amenable

- disposed or willing to comply

- readily reacting to suggestions and influences

- open to being acted upon in a certain way

- liable to answer to a higher authority

Appreciative

- feeling or expressive of gratitude

- having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion

Blithe

- lacking or showing a lack of due concern

- carefree and happy and lighthearted

Bonny

- very pleasing to the eye

Brainy

- having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence

Bubbly

- full of or showing high spirits

Carefree

- free of trouble and worry and care

- cheerfully irresponsible

Caring

- feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others

Charitable

- relating to or characterized by charity

- full of love and generosity

- showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity

Childlike

- befitting a young child

- exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity

Cultured

Dependable

- worthy of being depended on

- consistent in performance or behavior

- financially sound

Desirable

- worth having or seeking or achieving

- worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse

Devoted

- zealous in devotion or affection

- (followed by `to') dedicated exclusively to a purpose or use

Devout

- deeply religious

Easygoing

- relaxed and informal in attitude or standards

Ebullient

- joyously unrestrained

Eloquent

- expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively

Erudite

- having or showing profound knowledge

Exuberant

- produced or growing in extreme abundance

Forgiving

- inclined or able to forgive and show mercy

Forthright

Fortunate

- having unexpected good fortune

- supremely favored

- presaging good fortune

Frank

- a member of the ancient Germanic peoples who spread from the Rhine into the Roman Empire in the 4th century

- clearly manifest; evident

Friendly

- characteristic of or befitting a friend

- inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile

- easy to understand or use

- of or belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally

Generous

- willing to give and share unstintingly

- not petty in character and mind

- more than adequate

Genial

- of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw

Good

- having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified

- moral excellence or admirableness

- morally admirable

- agreeable or pleasing

- of moral excellence

- thorough

- most suitable or right for a particular purpose

- resulting favorably

- capable of pleasing

- appealing to the mind

- in excellent physical condition

- tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health

- not forged

- not left to spoil

- generally admired

Gregarious

- (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species

- instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others

- (of plants) growing in groups that are close together

Harmless

- not causing or capable of causing harm

Hearty

- showing warm and heartfelt friendliness

- providing abundant nourishment

- endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health

- consuming abundantly and with gusto

- without reservation

Helpful

- providing assistance or serving a useful function

Illustrious

- having or conferring glory

Imaginative

- (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action

Intelligent

- having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree

- possessing sound knowledge

- endowed with the capacity to reason

Inventive

Jocose

Jocular

Jolly

- a happy party

Kindly

- in a kind manner or out of kindness

- pleasant and agreeable

Mature

- characteristic of maturity

- fully considered and perfected

- having reached full natural growth or development

Meek

- humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness

- very docile

- evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant

Merciful

- showing or giving mercy

- (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious

Meticulous

- marked by precise accordance with details

- marked by extreme care in treatment of details

National

- of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country

- limited to or in the interests of a particular nation

- concerned with or applicable to or belonging to an entire nation or country

- owned or maintained for the public by the national government

- characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation

- of or relating to nationality

Nationwide

Necessary

- absolutely essential

- unavoidably determined by prior circumstances

Nice

- pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance

- done with delicacy and skill

Objective

- undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena

- serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes

- emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation

- belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events

Observant

- paying close attention especially to details

- quick to notice; showing quick and keen perception

Optimistic

- expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds

Patient

- enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance

Perky

Proficient

Qualified

- meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task

- limited or restricted; not absolute

Quality

- an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone

- of high social status

- a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something

- high social status

Quirky

Rational

- consistent with or based on or using reason

- capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers

- having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion)

Reasonable

- showing reason or sound judgment

- marked by sound judgment

Receptive

- open to arguments, ideas, or change

- ready or willing to receive favorably

- able to absorb liquid (not repellent)

Reflective

- capable of physically reflecting light or sound

- devoted to matters of the mind

Responsible

- worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable

- being the agent or cause

Sagacious

- skillful in statecraft or management

Scholarly

- characteristic of scholars or scholarship

Scintillating

- brilliantly clever

Scrupulous

- having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled

Supportive

- furnishing support or assistance

Tactful

- having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others

- showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people

Unbiased

- without bias

Understanding

- characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy

Unimpeachable

- beyond doubt or reproach

Unruffled

Upbeat

- an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure)

Upright

- in a vertical position; not sloping

- a piano with a vertical sounding board

Well

- (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well')

- thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form

- indicating high probability; in all likelihood

- (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully

- to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree

- favorably; with approval

- to a great extent or degree

- with great or especially intimate knowledge

- with prudence or propriety

- with skill or in a pleasing manner

- in a manner affording benefit or advantage

- in financial comfort

- without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor

Well-behaved

- (usually of children) someone who behaves in a manner that the speaker believes is correct

Well-informed

Xenial

Xenodochial

Zealous

Abrasive

- causing abrasion

Abusive

- expressing offensive reproach

- characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment

Adulterous

- characterized by adultery

- not faithful to a spouse or lover

Aloof

- in an aloof manner

Arrogant

- having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride

Barbaric

- unrestrained and crudely rich

Belligerent

- engaged in war

Benighted

- overtaken by night or darkness

- lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture

Brutal

- harsh

- disagreeably direct and precise

Bumptious

- offensively self-assertive

Captious

- tending to find and call attention to faults

Careless

- marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful

- effortless and unstudied

- (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration

Cautious

- showing careful forethought; never making swift decisions"

- avoiding excess

Climactic

- consisting of or causing a climax

Concurrent

Continuous

- continuing in time or space without interruption

- of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity

Cowardly

- lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted

Cruel

Cultural

- of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors

- denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people

- of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society

- relating to the raising of plants or animals

Cynical

- believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others

Deceitful

- intended to deceive

Disruptive

- characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination

Docile

- willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed

- ready and willing to be taught

- easily handled or managed

Dogmatic

- characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles

- of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

- relating to or involving dogma

Domineering

- tending to domineer

Dumb

- lacking the power of human speech

- unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

Egocentric

- a self-centered person with little regard for others

Emaciated

Envious

Expressionless

Forgetful

- failing to keep in mind

Forlorn

- marked by or showing hopelessness

Fractious

- stubbornly resistant to authority or control

- unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome

Frail

- physically weak

- a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs)

Fretful

- habitually complaining

Gangling

- tall and thin and having long slender limbs

- tall and thin

Garrulous

Gaunt

Gawky

- lacking grace in movement or posture

Greedy

- wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume

Haggard

- British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)

Haggard

- British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)

Halfhearted

- feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm

Hardworking

- characterized by hard work and perseverance

Harsh

- unpleasantly stern

- disagreeable to the senses

- unkind or cruel or uncivil

- severe

- sharply disagreeable; rigorous

Hateful

- evoking or deserving hatred

- characterized by malice

Heedless

- marked by or paying little heed or attention; we know now that it is bad economics"--Franklin D. Roosevelt

- characterized by careless unconcern

Insensitive

- not responsive to physical stimuli

- deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive

Invaluable

- having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth

Irresponsible

- showing lack of care for consequences

Irreverent

- showing lack of due respect or veneration

Irritable

- abnormally sensitive to a stimulus

Irritating

- (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite

- causing physical discomfort; they can be very painful"

Jealous

- suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival

Jittery

- characterized by jerky movements

Jobless

Jumpy

Kinky

- (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes

Knavish

Languid

Lazy

- moving slowly and gently

Lewd

- suggestive of or tending to moral looseness

Lumpish

- mentally sluggish

Macabre

Maddening

Malign

- evil or harmful in nature or influence

Meaningless

- having no meaning or direction or purpose

Merciless

- having or showing no mercy

Mindless

- lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being

- requiring little mental effort

- not marked by the use of reason

Mousy

- quiet and timid and ineffectual

- infested with mice

- of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse

Naive

- marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience

- inexperienced

Nasty

- offensive or even (of persons) malicious

- exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent

Naughty

- badly behaved

Negligent

- characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern

Nervous

- easily agitated

- of or relating to the nervous system

Nonjudgmental

- refraining from making judgments especially ones based on personal opinions or standards

Nonprofit

- not commercially motivated

Nonstop

- without stopping

Oafish

Obedient

- dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority; the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke

Obnoxious

Obsessive

- a person who has obsessions

Offhand

- without previous thought or preparation

- in a casually inconsiderate manner

Officious

Omniscient

Pallid

Paranoid

- suffering from paranoia

Parsimonious

- excessively unwilling to spend

Passive

- lacking in energy or will

- peacefully resistant in response to injustice

- expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb

Pasty

- resembling paste in color; pallid

- (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers

Quarrelsome

- given to quarreling

Quavering

- (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear

Querulous

Ragged

- being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn

- worn out from stress or strain

- having an irregular outline

Rambunctious

Recalcitrant

- marked by stubborn resistance to authority

Reckless

Sane

- mentally healthy; free from mental disorder

Sarcastic

- expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds

Sardonic

- disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking

Scornful

Scraggly

- lacking neatness or order

Scrawny

- inferior in size or quality

Surly

- inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace

Taciturn

- habitually reserved and uncommunicative

Tardy

Tasteless

- lacking flavor

- lacking aesthetic or social taste

Tense

- in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

- pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

- taut or rigid; stretched tight

- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

Testy

Thoughtless

- showing lack of careful thought

- without care or thought for others; `Let them eat cake'"

Unarmed

- (used of persons or the military) not having or using arms

- (used of plants or animals) lacking barbs or stings or thorns

Unbecoming

Unchristian

- not of a Christian faith

Uncivil

- lacking civility or good manners

Uncommunicative

- not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions

Uneducated

- not having a good education

Unhurried

- relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste

- capable of accepting delay with equanimity

Wanton

- lewd or lascivious woman

- indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life

- spend wastefully

- engage in amorous play

- behave extremely cruelly and brutally

Warlike

- suggesting war or military life

Wasteful

- tending to squander and waste

- laying waste

Watchful

Wayward

Weak

- wanting in physical strength

- tending downward in price

- deficient or lacking in some skill

- (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection

- not having authority, political strength, or governing power

- likely to fail under stress or pressure

- deficient in intelligence or mental power

Wicked

- morally bad in principle or practice

Yawning

- gaping open as if threatening to engulf someone or something

- with the mouth wide open indicating boredom or sleepiness