4043 adjectives

Find the antonyms & synonyms of the
adjectives:
beautiful
boring
thin
tall
prosperous
interesting
poor
disconsolate
old
dry
fresh
new
ugly
slim
sad
fat
petite
fast
young
absorbing
rich
old
accelerated
wet
happy
elderly
short
slow
attractive

humid

Fill in the right adjective from the list above:
A book that keeps your attention because it’s very exciting
is a ___________________ book.
A very attractive woman is a ____________________
woman.
A person who has a lot of flesh on the body is a
_____________________ person.
If you are ______________________ then you are not as
tall as other people.
If you are ____________________ that means you are
feeling unhappy.
If somebody is ___________________, they have lived
for a long time.
Someone who is ____________________ has a lot of
money and valuable possessions.
Change after the model:
a child who is three years old = a three-year-old child
a film which lasts for three hours = ……………………
……………………..
a woman who is twenty- five years old = .………………
……………………..
a delay which lasts for two hours = ……………………..
…………………….
a book which has one hundred pages = ………………..
…………………….
a meeting which lasts for forty-five minutes = …………
…………………….

Order the words:
(opinion+size+age+shape+colour+origin+material+purpo
se+noun)
a thin man tall =
an old nurse unpleasant =
raincoat a red old horrible =
blue big pair eyes a of =
tape recorder a old Chinese =
plastic yellow small bag a=
a tall gorgeous woman young =
Put the adjectives in the right place:
Ambassador …………………, attorney …………………,
Court ………………….., knight ……………………., Poet
…………………., from time ………………………, heir
………………………. .
martial, general, apparent, extraordinary, laureate,
errant, immemorial
Put the correct preposition after the
following adjectives:
Jim is good __________ solving Maths problems.
Local residents were astonished _________ the results.
John is your brother, you can’t be jealous __________
his success!
Contrary __________ popular beliefs, a desert can be
very cold.
Don’t be angry ___________ me, it’s not my fault!
She was often cruel ___________ her daughter.

John Dwayne was an extremely irritating/irritated person

who talked for hours about himself. At one party, he was
talking about his travels:
‘I’ve hunted in Canada, in North America, in South
America. I’ve hunted across New Zealand and Australia.
I’ve hunted all over India and Africa.’
‘Is that so?’ asked an irritated/irritating old woman. ‘What
on earth have you lost?’


Answers
Beautiful-ugly-attractive
Thin-fat-slim
Interesting-boring-absorbing
Old-young-elderly
New-old-fresh
Sad-happy-disconsolate
Fast-slow-accelerated
Rich-poor-prosperous
Wet-dry-humid
Short-tall-petite
Interesting, beautiful, fat, short, sad, old, rich
A three-hour film, a twenty-five-year-old woman, a two-hour delay, a one-hundred page book, a forty-five-minute meeting
A tall thin man, an unpleasant old nurse, a horrible old red raincoat, a pair of big blue eyes, an old Chinese tape recorder, a small yellow
plastic bag, a gorgeous tall young woman
Ambassador Extraordinary, attorney general, Court Martial, knight errant, Poet Laureate, from time immemorial, heir apparent
Good at, astonished at/by, jealous of, contrary to, angry with, cruel to
Irritating, irritated