Accurate | Advanced |
Alluring | Antique |
Appealing | Artificial |
Astonishing | Attractive |
Automated | Bad |
Beautiful | Big / Small |
Bland | Bold |
Boring | Breakable |
Bright | Broken |
Cheap | Classic |
Classy | Clean |
Clear | Clever |
Colorful | Comfortable |
Common | Compact |
Complete | Complicated |
Cool | Craft / Crafted / Fine Crafted |
Cute | Damaged |
Dangerous | Dashing |
Definitive | Delicate |
Delightful | Detailed |
Dreadful | Dull |
Durable | Effective |
Efficient | Electric |
Elegant | Emergent |
Enchanted | Engaging |
Entertaining | Essential |
Expensive / Inexpensive | Faded |
Fake | Fancy |
Fashionable / Unfashionable | Fast / Slow |
Fine | Finished / Unfinished |
Flat | Flawless |
Folk | Fragile |
Fresh | Friendly / Unfriendly |
Frightful | Fun |
Futuristic | Genuine |
Good | Hideous |
Hot / Cold | Iconic |
Idiosyncratic | Imaginative |
Imperfect | Important |
Imported | Impromptu |
Improved | Inadequate |
Ineffectual | Inferior |
Innovative | Inoperative |
Insubstantial | Intelligent |
Inventive | Lame |
Latest | Light |
Local | Lovely |
Lush | Luxurious |
Makeshift | Massive |
Masterpiece | Material |
Messy | Modern |
Modish | Moldy / Musty |
Monstrous | Natural |
Neat | Necessary |
Nice | Nondescript |
Nonsensical | Nonstop |
Nontraditional | Notable |
Novel | Odd |
Offbeat | Old / New |
Old-fashioned | Open |
Ordinary | Organic |
Original | Outstanding |
Overengineered | Pathetic |
Perfect | Pleasant |
Pleasing | Polished |
Poor | Popular |
Posh | Precious |
Quaint | Quality |
Quiet | Rapid |
Red / Blue / Green / Black / White / Yellow / Orange / Purple | Redundant |
Refined | Regular |
Repulsive | Resilient |
Responsible | Rotten |
Rough | Round |
Sad | Safe |
Scientific | Second-rate |
Shiny | Simple |
Slick | Smart |
Snappy | Sophisticated |
Stable | Standard |
State of the Art | Strange |
Streamlined | Stunning |
Stylish | Sublime |
Subtle | Superb |
Superficial | Superior |
Sweet | Tall |
Tangible | Tasteful |
Terrible | Traditional |
Trashy | Trendy |
Trim | Typical |
Ugly | Ultramodern |
Unassuming | Unattractive |
Uncommon | Unconventional |
Unique | Unnatural |
Unnecessary | Unsightly |
Unusable | Urbane |
Usable | Used |
Useful | Useless |
Vacuous | Valuable |
Venerable | Vintage |
Visionary | Wacky |
Wasteful | Weird |
Wild | Wonderful |
Worthless |
Creative License
In some cases, adjectives to describe people are used to describe things. This is based on creative license whereby the language is stretched to make language lively and imaginative. For example, a "sad desk" or a "smug sweater."Physical Descriptions
It is possible to describe a thing at the physical level including elements such as its shape, size and properties such as strength. This can include higher level physical properties such as style, look & feel and safety. The following are common physical properties of a thing.
Summary
There are many different approaches to describing a physical object including describing its physical properties or the emotional impressions it generates. This can detail different aspects of the thing such as quality, performance, style, function and usability. A direct vocabulary can be used or you can employ creative license whereby you use non-traditional phases such as describing a thing the way you'd describe a person using terms such as friendly or unfriendly.
