A-Z Popular Blog Encyclopedia Search »
Descriptive Words
 Advertisements
Related Guides
Vocabulary
Positive Words

Words To Describe Things

Adverbs

Then vs Than

Transition Words

Language

Grammar

Language Characteristics

Language Skills

Communication

207 Words To Describe Things

 ,
Words to describe things are adjectives and nouns that can be used to describe inanimate objects. This is a special category of adjective as the majority of adjectives are used to describe people. In addition to adjectives, nouns are occasionally used to describe other nouns. For example, a business book. The following are common words that are used to describe things.
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
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."

Vocabulary

This is the complete list of articles we have written about vocabulary.
Action Verbs
Adverbs
Analysis Verbs
Attitudes
Attributes
Business Verbs
Describing Things
Descriptive Words
Emotions
Language
Mood
Positive Words
Science Vocabulary
Strengths
Transition Words
If you enjoyed this page, please consider bookmarking Simplicable.
 

Transition Words

A list of transition words.

Then vs Than

The difference between then and than with examples.

Adverbs

An a-z list of adverbs.

Science Words

An a-z list of foundational science vocabulary.

Positive Words

A list of unique positive words that avoid cliches.

Descriptive Words

An a-z list of descriptive words.

Definitions

The basic types of definition with examples.
The most popular articles on Simplicable in the past day.

New Articles

Recent posts or updates on Simplicable.
Site Map