Negative Words to Describe Someone, Person, Place, & Thing

Negative Words to Describe Someone, Person, Place, & Thing

Negative Words to Describe Someone

Negative Words Starting with A

• Abusive
• Antiquated
• Astringent
• Antagonistic
• Aloof
• Apprehensive
• Ashamed
• Agonizing
• Abhorrent
• Annoying
• Absent
• Aching
• Afraid
• Abysmal
• Abrasive
• Aimless
• Alarming
• Angry
• Aggravating
• Absentminded
• Artificial
• Arrogant
• Abject
• Anemic
• Appalling
• Argumentative
• Accidental
• Adversarial
• Atrocious
• Awful
• Aggressive
• Abnormal
• Artless
• Acerbic
• Absurd
• Awkward
• Abrupt
• Acrimonious

Negative Words Starting with B

• Busiest
• Betrayed
• Bloodied
• Boastful
• Bloated
• Bleak
• Bribable
• Barbaric
• Bothered
• Backhanded
• Bloody
• Blurry
• Blank
• Brooding
• Battered
• Blistering
• Bumpy
• Belching
• Bigoted
• Bizarre
• Bewildered
• Brutish
• Beady
• Blaring
• Bristly
• Barren
• Blasphemous
• Blind
• Blamable
• Boring
• Bungling
• Belligerent
• Blunt
• Blundering
• Brash
• Bad
• Bruised
• Batty
• Broken
• Basic
• Bleary
• Bloodthirsty
• Brassy
• Baffled
• Blue
• Bewitched
• Bitter
• Bookish
• Boorish
• Breakable
• Baffling
• Bland
• Brutal
• Bawling
• Brainless
• Bacterial
• Bossy
• Babbling
• Blurred
• Biased
• Bureaucratic
• Berserk
• Brisk
• Barbarous
• Bored
• Bulky
• Befuddled
• Biting

Negative Words Starting with C

• Cramped
• Colorless
• Crumbling
• Confusing
• Challenging
• Culpable
• Contradictory
• Chilly
• Cruel
• Confused
• Challenged
• Cross
• Conditional
• Catatonic
• Corrosive
• Clogged
• Controversial
• Clamoring
• Crumply
• Conspicuous
• Cheap
• Cryptic
• Contradicting
• Chilling
• Crippling
• Concerning
• Careless
• Costly
• Clumsy
• Crude
• Confounded
• Certifiable
• Cracked
• Coercive
• Crazy
• Complacent
• Callous
• Creepy
• Compulsive
• Cantankerous
• Cranky
• Combative
• Coy
• Cockamamie
• Critical
• Condemned
• Carsick
• Corrupting
• Clownish
• Crooked
• Condescending
• Catastrophic
• Crowded
• Conflicting
• Cavalier
• Crestfallen
• Compulsory
• Capricious
• Cutting
• Controllable
• Chunky
• Crafty
• Cold
• Crusty
• Contemptible
• Chicken
• Crushed
• Contagious
• Chemical
• Cornered
• Clingy
• Cowardly
• Cluttered
• Corruptive
• Clueless
• Crotchety
• Conflicted
• Caustic
• Crumbly
• Congested
• Chauvinistic
• Corny
• Clinical
• Crushable
• Constrictive
• Cheerless
• Crass
• Commercial
• Caged
• Creeping
• Complicated
• Cancerous
• Cumbersome
• Contrarian
• Choking
• Cursed
• Contrary
• Choppy
• Corporate
• Cliquish
• Criminal
• Conceited
• Captive
• Cowering
• Coarse
• Convoluted
• Clashing
• Cynical
• Controlling
• Clammy
• Crying
• Contemptuous
• Childish
• Craven
• Common
• Cagey
• Crammed
• Coldhearted
• Corrupt
• Cloistered
• Curt
• Contrite
• Chubby
• Crabby
• Cocky
• Creaky
• Complaining
• Cancelled

Negative Words Starting with D

• Dry
• Dismal
• Devious
• Deceiving
• Dissimilar
• Disapproving
• Deluded
• Disturbed
• Discourteous
• Depraved
• Dissatisfied
• Disappointing
• Delirious
• Disputed
• Disaffected
• Degenerative
• Drained
• Disheartened
• Despairing
• Damp
• Doubtful
• Disenchanted
• Derivative
• Distasteful
• Discarded
• Demented
• Distrustful
• Discouraging
• Deplorable
• Disposable
• Dirty
• Defiant
• Dreadful
• Disillusioned
• Despondent
• Dawdling
• Disruptive
• Disappointed
• Delinquent
• Droopy
• Dislikeable
• Detrimental
• Decaying
• Duplicitous
• Disorganized
• Dilapidated
• Declining
• Dysfunctional
• Dispensable
• Diminutive
• Defective
• Dubious
• Dismissive
• Diabolical
• Deceptive
• Droll
• Disinterested
• Detached
• Deafening
• Disproportionate
• Disadvantaged
• Deficient
• Drastic
• Dishonest
• Despicable
• Dark
• Disproved
• Disadvantageous
• Deformed
• Disrespectful
• Disappearing
• Dejected
• Displeased
• Dingy
• Defenseless
• Dizzy
• Disdainful
• Deprived
• Drowsy
• Disliked
• Devastated
• Deceitful
• Distressed
• Discordant
• Dense
• Distraught
• Discontented
• Deniable
• Dowdy
• Disgruntled
• Derogatory
• Daft
• Dreary
• Disinclined
• Destroyed
• Dazed
• Dreaded
• Dishonorable
• Despised
• Daunting
• Disreputable
• Disagreeable
• Degraded
• Distant
• Disastrous
• Demanding
• Down
• Disgusted
• Deserted
• Damaged
• Distracted
• Disconnected
• Demonic
• Dulcet
• Disobedient
• Difficult
• Decimated
• Dwindling
• Dispassionate
• Diminishing
• Defeated
• Disturbing
• Discredited
• Depressed
• Divided
• Discreet
• Depressing
• Drab
• Disgusting
• Desolate
• Damaging
• Displeasing
• Dire
• Defensive
• Dripping
• Disingenuous
• Destructive
• Deadly
• Doubting
• Disgraceful
• Derogative
• Daffy
• Domineering
• Diseased
• Deranged
• Distressing
• Discouraged
• Dependent
• Dull
• Disorderly
• Digressive
• Decipherable
• Drunk
• Disloyal
• Devastating
• Deceivable
• Dramatic
• Disheartening
• Desperate
• Dangerous
• Divisive
• Discriminatory
• Depressive
• Drooping
• Disjointed
• Detestable
• Decayed
• Dusty
• Disparaging
• Dim
• Decrepit

Negative Words Starting with E

• Emotional
• Eroding
• Embroiled
• Emaciated
• Excruciating
• Evil
• Empty
• Erasable
• Egocentric
• Exploitative
• Embittered
• Extraneous
• Exposed
• Egomaniacal
• Expendable
• Egotistical
• Embarrassing
• Estranged
• Extreme
• Enraged
• Endangered
• Exasperated
• Exploited
• Expired
• Embarrassed
• Emotionless
• Exasperating
• Encrusted
• Errant
• Erratic
• Excessive
• Eerie
• Explosive
• Exacerbating
• Evasive
• Envious
• Exhausting
• Erroneous
• Expressionless

Negative Words Starting with F

• Formulaic
• Facetious
• Frilly
• Feeble
• Frustrated
• Fiendish
• Frigid
• Feckless
• Fried
• Fawning
• Flimsy
• Fussy
• Flaky
• Frosty
• Feigned
• Frumpy
• Fidgety
• Freaky
• Fatal
• Foolhardy
• Frightful
• Fearsome
• Forgetful
• Fragmented
• Faithless
• Fraudulent
• Faltering
• Foul
• Faded
• Forceful
• Freezing
• Fatigued
• Floppy
• Fretful
• Faulty
• Frightening
• Fearful
• Frayed
• Famished
• Furious
• Finicky
• Forgettable
• Frugal
• Feverish
• Frozen
• Fetid
• Fuzzy
• Flavorless
• Foolish
• Foggy
• Frightened
• Feared
• Frivolous
• Feebleminded
• Flawed
• Frowning
• Felonious
• Fractious
• Failed
• Frantic
• Falsified
• Frustrating
• Filmy
• Fumbling
• Filtered
• Fleeting
• Freakish
• Fanatical
• Forbidding
• Futile
• Flat
• Furtive
• Fishy
• Fruitless
• Fidgeting
• Fragile
• Faint
• Forgotten
• Flippant
• Fuming
• Filthy
• Foreboding
• Frail
• Fallacious

Negative Words Starting with G

• Ghoulish
• Groaning
• Gruesome
• Gritty
• Green
• Galling
• Gullible
• Gross
• Grueling
• Grave
• Garish
• Grimy
• Gawky
• Glum
• Goofy
• Glassy
• Gaudy
• Greasy
• Gaping
• Greedy
• Grimacing
• Grainy
• Guarded
• Generic
• Growling
• Grouchy
• Garrulous
• Garbled
• Grim
• Groggy
• Grotesque
• Glib
• Gnarly
• Gruff
• Grumbling
• Gabby
• Grating
• Gasping
• Guilty
• Grubby
• Gloomy
• Ghastly
• Gangly
• Grumpy
• Gaunt
• Gluttonous

Negative Words Starting with H

• Heartbreaking
• Horrid
• Humiliated
• Horrible
• Homely
• Hapless
• Hurtful
• Horrified
• Humdrum
• Hoarse
• Harried
• Horrendous
• Haughty
• Heavy
• Helpless
• Heartbroken
• Hated
• Hollow
• Harebrained
• Homeless
• Hormonal
• Hesitant
• Hurried
• Hazardous
• Huffy
• Hostile
• Haggard
• Harsh
• Harmful
• Hopeless
• Horrific
• Halting
• Horrifying
• Heartless
• Heinous
• Humiliating
• Humorless
• Haphazard
• Hideous
• Hasty
• Hushed
• Hurt
• Hulking
• Heated
• Hazy
• Hard
• Hungry
• Hateful
• Hectic

Negative Words Starting with I

• Indignant
• Immodest
• Inaccessible
• Inarticulate
• Impure
• Imprecise
• Inconclusive
• Icy
• Incompatible
• Inactive
• Inappropriate
• Irksome
• Impossible
• Inconsistent
• Ill
• Impulsive
• Indecipherable
• Illiterate
• Inferior
• Imperial
• Insane
• Impetuous
• Indiscriminate
• Immoral
• Incorrect
• Illegitimate
• Irrational
• Impoverished
• Inconsequential
• Ignorable
• Impractical
• Imprudent
• Insincere
• Impolite
• Incessant
• Indecisive
• Illogical
• Inadvisable
• Inadmissible
• Incomplete
• Inconsolable
• Illegal
• Inconsiderate
• Ignorant
• Improper
• Inaccurate
• Incomprehensible
• Icky
• Inadequate
• Inefficient
• Impatient
• Inhospitable
• Impertinent
• Inattentive
• Inauspicious
• Inconceivable
• Iconoclastic
• Insipid
• Imposing
• Inconvenient
• Illegible
• Incompetent
• Incoherent
• Inane
• Infantile
• Imperfect
• Indifferent
• Immature
• Incongruent
• Idiotic
• Incapable
• Indecent
• Illicit
• Infuriating
• Impersonal

Negative Words Starting with J, L

• Lecherous
• Laughable
• Jaded
• Loathsome
• Lame
• Judgmental
• Jeering
• Leering
• Lowly

Negative Words Starting with M, N

• Melodramatic
• Negligent
• Manipulative
• Myopic
• Malevolent
• Messy
• Moody
• Nosy
• Narcissistic
• Malignant
• Muddled

Negative Words Starting with O, P, Q

• Odd
• Oppressive
• Obscene
• Obstinate
• Opportunistic
• Putrid
• Pathological
• Pitiful
• Petty
• Predictable
• Pedantic
• Parasitic
• Pessimistic
• Prejudiced
• Petulant
• Querulous

Negative Words Starting with R, S

• Redundant
• Rude
• Repugnant
• Racist
• Reprehensible
• Smothering
• Smug
• Squalid
• Sanctimonious
• Sickening

Negative Words Starting with T, U, V, W, Y

• Timid
• Thoughtless
• Tyrannical
• Yellow
• Temperamental
• Tasteless
• Wasteful
• Vacuous
• Tacky
• Toxic
• Upsetting
• Wretched

Common Negative Words to Describe a Person, Place or a Thing

• Untrustworthy
• Unhappy
• Selfish
• Rude
• Overcritical
• Narrow-minded
• Moody
• Jealous
• Impulsive
• Impatient
• Harsh
• Grumpy
• Greedy
• Fussy
• Dishonest
• Deceitful
• Cruel
• Cowardly
• Clingy
• Careless
• Bossy
• Boring
• Boastful
• Arrogant
• Aggressive