Positive and Negative Words to Describe Someone (A Person, Place, or a Thing)! We all know that words can be powerful. They can make or break relationships, set the tone for an event, or describe someone (or something) in a way that is either positive or negative. In this blog post, we will explore some of the most commonly used positive and negative words to describe people, places, and things. We will also provide tips on how to use these words effectively when describing someone (or something) in a professional setting.

Positive Words to Describe Someone

Positive words starting with A

• Attentive
• Amicable
• Abundant
• Attractive
• Active
• Affable
• Athletic
• Affectionate
• Agile
• Amazing
• Alert
• Altruistic
• Adaptable
• Ambitious
• Adventurous
• Authentic
• Astute
• Artful
• Agreeable
• Amiable
• Animated
• Amusing
• Assertive
• Accountable

Positive words starting with B

• Brave
• Blissful
• Brilliant
• Bold
• Believer
• Beautiful
• Balanced
• Bright
• Broadminded
• Bonza

Positive words starting with C

• Courteous
• Cute
• Confident
• Curious
• Caring
• Civil
• Cherished
• Charitable
• Consistent
• Content
• Creative
• Careful
• Compassionate
• Chivalrous
• Charismatic
• Clean
• Cooperative
• Crafty
• Charming
• Considerate
• Chic
• Courageous
• Controlled
• Cheerful
• Chatty
• Celebrated
• Calm
• Centered
• Cheeky
• Conscientious
• Candid
• Chilled
• Competent
• Capable
• Cool-headed
• Communicator
• Cheery
• Champion

Positive words starting with D

• Diligent
• Driven
• Devoted
• Discreet
• Decisive
• Dear
• Decisive
• Diplomatic
• Delightful
• Determined

Positive word starting with E

• Empathic
• Expert
• Empowering
• Exotic
• Endearing
• Entertaining
• Ethical
• Easy-going
• Enlivened
• Experienced
• Earnest
• Enough
• Energetic
• Enthusiastic
• Emotional
• Enterprising
• Effusive
• Exuberant
• Empathetic
• Entrepreneurial
• Enlightened
• Empowered
• Eager
• Euphoric

Positive words starting with F

• Famous
• Fair
• Frank
• Fearless
• Flexible
• Faithful
• Free
• Friendly
• Funny
• Fit
• Fascinating
• Fastidious
• Fantastic
• Flowing
• Fabulous
• Focused
• Fun

Positive words starting with G

• Genuine
• Good
• Glamorous
• Great
• Gracious
• Genius
• Graceful
• Game
• Generous
• Glamor
• Giving
• Glowing
• Gregarious
• Gentle
• Grateful

Positive words starting with H

• Heartful
• Heartwarming
• Humorous
• Hard Worker
• Helpful
• Hysterical
• Hopeful
• Honest
• Healthy
• Happy
• Handsome
• Humble

Positive words starting with I

• Inspirational
• Intelligent
• Idealistic
• Interesting
• Inciteful
• Illuminated
• Impartial
• Incomparable
• Incredible
• Irresistible
• Intentional
• Intuitive
• Integral
• Involved
• Ingenios
• Industrious
• Ineffable
• Inventive
• Imaginative
• Inspiring
• Innovative
• Invigorated
• Independent
• Intellectual

Positive words starting with J

• Justified
• Jubilant
• Just
• Jovial
• Joyful
• Jolly
• Joyous

Positive words starting with K

• Keen
• Kind
• Knowledgeable

Positive words starting with L

• Lovely
• Lovable
• Luxurious
• Lively
• Lucky
• Loud
• Lithe
• Loyal
• Lustful
• Loving
• Living
• Loved

Positive words starting with M

• Marvelous
• Motivational
• Miraculous
• Methodical
• Mediator
• Mind Blowing
• Magical
• Magnificient
• Masterful
• Magnanimous
• Motivated
• Meticulous
• Modest
• Mindful

Positive words starting with N

• Neat
• Natural
• Nurturing
• Neutral

Positive words starting with O

• Opulent
• Open
• Organized
• Outgoing
• Original
• Orderly
• Optimistic
• Open-minded
• Outstanding
• Obliging

Positive words starting with P

• Poised
• Persistent
• Patient
• Passionate
• Punctual
• Playful
• Peaceful
• Powerful
• Pioneering
• Perk
• Positive
• Polite
• Provocative
• Perky
• Practical
• Precious
• Pretty
• Philosophical
• Perfect
• Pleasant
• Placid
• Prosperous
• Proactive

Positive words starting with Q

• Quiet
• Quick
• Quick-witted

Positive words starting with R

• Reserved
• Revered
• Rational
• Rich
• Respected
• Remarkable
• Relatable
• Relieved
• Resilient
• Receptive
• Reliable
• Romantic
• Radiant
• Ready
• Resourceful
• Realistic
• Refreshed
• Relaxed

Positive words starting with S

• Special
• Shrewd
• Scrumptious
• Spectacular
• Sensational
• Sharp
• Stellar
• Sweet
• Serent
• Stunning
• Satisfied
• Skilled
• Self-assured
• Striking
• Smart
• Simple
• Super
• Shimmering
• Serene
• Snazzy
• Sociable
• Splendid
• Shining
• Soulful
• Sympathetic
• Successful
• Secure
• Stoic
• Strategic
• Sincere
• Studious
• Stellar
• Sacred
• Sensible
• Sustained
• Safe
• Sensitive
• Straightforward
• Strong

Positive words starting with T

• Trusting
• Thriving
• Thorough
• Transparent
• Triumphant
• Tough
• Talented
• Trusty
• Tranquil
• Tasty
• Thrilled
• Tolerant
• Tidy
• Tactful
• Thoughtful
• Thankful

Positive words starting with U

• Uplifted
• Unlimited
• Unreal
• Unbelievable
• Upbeat
• Ultimate
• Understanding
• Unique
• Unassuming
• Uplifting

Positive words starting with V

• Versatile
• Vibrant
• Vivacious
• Virtuous
• Valuable
• Versatile
• Victorious

Positive words starting with W

• Witty
• Wonderful
• Warm
• Welcoming
• Whole
• Wondrous
• Warmhearted
• Worthy
• Wealthy
• Willing
• Wise
• Well-versed

Positive words starting with Y

• Yielding
• Yummy

Positive words starting with Z

• Zing
• Zealous
• Zestful
• Zappy

Negative Words to Describe Someone

Negative Words Starting with A

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

Negative Words Starting with B

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

Negative Words Starting with C

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

Negative Words Starting with D

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

Negative Words Starting with E

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

Negative Words Starting with F

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

Negative Words Starting with G

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

Negative Words Starting with H

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

Negative Words Starting with I

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

Negative Words Starting with J, L

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

Negative Words Starting with M, N

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

Negative Words Starting with O, P, Q

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

Negative Words Starting with R, S

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

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

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