Appearance Adjectives Vocabulary - Easy explanation with practice

Appearance Adjectives 

Appearance refers to how a person looks on the outside. It includes physical features such as height, body shape, hair color, age, and overall attractiveness. Learning appearance vocabulary helps students describe people clearly and confidently in both spoken and written English.

Common adjectives used to describe appearance include attractive, ordinary, tall, short, young, old, muscular, skinny, chubby, fit, bald, blonde, scruffy, plain, and large. These words are frequently used in daily conversations, classroom activities, exams, and writing tasks. In this post, you will be exploring a list of adjectives used to describe appearance with exercise.

15 adjectives used to describe a person’s appearance

• Attractive 😍: pleasing to the eye or mind
• Ordinary 🙂: normal, simple
• Bald 🧑‍🦲: with little or no hair on the head
• Blonde 💛: light yellowish color, usually describing hair color
• Chubby 🍩: chunky, fat, overweight, pudgy, tubby
• Fit 💪: healthy and strong, especially as a result of exercise
• Skinny 🦴: very thin
• Muscular 🏋️‍♂️: having well-developed muscles
• Scruffy 😬: dirty and untidy
• Short 📏: less than average height
• Tall 🦒: more than average height
• Large 🐘: very big
• Young 🧒: not old; in the early stages of life
• Old 👴: having lived or existed for many years
• Plain 😐: not attractive but not necessarily ugly

15 appearance adjectives and their translation.

• attractive: ដែលទាក់ទាញ
• ordinary: សាមញ្ញ
• bald: ទំពែក
• blonde: ពត៍ទង់ដែង
• chubby: ធាត់ទ្រលុកទ្រលុន
• fit: រាងសមស្អាត
• skinny: ស្គមមានតែស្បែកនិងឆ្អឹង
• muscular: ដែលមានសាច់ដុំច្រើន
• scruffy: ដែលគគ្រិចគ្រួក
• short: ទាប
• tall: ខ្ពស់
• large: ធំ
• young: ក្មេង
• old: ចាស់
• plain: ធម្មតា សាមញ្ញ

Describing hair

• curly hair
• straight hair
• blond hair
• long hair
• short hair
• wavy hair
• brown hair
• gray hair
• white hair

Describing face

• sharp nose
• mustache
• beard
• lip
• chin
• cheek
• eyelashes
• mouth
• tooth ( pl. teeth)
• ear
• eyebrow

Adjective Orders

When more one adjectives come together, they have to follow the orders as below.

Opinion > Size > Age > Shape > Color > Origin > Material

Opinion adjective 

Used to describe our opinion about things.

Example

• bad
• good
• beautiful
• handsome
• incredible
• attractive

Size

• big
• small
• tall
• short
• large
• fat
• thin
• skinny

Age

• old
• young
• new

Shapes

• round
• oval
• sharp
• wavy
• curly

Color

• red
• white
• blue
• black
• brown
• gray
• blond
• yellow

 Origin

• Cambodian
• Vietnamese
• Thai
• American
• Chinese

Material

• Plastic
• wooden
• steel
• golden

   

📝 Gap-Filling Exercise: Describing People

Instructions:
Fill in the blanks using the words from the word box.
Word Box:
attractive • ordinary • bald • blonde • chubby • fit • skinny • muscular • scruffy • short • tall • large • young • old • plain

1. She goes to the gym every day, so she is very ________.
2. The man has no hair on his head. He is ________.
3. That model looks very ________; many people admire her beauty.
4. He eats very little and looks extremely ________.
5. My grandfather is very ________, but he is still healthy.
6. The boy is only five years old, so he is very ________.
7. He is strong with big arms and shoulders; he looks ________.
8. She has light yellow hair; she is ________.
9. His clothes are dirty and messy, so he looks ________.
10. The girl is below average height; she is ________.
11. The basketball player is very ________ and easy to notice.
12. This bag is very ________; it can carry many books.
13. He looks normal and not special—just ________.
14. She is not ugly, but not beautiful either; she looks ________.
15. The child is a little ________ because he eats too much junk food.

Practice 1

Practice 2

Choose one correct answer for the following meaning.