Adjectives Overdrive

To write well one needs to use accurate and clear adjectives to tell the stories.

http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/adjectives/List-of-Positive-Adjectives.html

This list of positive adjectives are good for meditation on its own.

A List of Positive Adjectives to Get You Started

Most positive adjectives are fun to say. It might be because good words have been constructed by time to describe good feelings. It might be because good feelings surround positive words regardless of how they were built. One thing's for sure: Whatever an aura is, words have them. If you read a list of negative adjectives, you'd feel differently than you would about a list of positive ones. You owe it to yourself to experiment. It only takes a few minutes, and it might meliorate your day––maybe even your life.

Here's a list of 25 words to get you started thinking positively. Change your words and change your world!

1. Amazing
2. Awesome
3. Blithesome
4. Excellent
5. Fabulous
6. Fantastic
7. Favorable
8. Fortuitous
9. Great
10. Incredible
11. Ineffable
12. Mirthful
13. Outstanding
14. Perfect
15. Propitious
16. Remarkable
17. Smart
18. Spectacular
19. Splendid
20. Stellar
21. Stupendous
22. Super
23. Ultimate
24. Unbelievable
25. Wondrous

http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/list-of-adjectives.html

Adjectives are often used to describe the degree of modification.

The adjective forms are positive, comparative, and superlative.

This tree is tall. (positive)
That tree is taller. (comparative)
The last tree in the row is the tallest. (superlative)

Time Adjectives

ancient
brief
early
fast
late
long
modern
old
old-fashioned
quick
rapid
short
slow
swift
young

Quantity Adjectives

abundant
empty
few
full
heavy
light
many
numerous
sparse
substantial

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/wordlist/adjectives.shtml

http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/adjectives-that-start-with-a-to-z-list.html

A-Z of Adjectives ! 

http://www.words-to-use.com/words/real-estate/

Adjectives used in Real Estate line of work ! Cool !

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/100-exquisite-adjectives/

Adamant: unyielding; a very hard substance
Adroit: clever, resourceful
Amatory: sexual
Animistic: quality of recurrence or reversion to earlier form
Antic: clownish, frolicsome
Arcadian: serene
Baleful: deadly, foreboding
Bellicose: quarrelsome (its synonym belligerent can also be a noun)
Bilious: unpleasant, peevish
Boorish: crude, insensitive
Calamitous: disastrous
Caustic: corrosive, sarcastic; a corrosive substance
Cerulean: sky blue
Comely: attractive
Concomitant: accompanying
Contumacious: rebellious
Corpulent: obese
Crapulous: immoderate in appetite
Defamatory: maliciously misrepresenting
Didactic: conveying information or moral instruction
Dilatory: causing delay, tardy
Dowdy: shabby, old-fashioned; an unkempt woman
Efficacious: producing a desired effect
Effulgent: brilliantly radiant
Egregious: conspicuous, flagrant
Endemic: prevalent, native, peculiar to an area
Equanimous: even, balanced
Execrable: wretched, detestable
Fastidious: meticulous, overly delicate
Feckless: weak, irresponsible
Fecund: prolific, inventive
Friable: brittle
Fulsome: abundant, overdone, effusive
Garrulous: wordy, talkative
Guileless: naive
Gustatory: having to do with taste or eating
Heuristic: learning through trial-and-error or problem solving
Histrionic: affected, theatrical
Hubristic: proud, excessively self-confident
Incendiary: inflammatory, spontaneously combustible, hot
Insidious: subtle, seductive, treacherous
Insolent: impudent, contemptuous
Intransigent: uncompromising
Inveterate: habitual, persistent
Invidious: resentful, envious, obnoxious
Irksome: annoying
Jejune: dull, puerile
Jocular: jesting, playful
Judicious: discreet
Lachrymose: tearful
Limpid: simple, transparent, serene
Loquacious: talkative
Luminous: clear, shining
Mannered: artificial, stilted
Mendacious: deceptive
Meretricious: whorish, superficially appealing, pretentious
Minatory: menacing
Mordant: biting, incisive, pungent
Munificent: lavish, generous
Nefarious: wicked
Noxious: harmful, corrupting
Obtuse: blunt, stupid
Parsimonious: frugal, restrained
Pendulous: suspended, indecisive
Pernicious: injurious, deadly
Pervasive: widespread
Petulant: rude, ill humored
Platitudinous: resembling or full of dull or banal comments
Precipitate: steep, speedy
Propitious: auspicious, advantageous, benevolent
Puckish: impish
Querulous: cranky, whining
Quiescent: inactive, untroublesome
Rebarbative: irritating, repellent
Recalcitant: resistant, obstinate
Redolent: aromatic, evocative
Rhadamanthine: harshly strict
Risible: laughable
Ruminative: contemplative
Sagacious: wise, discerning
Salubrious: healthful
Sartorial: relating to attire, especially tailored fashions
Sclerotic: hardening
Serpentine: snake-like, winding, tempting or wily
Spasmodic: having to do with or resembling a spasm, excitable, intermittent
Strident: harsh, discordant; obtrusively loud
Taciturn: closemouthed, reticent
Tenacious: persistent, cohesive,
Tremulous: nervous, trembling, timid, sensitive
Trenchant: sharp, penetrating, distinct
Turbulent: restless, tempestuous
Turgid: swollen, pompous
Ubiquitous: pervasive, widespread
Uxorious: inordinately affectionate or compliant with a wife
Verdant: green, unripe
Voluble: glib, given to speaking
Voracious: ravenous, insatiable
Wheedling: flattering
Withering: devastating
Zealous: eager, devoted

http://www.english-at-home.com/grammar/adjectives/

Knowing what is an adjective and what is an adverb is very important when you learn English grammar. For example, the following sentences are typical mistakes caused by confusion over the difference between adjectives and adverbs.

"He works hardly." (Correct: "He works hard.")
"She writes good." (Correct: "He writes well.")
"It's a really problem." (Correct: "It's a real problem.")

Adjectives describe nouns.
"A good student."
"A nice day."
"He is interesting."

Adverbs describe verbs or adjectives.
"He eats well."
"She learns quickly."
"I'm really tired."

Why adjectives and adverbs can be difficult

1. Some adjectives and adverbs have the same form.

"She's a fast driver." (adj)
"She drives fast." (adv)

"TOEFL is a hard exam." (adj)
"The students work hard." (adv)

"She has straight hair." (adj)
"He went straight home." (adv)

2. Not all adverbs end in -ly.

For example: "She works well with others."
"Eagles fly high in the sky."

3. Some adverbs have two meanings.

Hard
"He works hard."
"I hardly know him." (barely)

Close
"She sat close to the conductor on the bus." (next to)
"I listened closely to what he said." (paying attention)

Dead
"You're dead right!" (completely right)
"This snake is deadly – watch out for it." (fatal)

Fair
"He was fairly treated by the Immigration authorities." (justly)
"It's fairly cold today." (quite)

Fine
"How do you feel? Fine." (well)
"Finely chop the tomatoes." (in small pieces)

Free
"The english-at-home.com website is free of charge." (no money needed)
"Children can play freely in this park." (no limits to their freedom)

High
"We'll need to raise prices high in order to survive." (high prices)
"I think highly of him." (a high opinion)
"He's highly paid." (very well paid)

Late
"He arrived late for the meeting." (not on time)
"There have been a few complaints lately." (recently)

Right
"She walked right up to him and demanded to see the manager." (didn't stop until she got close to him)
"He rightly thought that he was going to lose his job." (correctly thought)

Wrong
"He wrongly told her that he had been promoted." (incorrectly)
"This is spelt wrong." (incorrect)
(You can only use 'wrong' when it's after the verb.)

4. Some words that end in -ly are not adverbs, but are adjectives.
For example, lovely, friendly, silly, lonely.

"She is silly."
"She behaves in a silly way."

"Her children are lovely."
"He treated her in a lovely way."

5. Some verbs are followed by adjectives.

"You look good today!"
"This soup tastes nice."
"He seems pleasant."
"I don't feel very happy at the moment."

In these examples, you are describing the subject (such as 'the soup') rather than the verb ('tastes').

Adjective order

If you have more than one adjective, what order do you put them in? For example, is it "a green leather chair" or "a leather green chair"?

Here are some guidelines for adjective order.

1. The closer the adjective to the noun, the more it defines the noun. So we'd say "an antique engagement ring" rather than "an engagement antique ring" because "engagement" defines what sort of ring it is.

The further from the noun, the less closely the adjective defines the noun.

2. We separate two adjectives with a comma (not "and"). So, "she had a small, yappy dog" and not "She had a small and yappy dog".

3. We use "and" after the verb "to be" and with colour adjectives.
"The dog was small, white and vicious. It wore a red and white jacket when it went out for walks."

Adjective order

Opinion, size, shape, age, colour, origin, material, defining

Examples:
She wore a beautiful, white, wedding dress.
Her mother wore an ugly, big, square, green hat.
The groom wore a stylish, grey, Italian suit.

Adverbs of frequency

We use these adverbs of frequency to say how often we do something.

always
often / frequently
usually / generally
sometimes / occasionally
hardly ever / rarely
never

For example, "I always drink coffee in the morning" means I drink coffee every morning.

Be careful of the pronunciation of "rarely". The "are" part of the word is spoken like the word air. The word has two syllables – 'rare' and 'ly'.

Putting these expressions into a sentence

These words go before the main verb.

"She often goes to the beach in summer."

They go after the verb 'to be'.

"He is occasionally late for meetings."

They go after 'modal' or 'auxiliary' verbs.

"It can sometimes get cold in the UK."

"I have never been to the USA."

'From time to time' is an expression that means the same as 'sometimes'. It normally goes at the end of a sentence.

For example, "I go to restaurants from time to time."

Some verb and adverb partnerships

Some verbs and adverbs go together naturally in English and it's often helpful to learn them as expressions.

act quickly: "We have to act quickly if we want to agree to their deal."

listen attentively: "She listened attentively to what her boss was saying."

play fair: "I don't feel that you are playing fair – you seem to change your mind when it suits you!"

search thoroughly: "The police searched the house thoroughly, but couldn't find any evidence."

sigh deeply: "He sighed deeply when he heard the news."

sit comfortably: "She was sitting comfortably on a sofa when he walked in."

speak softly: "It was difficult to hear her as she was speaking softly."

think carefully: "Please think about this carefully – it's a big decision."

vary widely: "Marriage customs vary widely from culture to culture."

work hard: "We work hard in the office."