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Useful Adjectives To Describe Feelings & Emotions

March 16, 2022 by Wes

Are you looking for some useful adjectives to describe feelings and emotions? Perhaps something to enhance your writing skills? Or maybe even your English conversation skills?

If so, you are in the right place.

In this post, we are going to take a look at some useful adjectives when talking about feelings and emotions.

Let’s get started!

adjectives to describe feelings and emotions

Useful Adjectives To Describe Feelings & Emotions

A

  • Abandoned
  • Abhorred
  • Absorbed
  • Acceptable
  • Addled
  • Admirable
  • Admired
  • Affectionate
  • Afraid
  • Aggressive
  • Aggrieved
  • Agitated
  • Agreeable
  • Alarmed
  • Alert
  • Alone
  • Aloof
  • Amazed
  • Amazing
  • Ambivalent
  • Amicable
  • Amorous
  • Amused
  • Angered
  • Angry
  • Animated
  • Annoyed
  • Annoying
  • Antisocial
  • Anxiety-free
  • Anxious
  • Apathetic
  • Appalled
  • Appreciated
  • Apprehensive
  • Apt
  • Ardent
  • Arrogant
  • Artistic
  • Ashamed
  • Assured
  • Astonished
  • Athletic
  • Awed
  • Awesome
  • Awful
  • Awkward

B

  • Bad
  • Bad-tempered
  • Baffled
  • Bashful
  • Beaming
  • Beastly
  • Beat
  • Beautiful
  • Beguiled
  • Benevolent
  • Bent
  • Bereaved
  • Bewildered
  • Bitter
  • Blah
  • Blessed
  • Blissful
  • Bloodthirsty
  • Blue
  • Boiling
  • Bold
  • Bored
  • Bothered
  • Brave
  • Brilliant
  • Broken-hearted
  • Buff
  • Bulletproof
  • Bummed out
  • Bummer
  • Buoyant
  • Busy

C

  • Calm
  • Cantankerous
  • Capable
  • Carefree
  • Careful
  • Caring
  • Cautious
  • Certain
  • Chagrined
  • Charged
  • Charitable
  • Charmed
  • Charming
  • Cheered-up
  • Cheerful
  • Cheery
  • Childish
  • Chipper
  • Clear
  • Clever
  • Clumsy
  • Cold
  • Collected
  • Combative
  • Comfortable
  • Committed
  • Compelling
  • Competent
  • Competitive
  • Complacent
  • Composed
  • Compulsive
  • Conceited
  • Concerned
  • Condemned
  • Confident
  • Confused
  • Considerate
  • Constructive
  • Contemptuous
  • Content
  • Contented
  • Contrite
  • Controlling
  • Convulsed
  • Cooperative
  • Cordial
  • Corny
  • Courageous
  • Courteous
  • Cozy
  • Crabby
  • Crafty
  • Cranky
  • Crazy
  • Creepy
  • Crestfallen
  • Cross
  • Cruel
  • Crushed
  • Cunning
  • Curious
  • Cutthroat

D

  • Dangerous
  • Daring
  • Dazed
  • Deceitful
  • Dedicated
  • Deep
  • Defeated
  • Defiant
  • Dejected
  • Deliberate
  • Delicate
  • Delighted
  • Delighted
  • Delightful
  • Dense
  • Depressed
  • Desperate
  • Detached
  • Detached
  • Determined
  • Devious
  • Difficult
  • Diffident
  • Dirty
  • Disagreeable
  • Disappointed
  • Discouraged
  • Discreet
  • Disdainful
  • Disenchanted
  • Disengaged
  • Disgusted
  • Disheartened
  • Dishonest
  • Disillusioned
  • Disinterested
  • Dismayed
  • Dismissive
  • Dispirited
  • Displeased
  • Dissatisfied
  • Distant
  • Disturbed
  • Diverted
  • Divine
  • Dizzy
  • Doleful
  • Dominant
  • Done-In
  • Dopey
  • Doubtful
  • Down
  • Downhearted
  • Drained
  • Dreamy
  • Drowsy
  • Dull
  • Dumb
  • Durable
  • Dynamic

E

  • Eager
  • Ecstatic
  • Edgy
  • Efficient
  • Elated
  • Embarassed
  • Emboldened
  • Empowered
  • Enchanting
  • Encouraging
  • Energetic
  • Energized
  • Engaged
  • Enraged
  • Entertained
  • Enthusiastic
  • Envious
  • Erotic
  • Euphoric
  • Evil
  • Exasperated
  • Excellent
  • Excited
  • Exhausted
  • Exhilarated
  • Extravagant
  • Exuberant
words to describe feelings and emotions

F

  • Fabulous
  • Fair
  • Faithful
  • Fantastic
  • Fatigued
  • Fearful
  • Fed up
  • Feeble
  • Fierce
  • Filthy
  • Fine
  • Finicky
  • Firm
  • Flat
  • Flexible
  • Flipped-Out
  • Flustered
  • Focused
  • Fond
  • Foolish
  • Forgetful
  • Forgiving
  • Fortunate
  • Foul
  • Frail
  • Frantic
  • Friendly
  • Frightened
  • Fruitful
  • Frustrated
  • Fulfilled
  • Fuming
  • Funny
  • Furious
  • Fussy
  • Futile

G

  • Gay
  • Generous
  • Genial
  • Gentle
  • Gifted
  • Glad
  • Glad
  • Gleeful
  • Gloomy
  • Glorious
  • Glowing
  • Glum
  • Good
  • Gracious
  • Grateful
  • Gratified
  • Gratifying
  • Greedy
  • Green
  • Grief-stricken
  • Grieving
  • Groovy
  • Gross
  • Grossed-out
  • Grouchy
  • Grumpy
  • Guarded
  • Guilty
  • Guiliable

H

  • Happy
  • Hard
  • Harmonious
  • Harsh
  • Healthy
  • Heartbroken
  • Hearty
  • Heavy
  • Helpful
  • Helpless
  • Herculean
  • Hesitant
  • High
  • High-powered
  • Hilarious
  • Hopeful
  • Hopeless
  • Hopping Mad
  • Horrified
  • Hot
  • Hot
  • Hot-headed
  • Hot-tempered
  • Humble
  • Humbled
  • Humiliated
  • Hungry
  • Hurt
  • Hyperactive
  • Hysterical

I

  • Icky
  • Idealistic
  • Idiotic
  • Ignorant
  • Ill
  • Illicit
  • Imaginative
  • Immature
  • Immodest
  • Immoral
  • Immune
  • Impartial
  • Impatient
  • Important
  • Improper
  • Impure
  • Inadequate
  • Inattentive
  • Incensed
  • Inclined
  • Incredible
  • Indecisive
  • Indestructible
  • Indifferent
  • Indignant
  • Indiscreet
  • Inexperienced
  • Influential
  • Ingenious
  • Inhibited
  • Inhuman
  • Innocent
  • Innovative
  • Inquisitive
  • Insane
  • Insecure
  • Inspired
  • Inspiring
  • Intelligent
  • Intense
  • Interested
  • Intimate
  • Intimidated
  • Intolerant
  • Intoxicating
  • Introverted
  • Inventive
  • Involved
  • Invulnerable
  • Irked
  • Ironclad
  • Irrational
  • Irresistible
  • Irritable
  • Irritated
  • Isolated
  • Itchy

J

  • Jaded
  • Jealous
  • Jittery
  • Jocular
  • Jolly
  • Joy
  • Joyful
  • Joyous
  • Jubilant
  • Judged
  • Judgmental
  • Jumpy
  • Juvenile

K

  • Keen
  • Kind
  • Knowledgeable

L

  • Lackluster
  • Lazy
  • Leery
  • Lenient
  • Lethargic
  • Levelheaded
  • Lifeless
  • Light
  • Lighthearted
  • Listless
  • Lively
  • Livid
  • Lonely
  • Lousy
  • Lovable
  • Lovely
  • Lovesick
  • Loving
  • Low
  • Low-spirited
  • Lustful
words that describe feelings and emotions

M

  • Mad
  • Malevolent
  • Manipulative
  • Manly
  • Marvelous
  • Mean
  • Meek
  • Melancholy
  • Mellow
  • Melodramatic
  • Merciful
  • Merciless
  • Merry
  • Mighty
  • Mindless
  • Mirthful
  • Mischievous
  • Miserable
  • Misunderstood
  • Moderate
  • Monotonous
  • Moody
  • Mopey
  • Morose
  • Motivated
  • Mournful
  • Moved
  • Mushy
  • Mysterious

N

  • Naive
  • Nasty
  • Naughty
  • Nauseated
  • Nauseous
  • Needed
  • Needy
  • Neglected
  • Neglectful
  • Nervous
  • New
  • Nice
  • Nimble
  • Nonchalant
  • Nostalgic
  • Numb

O

  • Obedient
  • Obligated
  • Obsessed
  • Obsessive
  • Obstinate
  • Obtuse
  • Off
  • Offended
  • Okay
  • Open
  • Open-minded
  • Openminded
  • Opposed
  • Optimistic
  • Original
  • Ornery
  • Outraged
  • Outstanding
  • Overjoyed
  • Overloaded
  • Overlooked
  • Overpowered
  • Overstimulated
  • Overwhelmed
  • Overworked

P

  • Pained
  • Panicked
  • Panicky
  • Partial
  • Passionate
  • Passive
  • Patient
  • Peaceful
  • Peachy
  • Peeved
  • Pensive
  • Peppy
  • Perky
  • Persuasive
  • Perturbed
  • Petrified
  • Petty
  • Petulant
  • Picky
  • Pitiful
  • Placid
  • Playful
  • Pleasant
  • Pleased
  • Pliable
  • Pooped
  • Powerful
  • Powerless
  • Preoccupied
  • Prepared
  • Pressured
  • Pretty
  • Prickly
  • Prideful
  • Productive
  • Protected
  • Proud
  • Provoked
  • Puzzled
adjectives describing feelings and emotions

Q

  • Qualified
  • Quarrelsome
  • Queasy
  • Quick
  • Quiet
  • Quirky
  • Quivery

R

  • Rabid
  • Radiant
  • Raging
  • Rash
  • Rational
  • Rattled
  • Raunchy
  • Raw
  • Reasonable
  • Reassured
  • Reassuring
  • Rebellious
  • Refreshed
  • Regaled
  • Regretful
  • Rejuvenated
  • Relaxed
  • Relentless
  • Relieved
  • Reluctant
  • Remarkable
  • Remorseful
  • Repelled
  • Repugnant
  • Repulsed
  • Resentful
  • Reserved
  • Resourceful
  • Rested
  • Restful
  • Restless
  • Restrained
  • Revolted
  • Revolting
  • Rigid
  • Ripped
  • Romanticist
  • Rosy
  • Rotten
  • Rough
  • Ruffled
  • Rugged

S

  • Sad
  • Safe
  • Sarcastic
  • Satisfied
  • Savage
  • Savvy
  • Scared
  • Scornful
  • Secure
  • Self-accepting
  • Self-approving
  • Self-conscious
  • Self-doubting
  • Senseless
  • Sensible
  • Sensitive
  • Sentimental
  • Serene
  • Serious
  • Sexy
  • Shaky
  • Shameful
  • Sharp
  • Sheltered
  • Shielded
  • Shocked
  • Shortsighted
  • Shredded
  • Shrewd
  • Shy
  • Sick
  • Sickened
  • Silly
  • Simple
  • Skeptical
  • Skillful
  • Sleepy
  • Slick
  • Slothful
  • Slow
  • Sluggish
  • Sly
  • Small
  • Smart
  • Smug
  • Snappy
  • Snug
  • Sociable
  • Softhearted
  • Solid
  • Soothed
  • Sore
  • Sorrowful
  • Sorry
  • Sound
  • Sour
  • Sparing
  • Sparkling
  • Spent
  • Spirited
  • Spiritless
  • Spirituous
  • Spiteful
  • Spooked
  • Sprightly
  • Squeamish
  • Stable
  • Stagnant
  • Stale
  • Standoffish
  • Startled
  • Startling
  • Steamed
  • Stiff
  • Stingy
  • Stodgy
  • Strange
  • Stressed
  • Strong
  • Stubborn
  • Stuffy
  • Stunned
  • Stupid
  • Sturdy
  • Submissive
  • Sullen
  • Super
  • Superior
  • Supportive
  • Surly
  • Surprised
  • Suspicious
  • Sweet
  • Sympathetic

T

  • Talented
  • Tamed
  • Taxed
  • Tedious
  • Temperamental
  • Tender
  • Tenderhearted
  • Terrified
  • Thankful
  • Thirsty
  • Thoughtful
  • Threatened
  • Thrilled
  • Thunderous
  • Tickled
  • Timid
  • Tired
  • Tiresome
  • Tiring
  • Tolerant
  • Tolerated
  • Torn
  • Touched
  • Tough
  • Tranquil
  • Trashed
  • Tricky
  • Trivial
  • Troubled
  • Trustful
  • Trusting
  • Trustworthy
  • Turned off
  • Turned on

U

  • Ugly
  • Unaffected
  • Unappreciated
  • Unassertive
  • Uncertain
  • Unclean
  • Uncomfortable
  • Uncommunicative
  • Unconcerned
  • Unconfident
  • Unconversant
  • Undisturbed
  • Uneasy
  • Unemotional
  • Unexcited
  • Unfortunate
  • Unhappy
  • Unimportant
  • Unintelligent
  • Uninterested
  • Unpolished
  • Unprincipled
  • Unreasonable
  • Unruffled
  • Unruly
  • Unsettled
  • Unskillful
  • Unsociable
  • Unsophisticated
  • Unstoppable
  • Unsure
  • Unsuspecting
  • Untouchable
  • Untrained
  • Untroubled
  • Unwanted
  • Unwelcoming
  • Unworried
  • Unyielding
  • Up
  • Upbeat
  • Upset
  • Uptight
  • Used

V

  • Vain
  • Valued
  • Vengeful
  • Versatile
  • Vexed
  • Vibrant
  • Victimized
  • Victorious
  • Vigorous
  • Vile
  • Violated
  • Violent
  • Vital
  • Vitalized
  • Vivid
  • Volatile
  • Vulgar
  • Vulnerable

W

  • Warlike
  • Warm
  • Warmhearted
  • Wary
  • Waspish
  • Wasted
  • Weak
  • Weary
  • Weepy
  • Well-built
  • Well-pleased
  • Whimsical
  • Wild
  • Wiped-out
  • Wise
  • Wishful
  • Withdrawn
  • Witty
  • Wonderful
  • Worn-out
  • Worried
  • Worthless
  • Wowed
  • Wrathful
  • Wronged

Y

  • Youthful
  • Yucky

Z

  • Zestful
  • Zippy
  • Zonked

There you have it! A useful list of adjectives to describe feelings and emotions? Did we miss one? If so, please share it with us in the comments below.

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Hello, my name is Wes. I have been teaching English for over 8 years now. Over those years, I have helped hundreds of students speak English better. I hope this blog, helps you too! Read More…

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