Adjectives to Describe MOODS

Adjectives to describe MOODS

Hi English learners! Improve your English vocabulary with today’s lesson. Here are 24 adjectives to describe moods. Here is the list:

• Anxious
• Affectionate
• Calm
• Careless
• Cheerful
• Despairing
• Furious
• Gloomy
• Gregarious
• Hopeful
• Inspired
• Introspective
• Lonely
• Melancholic
• Nostalgic
• Optimistic
• Pessimistic
• Pensive
• Reckless
• Reflective
• Reserved
• Sullen
• Sluggish
• Tense

Adjectives to describe MOODS

Anxious

Meaning: feeling worried because you expect something bad to happen.

• As the weather got worse Peter became more and more anxious about the crops.

Affectionate

Meaning: showing feelings or love for somebody.

• Sara is very affectionate towards her children. She is always hugging and kissing them.

Calm

Meaning: worriless and peaceful, without hurry or nervousness.

• Our boss is always calm under pressure.

Careless

Meaning: not paying much attention to what you are doing and that way cause damage or make mistakes.

• John is so careless. Look, he’s texting a friend while driving.

Adjectives to describe MOODS

Cheerful

Meaning: being positive, happy, joyful.

• Samantha has been in a cheerful mood all day because her boyfriend proposed to her.

Despairing

Meaning: feeling down, hopeless.

• After his mother died, Sean seemed to be more and more despairing.

Furious

Meaning: extremely angry.

• Celia was furious when she found out that her brother took her car.

Gloomy

Meaning: feeling dark and negative, hopeless, depressed.

• Sophia couldn’t help but feel gloomy when she got the medical test results.

Gregarious

Meaning: enjoying other people’s company, friendly, outgoing.

• George is always so gregarious and outgoing. He has a lot of friends.

Adjectives to describe MOODS

Hopeful

Meaning: full of hope, positive, optimistic.

• Ever since he won money in the lottery, Simon has become more hopeful about the future.

Inspired

Meaning: feeling excited and uplifting.

• Sandra felt so inspired for drawing by the lake when she heard the weather forecast.

Introspective

Meaning: thinking a lot about your own feelings and ideas.

• Laura was an introspective person who enjoyed her own company.

Lonely

Meaning: feeling sad because you are alone and don’t have any friends or some other company.

• So many old people are living alone today and most of them feel more or less lonely.

Melancholic

Meaning: feeling very sad or depressed.

• Robert was a bit melancholic and sad.

Nostalgic

Meaning: feeling unhappy when you remember some time in the past when you were happy.

• Most people feel nostalgic when they first move abroad.

Optimistic

Meaning: feeling positive, hopeful, emphasizing the good side of a situation rather than a bad one.

• When the meeting ended, Mr Tompson felt rather optimistic about the project.

Pessimistic

Meaning: opposite from optimistic; tending to think about bad things rather than positive and good ones.

• After reading the newspapers, Paul felt very pessimistic about his candidate winning the election.

Pensive

Meaning: thinking about something deeply and seriously.

• When she returned from Australia, Vera was often absent and pensive.

Reckless

Meaning: showing very little care about your doings.

• Brian tends to be a bit reckless, especially when it comes to money. 

Reflective

Meaning: spending lots of time in your head, thinking deeply and quietly.

• After the movie, she was in a reflective mood for quite some time.

Reserved

Meaning: not showing or talking about your feelings much.

• Ryan was quite a reserved, quiet man.

Sullen

Meaning: being in a bad mood and unwilling to talk.

• Jason was sitting with a sullen face and refused to say why he felt that way.

Sluggish

Meaning: having less energy than normal and therefore feeling kind of lazy.

• Bob couldn’t help but feel a bit sluggish and sleepy after dinner.

Tense

Meaning: unable to relax, worried and nervous.

• Saunders was usually very tense before exams.

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