Adjective word list worksheets

List of adjectives in developmental order:

Basic – ahead, alike, afraid, bad, behind, beginning/ middle/ end, big, clean, cold, (basic colors: black, blue, green, orange,red, yellow), dirty, fake, fast, fat, funny, good, great, happy, heavy, high, hot, hungry, lazy, long, loud, low, mad, many, middle, more, new, nice, old, open, pretty, quiet, real, sad, scary, short, sick, silly, slow, small, strong, tall, thirsty, tired, tricky, upside down, wet, yummy, etc.

Early Elementary – alive, angry, backward, better, best, beautiful, breakable, bright, broken, bumpy, careful, clear, closed, cloudy, clumsy, (later developing colors: pink, purple, gray, brown, white, etc.), comfortable, dangerous, delicious, deep, difficult, dry, early, easy, empty, excellent, exciting, famous, far, first, few, flat, free, freezing, friendly, full, half, hard, healthy, helpful, horrible, icy, important, impossible, itchy, juicy, large, last, late, lazy, light, loose, more, near, nervous, noisy, nosy, past, perfect, plastic, poor, powerful, quick, rainy, ready, rotten, rough, round, salty, same, second, secret, shallow, shy, skinny, sour, spicy, spotted, sticky, straight, strange, striped, sweet, tame, thankful, tight, tiny, tough, underlined, used, warm, weak, wide, wild, wise, whole, wild, wonderful, wrong, young, etc.

Later Elementary – alphabetic, ancient, average, bitter, boiling, brave, challenging, cheap, cool, complete, concerned, covered, crooked, crowded, curly, damaged, dizzy, dull, dusty, equal, expensive, familiar, flexible, fresh, gentle, gigantic, gorgeous, greasy, greater than, grumpy, guilty, imaginary, innocent, interesting, less than, level, massive, melted, miniature, mysterious, natural, necessary, nervous, normal, nutritious, odd, old-fashioned, opposite, plain, precious, previous, proud, possible, public, rare, responsible, ripe, scientific, selfish, separate, serious, silent, similar, simple, solid, steep, sudden, thin, uneven, unknown, unusual, valuable, violent, wasteful, wealthy, worried, etc.

Secondary – abundant, accurate, amused, brief,(advanced colors: tan, lavender, blue-green, etc.), complex, common, damp, disrespectful, dull, eager, empty, entertaining, exact, faint, frail, frequent, handsome, helpless, historic, hollow, intelligent, irrelevant, jealous, magnificent, medical, modern, mushy, negative, obedient, ordinary, overconfident, parallel, political, positive, precise, prickly, pro-ductive, puny, rapid, relevant, roasted, roomy, slanted, specific, stiff, tender, unequal, vacant, vast, etc.

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(1)  Basic Matching with pictures Doc PDF;     (2)  Basic Matching Doc PDF;       (3)  Basic Sentence Search Doc PDF;      (4)  Later Developing Sentence Search Doc PDF ;       (5)  Advanced Sentence Search Doc PDF ;       (6)  Basic Adjective Sentence Drop Doc PDF ;       (7)  Later Developing Sentence Drop Doc PDF ;       (8)  Later Developing Sentence Drop Doc PDF;        (9) Sentence Maze 1 Doc PDF;      (10) Sentence Bulls Eye 1 Doc PDF;      (11)  Sentence Bulls Eye 2 Doc PDF;      (12)  Sentence Bulls Eye 3 Doc PDF;      (13) Sentence Jumble Doc PDF;     (14) Words that work Doc PDF

Adjective Bingo – Basic

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Adjective Bingo – Later Developing Adjectives

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Adjective Pictures

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Adjective Fill in the Blank Cards:

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Basic

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(1) Basic Adjective Cards 1 Doc PDF;     (2) Basic Adjective Cards 2 Doc PDF;     (3) Basic Adjective Sentence Cards 1 Doc PDF;     (4) Basic Adjective Sentence Cards 2 Doc PDF;     (5) Basic Adjective Sentence Cards 3 Doc PDF;     (6) Adjective Backs Doc PDF

Early Elementary

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(1) Adjective Cards 1 Doc PDF;   (2) Adjective Cards 2 Doc PDF;   (3) Adjective Sentences 1  Doc PDF;   (4) Adjective Sentences 2 Doc PDF;   (5) Adjective Sentences 3 Doc PDF;   (6) Adjective Card Backs  Doc PDF

Adjective Comprehension Strips

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(1) Basic Adjectives – Wet Doc PDF; (2) Basic Adjectives – Tired Doc PDF; (3) Basic Adjectives – Middle Doc PDF; (4) Basic Adjectives – Long Doc PDF; (5)   Basic Adjectives – Happy Doc PDF; (6) Basic Adjectives – Fast Doc PDF; (7) Expanded Adjectives – Not Wet Doc PDF;     (8) Expanded Adjectives – Not Old Doc PDF

Adjective “Uno” Cards

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Adjectives — opposites — wordsearch Grade/level: elementary by mada_1	ADJETIVES (Big,Small, Long, Short) Grade/level: 2º primaria by CHILLONERA	Sol-3-intro-c Grade/level: INTERMEDIATE by cecilia_maceda
Parts of speech — types of adjectives Grade/level: pre-inermediate by mada_1	Physical Appearance Grade/level: basic 5 by Keli31	REading comprehension about physical appearance Grade/level: beginner by Aylinalpata
Compound adjectives Grade/level: Advanced by iris_8	Opposites Grade/level: A1 2nd grade by claudiad2	New and old big an small Grade/level: 1ST GRADE by egomez34
-ING and -ED Adjectives Grade/level: Grade 4 by teacherchris1983	Participles adjectives ed or ing Grade/level: B1 by jhonnysuka	-ed and -ing adjectives Grade/level: 6 by ThuHa_95
Adjectives — crosswords Grade/level: Elementary by mada_1	Osascomp adjectives Grade/level: elementary by mercymouse23	Year 1 English Unit 2 Let’s Play (Adjectives) Grade/level: 1 by KwanHC
Adjectives Grade/level: elementary by mada_1	Comparative-Superlative Adjectives Grade/level: grade 5 by StacyTheo	Describing appearance and personality Grade/level: Grade 2 by verenacervera
Extreme adjectives Grade/level: Intermediate by olgastruzh	Choose the right adjective Grade/level: Elementary by LorenaSoler	Opposite adjectives Grade/level: A2 by Haideeformacion
Descriptions: Adjective Order Grade/level: 3ro by FERGGC	Awesome Animals ! Comparative Adjectives Grade/level: 3 by farraaniesya	-ED -ING adjectives Grade/level: pre-intermediate by apnagata
Simple adjectives Grade/level: Primary school by teacher_Sylvie	Adjectives for describing places Grade/level: UPPER-INTERMEDIATE by dsarroca	Adjective order Grade/level: Cuarto by NoheliaVU
WORD SEARCH: colors Grade/level: 5 by TeacherPamellaADL	At the library Grade/level: 3º by nko	Describing a city or town Grade/level: B1 by minaminina
Revision: Adjective Order Grade/level: J2 by Misspao21	Adjectives to describe people Grade/level: Grade 4 by Ireneleiva	Animal riddles Grade/level: Grade 3 by fcastells
Adjective Order Grade/level: 5th by Nonita	Begginer WorkSheet Grade/level: Grade 3 by Cristian_321_45	Personality adjectives — hw Grade/level: 2ND by CJPJ7820
Extreme Adjectives with Very & Absolutely Grade/level: B1 by estherlee76	Adjective Order Grade/level: Primary by DayaneLeonStex	Adjectives Grade/level: Primary school by teacher_Sylvie
Adjectives ed or ing Grade/level: B1 by florenceconrard	Physical Appereance 2 Grade/level: elemental by MISSAND1	Adjectives for describing an appearance Grade/level: grade 1 by AnniF
Physical appearance & Character Grade/level: Grade 9 by nurismahayiarun	Describing people Grade/level: BASIC 1 by camaya	Adjectives to describe people Grade/level: 5 by SilviaGarcia
Adjetives with ed or ing Grade/level: b1 by maestrorogelioloja	New or Old? Grade/level: preschool by EnglishHouse51	UNIT 4: STREET PARTY Vocabulary Grade/level: Cuarto de Primaria by Elenacontrerastello

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Free adjective worksheets

These grammar worksheets help grade 1-3 students learn to recognize and use adjectives. Adjectives are words that describe nouns. All worksheets are pdf files; multiple versions of some worksheets are provided for additional practice.

Grade 1 adjectives worksheets

• Identifying adjectives from a list of words
• Choosing adjectives to describe pictures
• Completing sentences with adjectives from a word bank
• Write sentences with adjectives

Grade 2 adjectives worksheets

• Identifying adjectives from a list of words
• Identifying adjectives in sentences
• Adjectives which come after nouns
• Writing sentences with adjectives
• Using 2 adjectives in a sentence
• Comparative adjectives
• Alliterations

Grade 3 adjectives worksheets

• Identifying adjectives in sentences
• Identifying adjective and nouns from a list
• Complete sentences with adjectives
• Writing adjectives to make sentences more interesting
• Comparing with adjectives
• Comparative and superlative adjectives

Grade 4 adjectives worksheets

• Order of adjectives
• Adjectives and linking verbs

Grade 5 adjectives worksheets

• Ordering adjectives
• Prepositional phrases as adjectives
• Comparative and superlative adjectives
• Using hyperbole

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ADJECTIVES

Noun                  Adjective                             
Noun          Adjective

adventure          adventurous                          
faith             faithful     

athlete              
athletic                                   fool             foolish

beauty              
beautiful                                 friend          friendly

boy                  
boyish                                    gold            golden

center              
central                                    hero            heroic

continent           continental                             
industry       industrial

courage             courageous                           
metal           metallic

coward             cowardly                               
music          musical

danger              dangerous                              
mystery        mysterious

noise                
noisy                                      nation           national

poet                 
poetic                                    nature           natural

star                  
starry                                     person          personal

terror               
terrible                                   skill              skillful

value                
valuable                                 sun               sunny

Exercise 1. Form adjective
from the noun in brackets:

a………………sea  ( storm )                                 
……………….forests ( value )

a……………… sound ( metal )                              a
………………wonder ( nature )

……………behaviour ( child )                               
a……………….place ( mystery )

a……………….phrase ( poet )                              
a…………………deed ( courage )

a……………..armchair ( comfort )                         
………………….streets ( center )

a……………..class ( friend )                                  
an ……………..trip ( adventure )

Exercise 2.  Form adjectives

Eg.  This has been a very ……. Decision ( fool ) – This has
been a very foolish decision.

1. The shop was situated in a ……..square. ( center)
2. Gold is a very ……………….metal ( value )
3. The runner was a man of ………build ( athlete)
4. We studied the ………..sky through a telescope ( star )
5. He feels quite ……….in this warm light room ( comfort )
6. Mark Twain wrote many …………stories ( humour )
7. A ……………person soon puts you at your  ease ( friend )

Exercise 3.  Noun + -( c )al  = Adjective

geography – geographical nation – national person – personal conversation – conversational

music – musical tradition – traditional history – historical practice — practical

Read and translate :

Its geographical position, his personal example,  a musical
performance , national dances,  a traditional greeting,  practical
difficulties,  conversational language ,  historical monuments

Use  one of the  adjective  with the suffix – ( c )al :

1. Our teacher  of geography told us about the …….position of
   great Britain.
2. Independence  day is a very important ………….holiday  in the
   United States.
3. Each country  has its own ………….dances  and songs,  its own
   ………….instruments.
4. Lots of people  like to spend their holidays  visiting
   ………….places.

Exercise 4.  Noun + -ic = Adjective

patriot – patriotic hero — heroic

history – historic artist — artistic

Read and translate :

A patriotic war,  a heroic deed,  a historic place , 
artistic skills.

Exercise 5.

care                 careful               careless

fear                 fearful                 fearless

help                helpful                 helpless

hope               hopeful                hopeless

rest                 restful                  restless

use                 useful                   useless

1.      The
man felt no fear when he went hunting. He was really a ……………hunter ( fear)

2.      The
young boy’s legs were hurt and of no use to him.  He found that his legs were
….when he tried to walk.  ( use )

3.      My
friend talks  all the time . His works are ……( end )

4.      I
like the story very much. I thought it was …….. ( delight )

5.      The
sailors understood that their situation was very dangerous. Some of them had
already lost any hope that they would be saved. They were sure that their
situation was …… ( hope )

6.      Many
racing cars have ……….engines ( power )

7.      This
grass snake is not dangerous at all.  It is quite ……. ( harm )

8.      Children
should be ………. To their parents ( thank )

9.      He
made a lot of mistakes in his composition due to writing ( care )

10.  Bright flowers make the room
look ……… ( cheer )

11.  A ……person  can do nothing
for himself  ( help )

12.  Richard was ill and could
not fall asleep. He had to spend a …..night ( sleep )

13.  Only a very ……..craftsman
could make such a beautiful piece of furniture  ( skill )

Exercise 6.

	—          Al geography – geographical conversation – practice – classic – tradition – experiment – person —	—          able enjoy – enjoyable value – honour – understand – remark – eat – drink —
	—          ful boast – boastful faith – cheer – truth – colour – delight – harm – wonder —	—          ous mystery – mysterious joy – glory – envy – nerve – danger – humour – fame —
—          ic hero – heroic patriot – artist – fantasy – history —	—          y sun – sunny greed – grass – health – luck —	—          less noise –noiseless sleep – sound – care – fear —

Exercise 7.

care care help help hope rest truth

careful careless helpful helpless hopeful restless truthful

carefulness carelessness helpfulness helplessness hopefulness restlessness truthfulness

Eg. Our situation was hopeless. All of us had a feeling of
hopelessness when we realized  we had lost our way.

1. John is not careful in doing his work . His ………is
   terrible.
2. The young soldiers found it hard to wait for the signal to
   attack. Their ……….was noticed by the officers.
3. Ann never tells a lie. You can always depend on her …….
4. I like the quite and ………of the forest. For me it is the
   most wonderful place in the world.

Exercise 8. Read the nouns
in a column at the left side . Think of three adjectives which may be used to
describe them.

game —

work —

weather —

performance —

scenery —

experiment —

place —

development —

minerals —

Exercise 9.  un + adjective              unhappy = not
happy

Unhealthy, unusual, unknown, unpleasant

An unhappy end,  an unkind boy,  an unusual question, an
unknown soldier, an unhappy place

I have a collection of fairy tales. Some of them are by
unknown writers , but they are very interesting. Some tales have an unusual
ends.

Exercise 10.

            Eg.    rain – rainy

Cloud, wind, salt, sun, fun, taste, shine, noise

1. I don’t like it when the weather in summer is ………….and
   ……………..
2. The cakes that Mummy cooked were …………
3. The water in seas and oceans  is ……………
4. The toys on the New Year Tree were ……
5. It’s nice to bathe and swim when the day is ………
6. We laughed because the story was …….
7. In autumn the sky is usually grey and ……………..

Exercise 11.

Eg.     The garden is full of bright flowers .  It looks so beautiful.

There are lots of stars in the dark sky. It looks so …. It’s fun to watch the monkeys  at the Zoo. They look so.. The airplane is very high in the sky . It …. The lake is very large . Can we swim in it ? It …. Look at the shiny stars . They ……..

beautiful funny small clean nice bright