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Beautiful descriptive adjectives for IGCSE

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  • Something that is cold and dark, tomb-like evoking dread or solemnity is...
    chrystalline
    sepulchral
    choral
    alkaline
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  • Something (usually, face expression) that is dreary, mournful, bleak and gloomy is also called...
    anticlimactic
    tremendous
    transfixing
    lugubrious
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  • This adjective is great to describe shadowy and obscure surroundings a moody scene.
    tenebrous
    oneiric
    floaty
    dazzling
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  • An adjective that relates to light and dark contrast is...
    vigilant
    vivid
    chiaroscuro
    stalwart
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  • A remark / comment / humour that is sharply sarcastic is...
    mordant
    cerebral
    vivacious
    jubilant
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  • A brooding, dark expression is...
    lush
    saturnine
    verdant
    robust
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  • Subtly charming in an innocent way.
    winsome
    elusive
    tenacious
    seraphic
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  • Transparently clear, either literally or metaphorically
    Murmurous
    Pellucid
    Effervescent
    Oblique
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  • Whispering or rustling softly (e.g. leaves, water, wind)
    susurrant
    enigmatic
    magnetic
    misty
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  • Sticky or clingy - both physically and emotionally
    viscid
    stridulant
    guttural
    gleaming
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  • Tall, slender and graceful in motion.
    lissom
    assertive
    indomitable
    willowy
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  • Smoothly charming.
    unflappable
    amorphous
    suave
    mercurial
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  • Detached, drifting, without anchor - physically or emotionally
    diaphanous
    unmoored
    clandestine
    liminal
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  • Able to change form easily; adaptable and elusive.
    Convalescent
    Abysmal
    Protean
    Intricate
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