Do you know how to describe people in English?

Learn words to describe features like hair color, height, eye color and more. 

✅ General Appearance

Attractive, good-looking, beautiful, handsome, pretty, cute, nice; plain, plain-looking, ugly; formally-dressed, well-dressed, nicely dressed, casually dressed, poorly dressed; neat, clean, untidy, dirty, tidy.

✅ Height

Tall, pretty tall, six feet tall, short, pretty short; average height, medium height, middle height.

✅ Weight and Build

Thin, quite thin, slim, slender, skinny, medium-build, overweight, fat; strong, muscular, athletic, average weight, heavy, wide, healthy, obese, normal size

✅ Hair

Dark, fair, black, red, brown, blond, chestnut brown, white, gray; long, short, medium-length, shoulder-length; straight, curly, wavy, thick, thinning, bald; shiny, smooth, neatly combed; dull, tousled, disheveled.

✅ Eyes

Black, blue, green, gray, brown, light-blue, dark-gray, grayish-blue, dark; small, round, thin, dull, big, bright, expressive, with long lashes.

✅ Age

Infant (can’t walk), young, old, middle-aged; teenager, toddler (1-3 yrs.), young adult, twenty years old, in her thirties, about forty.

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