Do you know how to describe people in English? Learn this vocabulary to increase your confidence.

Height

✅  tall, pretty tall, six feet tall, short, pretty short;

average height, medium height, middle height

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

Age

✅ infant (can’t walk), young, old, middle-aged; teenager,

toddler (1-3 yrs.), young adult, twenty years old, in her thirties, about forty

Eyes

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

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

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