Now have you ever met somebody that you found very attractive, okay, very interesting. You
wanted to give her a compliment and you ended up saying, you know what, you are nice. You
know what she must have thought about you. She must have thought that you are boring.
Because nice is such a boring word. Well it's high time we learn to use better adjectives
for simple ones like nice, pretty, good, happy and all those really, really common ones.
A very warm welcome to today's lesson, my name is Rima. And today's lesson is going
to be very interesting because it's about using interesting adjectives. Now let's start
with the very first one, nice. We just spoke about this. So nice could be used as a compliment
or nice could be used to describe a certain object. So you could say that dress is nice
or you could say that dress is very pleasing. Or if you are describing a person, it's just
saying something like, she's nice. You could say, you know what she is very likeable. Likeable
sounds so much better than nice. Then of course if you really like someone's personality,
you could describe it as a pleasing personality. So I find her personality very pleasing. Now
if you see a lady or a person who is really like you know full of good manners and good
behaviour, you could call that person, nice which like I said is boring or you could use
the word gracious. I think your manners are extremely gracious. Wow, that word actually
sounds like a compliment, right. What a beautiful adjective. And if you think a person is always
very nice, very well behaved, you know very pleasing. All of the above actually, the person
is nice, likeable, pleasing and gracious, you could just say, she is always very cordial.
So if you know somebody who is always behaving really well, very well behaved, you know polite,
nice, likeable, pleasing, gracious, you could just say she is one of the most cordial people
that I have met. There you go. So I'm sure it was very interesting to learn different
words for the word nice. But how about a word like bad? Now bad is
a negative word, but sometimes bad is too weak to actually convey our feelings. Imagine
you are having a really bad day at work and you go to your colleague and say something
like, my God I'm having a bad day. Sound okay. But how about you give it a more powerful
adjective like, I’m having an awful day. I think this word is so close to what you
are really feeling. I'm having an awful day or if someone behaves badly with you and you
want to tell somebody well that was bad behaviour. How about you get a little stronger and use
the adjective rotten. Now I know rotten is generally used to refer to fruit or food or
something like that when it goes bad. But how abet you use it for someone's behaviour
and say that is absolutely rotten behaviour. Now that sounds powerful and I'm sure you
really feel like you are truly expressing your feelings. Moving on. If someone is being
bad to you or you find someone to be a bad person, you could actually call that person,
nasty. She is such a nasty girl. She just behaves in such a nasty fashion .. Uh that's
like giving power to your feelings. Now if you know someone who is always behaving badly,
who has bad thoughts, bad behaviour, who says you know bad stuff to you, you could call
that person, wicked, yeah. So you could say, my God, he or she is quite wicked in their
ways. So the next time something bad happens to you, don't go on the weak side. Don't just
stick with something like bad, use really amazing and interesting adjectives and give
power to your feelings.
Moving on, I have for you something that we all alike to be, happy. Yes sometimes when
you are happy or very happy for that matter, the word happy just does not do it. So imagine
if you say a happy face on the road , you could call it a cheerful face. A face which
has a smile on it. So yes happy can be replaced with the adjective cheerful. Of course sometimes,
some people just make you happy and you could says, I'm happy to see you. I'm so happy to
see you. I'm very happy to see you or you could say, I'm so glad to see you and that
will make the person realise how really happy you are to see him or her. So glad is a great
replacement. Moving on sometimes we have big successes in life. That big job or that big
appointment that you really wanted and you say I'm happy I got the job or you could say,
I'm elated I got the job. There you go, elated seems extremely powerful, right. So ya, these
are the words that you could use cheerful, glad, elated. There's one more word, okay
now this one is a little tricky, so I want you to pay attention. Okay, let's say if you
think somebody is generally a happy person, she seems to be a happy person. Okay how about
you say something like , she seems to be very jovial. Meaning she seems to be somebody,
who is joyful, who is cheerful, who is happy, which is why you use the adjective, jovial.
It’s a great way to describe somebody who is generally positive, bright and happy.
Okay, moving one what do we have here? Good, my God good is so boring, right? She's a good
girl, Oh your dress is good. Ahh,, the car looks good. Why can't we come up with better
words? I’m sure we can right. So well, Good could be replaced with something like super.
Wow that's super. I love what you are telling me. That's such super news. Instead of that's
such good news, right? Of course if something is very pleasing or let's says you are having
good day or the weather is really good. Instead of saying wow it's a good day outside. You
could say something like, wow it's a pleasant day outside. And pleasant will actually do
the trick because the moment you use the word pleasant, you actually visualise a beautiful
day, the bright sunny skies. Moving on what do we have next? Now sometimes we have such
amazing achievements and we want to celebrate them. So instead of saying very good, well
done, congratulations, you could say, that is stupendous work, congratulations to you.
So stupendous really expresses how well you have done something. How great that achievement
is and how good it is, how good you are feeling about it, right. So stupendous is a word that
I'd love to use, I even like the sound of it, stupendous, sound so grand, right?
Moving on there is splendid, okay. Now splendid could also be used to describe someone's behaviour,
to describe an object, to describe a day. So it's a splendid day outside. Wow I love
what you are wearing, it’s splendid. That achievement of yours is splendid. So splendid
is quite multipurpose like that and you can sue it anywhere to replace the word, good
which is kind of become boring. Moving on, we have sad, now this negative
emotion that all of us feel, let's not underestimate this. Okay, sometimes we feel sad, very sad,
very sad, but we can't keep using the same word each time. So what I've done is I've
got you different words to express the word sad. Okay, now these adjectives will do the
job very nicely. Let's say you are feeling very sad. I'm feeling really sad today or
you could says, I'm so gloomy today. The weather is so gloomy today. Wow gloomy really defines
sad, when everything is dull, there's no energy, no positivity, then gloomy is a perfect word
to use. Now imagine that you are very, very sad about something. So instead of saying,
I'm sad about what happened, you could say I'm really upset. The word upset really defines
how you are completely out of rhythm and really, really sad about something that happened to
you. Moving on, another word which is really, really powerful. Now this can be used to describe
someone's facial expression or the weather outside. So let's say the weather is really
gloomy and I could say, the day locks is downcast. Or if I want to describe the sad expression
on someone's face, I could say, that downcast face told me the entire story. Or I could
say, you know the expression on her face was absolutely downcast meaning she was really
sad, right? Now the last word which you can use to replace the word sad is cheerless.
Now let me tell you, cheerless is not used commonly, okay. So, you might use cheerful
for happy, but most people don't end up using the word cheerless. If you do use it, it can
actually prove to be a very powerful replacement for sad. So call the weather cheerless or
you could you know basically just describe a person's personality as cheerless. He is
quite a cheerless person, one doesn't feel like talking to him meaning he lacks good
cheer. He is not cheerful, he is mostly sad, gloomy, downcast, yeah? That's when you use
the word cheerless. A little uncommon this usage, but definitely powerful. Well those
are all the adjectives you can use to replace sad.
Moving on, now boys pay attentions because this one is really important for you. It's
pretty. Now pretty is a very common compliment for a girl, for a woman, even for a young
girl, a very small girl I would say. But there are a lot of other words which are very interesting
words that you can use to replace the adjective pretty with. Okay, let's look at the first
one. Now if you see a pretty lady, instead of telling her something like, hey lady you
are looking pretty today. You could say, hey you are locking gorgeous today. Now gorgeous
sounds so pretty, so beautiful, right? It's sounds amazing to the ear also and trust me
if you are complimenting a girl, you are win brownie points for calling her gorgeous. So
gorgeous can definitely be used to replace pretty. It means actually much more than pretty
and it is a great word to use. Moving on, we have appealing. Now appealing is not as
powerful as gorgeous but it can be used. So if you finds someone pretty but you are not
really close to the person, close enough to go and tell the person, hey you are gorgeous.
You could says, wow you look very appealing today. It’s more formal word to tell someone
that they are looking pretty or presentable. Okay so remember appealing you could use it
in a formal setting. Moving on there is stunning. Now sometimes people just take your breath
away with how pretty they are looking. Now those are the times when you end up using
the word stunning like their beauty or their prettiness, actually stuns you. Okay so that’s
when you call the person stunning instead of plain, old, simple pretty.
Okay moving on, the last word on my list, it's attractive. Now sometimes you find somebody
is attracting you, okay is attracting your attention. Now for lack of a better word,
you go and tell that person , I think you are very pretty or I find you very pretty.
But the truth is you are just getting really attracted to the person. The person could
be pretty or could not be pretty but you are definitely attracted to the person and his
or her energy, you could go and tell the person, you know what, I think you are very attractive
or I find you very attractive. Now that will give a clear idea as to what you intend to
say and of course it will replace the plain old simple boring word pretty in a fun manner.
Well those are the words for the word pretty, there's gorgeous, there's appealing, there's
stunning and there is attractive.
So well those are my interesting adjectives for those simple plain, old boring ones like
nice, bad, happy, sad, pretty and really hope that you are going to make use of them and
enrich your vocabulary and your personality. I truly hope you have enjoyed today's lesson,
this is me Rima signing out saying bye and take care... I'm going to catch you aging very
very soon with yet another lesson, till then take care.