hi everybody and welcome back to love English I'm Sabrah and I'm a British
University English teacher so I've got a fun lesson up my sleeve today oh wait I
don't have sleeves I have a fun lesson coming up for you today all about words
adjectives really so adjectives and phrases that we use to describe men and
women particularly men and women that we find attractive I'm sure you're all a
little bit tired of saying she's a pretty girl or he's a handsome guy it's
a bit like it's a bit common it's a little bit cliche so watch this video
guys if you are tired of using the same old vocabulary and also maybe you could
learn a phrase or two that could impress a member of the opposite sex
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So we're going to start with words which we commonly use to describe women and girls
So number 1 is stunning, stunning, if you say someone is stunning, you feel almost
stunned, meaning you feel like you can't speak, you're stunned by this thing,
So to be stunned is to be really astonished, to almost be unable to speak
if you are stunned, you can stun
someone or stun an animal with a stun gun for example so if someone is
stunning you they really take your breath away you know they're so
attractive to you so I could say Leila you look stunning in that dress
Oh Sabrah you're too kind you're not so bad yourself you can also use this word
as a noun and you can say someone is a stunner
she would say wow what a stunner or she's such a stunner
for example number two is of course gorgeous this is probably quite a common
one and we can use this with men and women to make this more interesting if
you want to say that somebody is really gorgeous you can say they are drop-dead
gorgeous so to me Chris Hemsworth is drop-dead gorgeous
too many people Emilia Clarke is drop-dead gorgeous
so people that you find very attracted you can say are drop-dead gorgeous I
don't get cute I get drop-dead gorgeous number three is cute but I have some
interesting versions of cute because cute is a bit boring oh you're cute this
is cute it's a bit again a bit cliche a bit boring
instead you can say that a girl is a cutie pie you can say she's such a cutie
pie don't ask me why we use the word pie here as there's nothing really cute
about a pie but that's English for you you can also say that someone is as cute
as pie it's an idiom you can say she's as cute as pie number 5 is of course hot
you can use this for men and women you can say that they're really hot however
again this is a little bit boring so I'm going to give you some more interesting
phrases or some interesting versions of this you can say that somebody is a
hottie you can say oh what a hottie for example or she's such a hottie however
if you want to make this even stronger you can say that somebody is as hot as
hell for example you can say oh it's hot as hell this is probably more often used
by men to describe women than vice-versa number 6 it's a different way to say you
look beautiful a lot of men will say oh you look
beautiful this evening when they could actually say something different if they
wanted to they could say you look incredible for example or you look
amazing so this takes me to the next one which is you look ravishing you look
ravishing and maybe this is a little bit old fashioned and it's quite strong yeah
it means you look so gorgeous that I want to kiss you and probably a bit more
and probably guys won't say this until they know the woman a little bit better
otherwise it's a it's a little bit strong we could be less conspicuous
mmm brother you look ravishing number eight is breathtaking a person
looks breathtaking usually said about a woman you can say wow she looks
breathtaking this evening in that dress or on her wedding day she looked
breathtaking literally meaning it takes my breath away her beauty takes my
breath away for example the lovely romantic one to
say you can definitely charm a lady by saying that she looks breathtaking
number nine is a showstopper a showstopper if we describe somebody as a
showstopper we're saying that they're so gorgeous that they could stop the show
they could stop everything happening so the room would stop come to a standstill
and everybody would turn to look at this beautiful woman for example again this
one is more used for women than for man and it's used in extreme circumstances
too when we say somebody is so gorgeous they could almost stop the room but if
you say that to your lady I'm sure she'll be very impressed if you tell her
that she's a showstopper I don't want the guys to start feeling left out so
now let's look at some words that are typically used to describe guys so
number 10 is a buff if we say that a guy is buff we typically mean that he's
muscley so if we say that guy is buff he's probably quite toned and muscular
so girls might say he goes to the gym a lot he's buff but of course
attractiveness is a lot more than our body it can also be about the way we
dress which is what the next one refers to the next one is a dapper if we say
that a man is dapper we mean he's very fashionably dressed he looks elegant he
looks very sophisticated maybe he's wearing a nice suit or a particularly
sophisticated hat but something about him looks so smart and so sophisticated
that he looks very attractive so we'd say he's dapper a typical example of
this guys is of course James Bond he's always dressed in a very dapper way
number 12 is hunky and some girls just go crazy for guys that are like this
and this is when a guy is very muscley a little bit like the rock so we might say
he's a hunk meaning he's probably quite well built so muscly may be quite tall
looking strong and like he you could protect you
Number thirteen is alternatives to handsome
of course handsome is very common and remember guys it is just to describe men
you can't say that a woman is handsome so with handsome we can actually make
this more interesting by saying that somebody is ruggedly handsome for
example often we describe men in this way we'll say oh he's ruggedly handsome
now when we use rugged to describe a man we really mean that he's not
clean-shaven actually maybe he's got a bit of a beard his hair is a little bit
long but some think about how he looks is very masculine and maybe he's not
perfectly turned out so maybe he's not dapper
but he's manly and he's got facial hair and things like that so it's really
associated with being masculine the word rugged you can also say that somebody is
a handsome devil or devilishly handsome so if we say he's a handsome devil we
mean he's so good-looking it's a little bit dangerous number 14 is charming
somebody who is very charming which of course refers to their personality as
well but the way someone comes across and the way they smile and the twinkle
in their eye meaning the sparkle in their eye can all come across as very
charming so we would say oh he's a very charming gentleman or he said charming
man or you can even use this in the noun and you can say what a charmer usually
if somebody is polite and knows the right things to say and is well-mannered
maybe kisses the lady's hand or opens the door for her we might say that the
person is charming you can also call a woman charming as well for the same
reasons but probably it's more associated with men because of Prince
Charming I know there's lots of girls out there who are waiting to meet their
prince charming I'm sure he's on the way ladies number 15 is dark and mysterious again
we can use this for a man or a woman but it's often used more to describe men so
if we say that a man is dark and mysterious it's to describe of course a
dark-haired man but it means that they are mysterious in some way and we find
this attractive we find this alluring so for example Johnny Depp is probably
classically a dark and mysterious man number 16 is the word attractive ans
attractive means that in some way you can attract others now it doesn't
necessarily mean that you're a supermodel but it does mean that you
have something which is appealing to others which can attract them so to be
attractive number 17 is to be sexy and again this can be about men or women if
we say somebody is sexy they have something which is alluring in a sexual
way sometimes we might even say that somebody is a sexy beast this is when
we're joking things like that we might say you sexy beast it's a little bit
like saying they're a tiger or something like that
number 18 is to be toned and this means that you work out a lot you exercise a
lot so your muscles don't have fat on them they don't have flab we would say
in English which is where the skin is loose and can wobble for example if it
is touched if you're toned that usually doesn't happen number 19 is quite
similar really it is to be sculpted so a sculpture is something like this the
classic sculpture of David which is in Florence for example so if we say that
somebody looks sculpted usually it means that they're toned usually it means that
their body has a really nice form about it looks like it's almost being made by
an artist or something like that often it's used to describe men's
figures more than women's number 20 the last one is striking again this is for
men and women now striking means that somebody has something which really
stands out about them because the verb to strike it's a synonym of the verb to
hit so if you say somebody was struck by lightning you mean they were hit by
lightning so if you were saying that you're struck by someone's beauty or
someone is striking they really stand out they have
something that strikes you and you're really kind of hit by that so often it
can be that one of their features like their hair their eyes or their smile
really stands out and really makes people take notice it really gets
attention for example okay everybody they were twenty
alternatives to saying pretty beautiful handsome so I hope that you use those
more interesting alternatives or maybe you can even impress a member of the
opposite sex your boyfriend girlfriend husband or wife or someone that you'd
like to be your girlfriend a boyfriend by using one of these phrases thank you
so much for watching everybody and we'll see you soon on live English bye bye Oh
Chris you're so ruggedly handsome what do I need to do to get a date with you?