HALLOWEEN ADJECTIVES LIST


Adjectives describe the nouns, and a simple form to remember them is by recalling our five senses; you can use your sight, touch, smell, taste, and hearing to find words describing a person, place, or thing.
Here is a list of some adjectives used to describe Halloween. These are nouns modifiers and have a direct effect on the noun.

Scroll down to the bottom, and you will find interactive vocabulary cards!

If you want to practice more about adjectives, visit my Halloween interactive "find the difference" game.


- Appearance adjectives: These adjectives engage in the sight sense. An appearance is helpful to describe how someone or something looks.
Ugly green troll
ugly troll
  • Old-fashioned     
  • Abominable                                                
  • Ugly
  • Dirty
  • Somber                     


- Color Adjectives: These adjectives also engage in the sight sense. They come in handy to make more specific descriptions.

  • Red
  • Orange
  • Yellow
  • Gray
  • Black
  • White        
-         Condition Adjectives: These adjectives describe the state, situation, or working order of something or someone.

Powerful troll
Powerful troll
          • Dead
          • Odd
          • Powerful
          • Obscure
          • Difficult

                                                                                               
 -    Feeling (bad) adjectives: These adjectives are helpful to describe a state of mind.

Angry cat, cat on fire, white cat
Angry cat
  • Mysterious
  • Nervous
  • Repulsive
  • Angry
  • Scary 


-         Shape adjectives: These adjectives engage in the touch sense and/or sight; it helps identify how something looks. 

Crooked tree
Crooked tree
  • Chubby
  • Crooked
  • Deep
  • Narrow
  • Shallow
  • Skinny


-  Size Adjectives: These adjectives engage in the touch sense and/or sight; it identifies the size (weight, height, width) of someone or something.
    Tall candle, wax candle, lit candle
    Tall candle
  • Big
  • Fat
  • Tall
  • Little
  • Massive

- Sound adjectives: These adjectives engage in the sense of hearing (tone, pitch, and volume). It is helpful to make detailed noun descriptions.

Ghost, scary ghost, screechy ghost
Screechy ghost
  • Deafening
  • Hissing
  • Loud
  • Quiet
  • Screechy


-         Time Adjectives: These adjectives are helpful to identify the age or time of a noun. It helps us to perceive if something is current or past and how quickly something or someone moves.

Sand clock
Ancient sand clock
  • Late
  • Early
  • Old
  • Quick
  • Slow
  • Ancient


- Taste/ smell Adjectives: These adjectives engage in the taste sense and/or smell. It is helpful to describe if something is in good condition or not.

    Delicious pumpkin, organge pumpkin, pumpkin
    Delicious pumpkin
  • Bitter
  • Delicious
  • Icy
  • Rotten
  • Strong
  • Sticky


-  Quality Adjectives: These adjectives help describe the condition, state, or working order of someone or something.

Boiled chicken
  • Boiled
  • Chilly
  • Creepy
  • Damaged
  • Dirty                                              




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