Adjectives with Y | List of Adjectives Starting with Y

Here all  adjectives that are listed. These adjectives are very helpful to describe a person. These adjectives improve your writing and describing way. You can download the pdf of this lesson at the end of this lesson.

List of Adjectives Starting with Y

  1. Yankee
  2. Yappy
  3. yare
  4. Yarning
  5. Yawning
  6. Yay
  7. yearling
  8. year-long
  9. Yearly
  10. Yearning
  11. yeasty
  12. Yeatsian
  13. Yelled
  14. yellow
  15. Yellow-bellied

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Adjectives that start with Y to describe a person

Here all the important adjectives are listed. It involves both positive and negative adjectives to describe a person.

Positive adjectives

Some common positive adjectives that are commonly used in English are

  1. Yellow-covered
  2. Yellowed
  3. yellowish
  4. Yellowy
  5. Yelping
  6. Yoke-toed
  7. Yon
  8. Yond
  9. yond
  10. Yonder
  11. young
  12. Young-at-heart
  13. Younger
  14. youngest
  15. Youngish

Negative adjectives

Some common negative adjectives that are commonly used in English are

  1. Youngling
  2. young-looking
  3. Your
  4. Yours
  5. Youth
  6. Youthful
  7. youthful
  8. Yowling
  9. Yucky
  10. Yugoslav
  11. Yugoslavian
  12. Yuletide
  13. Yuman
  14. Yummy

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Adjectives with y to describe a person

adjectives starting with y to describe a person

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A List of 200 Basic Adjectives in English: 

  1. unalterable
  2. unanswerable
  3. unattractive
  4. unbeaten
  5. uncharted
  6. unexcited
  7. unfaithful
  8. unhelpful
  9. unorthodox
  10. unprecedented
  11. unshapely
  12. unsupported
  13. unwritten
  14. up-to-date
  15. vanishing
  16. various
  17. versed
  18. well-spoken
  19. whooping
  20. wrongful
  21. young
  22. abiding
  23. admired
  24. aggravated
  25. alterable
  26. anecdotal
  27. attractive
  28. awful
  29. bankable
  30. bland
  31. blatant
  32. boisterous
  33. bouncing
  34. camouflaged
  35. cautious
  36. classical
  37. close-minded
  38. commemorative
  39. complimentary
  40. compulsory
  41. conspicuous
  42. contagious
  43. continuing
  44. cornered
  45. corruptive
  46. covert
  47. crammed
  48. crotchety
  49. decadent
  50. decrepit
  51. deliberate
  52. demonic
  53. despondent
  54. detached
  55. disciplined
  56. discredited
  57. disheartening
  58. displeased
  59. disproved
  60. dizzy
  61. droll
  62. durable
  63. dynamic
  64. editable
  65. efficient
  66. eighth
  67. embattled
  68. energetic
  69. equitable
  70. expeditious
  71. fading
  72. fatherly
  73. fiendish
  74. flattened
  75. flowering
  76. forbidding
  77. formless
  78. foul
  79. fried
  80. fumbling
  81. geographic
  82. global
  83. gluey
  84. grinding
  85. gurgling
  86. heartrending
  87. holiday
  88. house
  89. imaginable
  90. imperialistic
  91. increasing
  92. inexpressive
  93. inordinate
  94. insane
  95. insincere
  96. instantaneous
  97. iron
  98. jaundiced
  99. keen
  100. knavish
  101. leading
  102. life
  103. lined
  104. lofty
  105. lovely
  106. low-fat
  107. maternal
  108. mechanical
  109. mellow
  110. melted
  111. mighty
  112. myopic
  113. negative
  114. neglected
  115. neurotic
  116. nontransferable
  117. numerous
  118. obscure
  119. occupational
  120. offbeat
  121. offensive
  122. overbearing
  123. oxymoronic
  124. pardonable
  125. patriotic
  126. penetrable
  127. permissive
  128. perturbing
  129. pointless
  130. possessive
  131. precious
  132. predictable
  133. premium
  134. present
  135. preventable
  136. prior
  137. proficient
  138. prophetic
  139. puffy
  140. quick-tempered
  141. quiet
  142. radioactive
  143. rectangular
  144. renewable
  145. reproductive
  146. residential
  147. salient
  148. salvaged
  149. sappy
  150. satiny
  151. scented
  152. schematic
  153. shocked
  154. shoddy
  155. short-lived
  156. sky-blue
  157. sly
  158. soggy
  159. sole
  160. spendthrift
  161. spoken
  162. startled
  163. steadfast
  164. surprised
  165. susceptible
  166. swooping
  167. synonymous
  168. tenacious
  169. terrifying
  170. thankless
  171. thematic
  172. thumping
  173. tremulous
  174. tumultuous
  175. unapproachable
  176. unavailing
  177. uncomplaining
  178. undependable
  179. unquestionable
  180. unquestioning
  181. unrecognized
  182. uptight
  183. vapid
  184. vegetarian
  185. volatile
  186. warning
  187. watertight
  188. well-behaved
  189. well-liked
  190. wispy
  191. wood
  192. worse
  193. worthwhile
  194. zealous
  195. abysmal
  196. adamant
  197. additional
  198. adrenalized
  199. adult
  200. agrarian
  201. amazed
  202. argumentative
  203. artistic
  204. axiomatic
  205. barefooted
  206. bearable
  207. blood-red
  208. bulky
  209. captivating
  210. charismatic
  211. cheap
  212. chief
  213. classifiable
  214. classy
  215. coldhearted
  216. comforting
  217. consecutive
  218. conservative
  219. consummate
  220. contoured
  221. contrary
  222. cracked
  223. craven
  224. danceable
  225. defective
  226. delinquent
  227. diffuse
  228. dire
  229. discouraging
  230. dishonest
  231. dismal
  232. diverse
  233. dorsal
  234. downhearted
  235. effortless
  236. enlarged
  237. enormous
  238. erasable
  239. ethereal
  240. exaggerated
  241. excessive
  242. exciting
  243. explicit
  244. faithful
  245. few ,
  246. fierce
  247. foolish
  248. fragrant
  249. fresh
  250. frustrating
  251. geologic
  252. ghoulish
  253. grating
  254. gregarious
  255. gripping
  256. handy
  257. hardy
  258. heady
  259. heartbroken
  260. heroic
  261. homeopathic
  262. humming
  263. ignorable
  264. illustrious
  265. imperfect
  266. inartistic
  267. inconsequential
  268. insipid
  269. insistent
  270. jobless
  271. kinesthetic
  272. latter
  273. lax
  274. likely
  275. linguistic
  276. luscious
  277. marked
  278. masked
  279. measly
  280. metallic
  281. microwaveable
  282. mistrustful
  283. motivated
  284. mystifying
  285. negligent
  286. nonabrasive
  287. nonchalant
  288. nonsensical
  289. nonviolent
  290. normal
  291. obese
  292. onerous
  293. openhanded
  294. operable
  295. opportunistic
  296. outstanding
  297. overconfident
  298. peaceful
  299. peeved
  300. perceptible