Degree of Adjectives List Pdf!
What is an Adjective?
In linguistics, an adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes its referent. Adjectives describe or modify—that is, they limit or restrict the meaning of—nouns and pronouns. Words like small, blue, and sharp are descriptive, and they are all examples of adjectives. Degree of adjectives sometimes called degree of comparison.
Types of Adjectives
There are four kinds of Adjectives
- Adjective of Quality
- Adjective of Quantity
- Adjective of Number
- Demonstrative Adjective
Degree of Adjectives
1. Comparative and superlative degree
- We use the comparative degree to compare two things or two peoples. (she is taller than her sister.)
- Superlatives are used to compare more than two things or people. (Islamabad is the most beautiful city of Pakistan.)
- When there is a competition between two things, we will use a Comparative degree of adjective.
E.g. She is taller than her sister.
- When there is a competition between more than two things then we will use a superlative degree of adjective.
E.g. New York is the most beautiful city in America.
Formation of a Superlative and Comparative
1. To form a degree of a single syllable adjective we will add ‘-er’ to make comparative and for superlative we can add ‘-est’.
Positive Degree | Comparative Degree | Superlative Degree |
Tall | Taller | Tallest |
High | Higher | Highest |
Strong | Stronger | Strongest |
Note: Sometimes this rule also applies to disyllable adjectives.
Positive Degree | Comparative Degree | Superlative Degree |
Easy | Easier | Easiest |
Happy | Happier | Happiest |
Clever | Cleverer | Cleverest |
Early | Earlier | Earliest |
2. To make a Comparative degree of Adjectives have two or more than two syllables we can add ‘more’ and most for superlative.
Positive Degree | Comparative Degree | Superlative Degree |
Careful | More Careful | Most Careful |
Expensive | More Expensive | Most Expensive |
Difficult | More Difficult | Most Difficult |
Tired | More Tired | Most Tired |
Irregular Comparative and Superlatives
There is no specific rules to make degrees for such adjectives.
Positive Degree | Comparative Degree | Superlative Degree |
Bad | Worse | Worst |
Good | Better | Best |
Little | Less | Least |
Many | More | Most |
Much | More | Most |
Far (place) | Farther | Farthest |
Far (people or time) | Further | furthest |
Old (people) | Elder | Eldest |
Old (people or thing) | Older | Oldest |
Degree of Adjectives List
Positive Degree | Comparative Degree | Superlative Degree |
Able | Abler | Ablest |
Big | Bigger | Biggest |
Brave | Bolder | Boldest |
Bright | Brighter | Brightest |
Cheap | Cheaper | Cheapest |
Clean | Cleaner | Cleanest |
Cold | Colder | Coldest |
Cool | Cooler | Coolest |
Dark | Darker | Darkest |
Dry | Darier | Driest |
Dirty | Dirtier | Dirtiest |
Deep | Deeper | Deepest |
Easy | Easier | Easiest |
Early | Earlier | Earliest |
Far | Farther | Farthest |
Fit | Fitter | Fittest |
Fine | Finer | Finest |
Great | Greater | Greatest |
Happy | Happier | Happiest |
Hard | Harder | Hardest |
Heavy | Heavier | Heaviest |
High | Higher | Highest |
Hot | Hotter | Hottest |
Kind | Kinder | Kindest |
Large | larger | Largest |
Late | Later | Latest |
Light | Lighter | Lightest |
Low | Lower | Lowest |
Long | Longer | Longest |
Loud | Louder | Loudest |
New | Newer | Newest |
Near | Nearer | Nearest |
Nice | Nicer | Nicest |
Noble | Nobler | Noblest |
Old | Older | Oldest |
Poor | Poorer | Poorest |
Proud | Prouder | Proudest |
Quick | Quicker | Quickest |
Rich | Richer | Richest |
Sad | Sadder | Saddest |
Safe | Safer | Safest |
Sharp | Sharper | Sharpest |
Small | Smaller | Smallest |
Smooth | Smoother | Smoothest |
Soft | Softer | Softest |
Strong | Stronger | Strongest |
Sweet | Sweeter | Sweetest |
Tall | Taller | Tallest |
Thick | Thicker | Thickest |
Ugly | Uglier | Ugliest |
Weak | Weaker | Weakest |
Wide | Wider | Widest |
Another List of Degree of Adjectives
Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
short | shorter | the shortest |
clever | Cleverer | the cleverest |
thin | thinner | thinnest |
confused | more confused | the most confused |
late | later | the latest |
proud | prouder | the proudest |
big | bigger | the biggest |
black | blacker | the blackest |
fierce | fiercer | the fiercest |
strong | stronger | the strongest |
ugly | uglier | the ugliest |
clean | Cleaner | the cleanest |
sharp | sharper | the sharpest |
quiet | quieter | the quietest |
tall | taller | the tallest |
fast | faster | the fastest |
strange | stranger | the strangest |
dirty | dirtier | the dirtiest |
slow | slower | the slowest |
fascinating | more fascinating | the most fascinating |
beautiful | more beautiful | most beautiful |
weak | weaker | the weakest |
far | farther / further | the farthest/ furthest |
small | smaller | the smallest |
poor | poorer | the poorest |
famous | more famous | the most famous |
bright | brighter | the brightest |
old | older | the oldest |
difficult | more difficult | the most difficult |
fat | fatter | the fattest |
Infographics (Degree of Adjectives)

Degree of adjectives list

Degree of adjectives list
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