10 Best Advanced Adjectives to Describe Emotions & People | Improve Your English Vocabulary

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on my shirt distract you from this video.

Is the thumbnail for this video click bait?

Kind of both.

Yes and no.

- And he said you'd be happy.

Glad.

- Did he say happy or glad?

- Glad, he said Glad.

Glad.

- Glad's good.

- Yeah - That's good.

- So wait, is glad a better word than happy?

Should I start using glad?

No, but sometimes if you want

and these are the cases where you might want to change it

they basically mean Ah.

But happy is a more obvious feeling of, ah, this is amazing.

"We are at Disneyland.

I'm so happy."

Glad is a more subtle, quiet happiness.

"Ah, all my enemies are dead.

I'm glad", that's one difference.

Glad also expresses relief.

"Okay, I'm glad my ex isn't at this party.

She's definitely not here?

Okay, I'm glad."

But happy is way more general.

Something brings you joy.

"There are donuts at this party?

I'm so happy."

Whereas glad we usually use this when something good happens

to someone else, and that gives me joy.

For example, "oh, you got the job.

I'm so glad."

Yes, you could use happy, that's fine too.

But with glad we are saying something good happened to you.

That brings me joy.

I'm glad.

But yes, again

we often use it to show, "ah, that's a relief."

So here are some other words, which mean the same thing

but change how you see the action

or the person or the thing.

For example, you meet someone and they invite you out.

"Hey, let's go out somewhere."

"No", but that doesn't stop them.

They continue asking,

"okay, okay let's rent a car and go on a road trip."

"No"

"I've got it.

Let's go skydiving."

"Oh my God, no."

If you want to say to someone, "wow

you ask a lot, you'd never stop asking."

You could say this.

"You are very persistent."

Persistent means you ask a lot.

Now, this word isn't exactly positive or negative.

It's kind of neutral.

It just means you keep asking.

You never stop until you get the thing that you want.

You don't stop asking.

So they might ask you "in a good way

or a bad way?" if you want to say, "no, no, no.

It's definitely a good thing."

This is a compliment.

You never stop until you get what you want.

Maybe don't use persistent.

You could use the word tenacious.

"No, no, no.

It's a great thing.

You're very tenacious."

Now you can say tenacious

and it kind of means the same thing, but in a positive way.

Like, wow, you don't stop pursuing what you want

like you want this job.

You will not quit until you get that job.

You want to find this answer to your question.

You don't stop pursuing it.

That's great.

This is a very positive version of persistent.

Now, obviously, the negative version

of persistent is really obvious, right?

You already know, "you're very stubborn.

You have your opinion, your thing

and you don't change from it."

Stubborn is definitely the negative version.

So you could describe someone in three different ways.

The meaning is the same.

The only difference is your feeling

towards their behavior or their actions.

Oh, you're so stubborn.

You never stop.

You never change.

That's obviously a bad thing.

Persistent is that neutral adjective.

It could be good.

"Wow, you're so persistent.

You never give up."

That's great.

Could be negative.

"Oh, you're so persistent.

Stop asking."

Of course that sounds negative, tenacious.

That is definitely a compliment.

"wow you're so tenacious, you never give up."

Similar to that, do you know anyone who acts like this?

"Yeah, you coming?"

"Hey, yeah, I'm just coming to meet you"

"Can you bring my bag, the red one?"

"Yeah, sure."

"Yeah, also, can you bring me a Starbucks on the way?"

I want a Frappuccino"

"Okay,"

"well, I've also got a shirt there.

Can you just quickly iron it and bring it to me?"

"Yes, sure."

"Wait, can you?

Yeah, can you also phone my mum as well?

It's her birthday."

"You are so demanding."

You get the point.

So when someone constantly asks for something

asks you to do something for them, or they require a lot

of attention or a lot of stuff, this could be a job as well.

Not just the way a person acts.

Say they are demanding.

Obviously this is a bad thing.

This is a negative thing.

It's not good to be demanding.

Maybe, like I said, your job is very demanding.

You have to work long hours.

You have to do very complicated tasks.

Your job is demanding.

So similarly, demanding can mean very difficult.

Again, it requires a lot from you.

Maybe energy.

Like if you wanted to climb a mountain

that activity would be very demanding.

That requires a lot of your energy.

Also, if you go climbing, let's say Mount Everest

and you want to say, "oh my God

that mountain looks very difficult.

It requires a lot of my energy."

That mountain looks very formidable.

Formidable literally means it inspires fear and respect.

It's something powerful and intense.

For example, a massive mountain that you have to

climb, that is very formidable.

We often use this also to describe a big enemy

a very powerful and strong enemy.

So I wouldn't recommend describing an activity

as formidable, like climbing is formidable

doesn't sound right, but you could say the object

the thing or your enemy.

If it's powerful

and it instills fear and respect, then it's formidable.

So you and your friend do a lot

of activities together like climbing, like skydiving.

Now your friend wants to go to the zoo.

This is all in one day.

This is taking all of my energy.

So for you, if doing energetic activities is really fun

then you could say

you can describe it as tiring, pronunciation, tiring.

This isn't necessarily positive or negative.

You could say, "wow

today was really tiring, but fun", stronger than tiring.

You could say, "Ugh, today was exhausting.

I just wanna sleep for a week."

But if you are like me and you hate fun

then you could describe those activities that take all

of your energy as draining.

This is a very useful adjective.

"Today was draining."

This sounds negative.

You could use this to describe the day, the activities.

"Ugh, babysitting is draining.

I'm never having kids"

and you can also describe a person as draining.

That sounds very, very bad though.

So yeah, we all know someone that when you talk to them

all your energy just goes down.

"Oh my God, just talking to you is draining."

It means the same thing uses all of your energy

but this one sounds bad.

It sounds negative.

You don't like it.

Again, it all depends how you see that situation.

If you like it, yeah, it's tiring, but it's good.

Whoa, today was exhausting, but I liked it.

"Today was draining.

I never want to do that again or hang out with you."

These different words describe different feelings

for the exact same thing.

It's just different vibes.

That's all.

All right, the next one's kind of fun.

If you start dating someone, and they are like this

they always want to kiss you

and tell you how lovely you are

and they never want to stop holding your hand

or cuddling you depending how you look at it.

You could use different adjectives like,

"oh, you are so affectionate.

I love that, you are always showing how much you love me

by kisses, cuddles, telling me you love me.

All those fun things.

I love it."

You are affectionate.

That sounds good.

That sounds positive.

However, if you've ever dated someone like this

when they show their affection too much

like it's overwhelming.

"Oh my God, leave me alone.

I don't need you kissing my face when I'm in the toilet."

That situation sounds negative again

showing a lot of affection, but you describe it as clingy.

"Oh my God, you are so clingy."

Affectionate is a positive thing.

Clingy is this.

It's too much affection.

Some people say

that being clingy is a good reason to break up with someone.

I don't know,

I don't think I've ever had that situation.

What about you?

Let me know in the comments.

Have you ever broken up

with someone because they were too clingy

or any of the other adjectives that we covered today?

Or maybe you were the clingy one, let me know.

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