Words That Describe

 

Adjectives as Descriptive Words

Adjectives are descriptive words that modify nouns. They’re what you need to tell the difference between an acrobatic cat, a delirious cat, and a precious cat (or maybe a cat that’s all three). 

acrobatic	adorable	adventurous
bitter	boundless	bright
brilliant	brittle	delirious
diminutive	exultant	filthy
foolhardy	gregarious	intrepid
jocular	joyful	jubilant
keen	kooky	lanky
lazy	limp	lush
luxurious	macabre	magnanimous
mellow	miserable	nimble
nocturnal	opulent	ornate
ordinary	palatial	parsimonious
peevish	picturesque	potent
practical	precious	putrid
questionable	quirky	radiant
raspy	rustic	scornful
scrumptious	silky	sly
spider-like	spectacular	tentacular
tense	thorny	verdant
whimsical	woeful	zesty

Adverbs as Descriptive Words

Use an adverb to describe an action rather than a noun, or if you want to add even more detail to an adjective. Most adverbs end in -ly (though not all of them), and they’re helpful ways to strengthen your writing.

amusingly	angrily	apathetically
assertively	begrudgingly	blissfully
blithely	boldly	boisterously
chillingly	coyly	darkly
dazzlingly	deafeningly	dutifully
eagerly	facetiously	faintly
falteringly	frivolously	greedily
grimly	gloweringly	guiltily
hastily	hungrily	intelligently
kindly	lavishly	lazily
listlessly	masterfully	meagerly
methodically	naively	narrowly
neglectfully	nerve-wrackingly	numbly
offensively	passionately	pleasantly
pointlessly	quickly	rapidly
rashly	secretly	seriously
swiftly	tactfully	teasingly
tenderly	timorously	tragically
underhandedly	vacantly	vividly
weirdly	youthfully	zealously

Participles as Descriptive Words

You can even use verbs as describing words — although they’re called participles in that context. Past participles end in -ed or -en, present participles end in -ing, and they all look like descriptive words that you probably use all the time.

acclaimed	accomplished	amazing
amused	baby-faced	battered
beaten	bleeding	boring
broken	blushing	bow-legged
captivating	cluttered	confusing
chosen	complicated	condemned
crystallized	customized	dazzling
depressed	disgusting	distressing
disturbing	dreaming	driven
dyed	embarrassing	exciting
far-reaching	fascinated	freckled
frustrating	hard-hearted	humiliating
interesting	irritating	lying
melted	mouthwatering	peaked
puzzling	relaxing	riveting
satisfied	scared	scented
shocking	sickening	side-splitting
staggering	sweeping	tattered
threatening	thrilled	tired
towering	weathered	wrinkled

(source- https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/word-lists/list-of-descriptive-words.html)