List of Descriptive Words. In order to take away the potential of such a list to become overwhelming, let's first break them down by parts of speech. Adjectives. When people hear the phrase "descriptive words" they tend to think of adjectives. Adjectives modify nouns to describe their specific characteristics. read more
To describe a bad adjective, you could say, "It's a terrible adjective." (The adjective"terrible" describes the noun.) To modify an adjective, an adverb needs to be used. read more