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Describing People in English

This document provides guidance on describing physical appearances using common adjectives for height, build, hair, eyes, complexion, and other facial features. Key aspects include: - Height can be described as tall, short, or normal. Build can be described as skinny, fat, thin, overweight, etc. Hair can be blonde, brown, red, black, grey, long, short, curly, straight, etc. Eyes can be grey, green, blue, brown. - Complexion can be white, black, Asian, tanned, pale. Other facial features include eyebrows, nose, lips, teeth, scars, spots, wrinkles. - Descriptors like very

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Describing People in English

This document provides guidance on describing physical appearances using common adjectives for height, build, hair, eyes, complexion, and other facial features. Key aspects include: - Height can be described as tall, short, or normal. Build can be described as skinny, fat, thin, overweight, etc. Hair can be blonde, brown, red, black, grey, long, short, curly, straight, etc. Eyes can be grey, green, blue, brown. - Complexion can be white, black, Asian, tanned, pale. Other facial features include eyebrows, nose, lips, teeth, scars, spots, wrinkles. - Descriptors like very

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Appearances - How to describe someone in English

Height | Build | Hair | Eyes | Type of hair | Complexion | Other features

Height

He is tall. He is short. He is normal height.


He is very tall. He is quite short. He is relatively normal height.
Build

She is skinny. (negative) She is fat. (negative)


She is anorexic. (medical) She is tubby. (negative)
She is underweight. (negative) She is overweight. (negative)
She is thin. (negative) She is plump. (neutral)
She is slim. (positive) She is stocky. (neutral)
She is slender. (positive) She is bonny. (positive)

!Note - if a man is fat (especially round the waist) we often say he has a beer belly.
Hair
blonde/fair hair brown hair red hair black hair grey hair
blonde brunette redhead - -

Eyes

grey eyes green eyes blue eyes brown eyes dark eyes
!Note!

This is a black
eye!
Type of hair

He has no She has She has


She has She has She has short
hair. = He medium medium length
long hair. short hair. hair.
is bald. length hair. hair.
She has She has She has
She has
long, medium medium She has short,
short, -
black length , length, red blonde hair.
black hair.
hair. blonde hair. hair.
She has
She has
She has medium She has
long, She has short,
short, length, medium
straight, - curly, blonde
straight, straight, length, wavy,
black hair.
black hair. blonde red hair.
hair.
hair.
Her hair Her hair is Her hair is
Her hair is
is long, medium medium Her hair is
short,
straight - length, length, wavy short, curly
straight
and straight and red. She and blonde.
and black.
black. and blonde. wears glasses.

Type of complexion
She is white.
He is asian. He She is black. He is white.
She has She is white. She
has light-brown She has dark He has fair
lightly tanned has very pale skin.
skin. skin. skin.
skin.
Other features

moustache beard chin forehead nostrils

eyebrows cheeks fringe lips teeth

Some features (it may not be polite to mention them)


scar(s) spot(s)
crow's feet
wrinkle(s) any part of the or pimple(s)
or laughter lines
a sign of maturity body where a
which can appear on wound has any part of the
a sign of maturity that
any part of the body, healed body, but most
appear at the corners of
often on the forehead noticeable on
the eyes
the face

 
Note !

bald, black, blonde, blue, brown, curly, fat, grey, long , medium,
overweight, pale, plump, red, short, skinny, slim, stocky, straight,
tall, tanned, thin, wavy and white are all adjectives - they describe
things
very, quite and slightly are all modifiers - they change (modify) the
adjectives.

And don't forget, being able to describe people is a very useful skill:-

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