DESCRIBING PEOPLE
Appearance and Personality
NOUNS
- height altura
- weight peso
ADJECTIVES
- adventurous intrépido/a, de espíritu aventurero
- ambitious ambicioso/a
- arrogant arrogante
- attractive atractivo/a
- average normal (de término medio)
- beautiful guapa
- bighead engreído, pretencioso, chulo
- blond(e) rubio/a
- boring aburrido/a
- calm calmado/a, tranquilo/a
- chatty hablador/a
- cheerful alegre
- cold frío/a
- confident seguro
- curly rizado
- dark oscuro
- dishonest deshonesto
- easy-going tolerante, relajado/a
- elegant elegante
- enthusiastic entusiasta
- fair rubio
- fat gordo/a
- flexible flexible
- friendly simpático/a, agradable, cordial
- funny divertido/a, gracioso/a
- generous generoso/a
- good-looking atractivo/a, guapo/a
- gorgeous precioso/a, guapísimo/a
- happy feliz, contento/a
- handsome guapo
- hard-working muy trabajador
- heavy pesado/a
- honest honesto/a, honrado/a
- impatient impaciente
- independent independiente
- interesting interesante
- kind amable
- lazy perezoso/a, vago/a
- light brown castaño claro
- long largo/a
- mean tacaño/a
- middle-aged de mediana edad
- moody malhumorado/a, caprichoso/a
- nice amable, simpático/a, majo/a
- obese obeso/a
- old viejo/a, anciano/a
- optimistic optimista
- ordinary-looking ni guapo/a ni feo/a
- outgoing extrovertido/a
- patient paciente
- petite pequeño/a
- pessimistic pesimista
- pleasant agradable, amable
- plump rollizo/a, relleno/a
- polite amable, educado/a
- pretty bonita, guapa (often a girl)
- punctual puntual
- quiet callado/a, tranquilo/a
- relaxed relajado/a
- reliable fiable, de fiar
- reserved reservado
- self-confident seguro de sí mismo
- selfish egoista
- sensible sensato/a, prudente
- sensitive sensible, susceptible
- short bajo/a
- shoulder-length hasta el hombro
- shy tímido/a, vergonzoso/a
- slim delgado/a, esbelto/a
- spiky de punta (pelo)
- stocky bajo/a y fornido/a
- straight liso, lacio (pelo)
- stout fornido/a
- stubborn terco/a, testarudo/a, tozudo/a
- stupid estúpido
- successful próspero/a, exitoso/a
- tall alto/a
- teenager adolescente
- thin delgado/a
- ugly feo/a
- unfriendly antipático
- unkind poco amable
- well-built fornido/a, de constitución fuerte
- young joven
EXPRESSIONS
- overall appearance apariencia en general
QUESTIONS
To ask about people´s physical appearance we say:
WHAT + DO/DOES + SUBJECT + LOOK LIKE?
- What do you look like?
- What does he look like?
- What does she look like?
- What do they look like?
To ask about people´s character we say:
WHAT + BE + SUBJECT + LIKE?
- What are you like?
- What is he like?
- What is she like?
- What are they like?
To ask about people´s height we say:
- How tall are you? ¿Cuánto mides?
- How tall is he?
- How tall is she?
- How tall are they?
To ask about people´s weight we say:
- How much do you weigh? ¿Cuánto pesas?
- How much does he weigh?
- How much does she weigh?
- How much do they weigh?
To ask about people´s age we say:
- How old are you? ¿Cuántos años tienes? / ¿Qué edad tienes?
- How old is he?
- How old is she?
- How old are they?