When you’re writing, adjectives give you the most flexibility to create a vivid picture. It’s also easy to slip into a cliche series of mundane, familiar adjectives. Describing Words helps inspire you ...

An adjective is a word that describes a noun. They went to an exciting football match. The adjective 'exciting' tells you more about the noun 'football match'. Adjectives can go before or after the ...

This is one of 10 essays I offer as we close 2021 that I hope will help broadcast journalists tell stronger stories in the year ahead. Mark Twain offered some writing advice about adjectives: ...

In eighth grade when I read that Julius Caesar had an aquiline nose, I mistakenly thought it had something to do with water. But aquiline is from Latin aquila, meaning eagle, not aqua, water. He had a ...

Adjectives are words that describe nouns. They give more detail about a person, place, or thing – such as its colour, size, or how it feels. For example, if you had some beans, you could use ...