A Massive List of Spanish Adjectives and How To Use Them

Are you improving in your Spanish fluency, but still struggling to describe people accurately? 

This is a normal stage in most students’ Spanish-learning process. You may have mastered the grammar rules, but are still short in vocabulary. 

I’m here to help you solve that! 

Keep reading to learn what adjectives are and how to use them—discover a massive list of the most common, popular, and basic Spanish adjectives right ahead! 

Table of Contents:

• Brief Introduction to Spanish Adjectives 
• Massive List of Adjectives
• Adjectives That Start With e
• Adjectives That Start with l
• Adjectives That Start With n
• Adjectives That Start With r
• Practice These Adjectives and Improve Your Spanish Today

Brief Introduction to Spanish Adjectives 

Adjectives are one of the 9 parts of speech and are usually known as “descriptive words,” since they describe nouns and give important information about the characteristics of nouns. 

An important difference with English adjectives is that in Spanish adjectives “must agree in gender and number with nouns.” 

Read A Comprehensive Guide to Spanish Adjectives to learn more about how these descriptive words are used to describe people and things. 

How To Use Adjectives in Spanish

In Spanish, besides number (singular or plural) as in English, nouns are gendered. 

This means that every noun is either masculine or feminine, and adjectives should reflect that. That’s why you have up to 4 different ways any adjective can be expressed in a sentence. 

Let’s see this using the adjective alto (tall) with the four different combinations of gender and number:

El hombre es alto. 
The man is tall. 

Los hombres son altos. 
The men are tall. 

La mujer es alta. 
The woman is tall.

Las mujeres son altas. 
The women are tall. 

Notice how in English the adjective tall never changes, while in Spanish you have four different variations of the same adjective. 

Just keep in mind that not all adjectives change to adapt to gender and they keep the same form for both feminine and masculine nouns. 

Read this article for a more thorough understanding on how to use adjectives.

Massive List of Adjectives

Without further ado, here you have a massive list of some of the most common and popular Spanish adjectives, divided into categories to make your study of them quite easier.

Spanish Adjectives To Describe a Person

Let’s start with adjectives that you can use to describe someone. 

Personality Adjectives

You can describe a person talking about its personality or about its physical traits. Use these descriptive words in Spanish to talk about the personality of a person. 

They’re divided into positive and negative adjectives.

Physical Traits

The following list of Spanish adjectives focuses on the physical traits of people. 

Funny Adjectives

Now, a list of funny adjectives to lighten the mood a little bit. 

Adjectives That Start With a

Find in this section a series of adjectives that begin with the letter “a.”

Adjectives That Start With e

Now it’s time to learn Spanish adjectives that start with the letter “e.”

Adjectives That Start with l

Now, a list of Spanish adjectives that start with the letter “L.”

Adjectives That Start With n

Find below a list of Spanish adjectives that start with the letter “n.”

Adjectives That Start With r

Now, a list of Spanish adjectives that start with the letter “r.”

Practice These Adjectives and Improve Your Spanish Today

There you have it, a massive list of basic Spanish adjectives that cover a little bit of everything. Practice them in and try to introduce them in your Spanish conversations to continue improving your Spanish. 

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