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Common Italian adjectives list – Alphabetical order
Common Italian adjectives list – A
Italian English abbronzato tanned abile skilled, able acido sour, acidic adatto suitable adorabile adorable affamato hungry affascinante charming affettuoso affectionate affidabile reliable affollato crowded aggressivo aggressive agile quick, agile allegro merry, cheerful allergico allergic alto high, tall amante fond (of) amaro bitter ambiguo ambiguous, dubious ambizioso ambitious amichevole friendly ammalato sick, unwell ampio wide, large annoiato bored anonimo anonymous ansioso anxious antico ancient antipatico unpleasant, jerk anziano senior, elderly aperto open arancione orange arido arid, barren arrabbiato angry asciutto dry assente absent assetato thursty assoluto absolute assurdo absurd astuto sly, cunning atroce terrible, outrageous attento alert, attentive, careful attivo active attraente attractive avaro stingy, cheap avido greedy, eager azzurro light blue
Common Italian adjectives list – B
Italian English bagnato wet banale ordinary, trivial barbaro barbaric basso low bello nice, beautiful benestante wealthy benvenuto welcome bianco white bieco sinister, creepy biennale biennial bigotto churchy, self-righteous bilingue bilingual biondo blonde bizzarro bizarre, odd blu blue bollente boiling hot bravo good, capable breve brief brillante brilliant brizzolato streaked with grey brusco sudden, abrupt brutale brutal brutto ugly buffo funny, amusing, odd bugiardo liar buio dark buono good, kind, honest
Common Italian adjectives list – C
Italian English candido pure white, sincere, candid caldo hot, warm calmo calm calvo bald caotico chaotic capace able, skilled capriccioso fickle, whimsical carente lacking carino cute carnivoro carnivorous caro dear, expensive castano browned-haired casuale casual cattivo bad, evil cattolico catholic cauto careful, wary celebre famous, renowned celeste sky blue, celestial celibe bachelor centrale central certo certain chiaro clear chiuso closed cieco blind cinico cynical civile civil classico classic cocciuto stubborn, pig-headed codardo cowardly coerente coherent, cohesive colorato colored colpevole guilty colpito stricken colto cultivated, learned comico funny commestibile edible commovente moving, touching comodo comfortable complesso complex, problematic completo complete complicato complicated comune common concentrato focused, concentrated concreto concrete, tangible confuso confused, vague, unclear conosciuto known contento happy, pleased coraggioso brave corretto correct cordiale cordial, friendly corrotto corrupt corto short costoso expensive cotto cooked, done (food) creativo creative cretino idiot, imbecile cristiano Christian critico critic crudele cruel crudo raw cupo dark, gloomy curioso curious curvo curved
Common Italian adjectives list – D
Italian English dannoso harmful datato dated, old debole weak decente decent deciso determined, decided deficiente inadequate, imbecile definitivo definite, permanent degno worthy delicato delicate delizioso delicious deludente disappointing deluso disappointed denso thick depresso depressed determinato determined difettoso defective, faulty difficile difficult, hard diffuso widespread dinamico dynamic diretto direct discreto discreet, decent disgustoso disgusting disoccupato unemployed disonesto dishonest disordinato messy, cluttered disperato desperate dispettoso mischievous, spiteful dispiaciuto sorry, regretful disponibile available distante distant distratto distracted, absent-minded disubbidiente disobedient diurno daily diverso different divertente funny, amusing divino divine divorziato divorced dolce sweet doloroso painful doppio double dotato talented, gifted, equipped drastico drastic dritto straight duro hard (of surface)
Common Italian adjectives list – E
Italian English eccellente excellent economico cheap educato polite, well mannered efficace effective egoista selfish egocentrico self-centered, egocentric elegante elegant elementare basic, elementary eloquente eloquent, expressive emozionato thrilled enorme huge, enormous equo fair, just eroico heroic esatto accurate, exact esperto expert espressivo expressive, communicative essenziale essential esterno external estremo extreme estroverso extrovert evidente evident, clear
Common Italian adjectives list – F
Italian English facile easy facoltativo optional falso false famoso famous fantastico fantastic fastidioso annoying faticoso tiresome fedele faithful felice happy ferito wounded fermo still, firm feroce ferocious fiducioso confident fiero proud finale final flessibile flexible fondamentale fundamental, very important formal formale forte strong fortunato lucky, fortunate fradicio soggy, soaking wet fragile fragile, frail freddo cold frequente frequent fresco cool, fresh frettoloso hasty frugale frugal furbo cunning, sly
Common Italian adjectives list – G
Italian English gelato frozen gelido icy cold geloso jealous generoso generous gentile gentle genuino genuine giallo yellow gigante giant gioioso joyful giovane young giusto correct, just, fair gradito appreciated grande big, large grasso fat grave grave, serious grazioso lovely grezzo rough grigio grey grosso burly gustoso tasty
Common Italian adjectives list – I
Italian English ideale ideal identico identical ignoto unknown illegale illegal illeso unharmed imbarazzante embarrassing immenso huge, immense immortale immortal impaziente impatient importante important improvviso sudden inadatto unfit inadeguato inadequate inatteso unexpected incapace incompetent incerto uncertain incinta pregnant incompleto incomplete incredibile incredible indifferente indifferent inetto inept infelice unhappy infinito infinite ingenuo naive ingiusto unjust, not fair ingrato ungrateful innocente innocent insicuro insecure insopportabile unbearable instabile unstable intelligente smart intenso intense interno internal interessante interesting intero entire intollerante intolerant intraprendente resourceful introverso introverted inutile useless invisibile invisible irraggiungibile unattainable, out of reach
Common Italian adjectives list – L
Italian English lacero ripped, torn laconico laconic lampante blatant, obvious languido languid largo wide laterale lateral leale loyal legale legal leggendario legendary leggero lightweight lento slow lercio filthy letale lethal libero free lieto glad, happy lieve soft, delicate limitato limited limpido limpid, clear, pristine liquido liquid liscio smooth logico logical logoro worn out, tired logorroico long-winded, verbose lontano far lucido polished, lucid luminoso Bright lungo long
Common Italian adjectives list – M
Italian English maggiore bigger, greater, elder magico magical magnifico magnificent magro skinny, thin malato ill, sick maleducato rude malvagio wicked, evil marcio rotten marrone brown matto crazy, mad, fool maturo mature, ripe medio medium mensile monthly meraviglioso wonderful, marvelous migliore better, best miliardario billionaire moderno modern morbido soft mortale deadly muto mute
Common Italian adjectives list – N
Italian English nascosto hidden nativo native naturale natural necessario necessary negativo negative nero black nervoso nervous nitido sharp, clear noioso boring normale normal nostalgico homesick noto famous, notorious notturno nocturnal nudo naked nuovo new nuvoloso cloudy
Common Italian adjectives list – O
Italian English obbligato obliged, forced obeso obese occupato busy, taken odioso hateful, unpleasant offensivo offensive onesto honest opposto opposite ordinato orderly orgoglioso proud originale original orribile horrible oscuro obscure, dim ostile hostile ottimista optimist ottimo excellent, great ovvio obvious
Common Italian adjectives list – P
Italian English pallido pale passivo passive paziente patient pazzo crazy peggiore worse, worst perduto lost perfetto perfect pericoloso dangerous personale personal perspicace perceptive pesante heavy piacevole pleasant, likeable piano level, plane piatto plain, flat piccante spicy piccolo tiny, small, little pieno full pigro lazy popolare popular positivo positive possibile possible potente powerful povero poor preciso precise preferito favorite prezioso precious privato private probabile likely profondo deep pronto ready prossimo next prudente cautious pubblico public pulito clean puzzolente stinky
Common Italian adjectives list – Q
Italian English quadrato squared qualche some qualcuno anyone quale which qualsiasi any qualunque anyone quello that questo this quieto quiet quotidiano daily
Common Italian adjectives list – R
Italian English rapido rapid, fast raro rare, very uncommon recente recent rettangolare rectangular ribelle rebellious ricco rich ridicolo ridiculous rigido stiff, rigid rilassante relaxing robusto robust, sturdy rosa pink rosso red rotto broken rovente scorching hot rozzo rough rumoroso noisy ruvido coarse, uneven, unrefined
Common Italian adjectives list – S
Italian English sacro sacred salato salty sano healthy scaduto expired scelto chosen sciocco foolish scivoloso slippery scomodo uncomfortable sconosciuto unknown scoperto uncovered scortese unkind, impolite scuro dark secco dry selvaggio wild sensibile sensible sereno serene severo strict, stern sfortunato unlucky sgradevole unpleasant sicuro sure, secure silenzioso silent simile similar, alike simpatico friendly, nice, likable sincero sincere soddisfatto satisfied solitario lonely sordo deaf sorpreso surprised sottile subtle, thin spaventoso scary, dreadful spazioso spacious speciale special sporco dirty stabile stable stanco tired storto crooked strano strange stretto tight, narrow stupendo gorgeous, amazing stupido stupid sudicio filthy sveglio alert svelto quick
Common Italian adjectives list – T
Italian English tenero tender terribile terrible terrificante terrifying terrorizzato terrified testardo stubborn timido shy tollerante tolerant totale total tranquillo quiet, peaceful toccante touching triste sad turbato upset, troubled
Common Italian adjectives list – U
Italian English ubbidiente obedient ubriaco drunk ufficiale official uguale same, even ultimo last umile humble unico unique, only unito united unto oily, greasy urgente urgent usato used utile useful
Common Italian adjectives list – V
Italian English vago vague valido valid vano vain variabile changeable vasto vast, large vecchio old velenoso poisonous, venomous veloce fast verde green vero true vicino near vigliacco coward visibile visible vivace lively volante flying volgare vulgar vulnerabile vulnerable vuoto empty
Common Italian adjectives list – Z
Italian English zeppo packed, crammed zoppo crippled zuppo drenched
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