165826232 | Acerbic | harsh or corrosive in tone | |
165826233 | Admiring | to admire or be in awe of something | |
165826234 | Adoring | adoring or appreciating | |
165826235 | Agitated | to be annoyed or aggravated | |
165826236 | Ambivalent | uncertainty and having conflicting attitudes and feelings | |
165826237 | Analytical | using or skilled in using analysis | |
165826238 | Anxious | excited or nervous causing anxiety | |
165826239 | Arrogant | to have a feeling of being better of above the rest to resist help or suggestions | |
165826240 | Austere | stern or cold | |
165826241 | Bitter | very difficult to accept or bear | |
165826242 | Candid | blunt; characterized by directness in manner or speech | |
165826243 | Capricious | determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason | |
165826244 | Cautious | to proceed with caution or carefulness | |
165826245 | Complex | made up or complicated parts, not simple | |
165826246 | Conciliatory | compromising, intended or likely to overcome animosity or hostility | |
165826247 | Condemning | expressing strong disapproval of | |
165826248 | Condescending | do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | |
165826249 | Contemplative | persistently thoughtful | |
165826250 | Contemptuous | expressing strong dissapproval of | |
165826251 | Cynical | believing the worse of human nature and motives | |
165826252 | Defiant | boldly resisting authority or an opposing force | |
165826253 | Disapproving | to be against or not approve of an action or opinion | |
165826254 | Discursive | proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition | |
165826255 | Disdainful | having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | |
165826256 | Elegiac | expressing sorrow often for something past | |
165826257 | Escapist | a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | |
165826258 | Fascinated | to be overwhelmed with interest | |
165826259 | Flippant | lack of seriousness or care | |
165826260 | Good Natured | having an easygoing and cheeful disposition | |
165826261 | Grudging | petty or reluctant in giving or spending | |
165826262 | Harsh | unpleasantly stern | |
165826263 | Indifferent | to have little interest in either side of a subject | |
165826264 | Intimate | marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity | |
165826265 | Irate | feeling or showing extreme anger | |
165826266 | Neutral | to be indifferent; to not have a side in an argument | |
165826267 | Ironic | to opposite of what you expect to happen | |
165826268 | Judicious | marked by the exercise of good judgement or common sense in practical matters | |
165826269 | Laconic | crisp: brief and to the point; effectively cut short | |
165826270 | Mocking | ridiculing | |
165826271 | Nostalgic | looking back | |
165826272 | Objective | undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena | |
165826273 | Optimistic | expecting the best in the of all possible words | |
165826274 | Pessimistic | expecting the worst in this worse of all possible worlds | |
165826275 | Pious | reverence to a god/ or God | |
165826276 | Pretentious | making a claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction | |
165826277 | Quizzical | mocking; playfully vexing (especially by ridicule) | |
165826278 | Remorseful | contrite; feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses | |
165826279 | Satirical | exposing human folly to ridicule | |
165826280 | Scornful | expressing extreme discontent | |
165826281 | Self-deprecating | conscious of your own shortcomings | |
165826282 | Serious | concerned with work or important matters tahter than play or tivialities | |
165826283 | Strident | conspicuously and offensively loud | |
165826284 | Superficial | not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually | |
165826285 | Suspenseful | cliff-hanging: (of a situation) charactrized by or causing suspense | |
165826286 | Sympathetic | expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings | |
165826287 | Vindictive | despiteful; showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurtl motivated by spite | |
165826288 | Whimiscal | determined by chance or impulese; or whim rather than by necessity or reason; capricious | |
165826289 | witty | combining clever conception and facetious expression | |
165826290 | Worshiping | idolize: love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess | |
165826291 | Wry | dry: humorously sarcasitc or mocking |
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