EF 2/3 100 most common adjectives and some example sentences

The Top 100 Most Common Adjectives

This selection of the 100 most common adjectives in modern American English was adapted from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), an extensive body of 450,000,000 words: http://corpus.byu.edu/coca

1.      other

2.      new              newer                   newest

3.      good

4.      high             higher                   highest

5.      old

6.      great

7.      big

8.      American

9.      small

10.    large

11.    national

12.    young

13.    different

14.    black

15.    long

16.    little

17.    important              more important              most important

18.    political

19.    bad

20.    white

21.    real

22.    best

23.    right

24.    social

25.    only

26.    public          more public          most public

27.    sure

28.    low

29.    early           

30.    able             more able             most able

31.    human                   more human                   most human

32.    local           

33.    late

34.    hard

35.    major

36.    better

37.    economic

38.    strong

39.    possible               

40.    whole

41.    free

42.    military

43.    true              truer            truest

44.    federal

45.    international

46.    full               more full               most full

47.    special                   more special                   most special

48.    easy

49.    clear

50.    recent          more recent          most recent

51.    certain                   more certain                   most certain

52.    personal

53.    open

54.    red

55.    difficult

56.    available

57.    likely           more likely           most likely

58.    short

59.    single

60.    medical

61.    current                  more current                  most current

62.    wrong

63.    private                  more private                  most private

64.    past

65.    foreign                  more foreign         more foreign

66.    fine              finer                      finest

67.    common      more common      most common

68.    popular       more popular       most popular

          poor

69.    natural

70.    significant

71.    similar

72.    hot

73.    dead

74.    central

75.    happy

76.    serious

77.    ready

78.    simple

79.    left

80.    physical

81.    general

82.    environmental

83.    financial

84.    blue

85.    democratic

86.    dark

87.    various

88.    entire

89.    close

90.    legal

91.    religious

92.    cold

93.    final

94.    main

95.    green

96.    nice

97.    huge

98.    popular

99.    traditional             more traditional   most traditional

100.  cultural

COMPARITIVE- “than”

My family is more traditional than yours.

She is closer to her mother than her father. UNCLEAR

She is closer to her mother than to her father. CLEAR

I like ice cream more than you. UNCLEAR

I like ice cream more than you do. CLEAR

She likes ice cream more than he does. CLEAR

I am taller than you (are).

You are on a higher floor than I am.