Adjectives that start with S to Describe a Person

Expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds.

Characteristic of scholars or scholarship.

Inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information.

Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; Characterized by dignity and propriety.

Aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts.

Limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs.

Excessively and uncomfortably conscious of your appearance or behavior; Aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts.

Indulgent of your own appetites and desires.

Concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others.

Showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others.

Aware intuitively or intellectually of something sensed; Readily perceived by the senses; Able to feel or perceive; Showing reason or sound judgment.

Of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security; Hurting; Able to feel or perceive; Being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others; Responsive to physical stimuli.

Effusively or insincerely emotional; Given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality.

Completely clear and fine; Not agitated; without losing self-possession.

Requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve; Completely lacking in playfulness; Appealing to the mind; Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; Of great consequence; Concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities.

Lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; Not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; Lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center.

Acting with a specific goal; Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence.

Wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things; Short; Lacking self-confidence.

Dazed from or as if from repeated blows; Inspiring scornful pity; Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; Ludicrous, foolish.

Characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions; Open and genuine; not deceitful.

Marked by or given to doubt; Denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion.

Done with delicacy and skill; Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude.

Capable of independent and apparently intelligent action; Quick and brisk; Painfully severe; Improperly forward or bold; Characterized by quickness and ease in learning; Elegant and stylish; Showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness.

Marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction.

Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; Marked by deception.

Friendly and pleasant; Inclined to or conducive to companionship with others.

Characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions; Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises.

Devoid of creatures; Being the only one; single and isolated from others; Lacking companions or companionship; Of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies; Characterized by or preferring solitude.

Grave or even gloomy in character; Lacking brightness or color; dull.

Intellectually appealing; Ahead in development; complex or intricate; Having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire.

Made lively or spirited; Willing to face danger; Marked by lively action; Displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness.

(of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; Having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention.

Said or done without having been planned or written in advance; Happening or arising without apparent external cause.

Firm and dependable especially in loyalty; Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable.

Severely simple; Severe and unremitting in making demands; Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect.

Deficient in amount or quality or extent; Unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.).

Pertaining to Stoicism or its followers; Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive.

Severe and unremitting in making demands; Incapable of compromise or flexibility; Characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint; (of rules) stringently enforced; Rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard.

Strong and sure; Freshly made or left; Being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; Of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection; Of good quality and condition; solidly built; Immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with; Having a strong physiological or chemical effect; Having or wielding force or authority; Not faint or feeble; Having strength or power greater than average or expected.

Not responding to treatment; Tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield.

Characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; Marked by care and effort.

Of a mental act performed entirely within the mind; Taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias.

Working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; Able to make fine distinctions; Difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze.

Depressingly dark; Moving slowly; Sullen or moody.

Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; Occurring on or near the surface of the skin; Of little substance or significance; Of, affecting, or being on or near the surface; Concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually.

Furnishing support or assistance.

Not as expected; Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide.

Relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body; Having similar disposition and tastes; (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings; Showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity; Expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward; Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system.

Of or relating to taxonomy; Characterized by order and planning.