Neutral Adjectives to Describe a Person

Absent in mind; often preoccupied; forgetful or careless due to distraction; easily distracted.

Of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience; Using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles).

Not showing effort or strain; Natural and unstudied; Characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; Occurring on a temporary or irregular basis; Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; Occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; Appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions; Without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand; Marked by blithe unconcern.

Avoiding excess; Showing careful forethought.

Showing a fighting disposition; Subscribing to capitalistic competition; Involving competition or competitiveness.

Difficult to analyze or understand; Complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts.

Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; Unimaginatively conventional; Avoiding excess; Having social or political views favoring conservatism; Resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion.

Rigidly formal or bound by convention; In accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; Represented in simplified or symbolic form; Unimaginative and conformist; (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; Conforming with accepted standards; Following accepted customs and proprieties.

Marked by refinement in taste and manners.

Eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.

Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners.

Requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill.

Used of a singer or singing voice that is marked by power and expressiveness and a histrionic or theatrical style; Pertaining to or characteristic of drama; Sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect; Suitable to or characteristic of drama.

Practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages; Lacking warmth or emotional involvement; Having a large proportion of strong liquor; (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish; Having no adornment or coloration; Unproductive especially of the expected results; Used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones; Lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless; Not shedding tears; Without a mucous or watery discharge; (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation; Not producing milk; Opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages; Lacking moisture or volatile components; Humorously sarcastic or mocking; Free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet.

Sensible and practical; Of or consisting of or resembling earth; Hearty and lusty; Not far removed from or suggestive of nature; Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent.

Not having a common center; not concentric; Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual.

(of persons) excessively affected by emotion; Of or pertaining to emotion; Of more than usual emotion; Determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason.

Resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; Not clear to the understanding.

Characterized by expression.

Recklessly wasteful; Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings.

Being concerned with the social and physical environment; At ease in talking to others; Not introspective; examining what is outside yourself.

Violently agitated and turbulent; Ruthless in competition; Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; Marked by extreme and violent energy.

Elaborately or excessively ornamented; Marked by ostentation but often tasteless.

Refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; Logically deductive; Represented in simplified or symbolic form; (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms; Characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; Being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress).

Avoiding waste.

Having an air of allure, romance and excitement.

Prudent.

Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; Of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas.

Peculiar to the individual.

Deliberately impassive in manner; Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited.

Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; Having the power of driving or impelling; Without forethought; Proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus.

With minimally restricted freedom in commerce; Marked by or expressing individuality.

Having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere; Used of spoken and written language; Not officially recognized or controlled; Not formal.

Held back or restrained or prevented.

Of an obscure nature.

(of color) having the highest saturation; Extremely sharp or severe; Possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree.

Given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences.

Characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; Humorously sarcastic or mocking.

Not revering god; Characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality; Showing lack of due respect or veneration.

Characterized by method and orderliness.

Deliberately causing harm or damage; Naughtily or annoyingly playful.

Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; Of an obscure nature.

Dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority.

Belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events; Emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation; Serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes; Undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena.

Not used up; Of the remaining member of a pair; Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; An indefinite quantity more than that specified; Not easily explained; Not divisible by two.

Out of fashion.

Characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; Given to expressing yourself freely or insistently.

Expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb; Peacefully resistant in response to injustice; Lacking in energy or will.

Showing pensive sadness; Deeply or seriously thoughtful.

Characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment; Of or relating to philosophy or philosophers.

Not easily irritated; (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves.

Lacking in physical beauty or proportion; Lacking embellishment or ornamentation; Free from any effort to soften to disguise; Not mixed with extraneous elements; Lacking patterns especially in color; Not elaborate or elaborated; simple; Clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment.

Guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; Of or concerning the theory of pragmatism; Concerned with practical matters.

Capable of being foretold.

Not expressed; Concerning one person exclusively; Concerning things deeply private and personal; Confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy.

Having or displaying great dignity or nobility; Feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride.

Showing curiosity; Marked by or given to doubt; Perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know).

(of the sun) characterized by a low level of surface phenomena, such as sunspots; (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves; In a softened tone; Not showy or obtrusive; Free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound; Characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity.

(informal) strikingly unconventional.

Providing privacy or seclusion; Withdrawn from society; seeking solitude.

Marked by self-restraint and reticence; Set aside for the use of a particular person or party.

Prudent; Not showy or obtrusive; Marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes; Under restraint; Cool and formal in manner.

Reluctant to draw attention to yourself; Cool and formal in manner; Temperamentally disinclined to talk.

Not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic; Expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; Belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts.

Expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds.

Characteristic of scholars or scholarship.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Friendly and open and willing to talk; Unwisely talking too much; Full of trivial conversation.

Suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater; Of or relating to the theater.

Concerned with theories rather than their practical applications; Concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations.

Pertaining to time-honored orthodox doctrines; Consisting of or derived from tradition.

Not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions.

Not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention; Not conventional or conformist; Not conforming to accepted rules or standards.

Cool and formal in manner; Unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion.

Not inhibited or restrained.

Facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination.

Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason.

Tending to reserve or introspection; Withdrawn from society; seeking solitude.

Tending to give in or surrender or agree; Lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure; Inclined to yield to argument or influence or control.