100+ Spanish Adjectives to Describe All Your Friends [Printable List]

Spanish adjectives are crucial to learn and memorize if you want to be fluent in Spanish. Spanish adjectives will help you describe places, things, and especially – people!

If you’re learning Spanish, you might already know a few basic nouns and verbs to carry on a conversation. Now is the perfect time to start learning some extra, descriptive words! There will be many times in conversation when you’re looking for just the right word to describe a quality or trait, and our Spanish adjectives chart is sure to come in handy for each of them.

In this post, we’ll share how to use over 100 of the most common Spanish adjectives. (You’ll also be able to download a free worksheet to practice all the new vocabulary you’ve learned at the end!)

What Are the Three Types of Adjectives in Spanish?

 

Typically, Spanish adjectives can be categorized as one of these three types:

• Descriptive
• Adverbial
• Relational

There are also adjectives that are meant to serve as nouns. 

Why do you need to know what sorts of adjectives you’re working with? The type of adjective will dictate where the word should be placed in a sentence as well as whether it can be used in a superlative or comparative way.

That said, as you’re learning Spanish adjectives, you don’t need to know quite as much as whether they are relational, descriptive, or adverbial – it’s more important that you get the vocabulary words memorized first. Most of the adjectives we’ll give to you in this list are descriptive, helping you come up with the right terms you need to know in order to use adjectives to describe someone.

If you’re new to learning the Spanish language, you might want to consider taking lessons. This will help you learn the best tips and techniques for picking up the language. 

Another way to get the hang of things? By watching videos! Here’s a great example of some best practices you can follow: 

How to Use Spanish Adjectives to Describe a Person

There are a few ways to form sentences with Spanish adjectives. Here are some examples to get you started.

• Juan es muy mentiroso. Siempre dice cosas que no son verdad.
• Mis padres tienen un carácter fuerte, pero son muy amables.
• Tengo mucho sentido del humor y por eso soy gracioso.

In most cases though, you’ll use the verb ser in combination with an adjective. For example:

• Ella es simpática.
• Ellos son graciosos.
• Nosotros somos organizados.

Learning how to conjugate the verb ser will be a huge help when it comes to using these Spanish descriptions of a person. Now, are you ready to learn some new descriptive words Spanish? Here are 46 adjectives that will help you describe yourself, your friends, and your family. (Some of these words can also be used to describe places and things).

The Ultimate Spanish Adjectives List

Possessive Adjectives Spanish

 

Possessive adjectives in Spanish indicate who or what owns something. An example in English would be “this is MY brother” or “he is YOUR friend.”

These words have both plural and singular forms, with possessive adjectives “vosotros” and “nosotros” also having feminine and masculine forms. 

Check out this list of adjectives in Spanish that are examples of possessive adjectives:

• Mi
• Tu
• Su
• vuestro/vuestra
• nuestro/nuestra
• Su
• Mis
• Tus
• Sus
• vuestros/vuestras
• nuestros/nuestras

Demonstrative Adjectives Spanish

Demonstrative adjectives in Spanish are meant to point at something – the English equivalent would be this, that, these, and those. 

There are 12 demonstrative adjectives in Spanish. They are as follows.

Singular Demonstrative Adjectives in Spanish

• esta/ este (this)
• esa/ ese (that)
• aquella/ aquel (that)

Plural Demonstrative Adjectives

• estas/estos (these)
• esas/esos (those)
• aquellas/aquellos (those)

Descriptive Adjectives in Spanish

Here are some descriptive adjectives – they’ll help you add color and personality to just about any sentence!

• disgusting – repugnante
• rich – rico
• poor – pobre
• delicious – delicioso
• new – nuevo
• old – viejo
• young – jovan
• open – abierto
• closed – cerrado
• sad – triste
• worried/concerned – preocupado
• tired – cansado
• awake – despierto
• hot – caluroso
• cold – frío
• warm – tibio
• right/correct – correcto
• wrong/incorrect – equivocado
• expensive – caro
• cheap – barato
• good – bueno
• bad – malo
• heavy – pesado
• light – ligero
• fast – rápido
• slow – lento
• crazy – loco
• tranquil – tranquilo
• noisy – ruidoso
• complicated – complicado 
• easy – fácil
• difficult – difícil 
• hard – duro
• sick- enfermo
• healthy – sano