Negative Personality Adj Flashcards
Someone who is x often forgets things or does not pay attention to what is happening near them because they are thinking about other things.
Absent-minded
Men tend to be more aggressive than women.
If I criticize him, he gets aggressive and starts shouting.
Aggressive, aggression:
behaving in an angry and violent way towards another person
She has an authoritative manner that at times is almost arrogant.
I watched the interview and thought he seemed quite arrogant.
Arrogant:m, arrogance:
unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than, or know more than, other people.
He is a boastful man !
Boastful: arrogant ,
praising yourself and what you have done
My older sister was very bossy.
Girls of that age can get quite bossy.
Bossy:
A bossy person is always telling people what to do.
She’s got such a cheeky grin.
Don’t be so cheeky!
Cheeky:
slightly rude or showing no respect, but often in a funny way.
My attempts to apologize were very clumsy (= not said well).
That’s the third glass you’ve smashed this week - you’re so clumsy!
Clumsy:
Awkward in manner,
A clumsy person often has accidents because they do not behave in a careful, controlled way
Deceitful behaviour
Deceitful: deceptive
Deceit n
She has a pretty cynical view of men. 1
I’ve always been deeply cynical about politicians. 1
I thought the actor’s appeal was very moving, but my husband saw it as a cynical attempt to get publicity. 2
Cynical:
1-believing that people are only interested in themselves and are not sincere,
2-used to say that someone’s feelings or emotions are used to your own advantage.
She wrote dull, respectable articles for the local newspaper.
He’s pleasant enough, but deadly dull.
Dull: not interesting or exciting in any way.
eccentric behaviour
eccentric clothes
Eccentric: unusual and strange, sometimes in a humorous way
She’s getting very forgetful in her old age.
Forgetful:
often forgetting things
I think he sees her as a frivolous young woman.
Firvolous:behaving in a silly way and not taking anything seriously.
Why can’t politicians just be honest with themselves and stop all this hypocrisy?
I’m amazed at the hypocrisy of the man - buying a foreign car after urging everyone else to buy British products.
Hypocricy, hypocritical:
a situation in which someone pretends to believe something that they do not really believe, or that is the opposite of what they do or say at another time
People are increasingly impatient for change in this country.
1-wanting something to happen as soon as possible
2-easily annoyed by someone’s mistakes or because you have to wait:
Don’t be so impulsive - think before you act.
an impulsive man/decision/gesture
Impulsive:
showing behaviour in which you do things suddenly without any planning and without considering the effects they may have.
He still feels insecure about his ability to do the job.
Insecure:
Insecure people have little confidence and are uncertain about their own abilities or if other people really like them
an insolent child/young man
an insolent gesture/remark
Insolent:
Rude and not showing respect
She’s becoming more and more irascible as she grows older.
Irasicble: made angry easily
the belief that having money and possessions is the most important thing in life
Materialism, materialistic
He’s too mean to buy her a ring.
My landlord’s very mean with the heating - it’s only on for two hours each day.
Mean: stingy
Don’t wait for Gillian to buy you a drink - she’s too tight-fisted.
Tight-fisted:
Unwilling to spend money
She was complaining about her nosy parents.
Nosey:
too interested in what other people are doing and wanting to discover too much about them.
Why are people so obsessed with money?
As a society we’re obsessed by sex.
More examples
Mankind has always been obsessed by power.
Obsessed:
unable to stop thinking about something; too interested in or worried about something.
A x person repeatedly argues with other people
Quarrelsome
He became increasingly dissatisfied and querulous in his old age.
Querulous:
often complaining, especially in a weak high voice.
She was resentful of anybody’s attempts to interfere in her work.
Resentful:
feeling angry because you have been forced to accept someone or something that you do not like
A lot of people feel that politicians are just self-seeking opportunists.
Self-seeking:
interested in your own advantage in everything that you do
That was a spiteful thing to say!
She spitefully removed his name from the invitation list.
Spitefully:
wanting to annoy, upset, or hurt another person, especially in a small way, because you feel angry towards them.
They have huge arguments because they’re both so stubborn.
Stubborn:
A stubborn person is determined to do what he or she wants and refuses to do anything else.
He can be very obstinate at times.
her obstinate refusal to compromise
Obstinate:
unreasonably determined, especially to act in a particular way and not to change at all, despite what anyone else says = stubborn
It was vain to pretend to himself that he was not disappointed.
Vain= , unsuccessful
