Ranking Adjectives

PLEASE DONT WRITE ON THIS SHEET It will be reused.

PLEASE RETURN TO YOUR TEACHER AT THE END OF THE LESSON.
1. Start a new page in your CLASSWORK book, title RANKING ADJECTIVES.
2. Choose THREE of the following adjective groups. Note: you cant choose HAPPY
because thats the example Ive done!)
3. In your book, draw three diagrams (see examples) which rank your choice of
SEVEN words from STRONGEST to WEAKEST for each group. Use pictures and
colour to make it more interesting!
big
huge
large
enormous
tall
gigantic
humongou
s
immense
jumbo
monster
monumen
tal
gigantic
colossal
massive
monstrous
sizeable
staggering
jumbo

small
tiny
baby
bitty
short
little
undersize
d
mini
minature
miniscule
petite
microscop
ic
teeny
infinitesi
mal
puny
insignifica
nt

sad
unhappy
depressed
blue
cheerless
disconsola
te
down
gloomy
sorrowful
upset
bleak
joyless
sullen
wretched

beautiful
gorgeous
attractive
pretty
lovely
pleasing
alluring
fetching
glamorous
cute
goodlooking
endearing
foxy
dazzling
delightful
comely

ugly
unattracti
ve
unsightly
hideous
grotesque
gruesome
ghastly
repulsive
revolting
beastly
foul
nauseatin
g
plain
unseemly

bad
crappy
horrible
not good
terrible
appalling
unpleasan
t
inferior
abysmal
severe
grave
despicabl
e
horrendou
s
horrid
catastrop
hic
vile

happy
content
pleased
glad
joyful
cheerful
blissful
in high
spirits
exultant
cheery
jovial
jolly
merry
ecstatic

ecstati
c!
exultant
blissful
cheerful
pleased
glad
content

good
excellent
great
awesome
epic
pimped
fantastic
fabulous
superb
splendid
cool
first class
favourabl
e
fine
satisfacto
ry
okay
wonderfu
l
groovy

exultant
joyful
merry
happy
jovial
cheery
okay

Ranking Adjectives (M)

NAME: _______________________________________________________ DATE: __________________

GLUE ME IN NOW, PLEASE
For each group of adjectives (describing words),
RANK the words from STRONG to WEAK just like in the example.
After, COLOUR the pyramids in to show the strength of the words.

ecstati
c!
exultant

beautiful

blissful
cheerful
pleased
glad
content
gorgeous, attractive, dazzling,
pretty, lovely, cute, beautiful
exultant, glad, content, cheerful,
blissful, ecstatic, please

ugly
bad

grotesque, unattractive, gruesome,

horrible, horrendous, unpleasant,

beastly, plain, ugly, hideous

bad, despicable, not good, appaling

A Useful list of Evaluation and Judgement

Words
GLUE ME IN NOW Please!
Colour the positive words one colour (maybe green).
Colour the neutral words another (maybe yellow).
Colour the negative words another (maybe red).
Circle words you dont know.
abysmal
adorable
aggravating
agonizing
alluring
amusing
annoying
appalling
astonishing
attractive
awesome
awful
awkward
beastly
beautiful
bitter
bleak
blissful
blue
catastrophic
cautious

cheerful
cheerless
colossal
compassionate
confident
confusing
dazzling
delightful
depressing
desirable
despicable
disappointing
discouraging
disgusting
distressing
disturbing
dreadful
edgy
embarrassing
endearing
enlightening

enormous
enthralling
epic
excellent
exhilarating
fabulous
fantastic
favourable
ferocious
first class
foul
frightening
frustrating
ghastly
gigantic
glamorous
gloomy
gorgeous
groovy
grotesque

gruesome
hideous
hopeless
horrendous
horrid
humiliating
humongous
hysterical
immense
infatuating
insignificant
irritating
jovial
joyous
massive
microscopic
miniature
miniscule
mischievous
miserable
monstrous

monumental
nauseating
optimistic
outrageous
overwhelming
repulsive
revolting
ridiculous
satisfactory
shameful
sizeable
splendid
staggering
superb
terrible
unattractive
undersized
unpleasant
unsightly
woeful
wonderful

Choose three words you circled and look them up (using a dictionary or thesaurus).
Word

Meaning

In your classwork book (TITLE: Judgement Words), write a

but

sentence for each of

the following which evaluates it that is, it tells us whether you think its a good
thing or a bad thing, using positive and negative judgement words (avoid neutral words,
unless you feel ambivalent about it).
For example:
My best friend has an embarrassing laugh its so loud
her for her mischievous sense of humour.
1. Your Mum (or Dad, or Grandma or
Caregiver).
2. Your pet.
3. Your best friend.
4. The car youve always wanted to
drive.

6.
7.
8.
9.

but I really love

Todays weather.
A recent sports game you went to.
A movie youve just seen.
Someone you used to know but didnt
like.
10. Someone from TV.

5. Millicent.

A Useful list of Evaluation and Judgement

Words (M)
GLUE ME IN NOW Please!
Colour the positive words one colour (maybe green).
Colour the neutral words another (maybe yellow).
Colour the negative words another (maybe red).
Circle words you dont know.
adorable
amusing
annoying
attractive
awesome
awful
beastly
beautiful
blissful
catastrophic

cheerful
confusing
dazzling
despicable
disappointing
disgusting
disturbing
dreadful
embarrassing
enormous

epic
excellent
fabulous
fantastic
frightening
frustrating
gigantic
gloomy
gorgeous
groovy

gruesome
hideous
horrendous
humongous
infatuating
irritating
massive
mischievous
miserable
monstrous

monumental
outrageous
revolting
ridiculous
superb
terrible
unattractive
unpleasant
woeful
wonderful

Choose three words you circled and look them up (using a dictionary or thesaurus).
Word
Meaning

Write a but sentence for each of the following which evaluates it that is tells us
whether you think its a good thing or a bad thing, using positive and negative
judgement words (avoid neutral words, unless you feel netural about it).
For example:

My best friend has an

embarrassing laugh its so loud

b I really love her for her fabulous

sense of
ut
style!

My mum/dad/Grandma/caregiver .

b
ut

My pet,
My best friend
Today, the weather is
I saw the movie recently and it

b
ut
b
ut
b
ut
b
ut

abysmal
adorable
aggravating
agonizing
alluring
amusing
annoying
appalling
astonishing
attractive
awesome
awful
awkward
beastly
beautiful
bitter
bleak
blissful
blue
catastrophic
cautious

cheerful
cheerless
colossal
compassionate
confident
confusing
dazzling
delightful
depressing
desirable
despicable
disappointing
discouraging
disgusting
distressing
disturbing
dreadful
edgy
embarrassing
endearing
enlightening

enormous
enthralling
epic
excellent
exhilarating
fabulous
fantastic
favourable
ferocious
first class
foul
frightening
frustrating
ghastly
gigantic
glamorous
gloomy
gorgeous
groovy
grotesque

gruesome
hideous
hopeless
horrendous
horrid
humiliating
humongous
hysterical
immense
infatuating
insignificant
irritating
jovial
joyous
massive
microscopic
miniature
miniscule
mischievous
miserable
monstrous

monumental
nauseating
optimistic
outrageous
overwhelming
repulsive
revolting
ridiculous
satisfactory
shameful
sizeable
splendid
staggering
superb
terrible
unattractive
undersized
unpleasant
unsightly
woeful
wonderful

abysmal
adorable
aggravating
agonizing
alluring
amusing
annoying
appalling
astonishing
attractive
awesome
awful
awkward
beastly
beautiful
bitter
bleak
blissful
blue
catastrophic
cautious

cheerful
cheerless
colossal
compassionate
confident
confusing
dazzling
delightful
depressing
desirable
despicable
disappointing
discouraging
disgusting
distressing
disturbing
dreadful
edgy
embarrassing
endearing
enlightening

enormous
enthralling
epic
excellent
exhilarating
fabulous
fantastic
favourable
ferocious
first class
foul
frightening
frustrating
ghastly
gigantic
glamorous
gloomy
gorgeous
groovy
grotesque

gruesome
hideous
hopeless
horrendous
horrid
humiliating
humongous
hysterical
immense
infatuating
insignificant
irritating
jovial
joyous
massive
microscopic
miniature
miniscule
mischievous
miserable
monstrous

monumental
nauseating
optimistic
outrageous
overwhelming
repulsive
revolting
ridiculous
satisfactory
shameful
sizeable
splendid
staggering
superb
terrible
unattractive
undersized
unpleasant
unsightly
woeful
wonderful