In this post, I present some simple adjectives and their opposites. It is also handy to know the word that can be used to negate adjectives, more or less like the English prefix, un- which is (غير). We use it before an adjective to negate it, e.g. (معروف) means ‘well-known’, while (غير معروف) means ‘un-known, (قانوني) means ‘legal’, while (غير قانوني) means ‘illegal’, and (ديموقراطي) means ‘democratic’ while (غير ديموقراطي) means ‘undemocratic’.
The list below gives a list of commonly used adjectives and their opposites:
| mall |
صغير
|
كبير
|
big |
| ugly |
قبيح
|
جميل
|
beautiful |
| slow |
بطئ
|
سريع
|
fast |
| short |
قصير
|
طويل
|
tall |
| low |
منخفض
|
مرتفع
|
high |
| bad |
سيئ
|
جيد
|
good |
| hot |
ساخن
|
بارد
|
cold |
| rough |
خشن
|
ناعم
|
soft |
| wrong |
خطأ
|
صحيح
|
correct |
| stupid |
غبي
|
ذكي
|
intelligent |
Comments:
fata:
more!
aziza:
@fata No problem!
mevludin:
Jazakallah for the list,
For non Arabs it is important to have vowels written, I used your list and added vowels with some more words as well.
Please feel free to use this list as well.
jazakallah
English Arabic
hot سَاخِنٌ
near قَرِيبٌ
wet مُبَلَّلٌ
ugly قَبِيحٌ
bad سَيِّءٌ
dead مَيِّتٌ
outside خَارِجٌ
stupid غَبِيٌّ
slow بَطِيءٌ
wrong خَطَأٌ
easy سَهْلٌ
short قَصِيرٌ
under تَحْتَ
small صَغِيرٌ
few قَلِيلٌ
close مُغْلَقٌ
low مُنْخَفِضٌ
rough خَشْنٌ
fat سَمِينٌ
dirty وَسِخٌ
last أَخِيرٌ
Arabic2 English3
بَارِدٌ cold
بَعيِدٌ far
جَافٌّ dry
جَمِيلٌ beautiful
جَيِّدٌ good
حَيٌّ alive
دَاخِلٌ inside
ذَكِيٌّ intelligent
سَرِيعٌ fast
صَحِيحٌ correct
صَعْبٌ difficult
طَوِيلٌ tall
فَوْقَ above
كَبيرٌ big
كَثِيرٌ a lot
مَفْتُوحٌ open
مُرْتَفِعٌ high
نَاعِمٌ soft
نَحِيفٌ thin
نَظِيفٌ clean
أَوَّلٌ first
just copy and paste one next to another.
Najl Ahmed Nizar:
Thank you. Pls can you add Verbs and their meaning. It would be so helpful. Shukran Jaseela
Aminah:
this really helped in my yr 12 exam . I passed!
Ya’kuv:
Why do you add the “oon” to the end of the adjective (the ٌ )?