UNGRADABLE ADJECTIVES

Here's a short list of adjectives that are ungradable.

Fantastic

amazing

Wonderful

Awful

Horrible

Terrible

Perfect

Delicious

Useless

Devastated

(very, very sad)

Hilarious

(very, very funny)

Gorgeous

(very beautiful)

Exhausted

(very tired)

Starving

(very hungry)

Ancient

(very old)

Disgusting

(very unappealing)

Spotless

(very clean)

Filthy

(very dirty)

Adorable

(very cute)

Enormous

(very large)

Huge

(very large)

Freezing

(very cold)

Adjectives are words like "small", "green", "old", "nice", "healthy", etc. which describe the characteristics of
things.

Most adjectives can be intensified with "very":

very small

very old
But there are certain adjectives that don't fit well with intensifiers like "very".
These ungradable adjectives are already complete or very strong on their own. When you try to use "very"
with one of these , it sounds wrong.
When it comes to intensifiers other than "very", we may use with the ungradable adjectives: completely,
utterly, absolutely, totally
completely terrible
absolutely terrible
absolutely freezing
utterly freezing