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Nose Eyes Figure
Nose Eyes Figure
Nose Eyes Figure
alcoholic, aquiline, arrogant, askew, beaked, beautiful, bent, bibulous, big, blobby, blunt, bloody,
bold, bony, boozy, bovine, brazen, broad, broken, bubbling, bumped, childlike, chiseled, classic,
cleft, coarse, colossal, comical, commanding, conspicuous, craggy, crooked, cruel, curved
D to H
daunting, defiant, delicate, dimpled, disdainful, distorted, droopy, dusty, effeminate, elegant,
enormous, exotic, fake, false, fat, feline, feminine, feverish, fine, flaccid, flat, foot-long, freckled,
frostbitten, garish, girly, glowing, granite, grimy, haggish, haughty, heavy, hoggish, hooked
I to O
imperious, impish, imposing, impudent, insignificant, intrusive, jolly, keen, knobby, lean, little, long,
lopsided, lumpy, magisterial, mammoth, mangled, masculine, mashed, massive, meaty, miniscule,
misshapen, monstrous, mud-covered, narrow, neat, needle-sharp, nodular, nondescript, off-center,
oversized
P to R
petulant, pert, petite, pickled, piggy, pinched, pious, pixie, pliable, pliant, pockmarked, pointed,
pompous, porcine, portentous, powdered, prodigious, prominent, protruding, proud, puckish, puffy,
pug, pugnacious, refined, regal, rubbery, runny
S
saucy, scarred, scary, scorched, sculpted, serpentine, sharp, skeletal, skinny, slender, slippery,
sloped, small, sniffly, snobbish, snotty, soft, sottish, spongy, squat, stately, straight, strong,
squashed, stubborn, stubby, stuffy, stumpy, stupendous, sunken, supercilious, superior, sweat-
beaded, swollen
T to Y
thick, thin, thoroughbred, tiny, twisted, two-foot, ulcerated, underdeveloped, veined, velvety, vinous,
vulpine, wavy, waxen, weak, wide, wooden, wrinkled, wry, yielding
Eye Appearance
Eye appearance/shape isn’t too difficult to write — round, almond, bug-eyed, beady,
sloe-eyed, hooded, upturned/cat, downturned etc. We might also include how the eyes
are placed on the face: close-set, deep-set, monolid, protruding
Brow furrowed as his mouth turned grim
Gawking at
Glanced sideways
ample, baggy, baggy-figured, beer-bellied, big-bellied, big-boned, bloated, blubbery, broad, bulging,
bulky, chubby, chunky, corpulent, cumbersome, curvaceous, dimpled, doughy, dumpy, elephantine,
fat, fatso, flabby, fleshy, full-figured
G to R
generously padded, generously proportioned, gross, heavily built, heavy, heavy-set, hefty, Humpty
Dumptyish, large, large-boned, matronly, obese, overheavy, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy,
ponderous, porky, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, roly-poly
S to W
sloppy, squat, stocky, stout, sumoesque, swollen, thick, thickset, tubby, ungainly, unwieldly, weighty,
well-fed, well-padded, well-rounded, wide
Weight: At or Below-Average
Several of the adjectives in this section could also appear in the Height: Tall area. For
example: beanstalk and lanky.
A to R
aerodynamic, angular, beanstalk, bony, delicate, fine-boned, gangly, lank, lanky, lean, lissome, lithe,
meager of body, narrow, rawboned
S to W
scraggy, scrawny, sinuous, skeletal, skin-and-bone, skinny, sleek, slender, slight, slightly-built, slim,
small-boned, spare, spindly, spiny, streamlined, stringy, svelte, sylphlike, thin, trim, underdeveloped,
underweight, waif-like, willowy, wiry, wispy
M to R
meaty, mesomorphic, mighty, muscle-bound, muscular, nimble, pliant, powerful, powerfully built,
resilient, ripped, robust, rugged
S to W
shipshape, shredded, sinewy, solid, sound, stalwart [dated], strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial,
supple, taut, toned, tough, vigorous, well-built
G to R
gaunt, haggard, half-starved, infirm, insubstantial, lethargic, maimed, malnourished, mangled,
neglected, out-of-shape, puny, ramshackle, rickety, ropy, rotting, runty
S to W
scalded, sickly, starved, underfed, undernourished, vulnerable, wasted, weak, weedy, withered,
worn-out
Shape
Look around you. Pick an object. Could you include it as a body shape? A woman might have a
chest flatter than your thesaurus, or perhaps your male protagonist resembles your upside-down
wastebasket.
B to R
barrel-chested, barrelesque, blocky, boobylicious, bootylicious, broad-shouldered, bulbous,
cylindrical, ectomorphic, endomorphic, flat, hourglass-shaped, inverted-triangular, limp,
mesomorphic, pear-shaped, pumpkinesque, pyramidal, rectangular, rotund, round
S to W
serpentine, shapeless, shapely, small-waisted, spherical, spidery, square, thick-waisted, top-heavy,
triangular, wasp-waisted
Height: Short
Let’s include that wastebasket again: knee-high to a wastebasket. Scrutinize your surroundings to
create fresh phrases.
A to R
belly-button-high, bijou, compact, dainty, diminutive, dwarfish, eensy, elfin, gnomish, itsy-bitsy, itty-
bitty, knee-high, knee-high to a wastebasket, knee-high to a pygmy, Lilliputian, little, low-slung,
midget, mini, miniature, packed-down, peewee, petite, pint-sized, pocket-sized, puny, pygmy, runty
S to W
sawed-off, shoulder-high, shrimpy, shriveled, shrunken, small, small in stature, small-scale, stubby,
stunted, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, undersized, vertically challenged, waist-high, wee
Height: Tall
Most people know that redwoods are tall, ergo, redwood-high. With a bit of acerbic word play, a tall
Polish stripper might be referred to as stripper-pole-ific.
B to L
big, biggish, colossal, gangling, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, ginormous, Goliath, huge, humongous,
immense, jumbo, king-sized, large, leggy, lofty, longish, long-shanked
M to W
mammoth, massive, mountain-high, of great stature, rangy, redwood-high, sizable, sky-high,
skyscraperesque, statuesque, stripper-pole-ific, towering, whopping