Vocabulary: Emotions, Attitudes, and Descriptive Terms

Apathetic

Having or showing little or no emotion; Not interested or concerned; Indifferent or unresponsive

Astonished

greatly surprised or impressed; amazed

Bitter

Having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes; characterized by intense antagonism or hostility; Hard to admit or accept

Censorious

Severely critical; Faultfinding

Choleric

Extremely irritable or easily angered; Irascible (easily angered/irritable)

Confidential

Intended to be kept secret

Critical

Inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily

Despairing

To be overcome by a sense of futility or defeat; To lose all hope

Dogmatic

Asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; Opinionated

Euphoric

A feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being sometimes exaggerated in pathological states as mania

Facetious

Not meant to be taken seriously or literally; Amusing; humorous

Factual

Of or pertaining to facts; concerning facts

Fatalistic

The acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; Submission to fate

Impertinent

Insolently rude; Uncivil

Indignant

Feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base

Informal

Without formality or ceremony; Casual, but educated; irregular; unofficial

Ironic

Containing or exemplifying irony; Happening in the opposite way of what is expected; Coincidental; Unexpected

Joyous

Joyful; Happy; Jubilant

Mock-serious

Pretending to be serious or in earnest

Naïve

showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment

Nostalgic

Unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons; Wistful

Objective

Not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; Based on facts; Unbiased

Resigned

Submissive or acquiescent

Sarcastic

Expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds; marked by or given to using irony in order to mock or convey contempt

Satiric

Exposing human folly to ridicule

Spiritual

relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.

Subdued

Quiet, inhibited, repressed, controlled

Scornful

Expressing extreme contempt

Vituperative

Bitter and abusive; Marked by harshly abusive criticism

Wistful

Characterized by melancholy; Longing, yearning, pensive