Widening your Italian Adjectives

Widening your Italian Adjectives
It’s good to be able to express yourself with some sophisticated Italian
adjectives and expressions – try to use this table to help you widen your
expression.
Basic adjective
More sophisticated term
Interessante
Avvincente gripping, compelling
Stimolante stimulating
Adatto suitable
In gamba all right
Opportuno appropriate
Giusto correct
Ignobile despicable
Maligno nasty
Malvagio evil
Spregevole contemptible
Paragonabile comparable
Analogo similar
Gradito agreeable
Affascinante fascinating, charming
Gradevole pleasant
Simpatico nice
Piacevole pleasant
Esigente demanding
Sfavorevole unfavourable
Scomodo inconvenient
Efficace effective (thing)
Efficiente effective (thing + person)
Favorevole advantageous,
favourable
Vantaggioso advantageous,
favourable
Agevole easy, smooth
Semplice simple, easy
Polemico controversial
Superfluo superfluous, gratuitous
Vano vain, empty
Insensato pointless
Senza scopo pointless
interesting
Buono good
Cattivo bad
Simile similar
Bello nice, beautiful
Difficile difficult, awkward
Utile useful
Facile easy
Controverso controversial
Inutile useless
Controverso, facile, inutile, buono, difficile, interessante, bello,
cattivo, utile, simile
Match the adjective below to one from the list above:
Avvincente
Senza scopo
Paragonabile
Maligno
In gamba
Insensato
Efficace
Polemico
Vantaggioso
Superfluo
Favorevole
Esigente
Affascinante
Adatto
Scomodo
Piacevole
Spregevole