Gradable and Ungradable Adjectives for IELTS
To achieve a high band score on the IELTS test, you must demonstrate your ability to use diverse word forms. If you want to avoid using repetitive language, use novel words in English tests. The use of Adjectives is always useful to have in your vocabulary to accomplish a good IELTS band score. By using adjectives you can generally add interesting meaning to the sentence.
Gradable Adjectives
There are some adjectives, which can be graded as very, much, little, a bit, etc. These adjectives are called Gradable adjectives.
Adjectives:- angry, big, boring, cheap, cold, frightening, funny, interesting, old, pretty, excellent, boiling, enormous, terrible, exhausted, furious
- Good
Sentence: The performance of the students was very good on the Diamond Jubilee
The taste of the momo from the nearby stall was quite good.
- Angry
Sentence: Rita became very angry after knowing the matter.
I know that my mother will be a little angry if I don’t finish my tiffin
- Big
Sentence: The baby exclaimed by seeing an elephant, “Such a big animal!”
It is a very big opportunity for him to take up, he should not let it go.
- Boring
Sentence: It is very boring to sit idle at home
The film that we saw yesterday was quite boring.
- Cheap
Sentence: The cheapest clothes are available at New Market
The bag which he had bought is much cheap than mine
- Cold
Sentence: The weather is a bit cold today
It was very cold last December.
- Frightening
Sentence: The child got very frightened at the sight of the accident
They were not at all frightened by the threat of the politicians
- Interesting
Sentence: The story that she narrated was very interesting
The story behind the film was not much interesting
- Hot
Sentence: The food served by the hotel was very hot
The milk was too hot for the child, that she could not drink it
- Funny
Sentence: Abraham is a very funny boy
The story narrated by Mita was quite funny
- Pretty
Sentence: The baby boy of that couple was very pretty
The dress she bought is much pretty than that of Amrita
- Exhausted
Sentence: We were totally exhausted by the time we reached our hotel
A students were little exhausted by the bus journey in their excursion
- Furious
Sentence: Their pet dog is very furious
The Black Panthers are more furious than tigers
- Terrible
Sentence: My father was in a very terrible condition in the accident
The suicide incident is terrible.
- Fascinating
Sentence: I am extremely much fascinated by her story
The children were highly fascinated by hearing the autobiography of Don Bosco
Ungradable Adjectives
The adjectives which cannot be graded are called ungradable adjectives. They can be used with totally/ absolutely, etc.
Adjectives:- acceptable, dead, finished, free, impossible, necessary, perfect, ruined, unacceptable, amazing, ancient, awful.
- Acceptable
Sentence: His proposal was acceptable
The suggestion made by Rahul was acceptable
- Dead
Sentence: The person lay dead still on the road
He was dead, by the time we took him to the hospital
- Free
Sentence: The services provided by them are free of cost
The unknown man gave this book to me for free.
- Impossible
Sentence: It is impossible to complete the task before dawn
She has done an impossible task by making the foreign delegates sign contracts with us.
- Necessary
Sentence: It is necessary to wear a saree on the special occasion
An eye witness was necessary to prove the crime
- Perfect
Sentence: Look at the dress! It fits on me perfectly
The administration was capable enough to handle the case perfectly
- Ruined
Sentence: The rain shall totally ruin our day
These mischievous boys have totally ruined the silence of the class.
- Unacceptable
Sentence: It is not at all acceptable that Rajiv has done such a blunder
Two thousand rupees has become unacceptable
- Amazing
Sentence: The show was really amazing
Minakshi’s performance on the teacher’s day was amazing
- Starving
Sentence: The boy was really starving for 4 days, due to lack of food.
I am really starving, what’s there on the menu?
- Enormous
Sentence: Their house is absolutely enormous
The school playground is enormous
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