Topics: Family › Emotions
Type: Reflective Essays
Sample donated: Angela Pena
Last updated: December 11, 2019
Accusatory
Charging of wrongdoing
Apathetic
Indifferent due to lack of energy or concern
Awe
Solemn wonder
Bitter
Exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief
Belligerent
A hostile or warlike attitude
Cynical
Questions the basic sincerity and goodness if people
Condescending
A feeling of superiority
Callous
Unfeeling, insensitive to the feelings of others
Contemplative
Studying, thinking, reflecting on an issue
Critical
Finding fault
Choleric
Hot-tempered, easily angered
Contemptuous
Showing or feeling that something is worthless or lack respect
Congenial
Of a pleasant disposition; friendly and sociable
Caustic
Intense use of sarcasm
Conventional
Lacking spontaneity, originality, and individuality
Disingenuous
Insincere or calculating, giving a false appearance of simple frankness
Impressionable
Readily or easily influenced
Ingenuous
Openly straightforward or frank, characterized by an inability to mask your feelings, devious
Insolent
Presumptuous and insulting in manner or speech; arrogant, audaciously rude or disrespectful
Detached
Showing lack of emotional involvement
Disdainful
Scornful
Didactic
Author attempts to educate or instruct the reader
Derisive
Ridiculing, mocking
Earnest
Intense, a sincere state of mind
Erudite
Learned, polished, scholarly
Fanciful
Using the imagination
Facetious
Audaciously rude or disrespectful
Flippant
Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness, lacking in seriousness
Forthright
Directly frank without hesitation
Gloomy
Darkness, sadness, rejection
Haughty
Proud and vain to the point of arrogance
Indignant
Marked by anger aroused by injustice
Intimate
Very familiar
Judgmental
Authoritative and often having critical opinions
Jovial
Happy
Lyrical
Expressing a poet’ sinner feeling; emotional; full of images, song-like
Light-hearted
Free from care or worry
Matter-of-fact
Accepting of conditions
Mocking
Treating with contempt or ridicule
Morose
Gloomy, sullen, surly, despondent
Malicious
Purposely hurtful
Objective
An unbiased view, able to leave personal judgments aside
Optimistic
Hopeful, cheerful
Obsequious
Polite and obedient in order to gain something
Patronizing
Air of condensation
Pessimistic
Seeking to see the worst side of things
Pretentious
Making an exaggerated outward show; self-important
Quizzical
Odd, eccentric, amusing
Ribald
Offensive
Reverent
Treating a subject with honor or respect
Ridiculing
Slightly contemptuous banter, making fun of
Reflective
Illustrating innermost thoughts and emotions
Sarcastic
Sneering, caustic
Sardonic
Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic
Satiric
Ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point
Sincere
Without deceit or pretense, genuine
Solemn
Deeply earnest, tending toward sad reflection
Somber
Dark and gloomy or dull; mentally depressed or depressing, melancholy; earnest and solemn
Sentimental
Affectedly or extravagantly emotional, having or sowing tender, gentle, or delicate feelings
Whimsical
Odd, strange, fantastic, fun
Wistful
Full if wishful yearning, pensively sad; melancholy
