Online etiquette

Describing people

How would you describe yourself

If that seems like a difficult question to answer, it’s okay
Even native speakers sometimes find it hard to talk about themselves in English.
Describing yourself is really just telling people what you’re like.
You can tell someone what you look like.
You can say what your personality is like.
You might even say where you’re from or where you work.
There are many different ways to describe a person!
Whether you’re describing yourself or someone else, knowing what some of these different ways are can be a big help.
We describe people all the time. For example, you might tell your friends what your boss is like. You might tell your sister what that cute guy you saw looks like.
Even outside of everyday conversations, it’s very useful to know how to describe people. Descriptions are used a lot in books, in articles and in other kinds of communication in English. Reading or hearing a description of someone can give you a better idea of what they look like or act like.
Descriptions are also useful in the business world, often crucial to conversations and presentations at work.
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Describing someone’s appearance
To describe someone’s appearance, you will often use adjectives. An adjective is a kind of word that describes a noun a person, place or thin.
Here are some words and phrases you can use to describe a person’s appearance.
Some of them are synonyms, or words that mean almost or exactly the same thing. Knowing more than one way of saying something is very helpful when describing peopleTo describe someone’s height, you can say they are tall or short. Tall people are higher than short people. Someone who is thin and tall can be called lanky. To say someone is short and also small, you can say they are petite. If you’re talking about a child, they might be pint-sized.

Someone who weighs more than average can be curvy, well-built, full-bodied or heavy. Curvy is usually only used to describe women.You might also say someone has some meat on their bones. This is a casual way of saying they are overweight, and it might seem rude to someone sensitive. The opposite of overweight can be thin, slim orskinny.

Light, yellowish hair can be described as blonde. But you can also call a person who has that kind of hair a blonde. This means blonde can be used as a noun or an adjective. A person with dark hair can be called abrunette. Someone with red hair can be called a redhead. 
Besides what color someone’s hair is, you also can say they are short-haired or long-haired. You can say they have curly, straight or wavyhair. Sometimes hair can also be frizzy, which is when it looks puffy with small, tight curls. If someone has no hair at all on their head, they arebald.
Men sometimes have hair on their faces. Hair that covers the chin and cheeks is called a beard. When there’s hair only above the lips it’s amoustache. A beard that’s only on the chin can be called a goatee. None of these are adjectives. They are all nouns. To describe someone with a beard, you would say, “He has a beard.”
How does a person look overall? If you think a woman is attractive, you can say she is beautiful, pretty or maybe even gorgeous very beautiful. You can call an attractive man handsome. Both men and women can be good-looking. If you’re speaking very casually, good-looking men or women can be hot. To say someone is not very good-looking, you can say they are not much to look at. This is not a nice way to describe someone, but it’s better than ugly.
If someone dresses well, they are smartly dressed or they look smart. You can also just say they are well-dressed. If someone dresses fashionably, they are stylish or trendy. If someone has bad taste in clothes, you can say they’re unfashionable. A less nice way to say this is frumpy.
2. Describing someone’s mannerisms
Someone’s mannerisms are the way they act or speak. When you speak, do you move your arms a lot? Do you touch your hair or bite your lip? All these things are mannerisms.
Since mannerisms are usually actions, they are often described by phrases with verbs action words.
Here are some common mannerisms you might use to describe people:
Many people have mannerisms that appear when they’re feeling negative (bad) emotions. If someone feels nervous or impatient, for example, they might tap their fingers, crack their knuckles, bite their fingernails or chew the tips of their pencils.
Sometimes people don’t even notice that they twirl their hair around their finger. Other times mannerisms are deliberate (on purpose). For example, someone might roll their eyes to show that they’re being sarcastic (not serious).
When a person thinks hard about something, they sometimes tilt their head to the side or even stick out their tongue.
You can sometimes tell someone is annoyed if they rub the back of their neck, sigh a lot or clench their hands.
3. Describing someone’s character
A person’s character is their personality, who they are on the inside. When you talk about someone, you might mention what they are like as a person.
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