- accusatory: charging of wrong doing
- apathetic: indifferent due to lack of energy or concern
- awe: solemn wonder
- bitter: exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief
- cynical: questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people
- condescension; condescending: a feeling of superiority
- callous: unfeeling, insensitive to 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 lacks respect
- caustic: intense use of sarcasm; stinging, biting
- conventional: lacking spontaneity, originality, and individuality
- 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
- 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’s inner feelings; emotional; full of images; song-like
- matter-of-fact: accepting of conditions; not fanciful or emotional
- 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 condescension
- pessimistic: seeing the worst side of things; no hope
- quizzical: odd, eccentric, amusing
- ribald: offensive in speech or gesture
- reverent: treating a subject with honor and respect
- ridiculing: slightly contemptuous banter; making fun of
- reflective: illustrating innermost thoughts and emotions
- sarcastic: sneering, caustic
- sardonic: scornfully and bitterly sarcastic
- satiric: ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach
- sincere: without deceit or pretense; genuine
- solemn: deeply earnest, tending toward sad reflection
- sanguineous: arduous, bloodthirsty, brutal, murderous AND optimistic, cheerful
- whimsical: odd, strange, fantastic; fun
apr 14 2013 ∞
oct 26 2018 +