Negative Personality Adjectives
Definition of Personality Adjectives
Personality adjectives are those words (adjectives) that tell us about the personality traits of a person like behavior, look, valor or temperament of a person.
What are Negative Personality Adjectives?
Negative personality adjectives are words (adjectives) which we use in negative sense to describe a bad trait of a person or to show him/her ill mannered, or to degrade his/her personality by showing his/her bad habits by a single word e.g., vain.
Some of the most commonly used negative personality adjectives are written below.
List of Negative Personality Adjectives
Arrogant
Meaning: Someone who has excessive pride in oneself, or showing or revealing an exaggerated sense of one’s own abilities.
Synonyms: conceited, haughty.
In a sentence: Ali got first position in his college but he is not an arrogant about it.
Self-centered
Meaning: Someone who is too much interested in him/her and not caring for others. Concerned only with one’s own needs.
Synonyms: egoistic, selfish, self-concerned
In a sentence: Due to self-centered nature, no one wants to join company of Jacky.
Vain
Meaning: Too much proud of one’s own ability or achievement.
Synonyms: prideful, self-conceited
In a Sentence: Joseph is very vain about his personality.
Pompous
Meaning: Excessively elevated are exhibiting self importance
Synonyms: haughty, bumptious, arrogant
In a Sentence: The pompous waiter served us in the manner of a person doing some poor soul a great favor.
Callous
Meaning: Showing or feeling no sympathy for others
Synonyms: hard-hearted, uncaring
In a Sentence: Bacon is a selfish and callous man in our company.
Cynical
Meaning: Having believe that all people are dishonest and selfish
Synonyms: peevish, skeptical
In a Sentence: Cynical people do not believe on societal beliefs such as true love.
Aloof
Meaning: A man with unfriendly manner
Synonyms: lonely, detached
In a Sentence: I want to keep myself aloof from politics.
Impolite
Meanings: lacking politeness
Synonyms: Rude, ill-mannered
In a Sentence: It is impolite to interrupt someone again and again during debate.
Thoughtless
Meaning: Showing no concern for feelings or needs of other
Synonyms: careless, negligent, slovenly
In a Sentence: A thoughtless person always makes hurting comments on other.
Defensive
Meaning: Behaving in a way that shows that you feel others are criticizing you.
Synonyms: protective, self protective,
In a Sentence: I was surprised by his defensive arguments.
Hostile
Meaning:, Unfreezing feelings, referring to an enemy
Synonyms: unfriendly, adversarial, inimical
In a Sentence: There was a small city that was hostile to visitor.
Belligerent
Meaning: Always ready to fight, aggressive and angry, imposing war.
Synonyms: aggressive, assaultive, brawly,
In a Sentence: Adam was drunk and belligerent.
Bitchy
Meaning: Someone who is unfriendly towards others.
Synonyms: Rude, unfriendly.
In a sentence: Boss of our company was fired out due to bitchy nature.
Nasty
Meaning: Unpleasant to taste smell or see
Synonyms: mean, indecent
In a Sentence: Jane has a nasty habit of putting finger in her mouth.
Cruel
Meaning: This adjective is used to describe those who hurt others.
Synonyms: barbaric, brutal, heartless
In a Sentence: Injustice is a cruel fact of mankind.
Deceitful
Meaning: Deceitful is an adjective used for a deceiving person.
Synonyms: Deceptive, misleading
In a sentence: The deceitful man neglected some hidden fault of his bike and sold it to a poor man.
Machiavellian
Meaning: Using illegal or unfair tricks in order to achieve something
Synonyms: dishonest, deceptive
In a Sentence: Machiavellian policy was discussed during the wring table talk.
Sneaky
Meaning: Acting in a secret and dishonest manner.
Synonyms: shifty, shady
In a Sentence: Many traders use sneaky ways to sell their products.
Stubborn
Meaning: Refusing to change ideas or to stop doing something
Synonyms: obstinate, bullheaded, hard-nosed, mulish
In a Sentence: children are mostly stubborn and obstinate in nature.
Fussy
Meaning: Always ready to fight, often upset or unhappy.
Synonyms: crabby, cranky
In a Sentence: fussy boys are always aloof due to their temperament nature.
Vague
Meaning: Not clearly expressed, where meanings are not clear,
Synonyms: doubtful, unclear
In a Sentence: Vague answers create embarrassment during conversation.
Impatient
Meaning: Unable to wait for someone or something, eager to do something without waiting.
Synonyms: anxious, keen
In a Sentence: after delay to month’s salary I was impatient.