Examples of Description of an Object in English

To do it description of an object or a thing in English Certain criteria must be taken into account for the selection of the appropriate vocabulary:

• object type (type of object)
• Size (size)
• Material (material)
• Color (colors)
• subjective opinion (opinion)

To ask about what an object is like, the question is used: What is … like?, which is answered: It's …For example: What's your new car like? It's great.(And not:It's like great).

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Word order to describe an object

Although there is no exact rule, the usual order of words to describe an object is:

number + opinion + size + shape + age + color + pattern + origin + material + purpose + object

For example: She is wearing a nice white cotton school uniform.

Vocabulary to describe objects in English

The specific vocabulary necessary to describe objects in English is grouped according to the criteria to be described: material, shape, color or type of object.

Describing objects according to their material

To express the material with which an object is made, two ways can be used:

• "made of"+ stuff. For example: This T-shirt is made of cotton./ This T-shirt is made of cotton.
• material + object. For example: This is a cotton T-shirt./ This is a cotton T-shirt.

Some nouns(nouns) used to refer to the material of an object are:

acrylic acrylic	fiberglass fiberglass	plastic plastic
aluminum aluminum	glass glass	rubber eraser
brick brick	golden gold	sand sand
brass bronze	steel iron	silk silk
cardboard cardboard	lead lead	silver silver
ceramic ceramics	leather leather	steel steel
clay clay	marble marble	stones stone
cooper copper	metal metal	timber wood
cotton cotton	nylon nylon	velvet velvet
denim jean fabric	paper paper	wax wax
fabric / cloth fabric	plaster and so	wooden wood
faux fur synthetic skin

Careful: It is said that a gold ring, a wool sweater (And not: a ring of gold, a sweater of wool).

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Describing objects based on their shape and size

Some adjectives(adjectives) that are used to express the shape of an object are:

cylindrical cylindrical	rectangular rectangular	square square
Circular circular	rhomboid rhomboid	straight straight
curved curved	round round	triangular triangular
oval oval

Some adjectives that are used to express the size and dimension of an object are:

big big	long long	small little
high high	low low	thick thick, thick
huge enormous	medium-sized medium	thin thin, thin
big big	narrow narrow, narrow	tiny tiny
little little	shorts short	wide broad

Describing objects according to other physical characteristics

Some adjectives that are used to express other physical characteristics of objects, in addition to material, size and shape, are:

blunt blunt	hot hot	shiny bright
cold cold	matte matte, dull	soft soft, fluffy, smooth
deep deep	opaque opaque	waterproof waterproof
flat flat	pointed pointed	new new
fluffy soft, furry	rough rough, rough	old old
glossy shiny, glossy	rugged durable, resistant	antique ancient
hard hard	sharp sharp

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Describing objects according to their pattern

Some adjectives that are used to express the pattern or design of a fabric or paper are:

checkered checkered	flowered flowered	plain smooth
crisscross crisscross	patterned print	striped striped
dotted to polka dots

Describing objects according to their color

In addition to the traditional colors, in English it is common to find other words that remember or refer to the color of a known object. For example: smalt (cobalt blue, name that comes from the color of cobalt glass).

damask grayish red	plum plum color	shell pink pastel pink
indigo indigo	purple purplish	turquoise turquoise
light green light green	reddish reddish	vermilion vermilion
navy blue Navy blue

Attention: the termination -ish at the end of a color name indicates that the color is not pure, but tends to a certain color.

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Description of an object: subjective opinion

There are adjectives that help describe an object from a subjective point of view, which expresses the opinion of the speaker. Some are:

beautiful beautiful	lovely pretty	ugly ugly
compact compact	practically practical	ultra modern ultramodern
cutting edge innovative, advanced	rare rare, unusual	useful useful
delicate delicate	sophisticated sophisticated	useless useless
essential essential	state of the art last generation	user-friendly Easy to use
witty witty	trendy Fashion	worthless useless, worthless

There are expressions and phrases to qualify objects. For example:

• at the cutting edge of innovation  / at the forefront of innovation
• first-generation / first generation
• second rate / bad

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object types

To mention an object or thing in English, nouns are used, which can be singular or plural, countable or uncountable, depending on the context. Some object names are:

backpack backpack	computer computer	laptop laptop
bag bag	copybook notebook	motorcycle motorcycle
board board	forks fork	pillow pillow
book case library	glue glue	wallet wallet
mobile phone cell phone	key key	watches clock
coach couch	knife knife

to take into account: There are the compound nouns(compound nouns), which are a series of two or more nouns that indicate the name of a single object. For example: tennis ball(tennis ball), coffee maker(coffee maker).

Other words related to describing an object

Some words related to the description of an object are:

size size	width broad	shapes shape
height height	weight weight	color color

Examples of sentences to describe an object

1. Matt was wearing a pair of brown leather ski boots.
   Matt was wearing a pair of brown leather ski boots.
2. My grandmother cooked the meal in a big round copper frying pan.
   My grandmother cooked the food in a large round copper frying pan.
3. I've bought a long flowered cotton dress.
   I bought myself a long, flowery cotton dress.
4. Es una tall ancient stone obelisk Located on the south bank of the Thames.
   It is a tall and ancient stone obelisk, situated on the south bank of the Thames.
5. my mother has some original old books.
   My mom has some old original books.
6. This is a new compact gray laptop.
   This is a new compact gray laptop.
7. The shopping arrived in this big green plastic bag.
   The purchases arrived in this big green plastic bag.
8. My granddad always wears a pair of warm-looking old fluffy slippers.
   My grandfather always wears a pair of old, soft and warm looking slippers.
9. Mary used to play with a green and black graphite tennis racket.
   Mary used to play with a green and black graphite racket.
10. I was given a beautiful small pink watch for my birthday.
    They gave me a beautiful little pink watch for my birthday.

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