People: physical appearance
More collocations describing appearance
- A short, dumpy woman was selling flowers at a stall on the street corner. [short and quite fat woman;
- used more often of women than of men. This collocation is slightly negative, so be careful how you use it.]
- A portly gentleman answered the door. [fat and round; usually used of middle-aged and older men]
- A lanky youth was standing at the street corner. [tall and thin and tending to move awkwardly]
- I wouldn’t like people to see me with dishevelled hair and dirty clothes. [very untidy; used of people’s hair and appearance]
- He bears a striking resemblance to his father. [looks remarkably like]
- The lady who entered the room had a very striking appearance. [unusual appearance, in a positive, attractive sense]
Sometimes words are very restricted in what they can collocate with. The colour adjectives blonde,
ginger and auburn1 are only used of people’s hair (not, for example, their clothes or other objects).
When a word has restricted collocations, make a special note in your vocabulary notebook.
1reddish brown
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