large degree' and are seldom used with these adverbs. Instead, we can use adverbs such as
absolutely or totally.
adverbs:
Extremely: Extremadamente, sumamente.
Deeply: Profundamente
Dairly: Bastante, justamente.
hugely: Enormemente, inmensamente.
immensely: inmensamente.
pretty (informal), Bastante.
rather: Más bien, bastante, mejor dicho, antes.
really: Realmente.
reasonably: razonablemente.
slightly: slightly.
very absolutely: Muy
completely: completamente
entirely, totalmente, enteramente
pretty, bastante
simply, simplemente
totally, totalmente.
utterly: absolutamente
angry, hambre
big, grande
busy, ocupado
comfortable, confortable
common, común
happy, feliz
important, importante
quiet, tranquilo, silencioso
rich, rico
strong, fuerte
young, joven
amazed, asombrado
awful, horrible, terrible, tremendo
dreadful, terrible, espantoso, horroroso
furious, furioso
huge, enorme
impossible, imposible
invaluable, incalculable, inestimable
terrible, terrible
wonderful, maravilloso
useless, inútil
Our teacher gave us a completely impossible problem to solve.
She was extremely rich.
Notice that not all the adverbs given can go with all the adjectives given. For example, we « wouldn't usually say 'completely essential'.
Really and pretty can be used with
both gradable and ungradable adjectives.
More on the position of adjectives
When we use more than one adjective before a noun, there is often a preferred order for these
adjectives. However, this order is not fixed: opinion + size/physical quality/shape/age + colour +
participle adjectives + origin + material + type + purpose + noun.
an old plastic container
a hard red ball
a frightening Korean mask
a round biscuit tin
a small broken plate
a useful digital alarm clock
(= age + material + noun)
(= quality + colour + noun)
(= opinion + origin + noun)
(= shape + purpose (for holding biscuits) + noun)
(= size + participle adjective + noun)
(= opinion + type + purpose + noun)
To help you to learn this order, it can be useful to remember that gradable adjectives
Q (describing opinion, size, quality, shape, and age) usually precede ungradable adjectives
• (participle adjective and adjectives describing origin, material, type and purpose).
When two gradable adjectives come before the noun, we can put either a comma or and between
them. Compare:
• an attractive, big garden and • an attractive and big garden
Two colour adjectives have and between them:
• Sweden's yellow and blue flag {not ...yellow, blue flag)
Two ungradable adjectives have and between them if they are from the same class, but and is
not used if they are from different classes. Compare:
• financial and political conditions and • improving financial conditions
Study the word order when a to-infinitive or prepositional phrase follows an adjective:
• It's a difficult word to say. / • It's an identical car to mine. </
• It's a word (that is) difficult to say. / • It's a car (that is) identical to mine. /
• It's a difficult to say word. X • It's an identical to mine car. X
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