JJEVAL Evaluative adjectives
Definition
Adjectives expressing general evaluation or quality judgements.
Detection Rules
xiao_2009
mfte
cql[lemma={words} & pos="JJ.*"]
Word list (9 items)
bad
beautiful
best
fine
good
great
lovely
nice
poor
usas
cql[lemma={words} & pos="JJ|JJR|JJS"]
Word list (366 items)
Machiavellian
OKish
abject
above-average
absolute
abysmal
acceptable
accurate
actual
adulterate
advantaged
advantageous
aggravated
aggravating
alright
ameliorating
amiss
angel-like
angelic
angelical
apocryphal
appalling
artificial
atrocious
auspicious
authentic
awry
axiomatic
bad
balanced
baseless
beastly
beaut
believable
best
best-of-show
best-quality
better
better-quality
bettered
bittersweet
bogus
botched
brackish
brill
brilliant
bum
calamitous
candid
capitalised
cataclysmic
catastrophic
checkered
cheesy
chequered
choice
choicest
civilised
civilized
cloying
cogent
compelling
continuous-improvement
contrived
copy-vault
copyable
copying
correct
corrected
correcting
corrigible
counterfeited
crack
crafty
crappy
credential
credible
creditable
cringeworthy
dazzling
deceived
deceiving
decent
decent-looking
deceptive
defective
defensible
dependable
deprived
derogatory
deteriorating
detrimental
developed
devious
diabolical
dire
direful
disadvantaged
disadvantageous
disastrous
dishonest
disingenuous
distorting
dreadful
dream-like
dreamlike
dummy
dysfunctional
earnest
elite
elitist
enhanced
enhancing
enlightened
enriching
erroneous
error-prone
evaluated
evil-smelling
exact
excellent
exemplary
fab
fabulous
facie
factful
factual
fairish
fake
fallacious
fallible
false
false-hearted
fantastic
far-fetched
fatal
favorable
favourable
fearfullest
fictional
fictitious
fine
finest
finest-quality
first-class
first-hand
first-rate
firsthand
flawed
flawless
fly-on-the-wall
forthright
four-star
frank
garbage-in
garbage-out
genuine
good
good-quality
great
greater
greatest
grinding
grounded
groundless
guileful
haywire
heartfelt
high-class
high-performance
high-quality
honest
horrendous
ideal
idealised
ignoble
imaginary
impeccable
implausible
improved
improving
impure
inaccurate
inauspicious
inconceivable
incorrect
incorrectable
indefensible
indisputable
infallible
insincere
invalid
irredeemable
lied
lousy
low-down
low-end
lower-end
lurid
magnificent
make-believe
marvellous
marvelous
masterly
matchless
mediocre
middling
misleading
misled
missed
mistaken
mitigating
mock
model
modelling
monstrous
no.1
non-standard
o.K.
o.k.
ok
on
optimal
optimised
optimum
outstanding
outstripped
outstripping
passable
pathetic
peerless
perfect
perfectist
phantom
phenomenal
phoney
plumb
plus
point-blank
positive
pre-eminent
pretended
printable
privileged
prize
progressed
progressing
proper
proved
proven
pseudo
pseudo'ish
pucker
pure
purest
purist
purported
putative
qual
qualitative
quick-fix
rateable
rated
rating
real-life
rectified
rectifying
redeemable
reliable
renovated
repaired
repairing
reprehensible
reputed
retrograde
right
rosy
rubbish
rubbishy
satisfactory
second-best
second-class
self-contradictory
self-depreciating
self-handicapping
self-improvement
self-worth
semi-good
severe
severest
shining
shocking
shoddy
sincere
skeptical
sloppy
smashing
so-and-so
spiffed-up
splendid
splitting
spurious
stylised
sub-standard
sublime
substandard
succulent
super
superb
superior
superlative
supreme
surreal
suspect
swell
synthetic
terrible
terrific
tickety-boo
tip-top
titular
token
tolerable
top-line
top-of-the-line
top-of-the-range
topping
triffic
true
truer
truest
trustworthy
trusty
truthful
two-rate
unbeatable
unbelievable
uncivilized
unconfirmed
undeniable
underdeveloped
unerring
unfounded
unparalleled
unreliable
unrelieved
unrivalled
unsatisfactory
unsubstantiated
unthinkable
untrue
untrustworthy
untruthful
valid
veritable
wholehearted
wholesome
wizard
wonder
wonderful
world-class
world-leading
worse
worsening
worst
wrong
Normalization
Per nouns
Sources
- biber_2006 — Biber, Douglas (2006) : University Language — A Corpus-based Study of Spoken and Written Registers
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version
- xiao_2009 — Xiao, Richard (2009) : Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes
- usas — Rayson, Paul; Archer, Dawn; Piao, Scott; McEnery, Tony (2004) : The UCREL Semantic Analysis System