JJEVAL Evaluative adjectives

Definition

Adjectives expressing general evaluation or quality judgements.

Detection Rules

xiao_2009

Requires: usas

USAS code: A5

mfte

cql[lemma={words} & pos="JJ.*"]
Word list (9 items)
bad beautiful best fine good great lovely nice poor

Requires: lemma, pos

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

Requires: lemma, pos

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