Adjectives- Appearance

middle-aged
# Jane is about forty, she is a middle-aged woman

средних лет (in the middle of your life before you are old)

elderly
# You should give up your seat for elderly people in public transport

пожилой (a more polite word for 'old', used to describe people)

young
# Steve is only eighteen, he is so young

молодой (having lived or existed for only a short time and not old)

arched (eyebrows)
# My mother has thin arched eyebrows

изогнутый (о бровях)

bushy (eyebrows)
# My grandfather has bushy eyebrows

густой (о бровях) (If hair or a plant is bushy, it has grown very thick)

penciled (eyebrows)
# This woman has penciled eyebrows

тонко нарисованный (о бровях) (written or drawn using a pencil)

old
# My great grandmother is old, she is eighty-five

старый (having lived or existed for a long time)

fat
# If you eat junk food, you will become fat

толстый (Someone who is fat weighs too much)

plump
# Dad's getting a bit plump

пухлый (quite fat)

tubby
# A tubby person is quite short and plump

пузатый (fat)

chubby
# This baby's got chubby cheeks

пухлый (pleasantly fat)

nice
# John looks nice in a dark suit

симпатичный (pleasant)

fair
# He's got fair hair and blue eyes

светлый (having pale skin or a light colour of hair)

lovely
# Polly looks lovely in this dress

милый (very attractive)

pretty
# My best friend is pretty and stylish

красивый (If a woman or girl is pretty, she is attractive)

sweet
# She looks so sweet when she smiles

милый (kind and friendly)

charming
# Daniel's got a charming smile

очаровательный (pleasant or attractive)

(un) attractive
# Her face looked very attractive

(не) привлекательный (beautiful or pleasant to look at)

stout
# He's a short, stout man

крепкий (If shoes or other objects are stout, they are strong and thick)

overweight
# A lot of people are overweight because they eat junk food

с избыточным весом (too heavy or too fat)

obese
# Since the operation, he's got health problems and become obese

страдающий ожирением (extremely fat)

scrawny
# A poor child was weak and scrawny

тощий (too thin)

skinny
# He hardly never eats anything, he's so skinny

тощий (Someone who is skinny is too thin)

slender
# He's quite slender

стройный (thin in an attractive way)

slim
# Mary goes in for sports, so she's slim

стройный (Someone who is slim is thin in an attractive way)

thin
# Kate is tall and thin

тонкий/худой (A thin person or animal has very little fat on their body)

bony
# Lucy eats a lot but she's still bony

костлявый (very thin, so that you can see or feel bones)

fit
# This young man looks very fit and attractive

подтянутый (healthy and strong, especially as a result of exercise)

broad-shouldered
# My father is a swimmer, he's very broad-shouldered

широкоплечий

athletic
# He's taken up jogging and now he looks quite athletic

атлетичный (strong, healthy, and good at sports)

tall
# Jo is tall, he's a basketball player

высокий (having a greater than average height)

lanky
# When Jack was a teenager, he locked quite lanky

долговязый/худой и тощий (A lanky person is very tall and thin)

tallish
# This boy is tallish and thin

довольно высокий (quite tall)

short
# She's a short but attractive woman

низкий/короткий (A short person is not as tall as most people)

red-haired
# There are a lot of red-haired people in Ireland

рыжеволосый

blond
# Kate got blond hair

светлый/блондин (Someone who is blonde has pale yellow hair)

white (hair)
# His hairs getting white

седой (relating to white people)

silver (hair)
# Her hair is silver

седой/серебристый

wavy (hair)
# Roberta is from Italy, she has wavy hair and green eyes

волнистый (with slight curves)

long-haired
# She's long-haired so she wears ponytail

с длинными волосами

short-haired
# He's short-haired because he's a navy officer

с короткими волосами

curly (hair)
# Tom comes from Africa, he has short black curly hair

кудрявый (shaped like a curl, or with many curls)

straight (hair)
# Yoko's got long straight dark hair

прямой (not curved or bent)

bald/balding
# My grandfather is bald

лысый/лысеющий (with little or no hair)

un (tidy)
# This girl is very tidy-she always wears clean clothes

(не) опрятный (liking to keep things in the correct place and arranged in a good order)

rumpled
# His hair was rumpled

взъерошенный (Rumpled clothes or sheets are untidy because they have folds in them)

dishevelled
# He arrived late, dishevelled and tired

растрепанный (very untidy)

thinning (hair)
# He's 50 and he's got thinning hair

редеющий

receding
# Her hair has become receding after the operation

редеющий (If a man's hair recedes, it stops growing at the front of his head)

freckled
# Patrick is red-haired and has freckled skin

в веснушках (having small, pale brown spots on the skin, usually on the face)

pock-marked
# He had skin problems as a teenager and now he's got pock-marked skin

рябой (marked with pockmarks)

swarthy
# He was a swarthy young man

смуглый (having dark skin)

sunburnt
# She gets sunburnt very quickly

обгоревший (Sunburned skin has become red and sore by being in the strong heat of the sun for too long, or is very suntanned)

tanned/browned
# We went to Thailand on holidays and returned quite tanned

загорелый (having darker skin than usual because you have been in the sun)

ruddy/flushed (cheeks)
# Her cheeks got ruddy when she went out to the street

румяный (A ruddy face is red)

hollow/sunken (cheeks)
# He's lost a lot of weight and now his cheeks look sunken

впалый (о щеках) (If someone has hollow cheeks/eyes, their face seems to curve in around these areas) / (eyes or cheeks that make you look sick because they go too far into your face)

stubby/unshaven
# He hasn't shaved for several days and now his face is stubby

щетинистый/небритый (not having had the hair removed)

hazel (eyes)
# My granny has hazel eyes

светло-карие (green-brown in colour)

almond-shaped (eyes)
# This Latino girl has big almond-shaped eyes

миндалевидные

open (forehead)
# He's got short hair and an open forehead

открытый (о лбе)

broad (forehead)
# My brother has a broad forehead

широкий (о лбе)

doomed (forehead)
# He's got a big head and doomed forehead

покатый (о лбе)

turned up (nose)
# This girl has a turned up nose

вздернутый (нос)

snub (nose)
# His nose is snub

курносый (нос)

aquiline (nose)
# This Italian boy has an aquiline nose

орлиный (нос)

crooked (nose)
# This old woman has a crooked nose

крючком (нос)

cleft (chin)
# My father has a cleft chin

с ямочкой (о подбородке)

broken
# He has a broken nose and a bruise

сломанный

double
# This plump woman has a double chin

двойной

pale
# He looked pale after a hard day at work

бледный

beautiful
# Monica is a very beautiful and elegant woman

красивый (very attractive)

gorgeous
# You look gorgeous in this coot

раскошный (very beautiful or pleasant)

ugly
# He might seem ugly but he has a kind heart

уродливый

handsome
# My brother is handsome and intelligent

красивый (о мужчинах) (A handsome man is attractive)

good-looking
# She is a good-looking and elegant girl

миловидный (If someone is good-looking, they have an attractive face)

plain
# You look quite plain in this dress

простой (simple and not complicated)

cute
# This baby is so cute

хорошенький (attractive)

adorable
# This dress is just adorable

восхитительный (very attractive, often because of being small)

blind
# I realized that all this time I was blind

слепой (not able to see)

feminine
# She's very feminine, she wears only skirts and dresses

женственный (showing qualities that people generally think are typical of women)

masculine
# Eric is quite masculine-he's tall, well-built and very calm

мужественный (having qualities that are typical of men)

hairy
# My uncle's arms are quite hairy

волосатый (covered in hair)

heavy
# My husband is quite heavy, this ladder won't hold him

тяжелый/крупный (Heavy objects weigh a lot)

light
# This baby is as light a feather

легкий (not heavy)