Most useful Synonyms for Commonly-used Adjectives in IELTS Speaking & Writing to score band 7-9

• Dumping waste exerts a negative effect on the environment
• Passive smoking can have a detrimental effect on anyone’s health.

• The mechanic spent an immense amount of time getting the engine into perfect condition.
• Global warming influences a large number of people living in this area.

Amazing

• This extraordinary event is held occasionally by the government.
• John has already had an incredible moment with his friends in England.

Awful

• The dreadful service could decrease the number of visitors booking rooms in the summer.
• Bad attitude may lead people into trouble on every occasion.

Angry

• He could have been made to decide to do this risky project.
• This furious decision could lead us into trouble.

Happy

• He is pleased to come to New Zealand to study MBA.
• She is gratified to accept this invitation.

• What has led to this miserable state of affairs?
• He did not know the reason why an unfortunate coincidence happens.

Interesting

• This challenging sport brings certain benefits to trainees.
• He had a fascinating idea to support this next project.

• This book is a little bit tiresome to read.
• Grinding is all well and good, but after a while, the monotonous repetition wears away at your soul.

• He lifted his dark face, indolent dark eyes.
• An inactive FED and low bond yields are effectively buoying the stock market and driving major US indexes to record highs.

Great

• ” To hear people call me a world record holder, it sounds remarkable. “
• Mr Deeds became a powerful advocate for Representative Murphy’s mental health bill.

• This immediately fulfilled my need to collect things but was also cheaper, more socially acceptable, and more fun than cardboard.
• ” The US right now is in a very favourable position.”

• She was taken to a local hospital where she was listed in critical but stable condition.
• That would be nice, but in many ways, it is kind of an imperative.

Beautiful

Attractive, glowing, gorgeous, good-looking (person)

• This means that the garden is no breathtaking work of land art.
• Behold the warrior women power, a sword hidden in a gorgeous dress, and so, so, so many classic Wonder Woman trappings.

Brave

• Transgender children and adults are the strongest and most courageous people I have ever met.
• Glaring into a bottomless mining cycle, the acquisition may seem daring.

Bright

Intelligent, knowing, smart, intellectual (person)

• They were left with vivid memories of him.
• While healthy competition is an intellectual stimulus, a cutthroat environment is disruptive.

Calm

• Smaller demonstrations, community policing tactics and the use of officers on bikes all played a role in the largely peaceful outcome.
• The product lines of Joy and Komatsu are mostly complimentary, which should smooth antitrust concerns.

Strong

• She couldn’t predict the intense political climate and debate surrounding Syrian refugees in the US and abroad.
• She recognizes the risks inherent in the most potent relationship of her life, yet is unwilling to relinquish it.

• It’s the only known member of the group to have feeble arms with two fingers.
• My years in public offices have taught me that progress can be fragile.

Dangerous

• The most perilous situation came in the fourth when the Giants loaded the bases with one out.
• The sequence of events surrounding the collapse remains uncertain.

Delicious

• The chicken has just the right amount of savoury tang, the pickle brine playing nicely against the sweetness of the maple.
• That doesn’t make it, or her, less political, even if, for her admirers, her presentation is more palatable.

Famous

• So far, however, there has been no sign of Knight, the famed Indiana basketball coach.
• Rabbi is among the most eminent and respected Rabbis in the country.

Fast

• For every snappy scene or exchange, there are three or four that feel baggy and haft-written.
• He sent a hasty, mistake-filled letter to Kent, hoping to lessen the potential damage.

Fat

• Some form plump landscapes, a la Grant Wood.
• The three fleshy nudes are at once solid and kinetic.

• The idea for a humorous ad came from Adam Barth, Felix’s predecessor.
• It needed to be unlike any traditional greeting, but it couldn’t be at all comical.

• His grave is located at the edge of of the settlement and remains a pilgrimage site for extremists.
• The most urgent tasks involve the key institutions of education, business, and government.

• The model shows that increasing the share of immigrants with, say, college degrees had only a minimal effect on GDP and employment.
• A minor in dramatic arts, this is Norman’s stage.

New

• Mr Trump is a unique and present danger.
• The movie, airing Saturday night, is a continuation of a vibe that’s special and unusual for TV.

• It’s true that society will probably always have devices to read DNA, so that gets around the problem of obsolete readers.
• The reason, suggested Tom Mann, a political scholar at the Brookings Institution, is downright primitive.

False

• This is another problem with this game: It gives you erroneous notions of evolution.
• The accusations may be spurious, but they are serious and need to be addressed.

• All of the proposed solutions are debatable, and the next shooting has already happened before those debates are over.
• The bright colours help them avoid being mistaken for game and shot.

• It is always one step ahead of you, yet virtually everyone gets faster and more accurate with practice.
• The appeals court responded with a judicial shrug to the trial court’s factual findings.

• The new tools aim to reverse that pattern, by using technology to make a saving as effortless as spending.
• He left a lot of uncomplicated pleasure in his wake, and some complicated pleasure, too.

• He recently won an appeal against the tough regime of his incarceration.
• It’s possible to serve draught beer on a plane – but the physics is tricky.