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Saying that somebody is thin


Thin is the most usual word : Steve is tall and thin and has brown hair. It is sometimes used with a negative meaning
Mother looked thin and tired after her long illness.

The following words all express praise or admiration

Slim means pleasantly thin. It often used to describe women who have controlled their weight by diet or exercise
She has a beautifully slim figure.

A slender girl or woman is thin and graceful.

A lean man is thin and fit.

Willowy describes a woman who is attractively tall and thin.

The following words are more negative in their meaning

Skinny means very thin, often in a way that is not attractive : a skinny little kid.

Bony describes parts of the body when they are so thin that the bones can be seen: the old man’s bony hands.

Scrawny suggests that a person is thin, weak and not attractive: a scrawny old woman.

Gauntdescribes a person who is a little too thin and looks sad or ill.
Underweight is used in medical contexts to describe people who are too thin because they are ill or have not had enough food: women who smoke risks giving birth to underweight babies.

Emaciated describes a serious condition resulting from illness or lack of food.

Anorexic is a medical term, but is now also used informally to describe a girl or woman who is so thin that you are worried about them.

It is more acceptable to talk to somebody about how thin or slim they are than how fat they are.

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Ways of walking

* Creep: He could hear someone creeping downstairs.

* Limp: One player limped off the field with a twisted ankle.

*Pace: I found him in the corridor nervously pacing up and down.

*Pad: She spent the morning padding about the house in her slippers.

*Plod: They wearily plodded home through the rain.

*Shuffle: The queue gradually shuffled forward.

*Stagger: They staggered out of the pub, completely drunk.

*Stomp: She stomped out of the room, slamming the door behind her.

*Stroll: Families were strolling around the park.

*Tiptoe: They tiptoed upstairs so they wouldn’t wake the baby.

*Trudge: We trudged up the hill.

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Types of weather

Rain

*Drizzle is fine light rain.

* A shower is a short period of rain.

* A downpour or a cloudburst is a heavy fall of rain that often starts suddenly.

*When it is raining very hard you can say that it is pouring. In formal British English, you can say it is bucketing down or chucking it down. You can also say: The heavens opened.

Storms

* A cyclone and a typhoon are types of violent tropical storms with very strong winds.

* A hurricane has very strong winds and is usually at sea.

* A monsoon is a period of very heavy rain in particular countries, or the wind that brings this rain.

* A squall is a sudden strong, violent wind, usually in a rain or snow storm.

* A tornado(or twister ‘informal’) has very strong winds which move in a circle, often with a long narrow cloud.

* A whirlwind moves very fast in a spinning movement and causes a lot of damage.

* A blizzard is a snow storm with very strong winds.

* Tempest is used mainly in literary ******** to describe a violent storm.

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A bar of choclate

If you want to describe a whole unit of a particular substance, or a group of things that are normally together, for example when you buy them, you need to use the correct word.

* A bar of soap/ choclate; a candy bar.

* A block of ice / stone / wood.

* A bolt / roll / length of fabric.

* A loaf of bread.

* A cube of ice/ sugar; an ice/ sugar cube.

* A roll of film / carpet.

* A slab of marble / concrete.

* A stick of gum

* A bunch of bananas / grapes.

* A bunch / bouquet of flowers.

* A bundle of papers/ sticks.

* A set/ bunch of keys .

* A set of chairs / glasses / clothes .

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