Adjectives Starting with Y


Starting with YA

Starting with YE

Starting with YI

Starting with YO

Starting with YU


Interesting Categories for the Adjectives Starting with Y

This article focuses on those which start with the letter Y. Aside from listing out the adjectives, the meaning and an example regarding the proper usage of the adjective are also included.

 

Adjectives that Start with Y

Interesting Adjectives

yankee: used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)

  • a yankee soldier

yucky: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

  • a yucky smell

yummy: extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

  • yummy dishes

 

Positive Adjectives to Describe an Event

yearlong: lasting through a year

  • attending yearlong courses

yearly: occurring or payable every year

  • yearly medical examinations

yeasty: exuberantly creative; marked by spirited enjoyment

  • a yeasty show

 

Positive Adjectives to Describe a Place

yon: distant but within sight (`yon’ is dialectal)

  • yon valley

young: in an early stage of life

  • young child

 

Negative Adjectives to Describe a Person

yawning: showing lack of attention or boredom

  • the yawning audience

yielding: tending to give in or surrender or agree; lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure

  • they are too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments

yokelish: (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace

  • yokelish youth

 

Negative Adjectives to Describe a Place

yellowed: changed to a yellowish color by age

  • a yellowed parchment

 

Sporty Adjectives

yogic: of or relating to yoga

  • yogic exercises

 

Romantic Adjectives

youthful: suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh

  • youthful skin

 

 

Shortest Adjectives

yon: distant but within sight (`yon’ is dialectal)

  • yon hills

yogic: of or relating to yoga

  • yogic routines

young: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity

  • young corn

yucky: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

  • yucky task

yuman: of or relating to the language or culture of the Yuma people

  • yuman language

yummy: extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

  • yummy delicacies

yankee: used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)

  • a yankee veteran

yearly: occurring or payable every year

  • yearly income

yeasty: exuberantly creative; marked by spirited enjoyment

  • a yeasty event

yelled: in a vehement outcry

  • his yelled words of encouragement could be heard over the crowd noises

 

adjectives starting with y

Longest Adjectives

yugoslavian: of or relating to or characteristic of the former country of Yugoslavia or its people or languages

  • Yugoslavian wine

yeastlike: of or resembling or containing yeast

  • yeastlike texture

yellowish: of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk

  • yellowish hue

yearlong: lasting through a year

  • attending yearlong courses

yeatsian: in the manner of William Butler Yeats

  • yeatsian principle

yellowed: changed to a yellowish color by age

  • yellowed plastic tub

yielding: tending to give in or surrender or agree

  • a gentle, yielding person

yogistic: of or relating to yoga

  • a yogistic posture

yokelish: (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace

  • a yokelish laugh

youngish: somewhat young

  • a youngishman with flaxen hair
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