Extreme Adjectives

Hello!
How are you feeling today? Cold? Very cold?. If you are "very cold", it means you're freezing, the same way as when something is very dirty, it means it's filthy. Overusing the word "very" can be boring and not very specific.

This is why today, we are going to teach you some extreme adjectives. Adjectives are words that describe the qualities of something. Some adjectives in English are gradable – that means you can have different degrees or levels of that quality. For example, the weather can be a little cold, rather cold, very cold, or extremely cold.

Extreme adjectives are non-gradable adjectives, they are words that mean “extremely + adjective” – for example, “freezing” means “extremely cold.” The weather can’t be “a little bit freezing” or “very freezing” – because the word “freezing” itself automatically means “extremely cold".

This is vocabulary that we don't normally practice until we get to a level like B2, so far. Try to learn as many extreme adjectives as you can because they will help you to improve your speaking and writing, instead of using the same adjectives all the time.

There are some useful activities for you online, like, for example, this one:

https://clasejoseangel.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/extreme-adjectives.pdf