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The number shown is the adjective's frequency alone.",{"question":754,"answer":755},"Should I learn synonyms for these instead?","Not yet. Learners often replace 'good' with 'marvellous' before they can use 'good' accurately in every pattern it appears in. Precision with the common hundred reads as fluent; reaching for rare synonyms usually does not.",{"heading":757,"paragraphs":758},"Common English adjectives explained",[759,760,761,762],"Adjectives carry a reputation for being the decorative part of a sentence, which makes their frequency profile surprising. The most common ones are not descriptive at all in the literary sense — they are evaluative and relational. Other, good, new, great, big. They tell you where something sits relative to something else rather than what it looks like.","That explains why so many of them are gradable and appear constantly in comparisons. English speakers spend a great deal of time saying that one thing is bigger, better, older or more important than another, and this handful of adjectives does most of that work. Learning their comparative and superlative forms properly is worth more than learning fifty new adjectives.","Frequency also exposes a trap. Words like 'right', 'fine', 'hard' and 'clear' rank high precisely because each of them carries several unrelated senses. A learner who knows only one meaning of 'fine' will misread it half the time. Every entry here gives one core sense and an example, but the common adjectives reward looking up their other senses too.","Use the list as a checklist for production, not recognition. Tick the adjectives you could place correctly in a sentence, with the right preposition and the right comparative form. 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