Describing beauty

Your appearance is the way you look, and we sometimes use different words to talk about beauty in men and women.

WOMEN can be attractive or good-looking [nice to look at], and we often use pretty [attractive] to describe a girl. We use beautiful or gorgeous for women who are very attractive.

MEN can be attractive and good-looking, but also handsome. If men are very attractive, we can say they are gorgeous or very good-looking, but not usually beautiful.

例 句

✏️Liam has become quite handsome.

✏️Bella looks gorgeous in that dress.

✏️Olivia was very pretty when she was younger.

✏️They’re a very good-looking couple.

The opposite of beautiful is ugly, but it is not very polite to describe someone as ugly; ordinary [not special or different] is more polite. 不要用ugly,  十分不礼貌，形容一个人普通长相，用ordinary

It also isn’t polite to say that someone is fat; overweight is more polite. 要不要用fat形容一个人胖，用overweight

Size 体型

We can talk about a person’s height [how tall or short they are] and their weight [how heavy they are], e.g. I’m roughly [about; syn approximately] one metre eighty (tall), and I weigh just under eighty kilograms.

If someone is not tall or short, you can describe them as medium height. If a person is very similar to most other people in height and weight, you can say they are average.

例 句

A:  How tall is Hannah?

B:  Medium height, I’d say.

A: Is Marco quite big?

B: No, about average.

Talking about someone’s appearance

A: What does Sophia’s boyfriend look like? [Can you describe his appearance?]

B: He’s blond, and quite good-looking.

A: Is he tall?

B: Er, tallish [quite tall], but he’s got broad shoulders [wide; opp narrow]. He looks very athletic [strong, healthy and often good at sports]. I think he does a lot of sport.

A: Is he quite smart [clean, tidy and stylish]?

B: Yeah, he dresses quite well [the clothes he wears are quite nice].