Grammar Tip

List of Compliments and Nice Things to Say. Part 1.

Here are 10 compliments, so that when you say something good about someone else, you can say it more precisely.

1. Accomplished – for someone who has not only accomplished many things, but has accomplished them skillfully and with flair.

2. Admirable – worthy of admiration, someone who should be looked up to.

3. Adorable – for someone, often a child, who is cute and inspires affection and fondness, who seems worthy of love. Originally, worthy of worship, but rarely used in that sense.

4. Affable – for someone is friendly and a good conversationalist; easy to talk to, courteous and gracious.

5. Agreeable – for someone whose personality is suitable and pleasing to you. If they disagree with your ideas, they will do it tactfully and pleasantly.

6. Alluring – so attractive they are like a lure, tempting and enticing. Not a compliment to be given after a business lunch.

7. Amiable – pleasant and likable, kind and kind-hearted, sweet and gracious; literally “friendable,” since it comes from the French and Latin words for “friend,” which comes from the word for “love.”

8. Amusing – for someone who makes you laugh, though the word can easily sound condescending or patronizing.

9. Beautiful – for someone who is physically attractive (usually a woman is beautiful, a man is handsome), but can also describe aspects of a person: a beautiful spirit, a beautiful mind.