When describing physical objects you can use a wide variety of adjectives such as: large, big, tiny, minuscule, small, etc. However, when describing nouns that are not physical (e.g. joy, anger, wealth) you need to pay careful attention to the choice of intensifying adjectives.
This feature provides a guide to the use of the most common intensifying adjectives for non-physical nouns.
Absolute / Complete / Total / Utter
Absolute, complete, total and utter are used to express strong feelings, extreme situations, and other events - especially negative experiences.
absolute agony
complete astonishment
total bliss
(an) utter catastrophe
absolute despairtotal
ecstasyutter furya
complete idiotutter
loathingtotal madness
That was an apsolute disaster. Is this a rights example of this Michael?
ReplyDeleteI had an absotute romantic experience in my honymoon last year.
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ReplyDeleteOur class is an absolute learning experience.
Thanks Michael
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ReplyDeleteAn excellent example Kee. I hope you always experience happiness.
ReplyDeleteThank you Ismail. It's my pleasure to teach you. Good example.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the new lesson Michael. I need some times to pracitce this and forward you some examples.
ReplyDeleteExample: I had an utter sadness in my heart last week as my friend died in Thailand.
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ReplyDeleteWhen I was talking to my partner, I experienced a absolute ignorance. It was very shocking.
Thanks Michael. I hope the example is right.
Chia Chi, good example but you need to improve your spelling. absolute and right
ReplyDeleteGood example Mila, you just need to fix the article you've used in your sentence. an absolute
ReplyDeleteLast weekend i went to the jungle, and there was utter darkness.
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