Top 100 Italian Adjectives

The table below contains the 100 most common Italian adjectives.

Can you imagine a world without adjectives? It would be very boring and grey. All the nouns and the emotions would be the same!

Luckily, every language can count on adjectives. For Italians, this part of the speech is really important, because they like to go into details of their conversations!

An overview of Italian Adjectives

Adjectives are used to describe nouns. They have an attributive function when they are directly linked to the noun, or a predicative function when they need the verb essere (to be) to be linked to the noun.

  • Il cielo azzurro (the blue sky – attributive function);
  • Il cielo è azzurro (the sky is blue – predicative function).

Don’t forget that Italian adjectives must always follow the same gender and number of the noun they are linked to!

 

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Rank Italian word English translation
1 altro other
2 primo first
3 grande big
4 diritto straight
5 nuovo new
6 possibile possible
7 generale general
8 presente present
9 vero real
10 italiano Italian
11 politico political
12 maggiore greater, major
13 nazionale national
14 civile civil
15 necessario necessary
16 lungo long
17 pubblico public
18 tale such
19 comune common
20 forte strong
21 importante important
22 naturale natural
23 francese French
24 buono good
25 breve short
26 particolare particular
27 economico economic
28 ultimo last
29 morale moral
30 difficile difficult
31 unico only
32 umano human
33 internazionale international
34 evidente obvious
35 diverso different
36 culturale cultural
37 noto known
38 centrale central
39 facile easy
40 reale real
41 principale main
42 precedente previous
43 militare military
44 utile useful
45 personale personal
46 piccolo small
47 chiaro clear
48 grave serious
49 fondamentale fundamental
50 attuale current
51 notevole remarkable
52 pieno full
53 moderno modern
54 inferiore lower
55 relativo relative
56 antico ancient
57 alto high
58 massimo greatest
59 popolare popular
60 totale total
61 locale local
62 libero free
63 bello beautiful
64 industriale industrial
65 costituzionale constitutional
66 medio average
67 penale criminal
68 proprio own
69 medesimo same
70 numeroso numerous
71 giuridico legal
72 inglese English
73 interno internal
74 universale universal
75 recente recent
76 religioso religious
77 giovane young
78 normale normal
79 impossibile impossible
80 interessante interesting
81 opportuno appropriate
82 regionale regional
83 fino fine
84 romano Roman
85 capace capable
86 europeo European
87 essenziale essential
88 vecchio old
89 bianco white
90 migliore best
91 commerciale commercial
92 tedesco German
93 mondiale world
94 minore smaller
95 originale original
96 tradizionale traditional
97 ufficiale official
98 individuale individual
99 giusto just, fair
100 occidentale western

 

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