Asking about

people’s appearance

S.V.Khodkova

Moscow,201439

figure

What does

he\she

look like?

What do

they

look like?

A person’s appearance

figure

hands

arms

feet

legs

hair

face

5 figure

6 stature

7 bearing

8 arms

9 hands

10 fingers

11 legs

12 feet

head

27nose

30teeth

22foreh

ead

13

14 colour 17

16

151819

20 picture

21picture

26cheekbones

29lips

20face

25cheeks

28mouth

23eyebrows 24eyes

31chin

35 picture

4

1

p

figure

slender

(stooping)

thin

(lean)

stout

(fat, plump)

He is very lean.

He has got a lean figure.

She was a plump, rosy child.

slim

skinny

well-built4

6

staturetall short

diminutive

stature

He is a tall man of about 30.

He is tall.

He is of medium size.

He is a middle-sized man.

She is a girl of diminutive stature.

of medium\average height

middle-sized

He is 6 feet high

(in height).

7

4

the bearingerect(upright) stooping

She carries her slender figure erectly.He has got a stooping figure.

You can recognize her stooping figure

from afar.

4

6

8

armshort

longrounded

A woman with shapely arms.

She is a woman with shapely

arms.

He has got long arms.

thin

slender

shapely

4

9

7

handsmall

plump

thin

His hands are small and

plump.

He has got small hands.

bony

delicate

large

shapely

4

10

8

fingersthick tapering

A woman has got small hands

with the long tapering fingers.

thinfat

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4

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picture

legshort

long

A woman with shapely legs.

He has got long legs.

slender

fine

(shapely)

A person can be bow-legged

He is rather bow-legged.

4 10

12

feetlarge

narrow

Her feet are small and pretty.

flatsmall

pretty

4 11 13

hairlong straight

Her hair is short.

thickshort

thin curly wavycrisp

spiky shoulder-length

curl curled wavedluxuriant

silky

thick

4

14

12

hairdark

chestnut

Her hair is brown.

He has short dark chestnut hair.

redblack

brownauburn blondfair

goldengrey(silver)

white

Her hair is bobbed and dark.She has red hair done in a careless

knot at the back of her neck.

jet-black

reddish(sandy) silvery

4

15

13

hairbraid(plait)one’s hair

close-cropped

pigtail

fringe(bang)

bobbed(shingled)

close-cut

disheveled do one’s hair in a knot

neatly-combed

parting in the middle

mop of hair

parting on the side

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hair

One can wear one’s hair

bobbed

plaited

put up(done in a knot)

According to the fashion women’s hair can be:

Some people have a fringe.

Her hair is bobbed and dark.

She has red hair done in a careless

knot at the back of her neck.

4

17

15

hairbold cut short

Some men lose their hair and go bold.

have a haircut

have their

beards and

moustaches

trimmed

Nanny has silky hair cut short.

He is a man with a bald head.

One can wear one’s hair

Some people have a fringe.4

18

16

Clean shaven

Crew cut

Stubble

Shaved

Mustache

Bald

Beard

Receding

hairline

Sideburn

Long hair

Goatee

Flattop

Spiky

Dreadlocks or

dreads

Straight hair

Bob

Layered

Shoulder

length

Perm

Curly

Ringlet

Corn rows

Chignon

Bun

French

twist

Ponytail

Braid

French braid

Braids

Pigtails

Part

Long wavy

Windows peak

Hair styles list4

19

17

flat top

crew cut shaved headbald head receding hairline long hair

spiky dreadlocks cornrows bob shoulder-length

chignon bunFrench pleat

(twist) long, wavy curly perm

plait(braid)French plait

French braidpigtails braids bunches(pigtails) ponytail

clean

shaven

moustache

stubblebeard

sideburnssideboards

goatee

straight

hair

layered

hair

widow’s

peak

ringlet

fringe

(bangs)

parting

(part)

hair

4 18

19

faceoval

angled

Her face is round and plump.

square

round

long

plump

thin(lean)

Her face is lean and angled.19

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the forehead

His forehead is very high and large.

largebroad narrow high

low

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eyebrows

He is an old man with blue eyes

overhung by bushy eyebrows.

pencilledthick

bushy

darkthin

arched

fair

(light)

22 244

eyes

His dark-green eyes are small and deep-set.

He has a small face with large, bulging eyes.

dark

blue

violet

black

hazel

brown

grey

green

close-set wide-set deep-set

sunken bulging

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cheeks

His cheeks were pale and touched

with freckles .

He has follow cheeks.

The child’s cheek are chubby.

rosy

pink

red

ruddychubby

plump

pale

hollow

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4

26

cheekbones

His prominent cheekbones make

him ugly.

high

prominent wide-apart

25 427

nosestraight

flat

hooked aquiline

be snub-nosed

He is a man with a hooked nose.

26 428

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p

43

p

mouthlarge big

small

wide narrow

She is a beautiful girl with blue eyes,

a straight nose and a small mouth.

27 429

lipswell-cut thinfirm

Her lips are thin.

28 430

teetheven largeuneven small

tiny pearly

a set of teeth

The woman showed a set of tiny

square teeth when she smiled.

29 431

chinround

small

protruding

large

He has a hooked nose and a large

chin.

double-chin

30 32 4

complexion

She has a dark complexion.

She is ruddy in complexion.

(the colour of the skin)

dark olivefair ruddy

features

He is a man with finely-cut features.

regular

large

(massive)

small

delicate

clean-cut

finely-cut

square round triangle oblong

oval diamond heart

20

4

10

38

nails

vertically long broad sideways rounded

egg-shaped squarish triangular

inverted triangle almond-shaped sword-shaped

nails

close set eyes deep set eyes almond eyes

protruding eyeshooded eyes Asian eyes

wide set eyes24

fat\thick

fingers

round pointed conic square spatula

smoothsmooth

knottedknotted

Finger types

thin

fingers

tapering

fingers

Brow

droop

Bunny

lines

Forehead

lines

Frown

lines

Vertical

lip lines

Mouth

frown

Neck

Crow’s

feet

Tear

troughs

Nasolabial

folds

Marionette

lines\jowls

Mental

crease

4

22

Hooked DroopyAquiline Roman Grecian

Button

Child version

Upturned Snub Funnel

Underside 27

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p44

refined hero soft perky dainty strong bulb bull short long beak snub button orc

refined

refined

hero

hero

soft

soft

perky

perky

dainty

dainty

strong

strong

bulb

bulb

bull

bull

short

short

long

long

beak

beak

snub

snub Ancient

Greekmacho

wizard Schnoz

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p

upturned

straight

Down turned

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