Name: STOP SAYING
Uploaded: 2021-10-28T05:20:00.000Z
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- That's it? I'm just "pretty"? - Well yes... no?

No I'm just saying I think you're pretty.

- Then what should I say? - I don't know. I'm not a poet.

So you like someone's face, their hair, their body, whatever, and you want to tell that person.

Well, some of the words you're using might be wrong, they might be old-fashioned, they might be too formal.

"I'm sorry my English teacher told me an old-fashioned word that people don't use anymore? Yeah right!"

You want to say that someone is attractive, of course you can use the word "attractive", that's fine.

It's not necessarily your personal opinion, it could be that you're saying:

"Well this is not just me! I'm sure everyone enjoys your face! You! Good face! Congratulations on your face!"

"Yeah she's attractive she's good-looking."

Although that might just be because I'm British and I don't have a heart.

The next word "Cute" Hmm how to describe this word?

There are two feelings with this word. One is:

I want to adopt this puppy, kitten, or baby... they're cute!"

And in more American English it has this feeling:

So that first feeling of "Aww", when you see a puppy or a child looking innocent or doing something innocently, then yes you would say that's cute.

For example: Yep that's me. Look I even had hair! I'm about three, I was adorable.

"Adorable" just means very very cute, and if you say this to an adult, it's like saying you're acting in an innocent childlike way or you look innocent in a kind of childish way.

If you said it, you know a certain time, or in a certain way.

And that would just mean you're attractive, you're pretty.

Side note: I've noticed that my Turkish students use this word wrong

For example, some of my Turkish students might say "She's very sweety."

Now the idea is right but the word is wrong.

"sweety" that's a noun and that's what you'd use to call your girlfriend/boyfriend, your honey, your boo, your BAE.

But sweet that's the adjective and it's very similar to cute, it just means you look or you act innocent or you do something very kind for someone .

Are you so sweet. You bought me Donuts. That's really sweet, thank you.

So these next few words it's more personal there's more of a feeling with them.

I would like to marry this person one day. That kind of thing.

So all of these adjectives are for both men and women.

Ah no pretty is just for women, you can't say pretty for a man.

Wrong wrong. Pretty can be used to describe a man if his face has like feminine features so not a beard.

But you know like that guy who's that guy you know Timothy shallow ? shallow met? chalahe me? channel? What's that guy's name?

There's no facial hair it's kind of feminine right? So an appropriate adjective you could use is he's a pretty man .

Beautiful is a more extreme pretty. Again, you can use it for men you can use it for women.

And it just means that you think that their face, their body, their everything is perfect, you want to marry them and have like ten thousand of their babies.

Okay no no no that one's definitely just for men, my teacher told me that.

A dude I'm sorry but that's wrong. Again yes it's much more common to use for men, but if you use it to describe a woman usually it's for an older woman, so you're saying you look good because of your older age,  you look elegant well-groomed.

for example Helen Mirren that's a handsome woman stunning

this one gives a big wow feeling it's definitely stronger for example wow you

look stunning similar to stunning it's much stronger

so be careful when you use it we have a word breathtaking and usually it's for

landscape nature but you can use it for a person for example if they look so

good that you're like it takes your breath away you look breathtaking it's

really formal an appropriate way to use breathtaking would be wow in your

wedding dress you look breathtaking probably just that any other situation

it might sound strange okay maybe you're not thinking about love and marriage

maybe you're thinking something more you want something sexy in your adjective

you want to say I would like to see that person naked one day that kind of thing

first gorgeous pronunciation Gor just gorgeous we also have hot sexy and a

very British word fit in British English this means you're attractive you're

really good-looking but it's more international meaning just means

athletic the opposite of unhealthy but again in British English it means

while you are fit love that one is saying you're very attractive

an expression you can use is easy on the eyes when the movie Thor came out

literally every woman said the same thing about Chris Hemsworth

here's very easy on the eyes it just means this person is attractive I enjoy

looking at them that sounds creepy but as an expression it's not creepy and you

can use it for men and women you know if you want to compliment someone's body

type and I strongly recommend that you be careful if you do let's have a look

at a few compliments you could give for a body type again be careful who you say

these to okay these adjectives are for women only for this body type we could

say curvy curvaceous or voluptuous that is quite specifically for this body type

also we call this body type an hourglass bigger

she has an hourglass figure now for men only rugged describes a guy who think of

the traditional masculine characteristics and that describes

rugged like they're comfortable outside or working with their hands but and

they're also attractive that's rugged another body type would be

this one buff hench jacked they mean that you're big and have muscles but

ripped means yes you have muscles but like zero body fat and again this is

just talking about muscles so it could be for men it could be for women and

finally these adjectives are much more formal kind of old-fashioned so you

might hear them you probably won't say them and they're not just for looks it's

more characteristics it's an impression that you have

someone's entire person endearing if you meet someone who is endearing your

reaction is like they make me want to love them you know when you meet a

friend's grandparents and they're so sweet

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