Adjectives that start with B

Describing words, to help you tell someone else what something is like.

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B is for Baggy

Baggy means loose or roomy. The woman in the picture is wearing baggy clothes.

B is for Bald

You are bald if you have little or no hair on your head. Some men go bald as they get older, but other people shave off their hair to become bald.
The man in the picture is bald, but his dog certainly is not!

B is for Balmy

Balmy describes pleasantly warm weather. If it's a good day to go to the beach, the weather is balmy.

B is for Bare

Bare is another word for naked or unclothed. If you're not wearing shoes or socks, you have bare feet.
An animal or plant is barren if it cannot produce offspring. Land is barren if almost nothing can grow in it, and it can't be used as farmland.
The opposite of barren is fertile, and a similar word to barren is sterile.

B is for Beautiful

Something is beautiful if it gives you great pleasure to see, hear or experience.
The rose in the picture is beautiful.

B is for Bedraggled

Something is bedraggled if it is limp and dirty. The dog in the picture is bedraggled.

B is for Bent

Something is bent if it should have been straight but instead it has a sharp curve or angle in it.
Bent can also be used to describe someone who is really set on doing something, as in "Bob was bent on getting a new car before Christmas".

B is for Best

Something is best if nothing is better than it. When you win a competition, it means you are the best.
The opposite of best is worst.

B is for Big

Something is big if it is many times larger than something else. The ship in the picture is much bigger than the little boat at the front of the picture. The opposite of big is small.

B is for Bitter

Bitter is a strong flavor that is the opposite of sweet. Beer has a bitter flavor.

B is for Bizarre

Something is bizarre if it is strikingly odd in appearance or effect.

B is for Bland

Bland means boring or uninteresting. If something is bland, it is easy to forget.

B is for Bleak

A place is bleak if it is bare, desolate and windswept.
Your mood or outlook is bleak if it is without hope or depressing.

B is for Blind

A person or animal is blind if they cannot see. People who are blind can still live very full lives. They can read books written in braille and can travel around with the help of a white cane or a seeing eye dog.

B is for Bloated

Bloated is another word for swollen. If you've had too much to eat, your stomach might get bloated.

B is for Blonde

Blonde, also spelt blond, is a hair colour. Blonde is a pale, yellowish colour.

B is for Blunt

Something is described as blunt when it is not sharp compared to something similar. For example, butter knives are blunt and steak knives are sharp. Baseball bats are blunt and swords are sharp.
The photo is of some blunt pencils. Pencils are hard to draw with when they are blunt.

B is for Bogged

Something is bogged if it has sank into bog-like ground. You can get bogged in wet dirt or dry sand.
The car in the picture is bogged.