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3 3 Describing people - appearance

Hair, face, skin and complexion

straight hair wavy hair curly hair a crew-cut
and thin-faced and round-faced and dark-skinned

bald beard and moustache receding hair
with freckles with a chubby face and a few wrinkles

He us-l to have black hair but now it's gone grey, almost white.
What sort of person would you like to go out with? Blonde, fair, dark or ginger-haired 1
red-haired?
She has such beautiful auburn hair. [red-brown]
Fair and dark can be used for hair, complexion or skin.

Height and build

a rather plump or a slim woman an obese person
stout man [positive] [negative, very fat]

Fat may sound impolite. Instead we often say a bit overweight. If someone is broad and
solid, we can say they are stocky. A person with good muscles can be well-built or muscular.
If someone is terribly thin and refuses to eat, they may be anorexic.

General appearance
She's a very smart and elegant woman, always well-dressed; her husband is quite the
opposite, very scruffy and untidy-looking.
He's very good-looking, but his friend's rather unattractive.
Do you think beautiful women are always attracted to handsome men? I don't. I think
first impressions matter most.

E h e suffix -ish is useful for describing people: (see Unit 8) I
1 She's tallish. He has brownish hair. He must be thirtyish. (

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