Being positive is not always easy in a world that gives us plenty of reasons not to be!

Mainly to change the pace a little from the daily dose of grammar points that I send you, I thought I might give you a list of words that you can be positive about.

This is not a list I’ve compiled, in fact I’d find it hard to get too positive about some listed words like ‘drool‘ and ‘juicy‘ and I have a few doubts about just how much bending of the meaning we need to do to make words like ‘shy‘,’spice‘ and ‘tan‘ positive. Maybe that’s why the magazine, Competitors Journal, that first published this list of Bob Hitching’s Positive Words no longer exists!

Anyway, for those of us sitting in the Northern Hemisphere, winter is coming and its time to ward off the cold, bleak weather with a bit of positive vocabulary. Who knows, you may even find that you can use one or two of these gems of positive vocabulary in your next email, letter or essay.

For those of you who are only listening to the podcast, you can find the printed list on the English4Today blog site or the Grammar FAQ.

So here it is … I hope you find it absorbing, admirable and absolutely appealing!

Absolutely

Absorbing

Abundance

Ace

Active

Admirable

Adore

Agree

Alert

A1

Alive

Amazing

Appealing

Approval

Aroma

Attraction

Award

Bargain

Beaming

Beats

Beautiful

Best

Better

Bits

Boost

Bounce

Breakthrough

Breezy

Brief

Bright

Brilliant

Brimming

Buy

Care

Certain

Charming

Chic

Choice

Clean

Clear

Colorful

Comfy

Compliment

Confidence

Connoisseur

Cool

Courteous

Coy

Creamy

Crisp

Cuddly

Dazzling

Debonair

Delicate

Delicious

Delightful

Deluxe

Dependable

Desire

Diamond

Difference

Dimple

Discerning

Distinctive

Divine

Dreamy

Drool

Dynamic

Easy

Economy

Ecstatic

Effervescent

Efficient

Endless

Energy

Enhance

Enjoy

Enormous

Ensure

Enticing

Essence

Essential

Exactly

Excellent

Exceptional

Exciting

Exclusive

Exhilaration

Exotic

Expert

Exquisite

Extol

Extra

Eye-catching

Fabled

Fair

Famous

Fantastic

Fashionable

Fascinating

Fab

Fast

Favorite

Fetching

Finest

Finesse

First

Fizz

Flair

Flattering

Flip

Flourishing

Foolproof

Forever

Fragrance

Free

Freshness

Friendly

Full

Fun

Galore

Generous

Genius

Gentle

Giggle

Glamorous

Glitter

Glorious

Glowing

Go-ahead

Golden

Goodness

Gorgeous

Graceful

Grand

Great

Guaranteed

Happy

Healthy

Heartwarming

Heavenly

Ideal

Immaculate

Impressive

Incredible

Inspire

Instant

Interesting

Invigorating