92 Tone/Attitude Words

1.  Accusatory: charging of wrong doing

2.  Angry

3.  Anxious

4.  Apathetic: indifferent due to lack of energy or concern

5.  Awe-inspiring: solemn wonder

6.  Amused

7.  Appreciative

8.  Arrogant

9.  Authoritative

10.  Bitter: exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief

11.  Cheerful

12.  Cynical: questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people

13.  Condescending: a feeling of superiority

14.  Callous: unfeeling, insensitive to feelings of others

15.  Caustic: intense use of sarcasm; stinging, biting

16.  Cautious

17.  Choleric: hot-tempered, easily angered

18.  Compassionate

19.  Concerned

20.  Condemning

21.  Condescending

22.  Contemplative: studying, thinking, reflecting on an issue

23.  Confident

24.  Contemptuous: showing or feeling that something is worthless or lacks respect

25.  Conventional: lacking spontaneity, originality, and individuality

26.  Critical: finding fault

27.  Cynical

28.  Detached

29.  Disdainful: scornful

30.  Didactic: author attempts to educate or instruct the reader

31.  Disapproving

32.  Disillusioned

33.  Distressed

34.  Derisive: ridiculing, mocking

35.  Earnest: intense, a sincere state of mind

36.  Erudite: learned, polished, scholarly

37.  Fanciful: using the imagination

38.  Flippant: talkative and saucy; showing a lack of real concern for a topic

39.  Frank

40.  Frustrated

41.  Forthright: directly frank without hesitation

42.  Gentle

43.  Haughty: proud and vain to the point of arrogance

44.  Humorous

45.  Impassioned

46.  Incredulous skeptical; disbelieving

47.  Indignant: marked by anger aroused by injustice

48.  Intimate: very familiar

49.  Intolerant

50.  Indifferent

51.  Irreverent: showing disrespect

52.  Joyful

53.  Jovial: happy

54.  Judgmental: authoritative and often having critical opinions

55.  Lighthearted

56.  Loving

57.  malicious

58.  matter-of-fact: accepting of conditions; not fanciful or emotional

59.  mocking: treating with contempt or ridicule

60.  morose: gloomy, sullen, surly, despondent

61.  malicious: purposely hurtful

62.  nostalgic

63.  objective: an unbiased view-able to leave personal judgments aside

64.  obsequious: polite and obedient in order to gain something

65.  optimistic: hopeful, cheerful

66.  overwhelmed

67.  passionate

68.  patronizing: air of condescension

69.  pessimistic: seeing the worst side of things; no hope

70.  pedantic: narrow-minded in following a set of rules

71.  playful

72.  poignant: evoking pity or compassion; keenly affecting the senses

73.  proud

74.  regretful

75.  reverent: treating a subject with honor and respect

76.  ribald: offensive in speech or gesture

77.  ridiculing: slightly contemptuous banter; making fun of

78.  reflective: illustrating innermost thoughts and emotions

79.  sanguineous: optimistic, cheerful

80.  sarcastic: sneering, caustic

81.  sardonic: scornfully and bitterly sarcastic

82.  satiric: ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach

83.  self-examining

84.  sympathetic

85.  sincere without deceit or pretense; genuine

86.  solemn

87.  urgent

88.  warning

89.  whimsical: odd, strange, fantastic; fun

90.  worried

91.  wondering

92.  zealous: filled with interest or enthusiasm