List of Turkish Intensified Adjectives
This is a pretty comprehensive list of Intensified Turkish Adjectives and Adverbs - many of them are in constant use both in daily conversation and newspapers and periodicals, plus stories and novels. It is a way that language colours itself. So when you are reading or listening you must always be on the look out for this type of usage as it is very common.
Word |
acayip |
acele |
açık |
ayrı |
bakkal |
başka |
bayağı |
baygın |
bedava |
belli |
beter |
beyaz |
bok |
boş |
burun |
buruşuk |
bütün |
canlı |
çabuk |
çevre |
çöp |
çıplak |
dağınık |
daracık |
deli |
deli |
delice |
dik |
diri |
dizgin |
dızlak |
doğru |
dolu |
duru |
düz |
düz |
düz |
geniş |
gündüz |
ince |
ılık |
ıslak |
ıssız |
iri |
kara |
karışık |
kısa |
koca |
kocaman |
kolay |
koyu |
kör |
kötü |
kötürüm |
kuru |
kütük |
kıvrak |
mavi |
mor |
pak |
pembe |
perişan |
parça |
pis |
sağlam |
sağlam |
sarı |
sefil |
sıcak |
sıklam |
sıkı |
sivri |
siyah |
şirin |
talan |
tamam |
tatlı |
taze |
taze |
temiz |
top |
uslu |
uzun |
uygun |
yalnız |
yassı |
yaş |
yeni |
yeşil |
yumru |
yumuşak |
yuvarlak |
zayıf |
|
Meaning |
queer |
in a hurry |
clear/open |
separate |
grocer |
another |
common |
unconscious |
gratis |
evident |
worse |
white |
shit |
empty |
nose |
creased |
all |
alive |
quickly |
surroundings |
rubbish |
naked |
untidy |
pretty narrow |
madman |
crazy |
crazily |
perpendicular |
alive |
(stirrup) |
bald/naked |
right/correct |
full |
limpid |
flat |
straight |
even |
wide |
daylight |
thin |
tepid |
wet |
uninhabited |
big |
black |
mixed up |
short |
large |
huge |
easy |
dense dark |
blind |
bad |
paralyzed |
dry |
a log |
tidy |
blue |
purple |
clean |
pink |
miserable/worried |
bits |
dirty |
healthy |
healthy |
yellow |
miserable/poor |
hot |
damp |
tight |
sharp |
black |
charming |
pillage |
complete |
sweet |
fresh (food) |
fresh |
clean |
round, ball-like |
well behaved |
long |
suitable |
alone |
flat and wide |
wet |
new |
green |
swollen/round |
soft |
globular |
thin/feeble |
|
Intensified Form |
apacayip |
alelacele |
apaçık |
apayrı |
bakkal çakkal |
bambaşka |
basbayağı |
aygın baygın |
besbedava |
besbelli |
besbeter |
bembeyaz |
bombok |
bomboş |
baltaburun |
bumburuşuk |
büsbütün |
capcanlı |
çarçabuk |
çepeçevre |
çerçöp |
çırılçıplak |
darmadağınık |
dapdaracık |
zıpırdeli |
zırdeli |
deldelice |
dimdik |
dipdiri |
doludizgin |
dımdızlak |
dosdoğru |
dopdolu |
dupduru |
düpedüz |
dümdüz |
düpedüz |
gepgeniş |
güpegündüz |
ipince |
ıpılık |
ıpıslak |
ıpıssız |
ipiri |
kapkara |
karmakarışık |
kıpkısa |
koskoca |
koskocaman |
kopkolay |
kopkoyu |
köpkör |
köpkötü |
köskötürüm |
kupkuru |
küskütük |
kıskıvrak |
masmavi |
mosmor |
akpak |
pespembe |
perperişan |
paramparça |
pimpis |
sapsağlam |
sapasağlam |
sapsarı |
sersefil |
sımsıcak |
sırılsıklam |
sımsıkı |
sipsivri |
simsiyah |
şipşirin |
alantalan |
tastamam |
taptatlı |
terütaze |
taptaze |
tertemiz |
tortop |
upuslu |
upuzun |
upuygun |
yapayalnız |
yamyassı |
yamyaş |
yepyeni |
yemyeşil |
yusyumru |
yusyumuşak |
yusyuvarlak |
zapzayıf |
|
Intensified Meaning |
very strange |
very hastily |
very clear/open |
quite separate |
grocers and the like |
quite another thing |
very common |
languid |
completely free |
very clear |
even worse |
brilliant white |
utterly spoilt |
quite empty |
hook nosed |
wrinkled all over |
wholly |
animate |
very quickly |
all around |
sweepings |
stark naked |
really untidy |
very narrow |
frantic madman |
raving mad |
madly |
bolt upright |
full of life |
at full pelt |
destitute |
dead right |
crammed full |
very clear |
dead flat |
dead straight |
dead even |
expansive |
broad daylight |
very thin |
luke warm |
sopping/all wet |
desolate |
very huge |
black as night |
completely mixed up |
very short |
huge |
enormous |
very easily |
really dark |
absolutely blind |
very bad |
completely paralyzed |
bone dry |
hopelessly drunk |
neat and tidy |
bright blue |
bright purple |
squeaky clean |
shocking pink |
very perturbed |
in smithereens |
filthy dirty |
in fine fettle |
in fine fettle |
bright yellow |
very miserable/poor |
red-hot |
sopping wet |
very tight |
dead sharp |
jet black |
very charming |
in utter confusion |
perfect |
very sweet |
blooming/very fresh |
very fresh |
squeaky clean |
quite round |
very well behaved |
very long |
quite adequate |
absolutely alone |
very flat |
all wet |
brand new |
bright green |
very swollen/round |
very soft |
absolutely spherical |
very thin/feeble |
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