Adverbs and Adjectives! List of common adverb adjective collocations in English with examples and ESL pictures. Learn these adverb and adjectivecollocationsto improve your fluency in English.
Adverbs and Adjectives
List of Adverb Adjective Collocations
- Absolutely necessary
- Absolutely/utterly (quite, really) alone
- Absolutely/utterly (quite, really) amazed
- Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) appalled
- Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) beautiful
- Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) convinced
- Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) devastated
- Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) fantastic
- Absolutely/utterly (quite, really) furious
- Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) impossible
- Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) miserable
- Absolutely/utterly (quite, really) ridiculous
- Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) stupid
- Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) wrong
- Bitterly cold
- Bitterly complain
- Bitterly criticise
- Bitterly disappointed
- Bitterly regret
- Bitterly resent
- Deeply affected
- Deeply ashamed
- Deeply care
- Deeply committed
- Deeply competitive
- Deeply concerned
- Deeply divided
- Deeply hurt
- Deeply moved
- Deeply offended
- Deeply regrettable
- Deeply religious
- Deeply shocked
- Deeply unhappy
- Deeply worried
- Highly controversial
- Highly effective
- Highly probable
- Highly profitable
- Highly recommended
- Highly successful
- Highly unlikely
- Highly unusual
- Ridiculously cheap
- Ridiculously early
- Ridiculously easy
- Ridiculously long
- Ridiculously small
- Ruggedly handsome
- Scared stiff
- Strongly opposed
- Actively involved
- Badly hurt
- Blissfully unaware
- Blissfully ignorant
- Completely amazed
- Completely different
- Completely fantastic
- Completely strong
- Dead tired
- Drop-dead gorgeous
- Fiercely competitive
- Fully aware
- 婚姻幸福
- Painfully shy
- Painfully thin
- Perfectly normal
- Pretty good
- Quietly confident
- Quite good
- Quite sure
- Readily available
- Reasonably happy
- Reasonably priced
- Reasonably well
Adverb Adjective Collocations with Examples
Adverb Adjective Collocations: Absolutely/ Utterly + Adjective
Absolutely necessary
The police are advising motorists to travel only if their journey isabsolutely necessary.
Absolutely/utterly (quite, really) alone
He’s not just anti-social; he’sabsolutely alone.
Absolutely/utterly (quite, really) amazed
I’mabsolutely amazedas a basketball coach, he said.
Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) appalled
I’mabsolutely appalled, but it doesn’t surprise me.
Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) beautiful
She always looksabsolutely beautiful.
Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) convinced
I am notabsolutely convincedthat the match incident is worth the footage involved.
Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) devastated
I’m sure he’ll bounce back, but he’ll beabsolutely devastated.
Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) fantastic
He wasabsolutely fantastic.
Absolutely/utterly (quite, really) furious
He isabsolutely furiousand he wants to get even.
Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) impossible
In the face of all this, it isabsolutely impossible说会发生什么。
Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) miserable
If you’reabsolutely miserableat work, then your boss will be able to tell.
Absolutely/utterly (quite, really) ridiculous
It isabsolutely ridiculousand totally absurd.
Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) stupid
“You’d beabsolutely stupidto vote for me because of my name,” she says.
Absolutely/utterly(quite, really) wrong
The detention of children isabsolutely wrong.
Adverb Adjective Collocations: Bitterly + Adjective
Bitterly cold
It’s abitterly coldwind.
Bitterly complain
When he heard of it afterward, hebitterly complainedthat he had been deceived.
Bitterly criticise
The decision wasbitterly criticisedby the Sydney press.
Bitterly disappointed
His parents had beenbitterly disappointedat his divorce.
Bitterly regret
Webitterly regretwhat happened this morning at both Paddington and King’s Cross.
Bitterly resent
首先,many ManU fans stillbitterly resenthis takeover.
Adverb Adjective Collocations: Deeply + Adjective
Deeply affected
The train system has beendeeply affected.
Deeply ashamed
I amdeeply ashamedof what I have done.
Deeply care
Just because he doesn’t devote all his time to you doesn’t mean he doesn’tdeeply careabout you.
Deeply committed
It was adeeply committedperformance.
Deeply competitive
He isdeeply competitiveand quite motivated.
Deeply concerned
We aredeeply concernedabout the future.
Deeply divided
The issue has created adeeply dividednation.
Deeply hurt
She wasdeeply hurtif a man wasn’t exclusively involved with her.
Deeply moved
He wasdeeply movedand saddened, I could see.
Deeply offended
I was, quite naturally,deeply offended.
Deeplyregrettable
My insensitive comment wasdeeply regrettable.
Deeply religious
She wasdeeply religiousfrom early childhood.
Deeply shocked
I wasdeeply shockedwhen I heard about it, particularly the way that it happened.
Deeply unhappy
I wasdeeply unhappy.
Deeply worried
This has many multinational executivesdeeply worried.
Adverb Adjective Collocations: Highly + Adjective
Highly controversial
This topic ishighly controversialand very difficult.
Highly effective
The secession campaign was alsohighly effective.
Highly probable
Success ishighly probable.
Highly profitable
It is a low-profile buthighly profitableenterprise.
Highly recommended
The restaurant comeshighly recommended.
Highly successful
This coal pipeline has beenhighly successful.
Highly unlikely
It ishighly unlikelythat he’ll be late.
Highly unusual
We’ve not had any snow yet, which ishighly unusual.
Adverb Adjective Collocations: Ridiculously + Adjective
Ridiculously cheap
“They have a bunch of great vintage furniture shops, and it wasridiculously cheap,” he said.
Ridiculously early
September is aridiculously earlytime to panic in a long season.
Ridiculously easy
A hard workout for one person can beridiculously easyfor another.
Ridiculously long
It wasridiculously long, absurdly perfect, and alarmingly beautiful.
Ridiculously small
National elections are rare, so we haveridiculously smallsample sizes.
Adverbs and Adjectives Combinations
List of useful adverb adjective collocations in English with examples.
Ruggedly handsome
More important, my wife was above ground chatting with aruggedly handsometour guide.
Scared stiff
I’m notscared stiff, I’ll be anything but scared.
Strongly opposed
I’mstrongly opposedto capital punishment.
“Very, extremely, incredibly, terribly, awfully, fairly, a bit, quite, really + weak/good/surprised/angry
Housing prices are stillextremely weak.
Actively involved
He’s beenactively involvedin politics for 30 years.
Badly hurt
He wasbadly hurt.
Blissfully unaware
Harry wasblissfully unawarethat he was in danger.
Blissfully ignorant
While her husband had affairs with other women, she lived inblissful ignorance.
Completely amazed
Alaudin started telling me his father’s story and I wascompletely amazed.
Completely different
That’s acompletely differentsubject.
Completely fantastic
Completely fantasticand interesting and complicated things!
Completely strong
“I feel physicallycompletely strongand emotionally completely exhausted,” she said
Dead tired
I amdead tired.
Drop-dead gorgeous
For me, they bring to mind thedrop-dead gorgeousmountains.
Fiercely competitive
Companies have beenfiercely competitivesince.
Fully aware
I amfully awarethat there are serious problems.
婚姻幸福
I’mhappily married, with children.
Painfully shy
When I was a kid I waspainfully shy, so it was hard for me to make friends.
Painfully thin
She lookedpainfully thin.
Perfectly normal
It’sperfectly normalto feel like this.
Pretty good
Your script waspretty goodbut I have some suggestions.
Quietly confident
I’mquietly confidentthat Arsenal can get a result.
Quite good
I amquite goodat various activities, such as painting and photography.
Quite sure
Are youquite sureshe won’t mind?
Readily available
Boats arereadily availableto visitors.
Reasonably happy
She seemsreasonably happyin her new job.
Reasonably priced
The apartments arereasonably priced.
Reasonably well
Thehostageshad beenreasonably wellcared for.
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Adverbs and Adjectives: 75 Useful Adverb Adjective Collocations
Last Updated on April 3, 2020
Great work. I wish there was a follow up, to gradable and ungradable adjectives
bilisfully unaware is wrong written?? blisfully or bilisfully
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