## Adjectives to transform noses into memorable facial features Well-written descriptions provide clear mental impressions. They may also tell about a character’s personality from the narrator’s perspective. Someone with a nose of granite could represent the epitome of a harsh, inflexible person. Readers might also envision a greyish complexion. **Noses might be depicted as:** ### Adjectives A to C alcoholic, aquiline, arrogant, askew, beaked, beautiful, bent, bibulous, big, blobby, blunt, bloody, bold, bony, boozy, bovine, brazen, broad, broken, bubbling, bumped, childlike, chiseled, classic, cleft, coarse, colossal, comical, commanding, conspicuous, craggy, crooked, cruel, curved D to H daunting, defiant, delicate, dimpled, disdainful, distorted, droopy, dusty, effeminate, elegant, enormous, exotic, fake, false, fat, feline, feminine, feverish, fine, flaccid, flat, foot-long, freckled, frostbitten, garish, girly, glowing, granite, grimy, haggish, haughty, heavy, hoggish, hooked I to O imperious, impish, imposing, impudent, insignificant, intrusive, jolly, keen, knobby, lean, little, long, lopsided, lumpy, magisterial, mammoth, mangled, masculine, mashed, massive, meaty, miniscule, misshapen, monstrous, mud-covered, narrow, neat, needle-sharp, nodular, nondescript, off-center, oversized P to R petulant, pert, petite, pickled, piggy, pinched, pious, pixie, pliable, pliant, pockmarked, pointed, pompous, porcine, portentous, powdered, prodigious, prominent, protruding, proud, puckish, puffy, pug, pugnacious, refined, regal, rubbery, runny S saucy, scarred, scary, scorched, sculpted, serpentine, sharp, skeletal, skinny, slender, slippery, sloped, small, sniffly, snobbish, snotty, soft, sottish, spongy, squat, stately, straight, strong, squashed, stubborn, stubby, stuffy, stumpy, stupendous, sunken, supercilious, superior, sweat-beaded, swollen T to Y thick, thin, thoroughbred, tiny, twisted, two-foot, ulcerated, underdeveloped, veined, velvety, vinous, vulpine, wavy, waxen, weak, wide, wooden, wrinkled, wry, yielding ### Shapes A serpentine shape could pair with a scam artist. A fleshy nose might be suitable for an overweight banker. Try some of these, and see also the _adjectives_ section for more ideas. A to H arched, aristocratic, bulbous, bumpy, cauliflower, concave, conical, convex, diamond-shaped, fleshy, funnel, hawk N to W scooped, serpentine, snub, square, triangular, turned-up, upturned, wedge-shaped