Adjectives That Start With E (Definition, Examples & Quiz)

September 11, 2025
5 min read
By Yash, D

Adjectives that start with e include elusive, efficacious, erratic, early, ethical, excepted, and exemplary. Read our comprehensive list for more!

Adjectives That Start With E (Definition, Examples & Quiz)

E-adjectives: Adjectives starting with E

If you Google-search “most common adjectives that start with E,” you’ll encounter an extensive array—energetic, for example (enticing, isn’t it?).

  1. Eager: Wanting to do or have something very much.

  2. Earnest: Showing sincere and intense conviction.

  3. Easygoing: Relaxed and tolerant in approach or manner.

  4. Eclectic: Deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad range of sources.

  5. Educated: Having an education, especially a good one.

  6. Efficacious: Successful in producing a desired or intended result.

  7. Efficient: Achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort.

  8. Effortless: Requiring no physical or mental exertion.

  9. Elegant: Pleasingly graceful and stylish.

 

Impressive collection, but let’s enrich it: here’s a handpicked list of our favorite adjectives that start with E. Explore our esteemed picks below.

Encouraging, enthusiastic adjectives

  • Enthusiastic: Showing intense and eager enjoyment.
  • Enlightened: Having or showing a rational, modern, and well-informed outlook.
  • Encouraging: Giving someone support or confidence.
  • Empowered: Given the authority or power to do something.
  • Exemplary: Serving as a desirable model; representing the best of its kind.
  • Excellent: Extremely good; outstanding.
  • Exuberant: Filled with lively energy and excitement.
  • Expressive: Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
  • Exquisite: Extremely beautiful and delicate.
  • Ethical: Morally right or virtuous.
  • Empathic: Able to understand and share the feelings of others.
  • Effervescent: Vivacious and enthusiastic.
  • Endearing: Inspiring affection.
  • Enduring: Lasting over a period of time; durable.
  • Enriching: Improving or enhancing the quality or value of something.
  • Enterprising: Having or showing initiative and resourcefulness.
  • Entertaining: Providing amusement or enjoyment.
  • Equitable: Fair and impartial.
  • Esteemed: Respected and admired.
  • Evocative: Bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind.
  • Excitable: Easily excited.
  • Expansive: Covering a wide area in terms of space or scope.
  • Expressive: Effectively conveying emotion or meaning.
  • Exultant: Triumphantly joyful

Edgy & harsh E-adjectives

  • Eccentric: Unconventional and slightly strange.
  • Edgy: Tense, nervous, or irritable.
  • Elusive : Difficult to find, catch; evasive.
  • Embarrassing: Causing embarrassment.
  • Empty: Lacking meaning or value.
  • Envious: Jealous; wanting what others have.
  • Erratic: Nervous, jumpy in movement or behaviour.
  • Esoteric: Intended to be understood by a small group of people, usually with specialized expertise.
  • Excessive: More than is necessary, normal, or desirable.
  • Exasperated: Intensely irritated and frustrated.
  • Exhausted: Extremely tired.
  • Expendable: Considered to be not worth keeping or maintaining.
  • Exploitative: Making use of a situation or treating others unfairly to gain an advantage.
  • Exposed: Not protected or covered.
  • Extreme: Reaching a high or the highest degree; very great.

Neutral adjectives

These describe objects or concepts without strong positive or negative bias.

  • Economic: Relating to economics or the economy.
  • Elementary: Basic or fundamental.
  • Elicitable : Capable of being drawn out or brought to light.
  • Eligible: Having the right to do or obtain something.
  • Emotional: Relating to a person's emotions.
  • Endless: Having or seeming to have no end or limit.
  • Equal: Being the same in quantity, size, degree, or value.
  • Equivalent: Equal in value, amount, function, meaning, etc.
  • Equivocal: Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous.
  • Essential: Absolutely necessary; extremely important.
  • Estimated: Roughly calculated or approximated.
  • Eventual: Occurring at the end of or as a result of a process or period of time.
  • Excepted: Stated clearly, in detail.
  • External: Belonging to or forming the outer surface or structure of something.
  • Extra: Added to an existing or usual amount or number.
  • Existing: Present or in existence.
  • Explicit: Stated clearly and in detail.
  • Experimental: Based on untested ideas or techniques.

Sources

  1. “Exultant, Adj.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, December 2024.

 

Yash, D. "Adjectives That Start With E (Definition, Examples & Quiz)." Grammarflex, Sep 11, 2025, https://grammarflex.com/e-adjectives/.

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