Collocations for Adjective (IELTS)

• Abstract: art, concept, idea, painting, principle, theory, thought, work

• Abundant: evidence, flower, supply, wildlife

• Accurate: description, information, method, prediction, representation

• Active: involvement, life, member, part, participant, participation, role, support

• Adequate: income, information, preparation, protection, supply, support, time, training

• Adverse: circumstance, consequence, effect, event, impact, reaction, weather

• Aggressive: action, approach, behaviour, campaign, child, expansion, growth, stance, tendency

• Alternative: approach, arrangement, energy, explanation, lifestyle, manner, method, route, scorn, solution, suggestion, therapy, treatment, view, voice

• Ample: evidence, justification, room, scope, space, supply, time

• Apparent: attempt, change, discomfort, evidence, failure, fear, harm, reason, success, winner

• Appropriate: action, advice, behavior, gift, level, measure, place, response, time

• Basic: concept, idea, information, necessity, need, requirement, salary, skill

• Broad: base, category, consensus, context, definition, field, framework, issue, outline, perspective, policy, question, range, sense, view

• Classic: book, clothing, example, film, statement, symptom, work

• Classical: architecture, art, ballet, dance, economist, education, liberal, literature, model, music, study, style, times, work, world, writer

• Comfortable: bed, chair, clothes, home, hotel, lead, life, lifestyle, lounge, place, position, restaurant, retirement, room, victory, win

• Complex: issue, problem, process, relationship, structure, system

• Complicated: case, matter, process, relationship, structure, system

• Considerable: advantage, amount, attention, effort, experience, improvement, influence, pressure, progress

• Contemporary: art, artist, culture, dance, history, issue, music, society, world, writer

• Controversial: book, broadcast, circumstance, issue, matter, policy, subject, topic

• Conventional: approach, means, medicine, method, treatment, view

• Core: activity, belief, business, curriculum, operation, skill, subject, value

• Creative: act, activity, approach, artist, energy, expression, flair, force, genius, group, idea, imagination, inspiration, mind, people, power, process, solution, talent, thought, use, way, work, writer, writing

• Criminal: act, action, activity, behavior, gang, history, investigation, liability, matter, offense, penalty, record, tendency

• Crucial: area, aspect, decision, element, factor, importance, issue, moment, point, role, stage, step

• Cultural: activity, background, context, development, difference, diversity, event, exchange, factor, heritage, history, identity, influence, norm, practice, tradition, value

• Current: affair, issue, news story, operation, policy, practice, resident, trend, year

• Daily: activity, basis, business, contact, diet, intake, life, routine, task, work

• Dangerous: chemical, driving, drug, level, situation, substance

• Deadly: disease, poison, sin, virus, weapon

• Detailed: analysis, consideration, description, discussion, explanation, instruction, knowledge, picture, plan, report, research, study, work

• Difficult: choice, decision, occasion, position, problem, question, situation, task, time

• Disadvantaged: area, background, child, group, people, position, student, youth

• Distinct: advantage, contrast, drawback, element, evidence, flavor, individual, feeling, impression, improvement, lack, sign, stage, voice

• Distinctive: character, characteristic, contribution, feature, flavor, quality, sound, style, voice, way

• Diverse: background, community, culture, need, population, society, source

• Domestic: affair, animal, chore, economy, industry, market, task, use, violence, work

• Dominant: class, culture, factor, feature, idea, ideology, issue, player, role, theme

• Dramatic: change, decline, drop, event, fall, growth, improvement, increase, reduction, reversal, rise, shift, turn

• Dynamic: aspect, element, environment, leadership, nature, people, relationship

• Economic: activity, aid, benefit, boom, climate, collapse, crisis, decline, depression, development, downturn, environment, factor, growth, history, impact, incentive, issue, life, miracle, performance, policy, power, problem, progress, prosperity, recession, recovery, reform, situation, strategy, tie, trend

• Effective: action, communication, control, deterrent, interaction, management, means, method, solution, treatment, use, way

• Efficient: management, manner, method, service, solution, use, way

• Emotional: abuse, attachment, development, distress, disturbance, impact, life, maturity, need, outburst, pain, power, problem, state, stress, support, trauma

• Empty: bottle, glass, hand, house, lot, place, plate, promise, road, room, seat, space, stomach, street, word

• Enormous: advantage, amount, change, cost, difference, difficulty, effort, growth, impact, importance, influence, interest, popularity, potential, pressure, Variety

• Environmental: activist, awareness, benefit, catastrophe, change, concern, consequence, consideration, control, cost, damage, degradation, destruction, disaster, factor, impact, improvement, issue, law, management, matter, performance, policy, pollution, pressure, problem, project, protection, quality, regulation, standard, study

• Essential: characteristic, component, element, feature, part, point, role, service, tool

• Ethical: code, concern, consideration, dilemma, implication, issue, lapse, principle, problem, question, reason, standard, value

• Ethnic: background, community, conflict, difference, diversity, division, group, identity, minority, origin, tension, violence

• Experienced: people, players, practitioners, professionals, staff, teachers, workers, user

• Extensive: collection, coverage, damage, discussion, experience, knowledge, research, review, study, survey, use

• External: affair, agency, appearance, constraint, environment, factor, force, influence, pressure, reality, source, stimulus, threat, use, world

• Extraordinary: ability, achievement, amount, circumstance, degree, man, number, power, story, success, woman

• False: assumption, belief, claim, hair, information, modesty, name, promise, representation, statement, tooth

• Fashionable: area, bar, cafe, clothes, event, resort, restaurant, store, trend, woman

• Fast: buck, development, food, friend, growth, lane, pace, rate, road, track

• Favorable: attitude, circumstance, climate, comment, impression, outcome, position, response, time

• Favourite: colour, food, music, pastime, place, restaurant, song, story, subject, theme

• Final: analysis, approval, decision, draft, exam, outcome, phase, product, report, result, round, say, score, section, stage, version, word, year

• Flexible: approach, labour, response, schedule, system, work, workforce

• Fresh: air, approach, breeze, evidence, face, flower, food, fruit, idea, look, meat, water

• Functional: ability, area, aspect, form, importance, language, significance

• Fundamental: aspect, assumption, cause, change, component, conflict, difference, distinction, error, flaw, importance, issue, mistake, point, principle, problem, question, reason, right, shift, tenet, value

• Genetic: change, defect, disease, disorder, engineering, factor, inheritance, makeup, marker, mutation, predisposition, relationship, trait, variation

• Genuine: attempt, concern, desire, effort, experience, grievance, interest, sense

• Global: climate, competition, economy, environment, market, perspective, population, trade, village, warming

• Healthy: appetite, body, diet, eating, economy, environment, food, lifestyle, profit

• Immense: amount, benefit, difficulty, effort, importance, popularity, power, pressure, pride, relief, satisfaction, value, variety, wealth

• Important: aspect, component, difference, element, factor, feature, issue, matter, point, question, role, source

• Inborn: appreciation, factor, fear, knack, reflex, talent, temperament

• Indigenous: community, culture, group, inhabitant, language, people, population

• Innovative: approach, device, idea, look method, pioneer, product, project, solution, suggestion, technique, technology, thinker, way, work

• Intense: activity, competition, debate, interest, opposition, pain, pressure, rivalry

• Intensive: agriculture, care, course, farming, program, research, study, training, treatment, use, work

• International: affair, aid, airport, business, competition, market, pressure, recognition, reputation, scale, stage, standard, trade

• Light: entertainment, industry, lunch, rail, work

• Likely: candidate, cause, consequence, effect, explanation, outcome

• Living: accommodation, cost, creature, expense, memory, organism, standard, wage

• Local: area, authority, community, government, history, newspaper, people, resident

• Manual: dexterity, job, labour, labourer, occupation, skill, work, worker

• Medical: advice, care, centre, condition, cost, equipment, examination, expense, expert, facility, history, insurance, personnel, practitioner, profession, record, report, research, school, science, treatment

• Modern: age, architecture, art, culture, dance, era, man, obsession, people, perspective, phenomenon, society, technology, time, version, woman, world

• Moral: code, dilemma, duty, education, ground, imperative, issue, obligation, principle, problem, responsibility, standard, support, value

• Native: culture, inhabitant, language, people, population, speaker, species, tongue

• Negative: ad, answer, aspect, attitude, comment, consequence, correlation, effect, emotion, feedback, image, impact, publicity, reaction, response, result, side, thought, value, view

• Notable: ability, achievement, change, example, exception, failure, feature, success

• Normal: child, circumstance, development, family, form, genre, habit, level, life, people, practice, procedure, range, reaction, situation, subject, way

• Ongoing: battle, business, concern, control, debate, expectation, problem, process

• Original: design, form, idea, intention, plan, position, proposal, purpose, version, work

• Outdated: attitude, convention, equipment, idea, method, norm, regulation, style, system, textbook

• Overall: budget, control, effect, impact, impression, performance, quality, result, view

• Overt: appeal, attempt, concern, discrimination, hostility, issue, racism

• Parental: attitude, authority, care, duty, guidance, involvement, love, responsibility, role, support

• Passive: acceptance, audience, consumer, recipient, resistance, role, smoking

• Permanent: basis, change, damage, employment, feature, job, memorial, resident

• Personal: assistant, belonging, care, choice, contact, detail, development, experience, freedom, growth, hygiene, income, information, interest, knowledge, life, matter, opinion, possession, preference, problem, property, reason, relationship, responsibility, statement, taste, use, view

• Physical: abuse, activity, appearance, characteristic, condition, contact, disability, education, environment, evidence, examination, fitness, harm, health, injury, need, pain, presence, problem, reality, strength, symptom, violence, world

• Pleasant: atmosphere, change, childhood, drive, environment, evening, experience, holiday, meal, memory, place, smile, surprise, surrounding, voice, way

• Political: action, arena, asylum, career, climate, context, elite, group, implication, issue, leader, life, opponent, party, power, pressure, reason, reform, situation

• Positive: approach, aspect, attitude, change, contribution, effect, experience, feedback, image, impact, influence, outcome, reaction, relationship, response, role, sign, value, view, way

• Potential: benefit, buyer, client, conflict, customer, danger, impact, investor, market, problem, purchased, risk, source, threat, user, value

• Profound: change, consequence, effect, impact, implication, importance, influence, shift, transformation, understanding

• Prospective: buyer, candidate, client, companion, customer, donor, employee, employer, homeowner, investor, member, parent, partner, purchaser, student, tenant

• Practical: advice, application, approach, aspect, consequence, consideration, difficulty, effect, experience, help, implication, importance, information, issue, joke, knowledge, matter, necessity, problem, purpose, reality, reason, skill, solution, support, training, use, value, way, work

• Professional: advice, career, competence, conduct, development, education, job, judgment, life, practice, qualification, responsibility, service, skill, standard, training

• Psychological: advantage, barrier, damage, disorder, distress, effect, factor, harm, impact, need, problem, state, stress, support

• Profitable: business, company, market, product, use, year

• Public: access, attention, building, concern, debate, education, enterprise, eye, fund, health, holiday, image, interest, money, perception, policy, pressure, sector, servant, service, spending, transport

• Quick: action, buck, decision, learner, reaction, response, sale, succession, wit, word

• Rapid: change, decline, development, expansion, growth, improvement, increase, pace, rate, reaction, response, rise, spread, transit

• Rare: animal, book, case, event, example, exception, instance, moment, occasion, occurrence, opportunity, sight, species

• Regular: basis, check, customer, exercise, interval, job, service, use, visitor, work

• Relevant: data, document, experience, fact, factor, information, material, qualification

• Reliable: data, estimate, evidence, guide, indicator, information, means, measure, method, result, source, way

• Remarkable: achievement, change, coincidence, discovery, effect, fact, feat, feature, humor, improvement, man, performance, similarity, success, tolerance, woman

• Reverse: direction, effect, order, process, situation

• Rural: area, community, development, district, economy, environment, landscape, people, population, society

• Serious: accident, attempt, attention, blow, business, challenge, concern, consequence, consideration, crime, damage, danger, doubt, effect, error, flaw, harm, illness, injury, issue, matter, offense, problem, question, risk, thought, threat, trouble

• Social: background, behavior, benefit, change, class, contact context, development, event, group, interaction, issue, justice, life, order, policy, problem, relationship, responsibility, skill, status, welfare

• Sound: advice, investment, judgment, policy, principle, reason

• Special: arrangement, attention, bond, care, case, circumstance, education, event, interest, need, occasion, offer, privilege, relationship, skill, story, training, treatment

• Steady: boyfriend, decline, diet, flow, growth, improvement, income, increase, job, pace, progress, relationship, rhythm, rise, supply

• Strict: adherence, control, criteria, deadline, discipline, enforcement, guideline, hierarchy, law, limit, regulation, requirement, restriction, rule, scrutiny, security, sense

• Stressful: activity, circumstance, event, occupation, situation, tour

• Strong: argument, commitment, criticism, demand, desire, evidence, feeling, growth, hand, influence, opinion, opposition, point, position, relationship, sense, support, supporter, lie, tradition, view

• Substantial: amount, change, contribution, difference, evidence, improvement, increase, investment, loss, number, portion, profit, progress, proportion, sum, support

• Sufficient: competence, condition, data, detail, evidence, fund, information, interest, money, protection, quantity, reason, resource, support, lime, understanding

• Suitable: accommodation, candidate, experience, job, material, place, school, site

• Temporary: accommodation, basis, job, loss, measure, phenomenon, problem, replacement, residence, sanctuary, setback, shelter, solution, source, staff, worker

• Theoretical: account, analysis, approach, argument, aspect, assumption, background base, basis, concept, consideration, debate, development, discussion, explanation, foundation, framework, ground, idea, interest, issue, knowledge, perspective, problem, standpoint, study, understanding, value, work

• Tight: budget, control, deadline, grip, hold, rein, restriction, schedule, security

• Timely: fashion, information, manner, payment, reminder

• Traditional: approach, family, medicine, method, role, society, style, value, view, way

• Tremendous: achievement, advantage, challenge, change, difference, effort, energy, enthusiasm, growth, help, impact, influence, loss, opportunity, potential, power, pressure, progress, response, sense, success, support, value

• Typical: day, diet, example, expression, remark, sign, weather

• Underlying: aim, assumption, attitude, cause, concept, idea, issue, meaning, philosophy, principle, problem, reason, theme, trend, value

• Urban: area, community, design, development, dweller, environment, growth, landscape, life, population, problem, regeneration, renewal, school, sprawl

• Urgent: action, attention, call, case, consideration, demand, desire, matter, measure, meeting, message, need, priority, problem, request, task, voice

• Useful: advice, function, information, life, purpose, source, tip, tool, way

• Valid: argument, claim, conclusion, criticism, excuse, point, reason, signature

• Violent: action, act, behavior, conduct, crime, film, image, reaction

• Visible: change, clue, damage, difference, evidence, flaw, object, restraint, sign, step, symptom, weariness

• Visual: acuity, aid, appeal, art, contact, effect, impairment

• Western: art, country, culture, democracy, hemisphere, medicine, society, world

• Wide: appeal, audience, context, gap, implication, range, spectrum, Variety

• Weak: demand, economy, link, point

• Young: age, child, couple, generation, offender, people

• Youthful: appearance, energy, enthusiasm, face, look, vigor, worker