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Topp Svenska Adjektiv / Motsatser (Top Swedish Adjectives / opposites)

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Adjektiv	in English	Motsatser	in English
torr	dry	vått	wet
kall	cold	varm	warm
het	hot	kall	cold
lång	long	kort	short
ljus	light	mörk	dark
rolig	funny	tråkig	boring
ledsen	sad	glad	happy
randig	striped	rutig	checkered
rund	round	platt	flat
bred	wide	smal	narrow
tjock	thick, big	smal	thin
fet	fat	tunn	thin
rak	straight	krokig	crooked
rak	straight	sned	oblique, inclined
enkel	easy, simple	svår	difficult
äkta	real, genuine	falsk	false, fake
rätt	right	fel	wrong
frisk	healthy, fresh	sjuk	sick
stark	strong	svag	weak
lätt	lightweight	tung	heavy
stor	big	liten	small
bra	good	dålig	bad
ilsken	angry (bad person)	snäll	kind
vacker	beautiful	ful	ugly
mätt • Translation of lång och smal – Swedish–English dictionary At this point the plant would be stunted, spindly and with a white, flaky crust of scales on the bark. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The ovoid head is surrounded by four spindly arms, each four-fingered hand ending in sharp claws. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It was glass and stood on spindly legs. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The small, thick leaves are a few centimeters long and are absent much of the year, giving the shrub a spindly, twiggy appearance. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. That means that the trees end up as spindly sticks 60, 70 or 80 feet high and very susceptible to wind blow. From the Hansard archive Numerous young leaf stalks were brittle and spindly (dried quickly when not in contact with water), and some secondyear late stalks were brittle and dark purple. From the Cambridge English Corpus