——— ❝ NEGATIVE CHARACTER TRAIT LIST. ❞
Below is a list of 102 negative traits to describe your character.
Aggressive - pursuing one’s aims and interests forcefully, sometimes unduly so
Aloof - not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant
Arrogant - having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities
Belligerent - hostile and aggressive
Big-headed - conceited or arrogant
Bitchy - malicious or unpleasant
Boastful - showing excessive pride and self-satisfaction in one’s achievements, possessions, or abilities
Boring - not interesting; tedious
Bossy - fond of giving people orders; domineering
Callous - showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others
Cantankerous - bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative
Careless - not giving sufficient attention or thought to avoiding harm or errors
Changeable - irregular; inconstant
Clinging - overly dependent on someone emotionally
Compulsive - resulting from or relating to an irresistible urge, especially one that is against one’s conscious wishes
Conservative - a person who is averse to change and holds to traditional values and attitudes, typically in relation to politics
Cowardly - lacking courage
Crass - lacking sensitivity, refinement, or intelligence
Cruel - willfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it
Cunning - having or showing skill in achieving one’s ends by deceit or evasion
Cynical - believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity
Deceitful - guilty of or involving deceit; deceiving or misleading others
Detached - separate or disconnected
Dishonest - behaving or prone to behave in an untrustworthy or fraudulent way
Dogmatic - inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true
Domineering - assert one’s will over another in an arrogant way
Fastidious - very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail
Finicky - fussy about one’s needs or requirements
Foolish - lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
Foolhardy - recklessly bold or rash
Fussy - fastidious about one’s needs or requirements; hard to please
Greedy - having or showing an intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth or power
Grumpy - bad-tempered and irritable
Gullible - easily persuaded to believe something; credulous
Impatient - having or showing a tendency to be quickly irritated or provoked
Impolite - not having or showing good manners; rude
Impulsive - acting or done without forethought
Inconsiderate - thoughtlessly causing hurt or inconvenience to others
Inconsistent - not compatible or in keeping with
Indecisive - not having or showing the ability to make decisions quickly and effectively
Indiscreet - having, showing, or proceeding from too great a readiness to reveal things that should remain secret or private
Inflexible - unwilling to change or compromise
Interfering - tending to interfere in other people’s affairs
Intolerant - not tolerant of views, beliefs, or behavior that differ from one’s own
Irresponsible - not showing a proper sense of responsibility
Jealous - feeling or showing envy of someone or their achievements and advantages
Lazy - unwilling to work or use energy
Machiavellian - cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics
Materialistic - excessively concerned with material possessions; money-oriented
Mean - one who makes no effort to understand or empathize with others
Miserly - of or characteristic of a miser
Moody - given to unpredictable changes of mood, especially sudden bouts of gloominess or sullenness
Narrow-minded - not willing to listen to or tolerate other people’s views; prejudiced
Nasty - behaving in an unpleasant or spiteful way
Naughty - disobedient; badly behaved
Nervous - easily agitated or alarmed; tending to be anxious; highly strung
Obsessive - a person who is affected by an obsession
Obstinate - stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so
Overcritical - inclined to find fault too readily
Overemotional - having feelings that are too easily excited and displayed
Parsimonious - unwilling to spend money or use resources; stingy or frugal
Patronizing - apparently kind or helpful but betraying a feeling of superiority; condescending
Perverse - showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable, often in spite of the consequences
Pessimistic - tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen
Pompous - affectedly and irritatingly grand, solemn, or self-important
Possessive - demanding someone’s total attention and love
Pusillanimous - showing a lack of courage or determination; timid
Quarrelsome - given to or characterized by quarreling
Quick-tempered - easily made angry
Resentful - feeling or expressing bitterness or indignation at having been treated unfairly
Rude - offensively impolite or ill-mannered
Ruthless - having or showing no pity or compassion for others
Sarcastic - marked by or given to using irony in order to mock or convey contempt
Secretive - inclined to conceal feelings and intentions or not to disclose information
Selfish - lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one’s own personal profit or pleasure
Self-centered - preoccupied with oneself and one’s affairs
Self-indulgent - characterized by doing or tending to do exactly what one wants, especially when this involves pleasure or idleness
Silly - having or showing a lack of common sense or judgement; absurd and foolish
Sly - having or showing a cunning and deceitful nature
Stingy - unwilling to give or spend; ungenerous
Stubborn - having or showing dogged determination not to change one’s attitude or position on something, especially in spite of good arguments or reasons to do so
Stupid - having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense
Superficial - not having or showing any depth of character or understanding
Tacky - showing poor taste and quality
Tactless - having or showing a lack of adroitness and sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficult issues
Timid - showing a lack of courage or confidence; easily frightened
Touchy - oversensitive and irritable
Thoughtless - not showing consideration for the needs of other people
Truculent - eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant
Unkind - inconsiderate and harsh to others
Unpredictable - behaving in a way that is not easily predicted
Unreliable - not able to be relied upon
Untidy - not inclined to keep one’s possessions or appearance neat and in order
Untrustworthy - not able to be relied on as honest or truthful
Vague - thinking or communicating in an unfocused or imprecise way
Vain - having or showing an excessively high opinion of one’s appearance, abilities, or worth
Vengeful - seeking to harm someone in return for a perceived injury.
Vulgar - lacking sophistication or good taste; unrefined
Weak-willed - lacking the ability to resist influence or to restrain one’s own impulses; irresolute
