Adjectives That Start With H

207 words Words by letter Checked 9 Oct 2026

These adjectives that start with H come from a standard English dictionary used for word games, ranked by how often each word is used in everyday writing. There are 207 adjectives starting with H on this page. The 100 most common come first, each with a short meaning, followed by shorter, longer and easier picks and a filter for any ending or length.

H has 207 adjectives, and many describe how something feels to the senses: hot, heavy, hard and harsh. Feelings are well covered too, with happy, hungry, humble and hostile all in the mix.

Hilarious and horrible are big favourites with children because they are fun to say out loud. Handsome, helpful and honest work well in character sketches. For report writing, historical and historic are a useful pair to compare, and horizontal is a good math vocabulary word. The silent H in honest and honorable is worth pointing out.

Adjectives starting with H: 207
Most used: high
Longest common one: heartbreaking 13 letters

Most common adjectives that start with H

Ranked by how often the word appears in English text. "Type" is the word's main part of speech.

#	Word	Meaning	Type
1	high	greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount	adj.
2	hard	not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure	adj.
3	happy	enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure	adj.
4	human	characteristic of humanity	adj.
5	higher	advanced in complexity or elaboration	adj.
6	hot	used of physical heat	adj.
7	huge	unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - W.R.Inge	adj.
8	heavy	of comparatively great physical weight or density	adj.
9	healthy	having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease	adj.
10	honest	not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent	adj.
11	hundred	being ten more than ninety	adj.
12	historical	of or relating to the study of history	adj.
13	historic	belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past	adj.
14	hungry	feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food	adj.
15	horrible	provoking horror; ; ; ; - Winston Churchill	adj.
16	helpful	providing assistance or serving a useful function	adj.
17	hilarious	marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter	adj.
18	handsome	pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion	adj.
19	harsh	unpleasantly stern	adj.
20	humble	low or inferior in station or quality	adj.
21	hostile	characterized by enmity or ill will	adj.
22	halfway	equally distant from the extremes	adj.
23	handy	easy to reach	adj.
24	harmful	causing or capable of causing harm	adj.
25	humanitarian	marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare	adj.
26	horizontal	parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line	adj.
27	hardy	having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships	adj.
28	heroic	very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale)	adj.
29	healthier	improved in health or physical condition	adj.
30	homemade	made or produced in the home or by yourself	adj.
31	honorable	not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent	adj.
32	hairy	having or covered with hair	adj.
33	harmless	not causing or capable of causing harm	adj.
34	hopeful	having or manifesting hope	adj.
35	heavenly	relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven	adj.
36	horrific	grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror	adj.
37	hydraulic	moved or operated or effected by liquid (water or oil)	adj.
38	hazardous	involving risk or danger	adj.
39	hopeless	without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success	adj.
40	hourly	occurring every hour or payable by the hour	adj.
41	haired	having or covered with hair	adj.
42	helpless	lacking in or deprived of strength or power	adj.
43	honourable	worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect	adj.
44	honorary	given as an honor without the normal duties	adj.
45	handmade	made by hand or a hand process	adj.
46	humane	pertaining to or concerned with the humanities	adj.
47	hypothetical	based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence	adj.
48	humorous	full of or characterized by humor	adj.
49	heartbreaking	causing or marked by grief or anguish	adj.
50	hazel	of a light brown or yellowish brown color	adj.
51	hateful	evoking or deserving hatred; - Joseph Priestly	adj.
52	homophobic	no short meaning listed	adj.
53	humid	containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor	adj.
54	hereditary	occurring among members of a family usually by heredity	adj.
55	hysterical	characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria; - Morris Fishbein	adj.
56	hideous	grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror	adj.
57	horrendous	causing fear or dread or terror	adj.
58	handicapped	incapable of functioning as a consequence of injury or illness	adj.
59	heartbroken	full of sorrow	adj.
60	hesitant	lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly	adj.
61	heartfelt	earnest	adj.
62	hearty	showing warm and heartfelt friendliness	adj.
63	handheld	small and light enough to be operated while you hold it in your hands	adj.
64	hefty	(of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful	adj.
65	handwritten	written by hand	adj.
66	harmonic	of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm; - Ralph Hill	adj.
67	heartless	lacking in feeling or pity or warmth	adj.
68	hectic	marked by intense agitation or emotion	adj.
69	holistic	emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole	adj.
70	hormonal	of or relating to or caused by hormones	adj.
71	hypocritical	professing feelings or virtues one does not have	adj.
72	hurtful	causing hurt	adj.
73	hardworking	characterized by hard work and perseverance	adj.
74	hasty	excessively quick	adj.
75	husky	muscular and heavily built	adj.
76	horrid	exceedingly bad	adj.
77	hierarchical	classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers	adj.
78	heinous	extremely wicked, deeply criminal	adj.
79	homogeneous	all of the same or similar kind or nature	adj.
80	hilly	having hills and crags	adj.
81	harmonious	musically pleasing	adj.
82	hyperbolic	enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness	adj.
83	habitual	commonly used or practiced; usual	adj.
84	hazy	filled or abounding with fog or mist	adj.
85	het	made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated')	adj.
86	horticultural	of or relating to the cultivation of plants	adj.
87	habitable	fit for habitation	adj.
88	hypnotic	of or relating to hypnosis	adj.
89	hydroelectric	of or relating to or used in the production of electricity by waterpower	adj.
90	heterogeneous	consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature	adj.
91	humanist	of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism	adj.
92	homegrown	grown or originating in a particular place	adj.
93	heartwarming	causing gladness and pleasure	adj.
94	holographic	of or relating to holography or holograms	adj.
95	headless	not having a head or formed without a head	adj.
96	hexagonal	having six sides or divided into hexagons	adj.
97	hospitable	favorable to life and growth	adj.
98	hardline	firm and uncompromising	adj.
99	haggard	showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; ; ; ; - Charles Dickens	adj.
100	heady	marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters	adj.

Positive adjectives that start with H

happy
hot
healthy
honest
helpful
hilarious
handsome
humble
handy
hardy
heroic
honorable
harmless
hopeful
heavenly
humane
humorous
heartfelt
harmonious
heartwarming
hospitable
healthful

Short adjectives that start with H

high
hard
happy
human
hot
huge
heavy
harsh
handy
hardy
hairy
hazel
humid
hefty
hasty
husky
hilly
hazy
het
heady
hep
homey
hokey
hammy
humic
hoary
huffy
holey
hilar

Long adjectives that start with H

historical
humanitarian
horizontal
honourable
hypothetical
heartbreaking
homophobic
hereditary
hysterical
horrendous
handicapped
heartbroken
handwritten
hypocritical
hardworking
hierarchical
homogeneous
harmonious
hyperbolic
horticultural
hydroelectric
heterogeneous
heartwarming
holographic
hospitable
hydrophobic
humanistic
homeopathic
homogenous
hemorrhagic

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Questions people ask

How many adjectives start with H?

This list has 207 adjectives starting with H, taken from a standard word-game dictionary and limited to words that appear in real English text.

What are the most common adjectives that start with H?

high, hard, happy, human, higher, hot, huge, heavy are the most used in everyday English.

What are some long adjectives that start with H?

historical, hilarious, humanitarian, horizontal, healthier.

What are easy adjectives that start with H for kids?

high, hard, happy, human, higher, hot are short, everyday examples.

Source: the ENABLE word list (a public-domain dictionary used for word games), ranked by how often each word appears in English text (the open wordfreq project), with short meanings from Princeton WordNet. Offensive words are left out.

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