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1. Introvert

An introvert is shy and reticent. They steer clear of social situations where possible, preferring to spend time on their own. An introverted person is more inclined to focus on their own thoughts and feelings rather than look outwards.

2. Extrovert

In contrast, if you are an extrovert you are outgoing and confident in sociable situations. You are often the life and soul of the party; the one that offers to do that big presentation at work; the person who holds court at the dinner table and the first to grab the mic at a karaoke night.

5. Misanthropic

If you are misanthropic, you’re not a fan of other people. In fact you have and display an active dislike of your fellow human. Charles Dickens’s miserly character Scrooge is a famous misanthrope. Bah humbug!

6. Sadistic

A sadist derives pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others. We might describe a brutal killer as sadistic.

7. Masochistic

A masochist will take pleasure in pain and their own suffering, or at least seem to. You might describe a friend who chooses to run ultra marathons as a masochist!

8. Misogynistic

The “me too” movement has propelled this word into the foreground. If you are misogynistic then, quite simply, you dislike, despise, or are strongly prejudiced against women.

9. Phlegmatic

A phlegmatic person doesn’t get emotional or excited about things easily. They keep calm in dangerous or frightening situations. The word has evolved from the Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates’s theory of the Four Humors. He believed that the mood of a person was governed by the balance of four different fluids in the body, each one associated with a different temperament. Lots of phlegm led to a calm and reasonable disposition!

10. Melancholic

This is another of Hippocrates’s four temperaments – one that he thought was governed by “black bile”! Although modern science may have thrown that out of the window, the meaning associated with the adjective still stands. A melancholic person feels or expresses a pensive sadness.

11. Jocose

Jocose is an adjective that's used to describe someone who's in a good mood. If you are jocose you are cheerful, humorous and up for a laugh.

12. Obstreperous

If you are obstreperous you are refusing to behave in a reasonable way and probably protesting loudly. You are noisy and difficult to control. A teacher might describe a particularly unruly child as obstreperous.

13. Perspicacious

Are you quick at noticing, understanding, or judging things accurately? Then you are perspicacious. You are able to determine, speedily, what people and situations are really like. (A useful quality when you’re embarking on lots of online dating.)

14. Indefatigable

This describes someone who remains determined and energetic in trying to achieve something – and who is never willing to admit defeat. They never get tired of the task at hand.

15. Neurotic

This is a word we use to describe someone who gets frightened and worried about things that we might consider unimportant.

16. Irascible

If you are easily provoked, and become angry at the flick of a switch, then you could be described as irascible. It means you are quick-tempered, tetchy or touchy.