List Of 600 Personality Traits

If someone asked you to describe your own personality, could you do it?

It's hard to have a true perspective on your own personality traits and how you express them in the world.

If you've never taken a personality test or read much about your personality type, you probably rely on the feedback you've heard about yourself from others about your personality traits.

“He's really outgoing.”

“She can be argumentative.”

“He's always uptight.”

“She has such a calm demeanor.”

We take these descriptions and use them to help us craft what we believe to be our “personality.”

Also, over time we learn things about ourselves — our preferences, how we behave in certain situations, and how we interact with others.

If we pay attention to our words and actions, we can assimilate and recognize more traits that make up our personalities.

In general, personality consists of the recurring patterns of thoughts, emotions, characteristics, and behaviors that make a person unique.

It arises from within each individual and remains fairly consistent and permanent throughout life.

Research suggests that personality types are also influenced by biological processes and needs.

Want to know the difference between personality vs character, go to this post.

There are a number of theories about how our personalities develop, including personality type theories (like the Myers Briggs type) and personality trait theories.

The personality trait theory suggests that individual personalities are made up of broad dispositions, and many modern researchers believe there are five core personality traits.

What are the 5 Main Personality Traits?

Extraversion Personality Trait

Including personality traits such as excitability, sociability, talkativeness, assertiveness and high amounts of emotional expressiveness.

Agreeableness Personality Trait

Attributes such as trust, altruism, kindness, affection, and other prosocial behaviors.

A tendency to be compassionate and cooperative rather than suspicious and antagonistic towards others.

Conscientiousness Personality Trait

High levels of thoughtfulness, good impulse control, and goal-directed behaviors.

Those high in conscientiousness tend to be organized and mindful of details, as well as act dutifully, aim for achievement, and prefer planned rather than spontaneous behavior.

Neuroticism Personality Trait

Tendency to experience emotional instability, anxiety, moodiness, irritability, and sadness, as well as having a low tolerance for stress.

Openness Personality Trait

Personality traits such as imagination and insight, and a broad range of interests, as well as: intellectual curiosity, creativity and a preference for novelty and variety.

Understanding more about our own personalities can help in how we relate to the people close to us — and help them understand us better.

It can also improve the way we work and learn, as we know more about our natural traits and how we can work with them rather than against them.

List of 600 Personality Traits

Dig deeper into your personality and the characteristics that comprise it with our list below.

Positive Personality Traits

Accessible
Active
Adaptable
Admirable
Adventurous
Agreeable
Alert
Amiable
Anticipative
Appreciative
Articulate
Aspiring
Athletic
Attractive
Balanced
Benevolent
Brilliant
Calm
Capable
Captivating
Caring
Challenging
Charismatic
Charming
Cheerful
Clean
Clear-headed
Clever
Colorful
Companionly
Compassionate
Conciliatory
Confident
Conscientious
Considerate
Constant
Contemplative
Cooperative
Courageous
Courteous
Creative
Cultured
Curious
Daring
Debonair
Decent
Decisive
Dedicated
Deep
Dignified
Directed
Disciplined
Discreet
Dramatic
Dutiful
Dynamic
Earnest
Ebullient
Educated
Efficient
Elegant
Eloquent
Empathetic
Energetic
Enthusiastic
Esthetic
Exciting
Extraordinary
Fair
Faithful
Farsighted
Felicific
Firm
Flexible
Focused
Forceful
Forgiving
Forthright
Freethinking
Friendly
Fun-loving
Gallant
Generous
Gentle
Genuine
Good-natured
Gracious
Hardworking
Healthy
Hearty
Helpful
Heroic
High-minded
Honest
Honorable
Humble
Humorous
Idealistic
Imaginative
Impressive
Incisive
Incorruptible
Independent
Individualistic
Innovative
Inoffensive
Insightful
Insouciant
Intelligent
Intuitive
Invulnerable
Kind
Knowledge
Leader
Leisurely
Liberal
Logical
Lovable
Loyal
Lyrical
Magnanimous
Many-sided
Masculine
Mature
Methodical
Meticulous
Moderate
Modest
Multi-leveled
Neat
Objective
Observant
Open
Optimistic
Orderly
Organized
Original
Painstaking
Passionate
Patient
Patriotic
Peaceful
Perceptive
Perfectionist
Personable
Persuasive
Playful
Polished
Popular
Practical
Precise
Principled
Profound
Protean
Protective
Providential
Prudent
Punctual
Purposeful
Rational
Realistic
Reflective
Relaxed
Reliable
Resourceful
Respectful
Responsible
Responsive
Reverential
Romantic
Rustic
Sage
Sane
Scholarly
Scrupulous
Secure
Selfless
Self-critical
Self-defacing
Self-denying
Self-reliant
Self-sufficent
Sensitive
Sentimental
Seraphic
Serious
Sexy
Sharing
Shrewd
Simple
Skillful
Sober
Sociable
Solid
Sophisticated
Spontaneous
Sporting
Stable
Steadfast
Steady
Stoic
Strong
Studious
Suave
Subtle
Sweet
Sympathetic
Systematic
Tasteful
Teacherly
Thorough
Tidy
Tolerant
Tractable
Trusting
Uncomplaining
Understanding
Undogmatic
Upright
Urbane
Venturesome
Vivacious
Warm
Well-bred
Well-read
Well-rounded
Winning
Wise
Witty
Youthful

Even Personality Traits

Absentminded
Aggressive
Ambitious
Amusing
Artful
Ascetic
Authoritarian
Big-thinking
Boyish
Breezy
Businesslike
Busy
Casual
Cerebral
Chummy
Circumspect
Competitive
Complex
Confidential
Conservative
Contradictory
Crisp
Cute
Deceptive
Determined
Dominating
Dreamy
Driving
Droll
Dry
Earthy
Effeminate
Emotional
Enigmatic
Experimental
Familial
Folksy
Formal
Freewheeling
Frugal
Glamorous
Guileless
High-spirited
Hurried
Hypnotic
Iconoclastic
Idiosyncratic
Impassive
Impersonal
Impressionable
Intense
Invisible
Irreligious
Irreverent
Maternal
Mellow
Modern
Moralistic
Mystical

Neutral
Noncommittal
Noncompetitive
Obedient
Old-fashioned
Ordinary
Outspoken
Paternalistic
Physical
Placid
Political
Predictable
Preoccupied
Private
Progressive
Proud
Pure
Questioning
Quiet
Religious
Reserved
Restrained
Retiring
Sarcastic
Self-conscious
Sensual
Skeptical
Smooth
Soft
Solemn
Solitary
Stern
Strict
Stubborn
Stylish
Subjective
Surprising
Soft
Tough
Unaggressive
Unambitious
Unceremonious
Unchanging
Undemanding
Unfathomable
Unhurried
Uninhibited
Unpatriotic
Unpredictable
Unsentimental
Whimsical

Negative Personality Traits

Abrasive
Abrupt
Agonizing
Aggressive
Aimless
Aloof
Amoral
Angry
Anxious
Apathetic
Arbitrary
Argumentative
Arrogant
Artificial
Asocial
Bewildered
Bizarre
Bland
Blunt
Boisterous
Brittle
Brutal
Calculating
Callous
Cantankerous
Careless
Charmless
Childish
Clumsy
Coarse
Cold
Colorless
Complacent
Complaining
Compulsive
Conceited
Condemnatory
Conformist
Confused
Contemptible
Conventional
Cowardly
Crass
Crazy
Criminal
Critical
Crude
Cruel
Cynical
Decadent
Deceitful
Delicate
Demanding
Dependent
Desperate
Destructive
Devious
Difficult
Disconcerting
Discontented
Discouraging
Discourteous
Dishonest
Disloyal
Disobedient
Disorderly
Disorganized
Disputatious
Disrespectful
Disruptive
Dissonant
Distractible
Disturbing
Dogmatic
Domineering
Dull
Easily Discouraged
Egocentric
Envious
Erratic
Escapist
Extravagant
Extreme
Faithless
False
Fanatical
Fanciful
Fatalistic
Fawning
Fearful
Fickle
Fiery
Fixed
Flamboyant
Foolish
Forgetful
Fraudulent
Frightening
Frivolous
Gloomy
Graceless
Greedy
Grim
Gullible
Hateful
Haughty
Hedonistic
Hesitant
Hidebound
High-handed
Hostile
Ignorant
Imitative
Impatient
Impractical
Imprudent
Impulsive
Inconsiderate
Incurious

Indecisive
Indulgent
Inert
Inhibited
Insecure
Insensitive
Insincere
Insulting

Intolerant
Irascible
Irrational
Irresponsible
Irritable
Lazy
Malicious
Mannerless
Mechanical
Meddlesome
Melancholic
Messy
Miserable
Miserly
Misguided
Mistaken
Money-minded
Moody
Morbid
Muddle-headed
Naive
Narcissistic
Narrow
Narrow-minded
Negative
Neglectful
Neurotic
Nihilistic
Obnoxious
Obsessive
Obvious
Odd
Offhand
One-dimensional
One-sided
Opinionated
Opportunistic
Oppressed
Outrageous
Paranoid
Passive
Pedantic
Perverse
Petty
Plodding
Pompous
Possessive
Power-hungry
Predatory
Prejudiced
Presumptuous
Pretentious
Prim
Procrastinating
Provocative
Puritanical
Quirky
Reactionary
Reactive
Regimental
Regretful
Repentant
Repressed
Resentful
Ridiculous
Rigid
Ritualistic
Ruined
Sadistic
Sanctimonious
Scheming
Scornful
Secretive
Sedentary
Selfish
Self-indulgent
Shallow
Shortsighted
Sloppy
Slow
Sly
Small-thinking
Softheaded
Sordid
Steely
Stiff
Stupid
Submissive
Superficial
Superstitious
Suspicious
Tactless
Tasteless
Tense
Thievish
Thoughtless
Timid
Transparent
Treacherous
Trendy
Troublesome
Unappreciative
Uncaring
Uncharitable
Unconvincing
Uncooperative
Uncreative
Uncritical
Unctuous
Undisciplined
Unfriendly
Ungrateful
Unhealthy
Unimaginative
Unimpressive
Unlovable
Unpolished
Unprincipled
Unrealistic
Unreflective
Unreliable
Unrestrained
Unstable
Vacuous
Vague
Venomous
Vindictive
Vulnerable
Weak
Willful

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How will you use these personality traits?

Now that you've reviewed this list of personality traits, do you better understand your own personality?

Are you able to recognize both positive and negative traits and how they affect your life, relationships, and career success?

You can use your new knowledge of your personality traits to your advantage in the following ways:

  • You'll be more able to understand other people and why they behave as they do.
  • You'll better understand your own likes and dislikes and why you have them.
  • You'll know how to build on your strengths and manage your weaknesses.
  • You'll have more awareness of the type of career that is best suited to your personality.

Take the time to consider your personality traits and what they mean for you and your happiness in life.

Even small changes that support these traits can make a big difference in your well-being.

15 thoughts on “List Of 600 Personality Traits”

  1. Thanks for a great post. I had no idea there were many different types. I always wondered why I never seem to fit in one group but now I understand why. They are so many positive, negative and neutrals that I am never completely cover all that I am. This will help me to more understand why I behave the way I do and feel. I will constantly refer to this list.

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  2. This list is AWESOME!! It is great to see that someone compiled this thorough of a list. I am passionate about studying fragmentation\shadow work so looking at how we project what we wrte yaught was negative off ourselvescan onto others. I am looking at how all traits are possible aspects of the wholeness of being human. So that means that there are no truly negative traits. Only our own judgments from our past experience. If one can embrace all of these traits without judgment then we can learn to be unconditionally loving to our own selves. And since we are no longer fragmented into believing that some traits are good and some are bad we can also be unconditionally loving with others. Thank you so much for this list!

  3. This helped me a lot to finish my project and this helps me to figure what I am and what I can do. 🙂

  4. This list has one positive list and three negative lists, which include negatives like cute, effeminate, whimsical, folksy, quiet, and trendy. Apparently I’m a really shitty person. <3

  5. I just Love this list!! It helped me a lot on making personalities for my characters in my game I am hoping to make a reality. I really appreciate it! <3

  6. Useful list, but sexist. If “masculine” is a positive trait, “feminine” should be listed as a positive trait as well.

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