Brand Characteristics: List of 300 Personality Traits for your Brand
March 12, 2021Brand characteristics or personality traits are the core values that describe your business. It includes a set of attributes that are unique and consistent in entire branding and marketing strategies. Choosing the right personality traits is the first step to create a good brand positioning.
Find your brand in the list below:
A-C Characteristics
Active: Tending to move around often, full of enegy
Adventurous: Willing to take risks, likes new adventures & experiences
Affable: Easy to talk to; friendly; pleasant
Affectionate: Showing affection; tender; loving
Afraid: Filled with fear, fearful
Ambitious: Eager to succeed; full of desire
Amiable: Friendly; good-natured
Angry: Feeling or showing anger
Animated: Lively; moving in a energetic, lifelike way
Annoying – Troublesome or irritating
Anxious: Uneasy, worried
Argumentative: Tends to argue or likes to argue
Arrogant: Having or showing lots of pride in oneself
Astonished: Filled with wonder or a feeling of amazement
Attentive: Alert and shows careful attention to others
Babyish – Like a child or baby
Bewildered: To be surprised or confused
Blasé: Uninterested or unexcited
Boorish: Crude, rude and offensive
Bore: To be an uninteresting person or thing
Bossy: Like to boss or order others around
Brave: Having or showing courage
Brilliant: Full of light, shining brightly, extremely intelligent
Busy: Always working or active
Calm: Peaceful, quiet and doesn’t get excited often
Candid: Direct and frank, straightforward – will openly say one opinion
Capable: Having ability or capability to do something well
Careful: Prudent & showing thought or attention
Caustic: Very sarcastic personality
Cautious: Watchful or careful of possible danger
Charismatic: Showing a special ability to lead people, win people’s devotion
Charming: Delightful, attractive, pleasing person
Cheerful: In good spirits; happy; bright
Childish: Immature, foolish or silly
Clever: Able to learn and think quickly
Clumsy: Awkward; not able to move gracefully, carefully
Coarse: Rude, often using vulgar or offensive language
Cold-Hearted: Lacking or not having sympathy for others
Compassionate: Showing sympathy and concern for others
Complacent: Satisfied with ones own success, not ready for trouble or danger
Conceited: Having or showing a high opinion about oneself (a bragger)
Concerned: Worried; anxious; troubled
Confident: Certain in one’s worth, abilities & qualities
Confused: Bewildered, perplexed, mixed up
Conscientious: Careful and thinks about what is right or proper
Considerate: Thinks about other people’s feelings
Cooperative: Complying readily with requests to achieve mutual ends
Courageous: Showing courage or bravery
Cowardly: Lacking or not having courage
Crafty: Cunning, deceitful, good at lying
Critical: Tends to judge severely and find faults or problems often
Cross: Showing anger or irritation
Cruel: Likes to cause pain or suffering
Cultured: Well-educated
Curious: Showing a strong desire to know or learn new things
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D-F Characteristics
Dangerous: Able or likely to cause harm
Daring: Willing to take risks
Dauntless: Brave and without fear
Decisive: Able to make firm decisions and settle things quickly
Dependable: Being trustworthy and reliable
Determined: Showing firmness of purpose
Diligent: Regular, the constant effort towards a goal
Discouraged: Less hopeful, less confident
Discreet: Able to control & be careful about what one says or behaves
Dishonest: Tends to lie, lacks honesty or integrity
Dismayed: Filled with anxiety, fear or dread.
Disparaging: Speaks in an insulting or disrespectful way to others
Dissatisfied: Feeling lack of satisfaction or being displeased
Distressed: To feel or having pain or suffering of the mind or body
Disrespectful: Rude, showing lack of respect of courtesy to others
Domineering: Often controls or rules over others in an arrogant way
Doubtful: Suspicious or causing doubt
Dutiful: Consicientiously or obediently fulfilling one’s duty
Eager: Showing keen interest or desire
Easygoing: Relaxed, not hurried, carefree
Effervescent: Lively, in high spirits, bubbly
Efficient: Able to do things using the least amount of effort or materials
Eloquent: Skillful in speech and ability to persuade people
Embarrassed: Self-conscious or insecure
Encouraging: Giving hope, confidence and courage
Energetic: Showing or involving great activity or vitality
Enthusiastic: Showing intense & eager enjoyment, interest or approval
Exacting: Making lots of demands, asking for lots of attention or effort
Excited: Showing lots of emotion
Expert: Having a lot of knowledge, skill or experience with a field or activity
Exuberant: Full of happiness and vitality
Facetious: Humorous but often silly or inappropriate
Fair: Acting according to the rules
Faithful: Remaining loyal & steadfast
Fanciful: Led by imagination rather than reality
Fearless: Courageous in the face of challenges or fear
Fidgety: Restless; moving around often, feeling ill at ease
Fierce: Showing violence, aggression, anger or intensity
Finicky: Tends to concentrate on small, unimportant little details
Foolish: Feeling or looking ridiculous because of one’s actions or speech.
Formal: Doing things in an organized way based on the rules
Fortunate: Enjoying or having good luck
Frank: Open, honest & strongly showing true feelings and opinions to others
Frustrated: Feeling unsatisfied or irritated
Funny: Causing people to laugh
G-H Characteristics
Garrulous: Talking too much; pointlessly talking, using too many words
Generous: Ready to give more than necessary or expect
Gentle: Kind, using very little violence
Giddy: Acting without thinking, behaving foolishly
Giving: Generous to people in need
Glamorous: Dressed with high fashion and in a stylish way
Gloomy: Dark, sad and hopeless
Glum: Sad, melancholic, and miserable in a quiet way
Grateful: Feeling or having a desire or reason to thank somebody
Greedy: Having a strong desire to have more of something money, food, etc.
Gregarious: Very friendly and likes to be with many groups of people
Grouchy: Bad-tempered
Grumpy: Easy to make irritated and cranky
Gullible: Tends to trust and believe people too easily and so gets easily tricked
Happy: Feeling or showing pleasure, joy
Hardy: Strong and able to endure or stand difficult situations
Harried: Bothered or agitated
Happy: Feeling or showing pleasure, joy
Hardy: Strong and able to endure or stand difficult situations
Harried: Bothered or agitated
Harsh: Cruel or unkind
Hateful: Horrible and detestable
Haughty: Proud
Helpful: Ready to lend a hand to people
Honest: Free of deceit, truthful & sincere
Hopeful: Feeling or inspiring optimism about a future event
Hopeless: Feeling or showing no hope OR unable to succeed or improve
Hospitable: Friendly, welcoming and kind to guests or strangers
Humble: Not showing a high opinion about one’s achievements or abilities
Humorous: Able to make people laugh
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I-K Characterictics
Ignorant: Not having knowledge or education about a subject
IIl-bred: Rude or impolite; not having good manners because of family
Imaginative: Good at thinking of new ideas and seeing things that haven’t been seen
Immaculate: Showing perfection without any mistakes or faults
Immature: Young and lacking wisdom
Impartial: Having no interest- not favoring one side or person more than another
Impatient: Eager to something right away or immediately
Impolite: Not showing proper manners or respect
Impudent: Showing lack of respect, rude
Impulsive: Acting on sudden desires or urges without thinking about it first
Inactive: Taking no action, not being involved in an activity
Independent: Able to stand on their own; not controlled by anyone else
Inimitable: Impossible to imitate, unique
Innocent: Pure; more trusting or naïve than most people
Insipid: Dull and without flavor; Not very lively
Jealous: Feeling unhappy or bitter about someone else’s luck or success
Insistent: Constantly asking for something or for attention
Insolent: Showing violence or lack of respect in speech or behavior
Intelligent: Having intelligence, very smart, gifted
Intrepid: Fearless and constant when pursuing or aiming for something
Insistent: Constantly asking for something or for attention
Insolent: Showing violence or lack of respect in speech or behavior
Intelligent: Having intelligence, very smart, gifted
Intrepid: Fearless and constant when pursuing or aiming for something
Jovial: Cheerful and good-humored
Keen: Sharp; quick to understand things
L-O Personality traits
Lackadaisical: Careless, not having much energy, not giving much effort
Languid: Lifeless; Without energy: slow-moving
Lazy: Not willing to do any work or make any effort
Lively: Full of life & energy, active and outgoing
Logical: Acting based on clear, sound reasoning
Lonely: Feeling alone and sad; lacking friends or encouragement
Zany: Talking a lot
Loving: Showing affection; doing things with care and joy
Loyal: Staying faithful to country, people, friends, or a belief
Malicious: Wanting to cause harm or pain to others
Mature: Grown-up; acting, thinking, speaking like a fully adult person
Mean: Unkind, cruel and bad-tempered
Meticulous: Very careful and detailed
Mischievous: Acting in a troublesome way but only for fun, not to cause harm
Moody: Hard to predict; changing the mood from cheerful to angry unexpectedly
Mysterious: Difficult understand or explain; Strange
Naive: Showing a simple and trusting view of the world and human nature
Negligent: Being careless or irresponsible
Nervous: Easily worried, frightened or stressed
Noisy: Making loud sounds often
Obedient: Able to carry out orders from someone in authority without question
Obliging: Willing to help others or do favors for people
Obnoxious: Very unpleasant or offensive to others
Obsequious: Eager to please people and listen/obey all instructions
Observant: Paying careful attention to everything
Obstinate: Stubborn; Unwilling to change; Choosing not to agree with others
Opinionated: Always ready to express opinions, not listening to others opinions
Optimistic: Hopeful about the future
P-R Characteristics
Peaceful: Quiet, calm and nonviolent
Pensive: Thoughtful and serious
Persevering: Adamant- not giving up easily
Persistent: Continuing to try even if there are problems or difficulties
Pessimistic: Feeling negative distrustful
Petulant: Snappy and irritable; having a bad temper
Picky: Hard to please or satisfy
Pleasant: Enjoyable to be around; friendly
Polite: Showing good manner
Pompous: Snobby; thinking that one is very important
Popular: Liked and accepted by many people
Positive: Confidence; focused on the good rather than the bad
Precise: Very careful about small details: very accurate
Proud: Feeling pleased and satisfied about doing something well
Punctilious: Very careful and showing correct behavior
Puzzled: Surprised; confused or perplexed
Quarrelsome: Tending or wanting to argue with people
Quick: Moving or doing things fast and sharply
Quiet: Making little or no noise in a calm way
Rambunctious: Very active, noisy and hard to control
Rash: Acting without thinking
Rational: Able to think clearly and based on reason
Refined: Being very polite
Reliable: Able to be trusted; very dependable
Religious: Believing or following the practices of a religion
Respectful: Showing respect; polite
Responsible: Able to be counted on and trusted
Responsive: Reacting quickly to something
Restless: Constantly moving; unable to be still
Retiring: Shy
Risk-taking: Adventurous; daring
Rowdy: Noisy and disorderly
Rude: Impolite with bad manners
Safe: Able to trust or rely on
Sarcastic: Mocking or making fun of something or somebody
Satisfied: Happy and pleased with what has happened or how things are
Saucy: Showing a lack of respect; cheerful
Stingy: Not generous; not wanting to give or spend money
Scared: Full of worry or fear
Scornful: Feeling great anger for somebody or something
Secretive: Tending to keep information secret
Secure: Safe; Not feeling fear or doubt
Sedate: Lacking any sense of hurry or urgency
Self- centered: Selfish and only caring about oneself
Selfish: Self-centered thinking only about personal needs or wishes
Self-reliant: Independent and not needing the help of others
Sensitive: Easily hurt or irritated physically or emotionally
Shrewd: Able to make decisions about business or politics
Silly: Stupid, lacking any common sense
Sincere: Honest and acting based on what is really deeply felt, genuine
Skillful: Clever and having a special ability
Slovenly: Sloppy, careless, not concerned about personal cleanliness
Sly: Crafty; not honest
Smart: Showing intelligence and mental alertness
Snobbish: Arrogant; acting superior to others
Sociable: Friendly, likes to be around the company of other people
Stolid: Showing little or no emotion
Strange: Odd, out of the ordinary
Strict: Maintains discipline and makes sure rules are followed
Stubborn: Difficult to deal with, talk to or reason with
Studious: Careful, serious, likes to study
Suave: Charming; smooth; polite to people in a dishonest way
Sullen: Showing bad temper; refusing to talk
Supercilious: Full of arrogance, pride and disrespect for others
Superstitious: Believing in good or bad luck, the supernatural
Surly: Unfriendly, rude and a little threatening
Suspicious: Usually believes that something is wrong
Sweet: Lovable and kind
T-Z Personality traits
Taciturn: Often silent, doesn’t like to communicate often
Tactful: Knowing ways to avoid offending or upsetting people
Talented: Being gifted and able to do something well
Talkative: Talking a lot and for a long time; chatty
Tasteful: Having good taste
Tenacious: Sticking to any decision, plan or opinion without doubt
Tense: Stressed out; not very relaxed
Thoughtful: Treating people in a kind way, thinking about their needs
Thoughtless: Showing lack of consideration for people; careless
Thrifty: Uses resources carefully and not watsefully
Timid: Shows lack of courage or confidence; a nervous person
Tolerant: Able to put up with difficult situations; open-minded
Touchy: Easy to become angry or upset
Trusting: Gullible; Tending to trust people easily
Trustworthy: Able to trust; dependable; responsible
Uncouth: Clumsy, behaving in an ungraceful way
Uncontrolled: Wild
Unfriendly: Acting cold or mean towards people
Unruly: Rowdy, hard to control or discipline
Unscrupulous: Dishonest
Unselfish: Putting the needs or wishes of others before one’s own
Upset: Unhappy; emotionally stressed because of something
Useful: Able to help or be a benefit to something or someone
Versatile: Able to learn quickly or get used to change easily
Vivacious: Lively, showing high spirits
Vulgar: Having no manners, acting in a rude or offensive way
Warm: Showing kindness and friendliness
Weak: Not physically, mentally, or emotionally strong
Whimsical: Having a great imagination; acting in hard to predict ways
Wise: Showing experience, knowledge, and good judgment
Witty: Able to use words in a clever and amusing way
Zany: Acting in an entertaining or unusual way
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