Learn some compound adjectives describing a character

I'm going to touch on some compound adjectives for personalities. If you don't know what a compound adjective is, here is a short definition for it: A compound adjective is formed when two or more adjectives are joined together to modify the same noun. These terms should be hyphenated to avoid confusion or ambiguity. And to emphasize the importance of hyphenating some compound adjectives, take a look at these two examples:

I saw a man-eating alligator.
I saw a man eating alligator.

The first sentence has a compound adjective and it helps us understand that there is a specific kind of alligator: the one that eats men. The second sentence, on the other hand, makes it sound like the man is eating an alligator.

But back to compound adjectives describing a character, here is the first example: strong-willed. If you're strong-willed, you are a very determined person and even if people disagree with you, you will still behave in a particular way. If that's your case, people may even call you stubborn because you show dogged determination not to change your attitude or position on something, especially in spite of good arguments or reasons to do so. And if you become angry for that, maybe that will lead people to call you bad-tempered too, which is a character description for people who lose their temper very easily.

One of these days, I witnessed an argument at the hospital which led to discrimination. As a way to calm the victim down, someone told her not to mind the abuser. He was narrow-minded after all. But why did they call him that? Because during the argument, he had the hardest time accepting or even just respecting ideas or ways of behaving that were different from his own (the opposite of someone like that is an open-minded person). Unlike him, she didn't have much trouble keeping her cool. She was well known for being an easy-going person, which opposed to a bad-tempered person, does not easily get upset or worried. Maybe we could also call her level-headed, because in a very bad situation she was able to make sensible decisions and remain calm.

The argument wasn't too loud but loud enough to call people's attention. Even so, I believe some people were absent-minded and never noticed any tension. I call them absent-minded because that's how we can describe someone having or showing a habitually forgetful or inattentive disposition. If you tend to forget things very easily and never pick up  on anything around you, you're also an absent-minded.

And that's all for now guys. Talk to you next time!!!