4. Building, figure and bearing

1. Build (frame)

2. Carriage (bearing, poise)

• delicate build (delicately-built)

• heavy build (heavily-built)

• medium build

• powerful build

• solid build

• spare frame

• strong build

• well-build

• built like a barrel*

• erect bearing

• upright bearing

• stooping bearing

• queenly carriage

* the phrases marked with a star are usually used in conversation about a person who isn’t there. They might be considered offensive if overheard by the person described or their family and friends.

3. Stature (height, size)

• a giant

• an Amazon

• high (in height)

• lanky

• tall

• tallish

• middle-sized

• of medium/average height (size)

• above average height

• below average height

• on the short side

• short

• tiny

• diminutive stature

• a midget

• knee-high to a grasshopper/an ant

3. Chest

4. Constitution

• broad chest (broad-chested)

• hollow chest

• frail (delicate) constitution

• strong (vigorous) c.

• weak (poor) c.

3. Figure

• bent figure

• corpulent

• fat figure

• graceful figure

• lean figure (mostly about men)

• muscular

• neat figure

• obese*

• overweight

• paunchy figure (with a paunch)

• plump figure

• petite figure

• puny-looking*

• skinny*

• like a pipe cleaner*

• like a lamp-post*

• slender (slim) figure

• slight figure

• squat

• stocky figure

• stout figure

• superb figure

• thin

• well-fed figure

• well-made figure

3. Gait

4. Step

• halting gait (to walk with a halt)

• heavy gait

• light gait

• limping gait (lameness)

• shuffling gait

• stooping gait (to walk with a stoop)

• swaggering gait

• swaying (rolling) g.

• firm steps

• footsteps

• heavy steps

• light steps

• rapid steps (with a rapid step)

• slow steps (with a slow step)

• stride

3. Shoulders

• broad shoulders (broad-shouldered)

• narrow shouldered

• round shoulders

• to shrug one’s s.

• sloping shoulders

5. Manners voice and smile

1. Manners

2. Smile

• good manners

• to have no manners

• quiet manners

• refined manners

• bright smile

• broad smile

• charming smile

• cunning smile

• enigmatic smile

• engaging smile

• faint smile

• happy smile

• ironical smile

• pleasant smile

• pleased smile

• sad smile

• strained smile

• sweet smile

• to wear a smile

• wining smile

• wry smile

• grin

• to grin

• to be all smiles

3. Voice

• at the top of one’s voice

• clear (ringing) voice

• deep voice

• to drop one’s voice

• high-pitched voice

• hoarse voice

• in bad voice

• in good voice

• loud voice (loud-voiced)

• low voice

• pleasant voice

• to raise one’s voice

• shrill voice

• soft voice

• to strain one’s voice

• sweet voice

• thin voice

• toneless voice

• weak (feeble) voice

• in a whisper

• to whisper