Negative Character Traits | Bad Personality Characteristics

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Negative character traits for bad or negative characters. The list below is great for writers looking for negative personality traits or bad characteristics to write stories, or in character sketches or creation!

List Of Bad Or Negative Character Traits
  • Abrasive
  • Abrupt
  • Absent-minded
  • Afraid
  • aggressive
  • Agonizing
  • Aimless
  • Airy
  • Aloof
  • Amoral
  • Angry
  • Annoyed
  • Anxious
  • Apathetic
  • Arbitrary
  • Argumentative
  • Arrogant
  • Artificial
  • Asocial
  • Assertive
  • Astigmatic
  • Awkward
  • Babyish
  • Bad
  • Barbaric
  • belligerent
  • Bewildered
  • big-headed
  • bitchy
  • Bizarre
  • Bland
  • Blase
  • Blunt
  • boastful
  • Boisterous
  • bone-idle
  • Bored
  • boring
  • Bossy
  • Brittle
  • Brutal
  • Brutish
  • Calculating
  • Callous
  • Cantankerous
  • Carefree
  • Careless
  • Cautious
  • changeable
  • Charmless
  • Childish
  • clinging
  • Clingy
  • Clumsy
  • Coarse
  • Cold
  • Cold-hearted
  • Colorless
  • Complacent
  • Complaintive
  • Compulsive
  • Conceited
  • Condemnatory
  • Conformist
  • Confused
  • conservative
  • Contemptible
  • Conventional
  • Cowardly
  • Crafty
  • Crass
  • Crazy
  • Criminal
  • Critical
  • Cross
  • Crude
  • Cruel
  • Cunning
  • Cynical
  • Dangerous
  • Daring
  • Dark
  • Dauntless
  • Decadent
  • Deceitful
  • Deceptive
  • Delicate
  • Demanding
  • Dependent
  • Depressed
  • Desperate
  • Destructive
  • detached
  • Devious
  • Difficult
  • Dirty
  • Disconcerting
  • Discontented
  • Discouraged
  • Discouraging
  • Discourteous
  • Dishonest
  • Disloyal
  • Disobedient
  • Disorderly
  • Disorganized
  • Disputatious
  • Disrespectful
  • Disruptive
  • Dissolute
  • Dissonant
  • Distractible
  • Disturbing
  • Dogmatic
  • Domineering
  • Doubtful
  • Dull
  • Easily Discouraged
  • Egocentric
  • Embarrassed
  • Enervated
  • Envious
  • Erratic
  • Escapist
  • Evil
  • Excitable
  • Expedient
  • Extravagant
  • Extreme
  • Facetious
  • Faithless
  • False
  • Fanatical
  • Fanciful
  • Fatalistic
  • Fawning
  • Fearful
  • Fearless
  • Feisty
  • Fickle
  • Fiery
  • Finicky
  • Fixed
  • Flamboyant
  • flirtatious
  • foolhardy
  • Foolish
  • Forceful
  • Forgetful
  • Foul
  • Fraudulent
  • Frightened
  • Frightening
  • Frivolous
  • Frustrated
  • Fussy
  • Gloomy
  • Glum
  • Graceless
  • Grand
  • Greedy
  • Grim
  • Grouchy
  • Grumpy
  • Guilty
  • Gullible
  • Harsh
  • Hateful
  • Haughty
  • Hedonistic
  • Hesitant
  • Hidebound
  • High-handed
  • Hopeless
  • Hostile
  • Hot-tempered
  • Ignorant
  • Ill-bred
  • Imitative
  • Immature
  • Impatient
  • Impolite
  • Impractical
  • Imprudent
  • Impulsive
  • Inactive
  • Inconsiderate
  • Inconsistent
  • Incurious
  • Indecisive
  • indiscreet
  • Indulgent
  • Inert
  • Inflexible
  • Inhibited
  • Insecure
  • Insensitive
  • Insincere
  • Insulting
  • interfering
  • Intolerant
  • Irascible
  • Irrational
  • Irresponsible
  • Irritable
  • Jealous
  • Jovial
  • Lackadaisical
  • Lazy
  • Liar
  • Libidinous
  • Lonely
  • Loquacious
  • Loud
  • Machiavellian
  • Malicious
  • Manipulative
  • Mannered
  • Mannerless
  • Materialistic
  • Mawkish
  • Mealymouthed
  • Mean
  • Mechanical
  • Meddlesome
  • Meek
  • Melancholic
  • Melodramatic
  • Meretricious
  • Messy
  • Mischievous
  • Miserable
  • Miserly
  • Misguided
  • Mistaken
  • Money-minded
  • Monstrous
  • Moody
  • Morbid
  • Muddle-headed
  • Murderous
  • Mysterious
  • Naive
  • Narcissistic
  • Narrow
  • Narrow-minded
  • nasty
  • Natty
  • Naughty
  • Negative
  • Negativistic
  • Neglectful
  • Nervous
  • Neurotic
  • Nihilistic
  • Noisy
  • Obnoxious
  • Obsessive
  • obstinate
  • Obvious
  • Odd
  • Offhand
  • One-dimensional
  • One-sided
  • Opinionated
  • Opportunistic
  • Oppressed
  • Outrageous
  • Over-imaginative
  • overcritical
  • overemotional
  • Paranoid
  • parsimonious
  • Passive
  • patronizing
  • Pedantic
  • Perverse
  • Pessimistic
  • Petty
  • Pharisaical
  • Phlegmatic
  • Picky
  • Plain
  • Plodding
  • Pompous
  • Poor
  • Possessive
  • Power-hungry
  • Predatory
  • Prejudiced
  • Presumptuous
  • Pretentious
  • Prim
  • Procrastinating
  • Profligate
  • Provocative
  • Pugnacious
  • Puritanical
  • pusillanimous
  • Quarrelsome
  • quick-tempered
  • Quirky
  • Reactionary
  • Reactive
  • Reckless
  • Regimental
  • Regretful
  • Repentant
  • Repressed
  • Repugnant
  • Repulsive
  • Resentful
  • Restless
  • Ridiculous
  • Rigid
  • Risk-taking
  • Ritualistic
  • Rowdy
  • Rude
  • Ruined
  • ruthless
  • Sad
  • Sadistic
  • Sanctimonious
  • Sarcastic
  • Scared
  • Scheming
  • Scornful
  • Secretive
  • Sedentary
  • self-centered
  • Self-Confident
  • Self-indulgent
  • Self-Indulging
  • Self-Pitying
  • Selfish
  • Shallow
  • Sharp
  • Shortsighted
  • Shy
  • Silly
  • Single-minded
  • Skeptical
  • Sloppy
  • Slow
  • Sly
  • Small-thinking
  • Sneaky
  • Snobbish
  • Soft-headed
  • Sordid
  • Spoiled
  • Steely
  • Stern
  • Stiff
  • stingy
  • Strange
  • Strict
  • Strong-willed
  • Stubborn
  • Stupid
  • Submissive
  • Superficial
  • Superstitious
  • Suspicious
  • Tactless
  • Tardy
  • Tasteless
  • Tense
  • Thievish
  • Thoughtless
  • Timid
  • Tireless
  • Touchy
  • Transparent
  • Treacherous
  • Trendy
  • Troublesome
  • truculent
  • Unappreciative
  • Uncaring
  • Uncharitable
  • Unconcerned
  • Unconvincing
  • Uncooperative
  • Uncoordinated
  • Uncreative
  • Uncritical
  • Unctuous
  • Undisciplined
  • Unemotional
  • Unforgiving
  • Unfriendly
  • Ungrateful
  • Unhappy
  • Unhealthy
  • Unimaginative
  • Unimpressive
  • Unkind
  • Unlovable
  • Unpolished
  • unpredictable
  • Unprincipled
  • Unrealistic
  • Unreflective
  • Unreliable
  • Unrestrained
  • Unself-critical
  • Unstable
  • untidy
  • untrustworthy
  • Upset
  • Vacant
  • Vacuous
  • Vague
  • vain
  • Venal
  • Vengeful
  • Venomous
  • Vindictive
  • Violent
  • vulgar
  • Vulnerable
  • Weak
  • Weak-willed
  • Well-meaning
  • Wicked
  • Wild
  • Willful
  • Wishful
  • Withdrawn
  • Worried
  • Wrong
  • Zany