Roget’s Thesaurus 1962

Below are subject-highlighted Roget words relative to positive and negative human qualities or character development. Words were grouped on obvious/majority number of sub-synonyms leaning toward positive or negative.

Negative (These 87 qualities and tendencies would produce a rather flawed, negative person or negative conflicts.)

absence
accusation
affectation
asceticism
attack
avoidance
badness
blindness
boasting
changeableness
cheapness
cold
concealment
contempt
cowardice
death
debt
deception
dejection
depression
descent
destruction
deterioration
detraction
difficulty
disagreement
disapprobation
discontent
discourtesy
disjunction
disobedience
disorder
disrepute
disrespect
doubt
error
evil
failure
falsehood
fear
guilt
hate
hindrance
idolatry
ignorance
illegality
imperfection
impiety
imprecation
improbity
impurity
inactivity
indifference
ingratitude
injustice
insanity
insolence
insubstantiality
irascibility
killing
limit
loquacity
malevolence
misjudgement
narrowness
negation
neglect
nullification
opposition
ostentation
pain
parsimony
punishment
rashness
resentment
retaliation
ridicule
selfishness
servility
severity
stealing
unskillfulness
uselessness
vanity
violence
vulgarity
waste

Positive (On the other hand, these 77 words are qualities or values which appear to produce positive behaviors, growth, and character development.)

activity
affirmation
agreement
aid
approbation
arrangement
ascent
assent
atonement
attention
beauty
benevolence
breadth
care
cheerfulness
cleanness
coherence
communication
completion
compromise
cooperation
courage
courtesy
curiosity
direction
durability
duty
economy
elegance
endearment
facility
forgiveness
freedom
friend
giving
good, goodness
gratitude
greatness
hope
imagination
improvement
innocence
intellect
intelligence
justice
knowledge
life
light
love
moderation
motion
pacification
penitence
pleasure
preservation
probity
reasoning
rejoicing
respect
restoration
sanity
sensibility
sociality
stability
sufficiency
success
teaching
thought
truth
undertaking
vindication
virtue
vision
whole
wit
wonder
youth

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