As indicated below, there are several types of general descriptive adjective, which often occur in a certain order.

However, the order of different types of general descriptive adjective is more flexible than the order of other types of attributive adjective. Usual Order of Attributive Adjectives

1) Certain determiners such as all, both and half 2) Determiners including the articles a, and And the; Possessive adjectives e.g. my, his, her, our and their; Demonstrative adjectives e.g. that, these, this, and those; and Certain other determiners such as another, any, each, either,
Enough, every, neither, no, some, what and which 3) Cardinal numbers e.g. one, two, three; and

Certain other determiners such as few, many and several 4) Determiners such as fewer, fewest, least, less, more and most 5) General descriptive adjectives, often in the following order: a) Adjectives indicating size e.g. large, long, narrow b) Adjectives indicating weight e.g. heavy, light c) Participles and other adjectives e.g. clever, excited, interesting d) Adjectives indicating temperature e.g. cold, hot, warm e) Adjectives indicating humidity e.g. dry, damp, wet f) Adjectives indicating age e.g. new, six-month-old, young g) Adjectives indicating shape e.g. barrel-shaped, round, square 6) Adjectives indicating color e.g. blue, grey, white 7) Adjectives indicating materials e.g. cloth, leather, metal 8) Proper adjectives e.g. American, Victorian 9) Defining adjectives, usually indicating purpose, method of operation, location,
time or categories of people ii. General descriptive adjectives c) Participles and other general descriptive adjectives which do not fall into any of the other categories usually follow adjectives indicating size and weight, and precede other types of attributive adjective. In the following examples, the adjective alert, and the participles twittering and excited are underlined. e.g. two large, alert black cats eleven tiny, twittering birds many excited children [EX: an old, curved stick; a curved, old stick]

d) to g) The order of adjectives indicating temperature, humidity, age and shape is not as predictable as the order of other attributive adjectives. For instance, adjectives indicating temperature occur sometimes before and sometimes after general descriptive adjectives such as clear and hard. e.g. clear, cold water cold, hard ice It should be noted that the position of attributive adjectives indicating age may be altered to change the emphasis. e.g. a new, efficient method an efficient, new method In the first example, the adjective new is emphasized. In the second example, the adjective efficient is emphasized.