character _noun

1-) a person in a book, play, film, etc.

ADJECTIVES & NOUNS

main, central, leading 
・Alec is the central character in the play.

minor, supporting 
・Two of the minor characters get killed.

male, female 
・He is the most sympathetic male character in the book.

television, movie, cartoon 
・Who’s your favourite television character?

comic, tragic 
・Homer Simpson is a great comic character.

fictional, fictitious 
・People sometimes forget that television characters are fictional.

believable, convincing 
・The characters were totally convincing.

memorable
・The extraordinary Mrs Jewkes is the novel’s most memorable character.

sympathetic 
・In the book, Jeff isn’t a sympathetic character.

interesting
・For me, the nurse is the most interesting character.

CHARACTER + NOUN
development 
・I thought the plot was boring and there wasn’t much character development.

VERBS

play 
・I wanted to play the character of Danny.

create 
・He created several memorable characters.

portray 
・The main characters are brilliantly portrayed.

develop 
・The movie didn’t develop his character as well as the book did.

2-) the qualities which make someone a particular kind of person

ADJECTIVES

strong 
・You need brains and a strong character to be a leader.

true
・She is unaware of his true character.

NOUNS

trait 
・Your greatest character trait is your honesty.

flaw 
・Few people have no character flaws at all.

PHRASES

be in character/out of character 
・His unkindness on that occasion was entirely out of character.

a side of sb’s character 
・He had revealed a side of his character I hadn’t seen before.