Describing Wordsfor Adage

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Here are some adjectives for adage: ancient outworn, vulgar but correct, ancient and somewhat vulgar, solemn and totally false, well-worn and excellent, true and very oft-quoted, oft-quoted popular, old and most true, threadbare and detestable, vulgar but not unwise, well-worn but true, worn-out and dangerous, antiquated and vulgar, fairly analogous, true thine, stupidly well-known, well-known psychiatric, vulgar midwestern, unhappy undergraduate, pervasive southern, old and coarse, ancient juridical, trite and common, familiar old-fashioned, pithy old, stupid military, incomprehensible military, trite and hackneyed, rural and remote, ancient hermetic. You can get the definitions of these adage adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to adage (and find more here).

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Words to Describe adage

Below is a list of describing words for adage. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe adage:

ancient outworn vulgar but correct ancient and somewhat vulgar solemn and totally false well-worn and excellent true and very oft-quoted oft-quoted popular old and most true threadbare and detestable vulgar but not unwise well-worn but true worn-out and dangerous antiquated and vulgar fairly analogous true thine stupidly well-known well-known psychiatric vulgar midwestern unhappy undergraduate pervasive southern old and coarse ancient juridical
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trite and common familiar old-fashioned pithy old stupid military incomprehensible military trite and hackneyed rural and remote ancient hermetic old geological old empirical old rabbinical cynical old old, outmoded true classic certain danish old ethical old and oft-repeated useful old truthful old old and true trite old modern jewish common spanish somewhat vulgar old cromwellian old sicilian less true old and well-worn totally false oft-quoted old and beautiful troublesome old famous professional ancient chinese well-known local vulgar old stale old old chinese old medical common domestic outworn terrible old old human true old trite strong old ancient french sillier old irish old italian old and well-known wise old comfortable old oft-repeated other legal double-edged old worn-out scriptural other old ageless good, old vulgar rabbinical old military excellent old tiresome old good old well-worn biblical quaint old hackneyed old german more attractive old french hermetic outmoded juridical popular familiar old bittersweet time-honored cromwellian age-old stupid old quaint little well-known sarcastic geological fallacious pithy impious sardonic midwestern culinary satanic venerable analogous familiar disdainful skeptical proverbial asiatic empirical old familiar common chinese naive imperative timeless centuries-old sicilian unwise syrian undergraduate ancient psychiatric french wise expressive pregnant favorite worn-out threadbare rustic excellent irrepressible pernicious amusing spanish wholesome cynical classic ould serviceable detestable italian antiquated tribal ethical dangerous true irish scholastic oldest current merciless danish jewish african prudent fiendish agricultural shaggy legal correct solemn mediaeval attractive austrian poetic picturesque classical military elegant thine striking rural famous false unpleasant convenient mexican old vigorous orthodox fearful safe german competent medical domestic remote accurate gigantic western useful local coarse facile universal native crimson old-fashioned moral stupid international similar human mortal southern different simple antique british special further original empty next professional older national beautiful golden single general fine poor good certain

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Words to Describe adage

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "adage" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "adage" are: ancient outworn, vulgar but correct, ancient and somewhat vulgar, solemn and totally false, and well-worn and excellent. There are 237 other words to describe adage listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe adage suits your needs.

If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, "adage" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many adage adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is adage?

Describing Words

The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!

Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.

Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).

The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.

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