Describing Wordsfor Appearance

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Here are some adjectives for appearance: awkward, ridiculous, singularly formidable, seedy, unshaven, delicate, frothy, suitably ominous, appropriately dingy, thick and robust, exquisite and menacing, ancient desolate, busy physical, almost pliable, decorative and festive, rather broken-backed, comfortable, unchanged, somehow bedraggled, rather competent and self-confident, rather competent, hairy and brutish, uncouth personal, normal dubious, uninspirational, shabby and even absurd, fat and sloppy, deceivingly innocent, marvellously deceptive, generally rumpled, yon curious, lumbering and clumsy, sudden and opportune, curiously striped. You can get the definitions of these appearance adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to appearance (and find more here).

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Words to Describe appearance

Below is a list of describing words for appearance. 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 appearance:

awkward, ridiculous singularly formidable seedy, unshaven delicate, frothy suitably ominous appropriately dingy thick and robust exquisite and menacing ancient desolate busy physical almost pliable decorative and festive rather broken-backed comfortable, unchanged somehow bedraggled rather competent and self-confident rather competent hairy and brutish uncouth personal normal dubious uninspirational shabby and even absurd fat and sloppy
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deceivingly innocent marvellously deceptive generally rumpled yon curious lumbering and clumsy sudden and opportune curiously striped decidedly ecclesiastical unsightly broad speedy and quick extremely picturesque and singular rigidly professional fine personal rather top-heavy faintly haggard oddly cocky rather strange and wonderful unified, somber frugal and sallow particularly frugal and sallow whole disordered harshly nordic recognizable, facial clean corporate fantastic and extraordinary brown and spotty government--personal haggard and wild orthodox metallic youthful, ageless peculiarly fuzzy unkempt and filthy gray warlike desolate and untidy unnatural and desolate customary shabby black and unpleasant nearby dumb peculiar hairy spectral and ominous comfortable, down-to-earth handsome and respectful advantageous personal heavy and gloomy pleasing and fertile sleek and complacent majestic and agreeable indifferent and calm shiny, specious egypt--personal wonderfully architectural antique, artless formidable and vigorous cheerful and gracious transcendental illusory artless and respectable new and well-kept woeful, poverty-stricken amazing and realistic ominous, grim own nonstandard peculiarly succulent startlingly artificial piquant and strange otherwise arthritic haggard, febrile generally rumpled and unkempt abrupt and utterly unexpected deceitful and baffling strange and lifelike engagingly boyish charming and archaic illusive nor mysterious curiously drunken uncharacteristically two-dimensional almost misty slick greasy washed-out and ridiculous oddly malignant odd and wintry same prevalent specially wretched livid spectral deceptively stubby abrupt, murderous somewhat plain and simple forlorn and disreputable peculiar and unattractive singularly naked and desolate picturesque and somewhat awful corrugated, muscular intellectually luminous prosperous and picturesque characteristic fibrous tranquil and smooth shaggy personal foreign and tropical uncommonly large and beautiful puffy or bloated heavy and cloudy timeworn but heroic thirteenth second silky, bright and fresh vigorous and large little and faint aforesaid visible jovial, snug delusively prosperous commonly doubtful general dilapidated somewhat dusty and forlorn sombre and antique decidedly nautical pasty, bloated generally forlorn less ramshackle insignificant personal generally unkempt streamlined and efficient current, disreputable topologically limited brief and topologically limited peculiarly dirty and loathsome dirty and loathsome more lopsided certain up-to-date peculiar, deceptive rather apoplectic feminine and even fragile prim and rather puny peculiarly lopsided dry and massive repulsive, sensual unusual and exotic exotic and splendid distinctive and readily identifiable initially peaceful decidedly somnolent purposefully wild robust and rubicund grotesque faceless bland, round-faced tawny, restless otherwise disheveled disturbingly strange generally sallow rakish and disheveled particularly rakish and disheveled general businesslike odd, crumpled clean and even stylish general washed-out bloodstained, disheveled curiously pregnant present haggard hulking, cartoonish striking, jagged repulsive and even frightening unexpectedly frightful and repulsive unexpectedly frightful peculiar speckled haggard and squalid uncouth and extraordinary sudden pantomimic peculiarly uncouth general genteel scanty and incidental unphrenological dry and languid curious striped somewhat bridal antiquated, unfashionable black and suspicious solemn or frigid awkward and unhappy effective and neat extremely monotonous and uninteresting decidedly economical shaggy and fierce tidy and respectable wrinkled and crazy sudden and contemporaneous unexpectedly refined peculiarly hazy and thoughtful hazy and thoughtful delicately unconcerned carrara--general antique and timeworn squalid and unhealthy aim--superficial ornamental aim--superficial sinewy or bony attractive and clean authority--personal unmistakably legal particularly restful extraordinary delicate picturesque or attractive brilliantly festive decent and neat ridiculously martial remarkably pleasing and picturesque bizarre and not unpicturesque arrival and personal wet and woebegone solitary and antique unconquerable and conscious irregular but noble attractively solid extremely gallant and splendid paltry and wretched strange and venerable regular and military singular and somewhat ridiculous squalid and uncomfortable peculiarly grave and sanctimonious grave and sanctimonious depraved, shameless flashy, striking majestic and truly appalling ruinous and sinister low, groggy generally chalky often simultaneous present inanimate scenic and altogether artificial unwashed, dirty modest and gregarious sodden and disagreeable indolent general wild and diminutive smart and aristocratic aggressively foreign particularly dingy uncommonly clean and decent extremely dilapidated and disagreeable dilapidated and disagreeable somewhat indigent <def>external fair external longest public particularly frugal senile and decrepit otherwise awesome elastic and happy deceptively frail general unkempt striking and most picturesque characteristic and fanciful oddly unfinished metallic, leathery generally bedraggled odd and obscene unscheduled public desperately limp pleasantly healthy strangely ethereal general utilitarian unexpectedly diminutive makeshift but permanent grim, grimy sleek, menacing modern, streamlined sombre, dull generally shabby unrealistic geometrical somehow civilized and pleasant singular and rather sinister ghastly bridal youthful and ethereal proverbially fine decent but poor frayed and charred remarkably sinister invitingly bleak disturbing infernal incongruously childlike faintly amphibious odd and scandalous unwholesome, outlandish soft, indefinite swank, expensive lanky, intense curiously unbalanced horribly alien and unnatural outwardly untidy barbarically splendid strangely wooden nauseatingly shaggy unkempt paramilitary unusually gallant and splendid brief, obligatory general seedy regular linear macabre, skeletal modest and genteel amiable and ornamental mild, amiable and ornamental fictitiously youthful correctly british always ethereal generally well-fed smoothly organic mysterious planetary remarkably youthful bleak and bizarre intelligent but erratic gory, warlike brown and totally opaque fine ground-glass motley sensuous neat and decent wrinkled and haggard peculiarly boyish jocosely stupid green and most delightful restless, watery fierce or wild well-bred, good fiery or luminous superior and significant beautiful and clean interesting and obese venerable and antique renewal and periodical curiously machiavellian and decadent curiously machiavellian needy, shabby awkward and wretched resplendent and most sublime majestic and yet gloomy usually gay and variegated pinkish-white, fleshy venerable and burlesque uncanny poisonous indescribably ridiculous particularly amiable and pleasant dreadfully delicate somewhat radial singularly comfortable characteristic wrinkled sacred and spontaneous unwelcome, puzzling slightly frail rickety, dirty wild and untidy aimless hour-long fleshy and inflamed indistinctly granular wretched and slipshod wild and uninviting strangely monstrous neat and ornamental sallow, morbid wild and tattered sombre, shady generally rough and rugged sudden and almost mysterious fleshy and apparently vigorous ghastly startling surprising monstrous dramatic and fictitious disagreeable livid extraordinary or subtle wondrous and puzzling fearfully black external distinctive ragged, uncanny uncouth and ominous opaque, creamy unnatural, cadaverous whitish or turgid youthful, natural fierce and chivalrous benevolent and festive flaccid or wrinkled excellent and very hopeful somewhat rude and wild stiff and elegant quite light-hearted furtive and crafty irregular and catastrophic disgusting, greasy brilliant and festal humble and forlorn extreme bilious naturally quaint dismal, weird pallid and impure constantly congested rather clerical serene and soft wrinkled or crumpled tremendous and triumphal general sumptuous ruddy, sandy spanish-oriental defiant exterior somewhat aerial snug, pleasant plaintively spiritual present threadbare last demoniacal unexpected but most opportune pallid and unnatural rather pallid and unnatural magnificent and unusual former sleek dark, flashy visible, personal plain and staid dirty and heavily laden festive and nuptial peculiarly festive and nuptial awkward ridiculous altogether queer and singular mysterious, spectral perilous and gloomy dilapidated, year-old crumpled and forlorn grotesque and never-to-be-forgotten generally troubled gloomy, vacant suitably happy suitably happy and ordinary happy and ordinary straight fusiform rich brownish decidedly eastern idyllic and refined constant subsequent stately external wholly undistinguished productions--personal natural productions--personal fresh, wide-awake strikingly bold and angry deceptively massive deplorable and disreputable variegated and shadowy undulating, diversified neat and even comfortable absolutely commonplace characteristic plump dark or variegated youthful and almost feminine barbarous and gothic well-known elastic remarkably bright and glossy formidable and bizarre often formidable and bizarre spuriously modern delightfully old-world uninviting and ludicrous disquietingly attractive fairest and most innocent possible phenomenal comical and wistful shabby or suspicious generally gross makeshift and temporary rusty, coppery desolate and most strange frightful, wild green and seedy loathsome and uncouth hideous, loathsome and uncouth singularly disdainful desolate unkempt outward beauteous particularly prosperous and picturesque heavy and unimpressive curiously unofficial comfortable, unique singular serpentine distinctly war-time wonderfully fashionable fantastic, elfin grotesquely dissimilar unwontedly tidy singular but handsome gloomy and smoky creamy or rich rustic and pleasing rather ragged and sorry sufficiently haughty and indignant sufficiently haughty slimy and greenish bulky, prosperous whitish and chalky smooth, after-dinner milky or opalescent somewhat rude and savage easy, greasy remarkably stern and sinister long-deferred public remarkably showy and handsome remarkably showy heavy and somewhat stern extensive, great rich arcaded jaded, bedraggled professional, business-like comfortable, informal surprising and mysterious dull and glassy dismally respectable usual mundane truly revolting same wood-grained soft, unformed yellow and dry often unkempt magnificent personal totally bedraggled truly medical neat and even handsome wild and haughty general disreputable mysterious and unwelcome last acrimonious singularly naked glorious mystic gaunt and extraordinary singular and antique remarkable morbid handsome and delicate otherwise grotesque grand and romantic delicious eighteenth-century ragged and sorry surprisingly grand dusty and forlorn general brilliant competent and self-confident naturally youthful vaguely humorous fierce and noble low and comfortable curiously unfocused peculiar velvety similarly human gloomy and mournful revolting personal faintly oriental barren and bleak monotonously aristocratic stocky, boyish overall dirty elegant and conservative amazing and ridiculous unreal and comical endearingly prim darkly magnetic festively decadent singularly menacing mind—unusual physical original, cute respectable and slightly boring piquant oriental elfin woodland high-velocity token fleshy, slack somewhat unripe rich and somewhat unripe bedraggled and feeble lively mischievous primitive aerodynamic sinewy and aggressive startlingly sinewy and aggressive startlingly sinewy unshaven, wild rather inflamed singularly youthful extremely miserable lean and ordinary cheerful and hapless otherwise decrepit comically disgusting eerily boyish permissive or accidental uncharacteristically barbaric distinctly cat-like otherwise doleful otherwise foppish generally disheveled depressingly normal genially murderous gloomy and uninviting faintly bavarian already fearsome bedroom-casual fun-loving, peaceful otherwise tasteful uncouth, incongruous eerie, one-dimensional sinister, off-balance frail and bookish curiously repellent neat, clean-cut wdf-loyal stiffly uncomfortable sinister nighttime contemptible, childish odd milled uniformly ferocious vaguely ridiculous permanently smudged gangling or gawky chaotically untidy uniformed or military normally monstrous less-than-robust physical graceful and uncommon slightly indistinct youthful and awkward particularly rakish certain tempestuous normal, sedate truly picturesque and romantic curious dappled almost baroque stubborn, dim-witted extraordinarily magnificent colourfully magnificent difficult, courageous morose and grim shabbily festive comfortably filthy attractive, competent and professional unutterably dumb ruggedly bizarre blessedly nondescript presentable but never new mundane and somewhat bedraggled granular and spongy strangely granular and spongy strangely granular seductive, earthy degraded and bedraggled final professional brief, unscheduled tough, full-strength excellent or even exquisite slightly dutch drab and undistinguished perfectly modest and charming suave and unruffled customary tanned unannounced late-night former silvery suspiciously feminine indecent public odd, rigid bleakly old-fashioned sometimes gregarious frightening and almost supernatural already feral tense and sour lazy, lean deceivingly sweet and innocent deceivingly sweet narrow insubstantial peculiar, misty widespread, tropical somewhat turkish velvety and well-kept practical and merry often bare and sterile pale and feminine shiny and smooth picturesque and warlike decidedly comical barest and most uninteresting shiny, slick dreary, tawdry noticeably neat sudden and heroical bare unfinished superior and venerable vulgar, repulsive slight cloudy good gouty rather peculiar and distinct beautiful or conspicuous effective and pleasing ribbed and striped exceedingly grand and picturesque sylvan and impenetrable incredibly depraved watchful and bold sneaky, watchful and bold remarkably singular splendid and cheerful healthy and lusty airily feminine personal and sartorial quaint and most picturesque occasional and inexplicable sylvan and beautiful reckless, unconcerned last full-bodied rather bleak and dismal amusingly impressive everlasting stagnant antique and impressive sorry, forlorn striking and various strange freckled transparent, waxy white or cloudy placid and even formal smart and modern solid and majestic peculiarly solid and majestic remarkably dark and foreign empty and featureless rather empty and featureless unusual and respectable next semi-occasional irregular honeycombed striking but unusual dreary, broken-down unpretentious but decent remarkable momentary unimportant, plebeian careless but expensive felicitous public semi-serial commonplace, black-and-white terrifically grand curiously drab still peaceful and safe comparatively pleasing distinctly phosphorescent slightly overdressed incompletely unified theatrical and romantic sufficiently strange and fantastic extraordinary and almost supernatural peculiar and almost magical slightest milky greasy, uninviting prevalent swollen unattractive and common sufficiently reputable venerable and patriarchal odd, speckled green or delicate youthful, green or delicate frequently grotesque and fanciful uninviting, withered gloomy unsettled empty, god-forsaken smug, suburban caen--cider--general unhealthy cadaverous disreputable and evil skill good realistic and life-like muddy deceitful extremely barbarous and repulsive rural and eminently beautiful dirty and wretched advantageous and uncommonly fine wretched and woeful handsome and military generous august otherwise handsome and graceful truly terrifying and horrible absolutely sudden animated and martial periodical and business-like rectangular and symmetrical awful but not unpicturesque --atmospherical delightfully dreary dull and ruinous inflamed and sanguineous handsomer personal disagreeable and lame french, last curious crumpled externally revolutionary uncouth and shapeless bleached and washed-out rough personal distinctly refined and intellectual distinctly refined curiously hybrid well-kept, decent glassy or transparent dingy and rusty black and somewhat sticky odd, catlike beautifully serpentine frightfully revolutionary yellowish, muddy dazzling and phosphorescent curiously dazzling and phosphorescent curiously dazzling relentless, inquisitorial general shaky venerable and pleasant exterior artificial low and yellowish singularly forlorn alert youthful remarkably odd and grotesque yellow and puffy general desolate extremely shut-in bulky and squat altogether wild and singular repulsive general dilapidated and deplorable healthy, vacant would-be venerable puny and abortive plausible and hollow fresh and flaky external genteel unexpected, comet-like curiously unstable consequent spurious black and fresh general stiff ragged and heavy same granular unnaturally diversified exceedingly cheerful and prosperous practically ubiquitous rapid and practically ubiquitous depressing, monotonous sunken and lifeless gallant and splendid administrative and french thoroughly administrative and french thoroughly administrative quiet and abrupt rather quiet and abrupt opportune or inopportune simplest visual actual illusory singularly picturesque and striking gaunt, untamed disreputable and ferocious singularly disreputable and ferocious singularly disreputable pleasant and ornamental benevolent and genial middling tolerable respectable and archaic persistently infantile distinctly patriotic shabby neat tangible and practical truly chic unstable and cheap distressingly shabby general city-like present tumultuous cheerful and tidy general dandy tidy, agreeable day--personal family--personal europe--personal plain and even rusty decidedly smart opaque gummy former gummy full and marketable extraordinary and most ludicrous uncouth and horrid beautifully variegated and picturesque stiff and muffled exceedingly stiff and muffled awful and hostile nervous and somewhat jaded distraught, haggard yellow or scorched sickly yellow or scorched poor and disagreeable agreeable romantic modest exterior distressing and pitiful naked and dreary somewhat majestic somewhat pictorial visible iridescent characteristic iridescent remarkably wild and craggy blue, pallid distressed, worn-out squared such shiny and placid entirely uninhabited and desolate somewhat phantasmal neat and even tasteful grotesque and supernatural attractively airy unwontedly smart rather sedate and solemn horizontal and graceful flat, horizontal and graceful striking, oriental lofty but graceful singularly weird and grotesque indistinct, hazy slightest wavy rotten, green-tinted thoroughly venerable youthful vigorous paltry and small rather methodistical heavy and undeveloped extremely fragile and delicate savage and incongruous truly savage and incongruous blessings--personal earthly blessings--personal simple and sumptuous martial and workmanlike slender and almost feeble grotesque and savage suspiciously tottering regular and neat somewhat regular and neat somewhat crooked and tangled peculiarly bushy and brushy peculiarly bushy bushy and brushy strikingly vivid or distinct gay and winsome naturally gay and winsome chalky, transparent unusually gloomy and dismal absent, vacant fallacious such shrewd and stolid ethereal angelic ordinarily striking ordinarily likable formidable and respectable peculiar broken-backed sorry and grotesque rough and weird dingy and unhealthy manners--personal pleasing manners--personal tasteful and creditable red and stumpy general creditable festive and idle wilted and forlorn lustrous, silky rather good-natured and intelligent shaggy, grotesque unfamiliar and curious strangely unfamiliar and curious greasy and cloudy normal sleek possibly speedy seedy and downcast somewhat seedy and downcast lanky and uninviting preternaturally cheerful life-like and clever legal and monarchical impressive, clean-shaven pleasant and venerable majestic but gloomy militant and stern alarmingly militant and stern alarmingly militant undeniably sensational

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Words to Describe appearance

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "appearance" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "appearance" are: awkward, ridiculous, singularly formidable, seedy, unshaven, delicate, frothy, and suitably ominous. There are 995 other words to describe appearance listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe appearance 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, "appearance" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many appearance 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 appearance?

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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