Describing Wordsfor Contests

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Here are some adjectives for contests: long and rather harmless, gymnastic and musical, awful and eventful, obstinate and dubious, obstinate legal, usually dramatic and swift, useless and fruitless, distressing and sickening, general hand-to-hand, long conjugal, elemental, twofold, loving and tragic, hand-to-hand, unarmed, nonviolent, fair, athletic and musical, doubtful and destructive, bloodless athletic, long and evasive, weary attritional, dangerous and calamitous, reckless, fateful, great and very hot, year-long athletic, political, territorial and financial, administration--intellectual, new administration--intellectual, skilful agricultural, interesting and exacting, broader and vaster, bitter and expensive. You can get the definitions of these contests adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to contests (and find more here).

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Words to Describe contests

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

long and rather harmless gymnastic and musical awful and eventful obstinate and dubious obstinate legal usually dramatic and swift useless and fruitless distressing and sickening general hand-to-hand long conjugal elemental, twofold loving and tragic hand-to-hand, unarmed nonviolent, fair athletic and musical doubtful and destructive bloodless athletic long and evasive weary attritional dangerous and calamitous reckless, fateful great and very hot year-long athletic
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political, territorial and financial administration--intellectual new administration--intellectual skilful agricultural interesting and exacting broader and vaster bitter and expensive good triangular short but very exciting material and bloody preliminary political interminable and apparently bloodless late presidential usually dramatic sharp and doubtful fruitless and ruinous fierce amphibious private gladiatorial soldierly athletic athletic and poetical safe and impersonal desperate but partial unequal physical grand athletic current millennial fictitious oratorical stealthy, unseen curious and specific former resolute national athletic new three-cornered unwise and passionate dire and bloody poetic or musical hopeless and pernicious bold glorious cold and paltry single good-natured ancestral or hereditary violent but quiet expensive and successful impotent and convulsive fiercest and most obstinate simple-minded, unsophisticated intercollegiate oratorical bloody and tumultuous gymnastic and equestrian brief glaring largely unwanted informal spear-throwing spear-throwing and other fierce evolutionary perpetual and protracted annual literary fierce and hot ongoing evolutionary poetic and warlike hopeless, inane also gladiatorial less, inane historic parliamentary more look-alike terrible, single-handed devastating, horrible infrequent hand-to-hand next millennial protracted and gigantic previous millennial aggressive, direct and violent top athletic innumerable and bitter drawn-out and incomprehensible july terrible particularly drawn-out and incomprehensible many inter-city triangular presidential protracted electoral brutal, ignoble balanced partisan maritime and asiatic international collegiate harsh, perpetual often calamitous great orthographical intellectual hand-to-hand furious and doubtful stubborn and ultimately successful practically indecisive quiet but continual grand tribunitial severe and memorable such intercollegiate prosperous and worthier monthly photographic perfectly unequal fiery and protracted destructive and unnatural angriest factional long and unaided individual athletic long but inconclusive equestrian and musical hideous civil gymnastic, equestrian and musical quarter-of-a-century equestrian and gymnastic protracted and inconclusive also equestrian warm colloquial local one-day unequal new whole good-natured portentous physical later rhapsodic verbal nor vocal sourly suave short two-round additional athletic never-ending scientific gymnastic and corporeal ordinarily spirited annual athletic actual and observable racial and factional bloody unequal frank and manly intellectual bitter, never-ending manly intellectual impossibly unequal tough and expensive significantly keen needless local weary intricate grotesque and often insincere masterly anti-slavery vigorous electoral exciting individual heroic but hopeless protracted denominational covert and deceitful inglorious civil vigorous previous unnecessary and bloody long and insane tough, diplomatic furious and most terrible intercollegiate literary troublesome presidential peaceful but equally important mere gladiatorial frantic and exhaustive entire and unequal convulsive and impotent vigilant commercial medal oratorical memorable electoral gladiatorial, humanitarian protracted and dramatic absurd and very unequal bitter and exciting startling and noisy recent athletic extensive or bloody lengthy and vehement bloody and brave more fiercer hateful personal interesting scholastic exciting and unequal bruising and muddy short but murderous world-wide, never-ending arduous maritime mighty, pitiless congressional anti-slavery tedious and impertinent ridiculously uneven eighth national hopeless electoral friendly poetic inter-asinicidal horrible inter-asinicidal traditional dual world-renowned forensic unsuccessful but courageous long, irksome and expensive simple trial wrong and obstinate exciting and historic unequal forensic important and most spirited terrific individual mighty but silent trial and extraordinary hard life-and-death bloodless and unceasing public, active rude and distasteful modern gladiatorial apparently bloodless spirited but fruitless cruelly hopeless short but very bitter unequal but desperate yearly poetical strenuous and thrilling merry but too careless incessant sullen musical and gymnastic spiritual and tragic memorable moral ridiculous male fiercest and most bitter parliamentary and literary initial male ludicrously unequal own gymnastic real gladiatorial gymnastic and artistic friendly athletic rare athletic keen ardent youthful philosophic eager and destructive serious athletic hard and unequal most noteworthy furious and obstinate long and merciless great and supremely vital quick, exciting so-called ancestral several gymnastic fearful and unequal territorial and financial actual observable head-butting present continental swift and dreadful apparently unequal interesting gladiatorial endless, obscure merely good-humored clinically unemotional useless, competitive impossibly unfair aggressive athletic wide oratorical magnificent gladiatorial undeclared and unacknowledged trib­al brilliantly balanced vaguely boisterous hopelessly unbalanced ultimately one-on-one unpleasant and thoroughly disagreeable needless and wicked initial victorious perilous and violent hot-blooded and roughly equal old and tedious informal international tremendous and bloody great millennial foolish and bloody huge gladiatorial athletic and intellectual big gladiatorial equestrian and athletic long-distance gladitorial long unsatisfactory particularly drawn-out impending naval four-year gladitorial athletic and aquatic cally lopsided annual dramatic upcoming alpha popular athletic endless slippery such fratricidal grim, one-sided full-blown knot-tying petty partisan eighth and decisive several oratorical bygone political suicidal civil menacing and formidable prevalent theological robust, straightforward international athletic next and smaller numerous and arduous recent senatorial international gymnastic splendid gymnastic personal professional dreadful and mighty murderous civil savage, realistic seriously athletic open literary annual and quadrennial absurdly unequal often insincere memorable and gigantic fierce but unequal equal but really unequal animated vocal disgracefully uneven fair upstanding unnecessary and fatal disgraceful personal futile and unequal impending presidential bloody antislavery mythical athletic brief but generous next anti-slavery sharp parliamentary complete wordy stubborn and bitter junior oratorical severe and even bitter last athletic bloody and expensive lusty and vociferous rather harmless paltry and unprofitable military, naval and aerial stubborn and spirited decisive and bloody international or civil annual oratorical awful hand-to-hand often gory sharp and exciting next photographic late fruitless avowed and direct long and sturdy athletic or other necessary or direct ancient seeming violent national inter-parochial thrilling and eventful all-around athletic sharp but decisive resolute but unequal unwise and unnecessary longer obstinate political open-air keen athletic severe and most expensive necessary and hopeful terrible and ceaseless final bitter brief, brisk bloody and destructive fierce and noisy furious political long and doubtful musical and athletic obstinate and bloody strong and fearful lively poetic fierce and glorious brief civil unequal individual animal tively simple former riotous last millennial unprofitable political forensic and oratorical notable legal last and most exciting important choral sharp but indecisive scholastic athletic bloody and arduous severe and expensive late awkward arduous and unequal fourth presidential fierce and unequal singular aquatic two-round disastrous and fatal exciting presidential central and critical bitter and doubtful tremendous european short and triumphant late congressional terribly one-sided remote and unprofitable last gladiatorial semi-international particularly wearisome interesting and courteous deadly public doubtful and obstinate dramatic and important irksome and expensive bitter and disgraceful historic legal savage and revolting incessant and infinite mighty personal final athletic earlier civil sharp hand-to-hand fierce spiritual long and obstinate numerous athletic still-continuing frequent bloody long and warm partial and irregular last presidential bloody and obstinate bloody hand-to-hand gladiatorial rather spirited angry political kingdom-wide few statewide dangerous, exhilarating short, heroic horrible fratricidal adiatorial dark, dim public gladiatorial mind-numbingly stupid egg-throwing single regional mock gladiatorial real hand-to-hand own look-alike protracted and dreadful exciting parliamentary many competitive protracted and obstinate violent theological long congressional less periodic brutal and foul public musical furious civil various electoral real presidential several hectic desperate and almost hopeless modern athletic perhaps fierce various unequal desperate, hand-to-hand finest and most brilliant now unequal bravest and bloodiest short gusty sharp and brief colonial civil principal tragic strict athletic principal gymnastic tremendous civil great gymnastic little amicable truly unnatural sharp but brief intra-party famous parliamentary expensive and disastrous unusually vehement disastrous and bloody long and destructive fearful spiritual furious and acrimonious great quadrennial collegiate athletic lookalike same triangular short but sharp next presidential otherwise equal short but fierce strange and unprecedented fierce and protracted more unequal provincial or national long and hard-fought many unequal unusually spirited usual athletic vehement political longest and most severe unscrupulous and desperate courteous and chivalrous especially venomous similar athletic desperate and doubtful fierce national present arduous spirited and exciting savage, elemental many wordy generous and honorable intercollegiate athletic expensive and protracted bitter hand-to-hand seemingly unequal strong and singular last territorial bloody and savage attritional old divine long and fierce supremely vital gymnastic recent presidential frequent and bloody neck-and-neck exciting political brief sharp frantic physical damned athletic so-called glorious silent but unceasing foreign and civil gladitorial purely parliamentary old unprofitable mighty national hopelessly unequal fiercest hand-to-hand bitter, bloody bitter and fierce long, stubborn bloody and fruitless furious and bloody ancestral physical legislative and local bitter and protracted protracted religious big and difficult new presidential costly legal exciting and animated subsequent congressional notable naval consequent internal bloody and vindictive genuine and proper healthy intellectual sometimes open hand-to-hand long and furious equally painful new and severe unhappy political similar musical musical and poetical great and bloody warm political long and unprofitable usual drunken present racial short and severe severe parliamentary fierce hand-to-hand athletic momentous political gubernatorial ancient gladiatorial nice physical regular athletic impending general numerous legal long doubtful eager public short but glorious similar european long and desultory late successful partly religious fierce and incessant peculiar dual great aquatic honest, fair pleasantly exciting grand oratorical terrible political silent, bitter long and stubborn longest and sharpest present gigantic such aimless fierce and bitter present unhappy last mortal fierce physical knot-tying nearly balanced brief but desperate subsequent civil entirely peaceful tolerably warm exciting and dramatic main open presidential long and bloody many athletic desperate hand-to-hand direct and violent significant spiritual previous political seeming little political and municipal totally ridiculous third-round present civil naked and unarmed bitter and bloody short but decisive late tremendous immediately impending blind and bitter open, undisguised short military short but severe great, final long and wordy filial and paternal real civil fierce and horrible delightful intellectual extremely tight look-alike violent and bloody late glorious hard-fought other ancestral ferocious and bloody moderately fair other and nearer unusually exciting great presidential unusually animated stubborn and bloody furious hand-to-hand peculiar poetic short but bloody long and spirited frequent and violent great agrarian zealous political long, mad various accidental long and stern short but furious early poetic mighty civil innumerable local fair stand-up naval and aerial sharp and bloody grand poetical bloody and ferocious more fateful dreadful civil present insane no-win nonphysical spear-throwing sharp and decisive more mortal mere selfish millennial cruel and dangerous fierce personal long and violent huge national many parliamentary great and exciting sharp political brief but sharp unjust and impolitic fierce and obstinate difficult and anxious next literary big, exciting severe physical fierce political single-handed biannual early political pizza-eating more rowdy less memorable intercollegiate imminent physical mere internal equally bitter stormy political next remarkable great and unceasing successful national long and vexatious great sectional long and tough sharp, brief fierce civil long and bitter great athletic positive personal other athletic doubtful and uncertain many barren long parliamentary interesting legal decisive naval bitterest political short but violent bitter and angry such athletic great senatorial severe and protracted serious and difficult desperate and bloody many animal great civil ordinary municipal different technological ancient musical hot political important musical next political old philosophic grand intellectual constant and secret sharp verbal literary and oratorical curious, silent great decisive great anti-slavery fierce and relentless long and arduous apparently dangerous far larger and more tribunitial greatest international fierce and bloody oldest historical regular musical earlier political long and desperate many civil vulgar physical several spirited long, unequal poetical and musical ultimately successful public and open bloody and disastrous bitter political brilliant naval other momentous high, eternal perilous and uncertain same ancestral great and fierce less spirited inter-company fifth annual serious political long political many fierce recent political own impending relatively bloodless huge, blind violent political long and distressing --occasional same progressive troublesome and expensive famous annual various athletic long and expensive more naval new and desperate canadian political severe and bloody narrow local late long numerous single senatorial fratricidal final and decisive long protracted delicate and difficult other amusing last severe real poetical particularly exciting several bitter clever and spirited fourth annual late political late terrible such ephemeral long literary various similar perfectly hopeless now political far fiercer many verbal great electoral tremendous political incredibly hard antenuptial grave constitutional ordinary political moral and literary fierce and desperate evenly balanced important colonial old anti-slavery exceptionally keen strange and bitter big political sociable little long such essentially meaningless brief, silent many preliminary protracted connexional grand poetic own dim last memorable long and dreadful similar great intersectional equally fierce arduous oratorical various musical great and weighty such meaningless late unhappy fine athletic less honorable equestrian head-to-head few parliamentary short and bitter more fierce great moorish fair and equal long and memorable long and able several severe severe personal many and long long religious corrupt political useless and expensive factional long legal great final many bloody great basic many honorable clean, honest several desperate many poetic long and exciting rather strenuous partially successful entire long such presumptuous unexciting such unequal electoral several hot rather one-sided more single larger, deeper somewhat one-sided wordy jurisdictional long and severe brief but violent amicable decisive anti-slavery fair and open own mutual brilliant and exciting inter-city long and sharp literary and musical interesting political many hot important and successful many peaceful eventful more equal more stubborn undeclared many memorable great racial small intimate memorable several bloody obstinate extremely intricate more obstinate much sharper musical and dramatic intensely bitter spirited numerous public great revolutionary grueling thy late refined and elegant many gallant life-and-death whole legal great and vital exciting pre-school big, brave thoroughly disagreeable fair open good, long three-cornered old weary last political next regular such foreign round-the-world mid-week

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Words to Describe contests

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "contests" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "contests" are: long and rather harmless, gymnastic and musical, awful and eventful, obstinate and dubious, and obstinate legal. There are 967 other words to describe contests listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe contests 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, "contests" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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.

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