Describing Wordsfor Contrivances

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Here are some adjectives for contrivances: highly unfamiliar and suspicious, expressly fraudulent, artificial and subtle, surest and most horrible, small and snug, endless and wonderful, unfamiliar and suspicious, highly unfamiliar, perpetual nice, aft and other, inefficient, clumsy, other wrong-headed, clever, dramatic, fallible and feeble, possible, fictitious, such high-flying, latest indigestible, ingenious economic, ingenious and puzzling, crudely serviceable, admirable and politic, lowest and most mechanical, peculiar and clever, solid mechanical, low and senseless, hasty, rude, simple but admirable, ambitious and fraudulent, ponderous and ingenious, comfortable and gigantic. You can get the definitions of these contrivances adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to contrivances (and find more here).

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Words to Describe contrivances

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

highly unfamiliar and suspicious expressly fraudulent artificial and subtle surest and most horrible small and snug endless and wonderful unfamiliar and suspicious highly unfamiliar perpetual nice aft and other inefficient, clumsy other wrong-headed clever, dramatic fallible and feeble possible, fictitious such high-flying latest indigestible ingenious economic ingenious and puzzling crudely serviceable admirable and politic lowest and most mechanical
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peculiar and clever solid mechanical low and senseless hasty, rude simple but admirable ambitious and fraudulent ponderous and ingenious comfortable and gigantic awful acoustic simple and apparently effective man-made and mechanical facetious and capital startling mechanical handy mechanical lame and sorry conceivable electrical indifferent animated effectual automatic unnatural and debilitating convenient telescopic clean, queer successful but quiet inexhaustible adroit dirty, mechanical safe mechanical provincial and utterly insignificant gigantic and pathetic well-intentioned but clumsy contradictory, perplexed and multitudinous clever and convenient best, makeshift intelligent experimental amazingly inexpensive excellent african inexhaustible, adroit effectual little wonderful and improbable stiff-backed ancient simpler primitive original but ingenious expensive and weighty hasty admirable awkward and rude exotic mechanical faulty, experimental exceedingly serviceable sounder mechanical convenient homemade simply vexatious wasteful, clumsy complex and most numerous artful or skillful convenient and altogether satisfactory perplexing mechanical occasionally electrical devilish psychological envious and subtle admirable wise noisy and effectual ingenious scenic acoustical and optical essentially clumsy varicolored small clumsy, old-time of--mechanical terrestrial experimental romantic and ingenious clever electrical ingenious and inexplicable fruitful therapeutic tolerably uncouth mechanically competent subtle and violent confoundedly clumsy highly ingenious and useful villainous, vicious perfectly steady and durable deceitful, premeditated cunning reproductive rare and successful valuable automatic skillful or artful inward--several mechanical popular optical many explosive horribly ingenious silly mechanical ingenious and very useful favorable mechanical adroit mechanical rude symbolic imperfect mechanical precarious, lumbering reliable mechanical latest expensive useful�mechanical physical, brittle truly useful�mechanical i>mechanical astonishing mechanical infernal nuclear palpably fictitious digital and psychological such labor-saving annoying royal perplexed and multitudinous handiest imaginable desperate economical premeditated human necessarily huge ancient and rude possible agricultural thy fraudulent anxious and petty unknown mechanical bald, empty ingenious phosphorescent other purposive simplest and most ingenious simplest or most cunning rough and inartificial chinese stringed simple and most ingenious often ineffectual simple but clumsy also worthless distressingly noisy different ingenious ingenious photographic money-making and money-losing complex and inefficient intentionally fraudulent unnatural and clumsy odd, nameless rude and petty skilful mechanical simple monkish prettiest popular indescribably clumsy sundry artificial hard and horrid mere bustling human experimental rude and sorry needless and inhuman equally feasible particular acoustic flexible continuous ingenious and perfect ingenious theatrical unnatural and discordant cumbersome and intricate little fire-fighting unlawful little dirty and noisy stringent but clumsy terribly insecure metaphysical and legal recent invisible beautiful and truly original mechanocal similar astronomical fiendish chemical ingenious mechanical ingenious and simple cold sardonic small culinary finest mechanical stealthy, murderous other unnameable clumsy military common mechanical innumerable mechanical rude mechanical various mechanical many mechanical secret mechanical various analogous dangerous and murderous many labor-saving ingenious electrical oftentimes tedious admirable and curious ingenious native clumsy political surprising and subtle singular metal various clumsy admirable and economical clever nautical easy mechanical curious and various simple and valuable various evasive rare complete clever, curious curious special automatic shut-off rude artificial rude and inefficient excellent and simple little ingenious various clever queer mechanical other murderous intricate mechanical clever mechanical apparently effective various ingenious gentle, easygoing several mechanical small but intricate usual genuine main queer neat mechanical tall mechanical rude calico further mechanical own gratuitous unnatural and wicked peculiar and ingenious such centrifugal plain, oblong material, technical clumsy but comfortable earliest mechanical singular mechanical various unscrupulous curious but simple expensive and ruinous ingenious and useful artful mechanical simple but laborious humane and pious wonderful acoustic narrow, shaky same infantile rational and successful elegant and agreeable ingenious and wonderful hopelessly obsolete magical or mechanical singularly clumsy nice murderous conscious artistic strange and ingenious whole rickety interesting mechanical strong mechanical similar benevolent other pyrotechnic other precautionary admirable mechanical simple gymnastic ingenious and efficient mighty simple simple and neat delicate technical deliberate and treacherous convenient mechanical suitable and unsuitable little handy other marvelous other dental special mechanical such electronic whole flimsy careful mechanical almost passable other despicable excellent mechanical well-known electrical efficient and satisfactory obsolete and obsolescent ingenious optical mammoth mechanical ingenious financial low mechanical cunning mechanical similar foolish foolish and worthless innumerable and wonderful nearly superhuman other deceptive ingenious and valuable various explosive other tuneful deep, shallow noisy mechanical other gymnastic singular dramatic awkward and clumsy other mechanical many ingenious much artful odd and eccentric vile modern simple and admirable such cosmetic wretched modern certain dusty late wicked many handy simple but perfect various allegorical labor-saving so-called mechanical curious mechanical many dull several ingenious mighty mechanical strange crystalline mere governmental various unique extraordinarily primitive many treacherous cunning and ingenious numerous peculiar small, mechanical other clumsy such newfangled simple mechanical powerful mechanical other ingenious pantomimical various delicate complex metal new mechanical useful magical purely independent curious and puzzling simple and ingenious simply mechanical whole ingenious mere ingenious humane and wise ingenious little old mechanical same diabolical stupid, human certain artful safe and reasonable extraordinary mechanical tiny foreign different physiological ingenious and original similar rude various electric simple automatic odd but effective clumsy mechanical several electrical arbitrary and artificial frequently successful useful and beneficial marvelous mechanical hard, mechanical electrical and mechanical hence various own mechanical mere male such seditious thin and flimsy suitable mechanical polite official rather gross obvious mechanical many automatic simple but ingenious other electric new and puzzling other fiendish definite mechanical useful and convenient more diabolical dead mechanical simple and unpretentious ingenious and interesting simplest mechanical other vexatious diabolically ingenious wonderful electric many skilful extremely ingenious many useless whole fearful mere artificial such adroit obviously useless mechanical sophistical such ingenious ingenious comparatively useless certain mechanical odious old other cunning wonderfully intricate delicate mechanical useful or ornamental remarkably ingenious deep and black same artificial cruel and treacherous particularly efficient practical mechanical least suitable absurd and senseless single mechanical mechanical or other rather unwieldy optical and mechanical simple optical peculiar mechanical bizarre genetic classy little equally ingenious somewhat ingenious slightest artificial other handy whole foul useful modern stupid, clumsy whole infinite other intricate wonderful mechanical own ingenious somewhat clumsy me�chanical exceedingly ingenious odd mechanical apparently formidable other unlawful mere theological other diabolical numerous clever ingenious automatic many clever particularly effective wonderfully wise other invisible more villainous old-fashioned french angular metal peculiar metal delightfully simple mighty useful money-losing perfect mechanical peculiar and beautiful ancient mechanical such mechanical simple and effective many singular individual or national equally clever extraordinary good great mechanical curious and intricate superior mechanical many neat various culinary little mechanical various artificial new magnetic many electrical perfectly steady curious wooden other comfortable rude but effective gracious and wise good, clever --eternal clumsy, awkward unique and original less clumsy strange mechanical conscious and deliberate other optical other fragrant rude and imperfect eminently sensible chanical own busy rough, clumsy modern mechanical thick, clumsy simple and cheap new electrical such crafty truly ingenious beautiful and unique relatively primitive little artful --mechanical more criminal such protective simple and beautiful several clever ordinary educational endless small utterly insignificant similar primitive same mechanical little queer luxurious little numerous curious mechanical and chemical truly remarkable shrewd political other effective such shallow other defensive successful french mechanical and scientific small mechanical [several simple, childish certain wooden such artful less mechanical other simple equally characteristic more speculative cheapest possible several rude big, lumbering chemical and other various subordinate wonderfully ingenious coxcombical many rude stop-gap such revolutionary own infernal more wicked many intimate genuine native many cunning such artificial high-flying other queer more nice more ingenious better and safer queer green more disgusting somewhat artificial own wise extraordinary military many subtle such skilful such devilish voluntary or involuntary various curious sure, many artful less ingenious curious and beautiful mere mechanical many special unmechanical beautifully simple cruel and inhuman true genuine offensive and defensive mechanical and electrical other fanciful well-fitted less skilful certain curious decent little other wise other rude new technological altogether satisfactory remarkably successful other ornamental other electrical similiar other weird same pious shut-off helpful little own petty highly ingenious strange human best mechanical other artificial such external particularly horrible useful and ornamental fire-fighting modern human powerful electrical mechanical and electronic mere arbitrary such modern primitive little same unhappy chemical and mechanical almost magical less effective such diabolical several respectable rude and simple other reliable cheap and simple gainful least apparent many beautiful other artistic new and useful little humorous great clumsy simple and easy purely artificial own unfortunate simplest possible more serviceable best practical huge mechanical wise and benevolent other warlike equally simple other magical diabolical strange metal huge metallic other wretched other troublesome such clumsy other miraculous more wonderful less perfect rather clever other numerous inimitable more excellent exquisitely delicate dark, mysterious other legal papistical purposive own wicked clumsy such trivial other useful wrong-headed rather striking certain little purely natural more cunning possible and impossible oligarchical whole miserable little cold many modern long and wearisome great artificial simple and innocent underhanded electrical own deliberate few simple other such various little relatively modern more simple wonderfully clever many nice much vaunted such exceptional excellent new mere temporary little innocent little temporary many fearful unnameable more ready truly original ironclad other primitive certain simple somewhat rude tiny wooden constructional gymnastic purely material pyrotechnic other curious handy little digestive great metal much human shifty various new heavy, clumsy sublunary such mysterious other mysterious dainty little optical same or similar mere human acoustic more amiable fraudulent other useless artificial providential lingual rickety old devilish clever such bold many useful more hideous other medical skilful cunning more effectual fallible own foolish admirable various other less active one-horse little feminine such primitive other different such uncertain such legal diversified acoustical premeditated useful little other suitable indigestible many remarkable precautionary inartificial picturesque little stringed other secret metallurgical almost miraculous mnemonic numerous little obsolescent more subtle other western such wonderful entire new simple other similar compact little curious clever little deliberate newfangled politic many happy many curious fancy new elaborate concurrent useful fiendish comparatively simple pneumatic wicked little infernal more elegant such admirable purely mechanical new and wonderful other wonderful preferential more comprehensive surest malicious altogether different several interesting similar such beautiful inquisitorial such simple simple little expeditious hydraulic many wonderful electro-magnetic separate and distinct laudable jesuitical huge new skillful other physical cumbersome more sensitive various such nice puzzling infinitesimal apt subtle other necessary numerous other purely human imaginable machiavellian man-made deceitful little metal elegant little somewhat similar more humble adroit technical such exquisite explosive thy own such fair other modern well-intentioned much-needed ancillary merely human other german simplest rude marvelous new french handy human magical inefficient flat-bottomed seditious villainous snug bulky scenic other human more convenient such wretched purely military epoch-making quite different many other astral inexpensive more beautiful wise other beautiful ill-fated money-making inexplicable such vile unwieldy punitive wonderful excellent laborious centrifugal feasible intricate neat little flimsy cunning little debilitating petty crafty multitudinous last-mentioned inexhaustible vexatious wicked effectual shiftless rough wooden many little subtler tuneful inconceivable illusive puerile culinary somewhat different dental odd-looking efficacious murderous other new innumerable little telescopic several little roundabout happy humane demoniacal detestable pictorial odd little audacious mischievous therapeutic cosmetic arbitrary aft sardonic many similar

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Words to Describe contrivances

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "contrivances" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "contrivances" are: highly unfamiliar and suspicious, expressly fraudulent, artificial and subtle, surest and most horrible, and small and snug. There are 930 other words to describe contrivances listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe contrivances 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, "contrivances" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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