Describing Wordsfor Hints

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Here are some adjectives for hints: practical typographic, vaguely herbal, insane, incomplete, oblique and discreet, terrific blasphemous, odd and almost disturbing, broad marital, judicious and gratuitous, tiny, respectful, terribly gentle, distant jocose, unprofitable but curious, dark unintelligible, keen and polite, subtle proprietary, vague and ragged, definite visible, tiny and extremely indistinct, disturbing, familiar, faint but ever-present, suggestive, practical, barren and thin, engines--practical, latent, scientific, illuminating technical, practical but benevolent, secret and symbolical, faint, wry, persistent, pervasive, damned broad. You can get the definitions of these hints adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to hints (and find more here).

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Words to Describe hints

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

practical typographic vaguely herbal insane, incomplete oblique and discreet terrific blasphemous odd and almost disturbing broad marital judicious and gratuitous tiny, respectful terribly gentle distant jocose unprofitable but curious dark unintelligible keen and polite subtle proprietary vague and ragged definite visible tiny and extremely indistinct disturbing, familiar faint but ever-present suggestive, practical barren and thin engines--practical
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latent, scientific illuminating technical practical but benevolent secret and symbolical faint, wry persistent, pervasive damned broad slightest gray puzzling, disturbing fortunate, rare obscure and occasional faint, fatal well-placed and properly subtle back troubled circumspect little rudimentary physiological subtle unsettling further cautionary subtle geophysical faithful or truthful delicately laudatory gentle and incidental true, unfinished short and almost imperceptible perhaps fallacious shy, sunny forth significant dark and covert valuable veterinary vague mnemonic oblique and obscure unique special faint, pervasive pregnant, mysterious merest subliminal subtle and disquieting sporadic, distant many unsubtle ghastly jocular red and hollow outright bald ominous certain barest coppery horrific little plain and intelligent evasive, incoherent governor--medical maddeningly oblique direct or secret profound, tipsy debilitating, disquieting pregnant and original vaguely delicate little peppery mysterious and almost imperceptible soft or noble gentle and triumphant respectable, several faint, brisk loose imperfect extraordinary disconcerting =conversational characteristically shadowy special cromwellian polite and roundabout few, delicate ingenious and expressive mere auroral smallest suggestive gilding--practical intangible but unmistakable everywhere helpful strong religio-political subtle and pleasurable accidental and innocent sweet but vague quite accidental and innocent deliciously sweet but vague slight and well-intended deliberately cryptic fleeting, illusory neutral various haphazard, haunting practical typographical gentle and neutral alarming mysterious requisite strong finely significant disgracefully broad tentative and tenuous delicate and very distant random and discursive ingeniously suggestive blue and faint honest and perfectly honorable holy blue and faint bare suggestive salient practical overwhelmingly official prefatical delicious astringent vague and appalling hesitant, elusive many and most useful capital valuable few intangible remotely dim helpful culinary beautiful primary malignant and very scandalous least confidential ruddy, yellow sundry gentle colored vague evil-minded and malicious vague queer slightest and rarest slight but intelligible inexplicable and solemn several elephantine sundry obscure brutally broad operas--practical landing--practical far-sighted indirect transparently artful vague, adroit ungrammatical and often unintelligible few half-expressed little corrective gloomy and perplexing mysterious elliptical daemoniacal tigial doubtless private past and other tiny weak properly subtle faintest tiny increasingly unsubtle littlest, tiniest further various slender verbal barren exterior uncomfortably suggestive sundry oblique least poetical dark and unintelligible extremely indistinct various sarcastic almost disturbing hazy and incomplete further confusing various broad tiny, feathery perhaps subtler faint but forceful span>sensational elusive, curious vague, intriguing little off-beat gradually stronger basic broad oratorical and poetical tiniest acrid unwilling and enigmatic subtle but distinct unknown, such slightest audible together vague faint, fugitive outrageous helpful earthly male sheer, maddening perhaps subtle scarily vague cruel fatal grossly obvious old reluctant dirty, faint clumsy, accidental obscure and terrifying broad, rotten shy and useful stupid heavy-handed vague accusatory healthy and subtle internal practical last, provocative open and intelligible slightest fascinating little half-expressed merest pleasant hence secret dark, unwelcome autopsychical charmingly subtle few promiscuous slightly hormonal innumerable valuable tiniest, faintest fragmentary, brief barely intentional loud, omnipresent wetly playful slight but impressive faintest and insincere vaguely melodious thy indirect sundry shrewd still rosier vague, insidious delightfully clever similar unmistakable cool and plain poor, far-off refreshingly plain such horticultural supremely polite also shadowy everywhere visible nasty, underhanded polite and suggestive crafty, malicious sudden magnetic various prudential silent but sufficient artful and ambiguous good, straight-from-the-shoulder saucy dark additional and confidential free plain sly malignant book--moral faintest certain crazy barest sundry ineffectual slight preparatory few cautionary slight, silent innumerable practical few concise tiny, harmless such evasive smallest clear vague, unsubstantiated additional significant few helpful mighty significant down vague little flippant few damaging discreet diplomatic innumerable clever sometimes sinister such pithy many incendiary sharp, covert philological and physiological forth vague brief and mysterious strange and soft significant and mysterious more slanderous already slight various terrifying vague restless many useful mere spectral few useful down short vague, ambiguous such corrective few unintelligible apparently overwhelming many oblique remote religious few foul useful domestic slightest supposedly subtle broad imperial unsubtle little faint sweetish many elusive slightest fruity small recognizable fleeting, elusive herbal and floral faint but persistent nebulous, shadowy sufficiently broad enough intriguing subtle, fascinating many insecure doggone good certain oblique faint translucent terribly grave occasional wishful wholly reverent cool current already superfluous brief, appalling apply practical gentle and humorous simple but very important least gentle similar subtle rather inconsistent several naive far-off spectral strong conjectural gentle but unmistakable beautiful, prophetic more indicative sundry internal useful and significant certain menacing several prophetic numerous significant sufficiently plain few oblique acute and ingenious small, playful slight such certain explosive =practical equally subtle aureal last broad various silent small, grudging slight partial faint, haunting sundry vague distant mysterious such serviceable few pregnant tolerably plain many valuable single slight few tactful sufficiently expressive just subtle faintest detectable priceless scientific gentle diplomatic few jocular vaguely repulsive tolerably intelligible earliest traditional sufficiently characteristic least distant definite cultural short and stern vague historic absurd, foolish supply important plainest and most practical few invaluable mere indefinite innumerable useful mysterious and significant dark romantic many instructive faint acrid dark and disturbing few salutary merest least numerous faint, acrid typographic many pregnant few imperfect subtle, far-reaching down false tactful little loose and unconnected faint, nebulous commercial and monetary sudden incongruous valuable ethnological small rebellious good, common-sense supply useful vague and fragmentary vague and visionary coarse vulgar overwhelmingly strong many helpful less perceptible few practical vaguest many misleading merest shadowy especially subtle direct and secret few suggestive valuable professional several sinister single loving barest few uncommonly broad few intriguing faintest, vaguest old and infamous many suggestive sufficiently vague few intelligible holy blue delicate and profound valuable nautical little accidental several broad enigmatic little various indirect certain prophetic various valuable least imperfect deliberately vague ever broader vague and intangible didactical numerous delicate many practical least tiny faint and tremulous vaguely disquieting direct and oblique several instructive few shorter similar broad equally disagreeable highly diplomatic rather imperative slight practical few general single precious many broad few significant almost glassy such oblique quite accidental many indirect slightest conceivable few gentle least conscious few artful many significant vague, shapeless forth dark such instructive unsubtle little helpful almost electrical pleasant floral tiny but significant mere playful simple and brief apparently superfluous various fresh final sharp many mild anemic little numerous useful recent remarkable forth mysterious dim and far-off half-expressed certain dark tolerably broad several useful quizzical little few wholesome rare occasional such expressive slight negative certain feline certain polite sundry useful often unintelligible dark and doubtful many gentle least little own dry same fitful small telltale rather blatant single previous direct, practical little significant certain casual merely hypothetical such menacing such adroit little disagreeable curious and mysterious _practical few broad many invaluable useful and important rather broad fine professional useful and curious merely slight large mysterious dark sweet clever and interesting few vague faint residual many occasional hitherto undetected several disturbing subtle but effective many salutary slight german --practical delicate political valuable and suggestive usual broad strangely exciting small preliminary present ambiguous dark and mysterious more tactful fairly direct usual vague less subtle last, faint still plainer least previous many courteous last innocent remarkably broad immediately practical few dark direct, personal several strong least material usual private presumptuous little brief and partial little luminous useful practical few playful vaguest possible many creative certain suggestive natural and important several significant tiniest single useful quite valuable sudden, unexplained less emphatic prosaic little numerous and valuable apparently accidental less polite slight reddish many advantageous faintest possible several valuable certain faint deliciously sweet such pregnant useful certain mysterious perfectly honorable few ominous more teasing coarse, vulgar many incoherent useful and practical past, many cool refreshing honest and truthful few confidential such broad solid and useful faint certain awkward vague and mysterious various useful same exotic such lurid thy mysterious own thy usual slight few plain religio-political many judicious wild strange dandiacal fairly broad dark and awful forth certain certain wise short and terrible several remote more inhuman several critical mysterious and sinister certain liberal helpful few valuable strange and subtle down various few introductory vague, dark certain defiant peculiarly significant few delicate such shrewd good broad together certain single delicate various dark rather significant coarse and cruel same obscure scarcely intelligible unobtrusive little certain loose tolerably strong few careful faint but definite few skilful almost timid far truer also general bright metallic such useful other official certain technological many capital other pungent down numerous valuable dark and sinister many fruitless several noble tolerably safe various obscure more luminous vague perfectly intelligible many sensible dark and distant strange, vague involuntary muscular various vague remotest fairly strong necessarily brief thoroughly normal occasional furtive curiously familiar certain obscure obscure and mysterious few stronger many nameless equally happy various mysterious such artful social and literary plainest possible few hasty many mysterious certain vague same constant sometimes dark equally gentle several vague mild and pleasant scarcest many remote more pregnant few verbal curious psychological non-verbal nearly silent such copious several mysterious other authentic excellent practical direct and practical oblique more appealing _final straight-from-the-shoulder interpretable vague, indefinite useful and valuable few brief last quiet more random few technical short historical few mild valuable and useful broadest subtle suggestive least astrogational many partial also frequent homiletical practical practical and useful smallest rather mysterious many vague several preliminary plain and practical hard, practical vague and general dark, mysterious exceedingly mild more helpful usual stupid tolerably clear many marvelous few slight gentle --official brief historical certain useful many pleasant such significant many dark deep and beautiful homely few desultory certain significant other slight extremely polite just vague certain plain many disturbing extremely broad rather magnificent good, substantial several good many excellent precautionary cryptic rather obvious few mysterious already deep other subtle such sensible slight promissory same broad other obscure little malicious few distant such accidental much broader few happy slow and cautious sure and rapid other significant tactful such technical few fresh dark deep broad such soft sufficiently strong teensy off-beat such stray timely few faint covert big, broad few simple significant disquieting least small more dark mysterious such slender faint, faint truly valuable equivocal less ambiguous dark, dank best general many quiet many direct interesting and curious such frank same suspicious few literary other useful palest more explicit gestural other valuable breath-taking obscure jocose new and useful seemingly insignificant strange mysterious few preliminary least valuable vague and indefinite faint but unmistakable pregnant certain ominous certain valuable certain broad last bitter mere vague many scandalous pervasive cautionary natty little metric slightest possible how-to treacherous little life-saving instructive geophysical strange and mysterious pathetical indirect off-the-record few important rather strong shrewder well-intended few harmless conversational dextrous slanderous few unpleasant good and useful few casual dark mysterious wry several strange rather plain herbal big broad such plain clear cold such nasty few final polite many brilliant ambiguous intelligible last faint many bright such obscure unintelligible few feeble such trifling positive or negative damned many many unpleasant barely perceptible such clever single solitary preparatory ingratiating pantomimic same ancient more specific delphic littlest few short yummy dark less accurate many graceful briefest unsubstantiated various little certain practical well-received many striking lightest new and valuable autobiographical annoying little unpleasant little fragmentary nebulous increasingly heavy many strange few special ghoulish such vague cat-and-mouse broadest possible nanotechnological little practical several additional sweetish common-sense sundry little more damned unmistakable understandable certain grim manic other practical many painful disconcerting perfectly obvious somewhat old-fashioned eminently practical uncharacteristic big, fat little blind corrective almost subliminal same faint teasing medical and surgical mild and gentle inflammatory gratuitous horticultural many important introductory few loose invaluable wee little good practical strange and terrible many sad elusive many admirable little gentle many good gentle little many curious delicate unsolicited

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Words to Describe hints

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "hints" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "hints" are: practical typographic, vaguely herbal, insane, incomplete, oblique and discreet, and terrific blasphemous. There are 968 other words to describe hints listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe hints 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, "hints" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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