Describing Wordsfor Ideas

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Here are some adjectives for ideas: sudden, startling and revolutionary, faintest bloody, strange central, origihal, ok, nice, mighty abstract, common-sense, progressive, gently fiendish, good one-sided, beastly vile, strange, bold and ingenious, him--moral, romantic and very foolish, hateful or disgusting, dainty and poetical, courageous and original, large, logical, quite courageous and original, prevalent calamitous, wildest and most hypothetical, idealistic, sappy, lofty, analytical, cloudy abstract, modern and altogether rational, perfectly tangible and real, outrageously material, peculiarly un-christian, famously erratic, brilliantly heinous, moral, philosophical and juridical. You can get the definitions of these ideas adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to ideas (and find more here).

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Words to Describe ideas

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

sudden, startling and revolutionary faintest bloody strange central origihal ok, nice mighty abstract common-sense, progressive gently fiendish good one-sided beastly vile strange, bold and ingenious him--moral romantic and very foolish hateful or disgusting dainty and poetical courageous and original large, logical quite courageous and original prevalent calamitous wildest and most hypothetical idealistic, sappy lofty, analytical cloudy abstract
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modern and altogether rational perfectly tangible and real outrageously material peculiarly un-christian famously erratic brilliantly heinous moral, philosophical and juridical stupid and repressive same mixed-up purely material and utilitarian naked original wonderful, salable insane democratic vulgar, inaccurate same ultra accurate precise damnably curious death-rehearsal exact or definite luminous and complete absurd, inconsistent sinister and cynical forthwith strange tumultuous and flattering seemingly fundamental least damned unpleasant and most unsuitable simple and possibly justifiable wacky but workable obviously unattractive europeanly delicate tremendously daring brand-new and wonderful resentful, angry splendid but visionary typically fiendish mystical and humanitarian entirely daft moronically simple colossal new preconceived contrary outrageous and unworkable nearly blasphemous primal and permanent crazy, preposterous counter-tactical sloppy, uniformed vague impracticable lovely gory astonishingly bold and grand elegant philosophical great or fruitful horrifically radical splendid or luminous simply weird uncontrollable and overwhelming undefined but significant vivid and general fewer literary accurate or precise mythological and metaphysical definite and terrific barbarous turkish dirty, puny various persecutory away gloomy generally distinct fleeting, charming wild and unforseen quite courageous former fearful shrewder and livelier absolute and lofty antiperistatical amazingly sensible favorite preconceived abstract general startling and revolutionary crazy and impossible new and entirely useless bewilderingly strange thoroughly stunning few preconceived playful, psychological technologically interesting philosophic and pleasing political and enlightened sublime or extravagant strange and almost utopian wild but not unattractive usually radical wholly frightening original and usually radical awesome and wholly frightening clearly distinct and different tremendously daring and original often intuitive two-bit bright altogether rational great, definite dangerous, counter-revolutionary mostly impractical sixth modern simple but mostly impractical true and fresh absolute or unchangeable devotional, contemplative dim, half-baked various altruistic particular hare-brained high-strung and supersensitive uncertain, general common orthodox tragic and inspiring particular conceivable immensely funny and clever determinate, particular physical and culinary barely passive fatally simple artistic but plebeian thrifty and laudable lowest cynical illusive and illogical original or unknown determinate abstract uninteresting or unintelligible positive abstract inadequate or faint simple abstracted dimly prevalent silly final vague, far-away various delusional distinctly mediocre somewhat farfetched technical and philosophical different better radical, extremist preposterous and deeply tedious weirdly original brilliant, world-shaking latest fine-tuned horrific, logical artistic, structural and sociological highly undemocratic structural and sociological full republican strongly preconceived peculiar, nonsensical majestic, shadowy palpably insane diabolical and dangerous bad theological unformed and disquieting alliterative and attractive wild and intermittent remotely original heartless and improper utterly crazed typically absurd weirdly plausible promising crime-fighting aforesaid fatal preconceived scientific sudden and valuable wildest and most daring interesting but repellent ideas--practical scathingly brilliant new and slightly irrelevant sudden, perverse grandly humane stunningly simple shameful economic good but half-witted innocent and pleasing vague, theoretical unfortunately shortsighted complete and yet concise complex or general central and happy vague and such true and invaluable revolutionary legal remorseless, sweet philosophic and artistic simple and determinate big spacial lax and indeterminate wildest democratic common and erroneous correct and healthy modern or secular pure abstracted current pessimistic ever-increasingly unattainable foolish and chimerical haunting and insistent artful and traitorous psychologically accurate trades--poetical clear and psychologically accurate grand and reverential chimercial indecent or ridiculous antinational and international scandalously iniquitous agreeable or sorrowful puerile and pitiful confoundedly odd grand, revolutionary generally exalted glorious hazy british and grecian altogether mad oldest and most permanent odd irrelevant alluring amorous pernicious but favorite hungry and thankful thoroughly picturesque dynastic and democratic childish seventeen-year-old explanatory and interpretative vague and rather dismal petty or small inadequate, incorrect antique, pagan regular napoleonic divinely beautiful and true welcome and not irrational many high-power intelligible and essential true, conservative sudden and ridiculously obvious crazy communistic bigoted and sour communistic and social old grievous new or bold gay bucolic profound and sometimes beautiful hazy, preconceived infectious intellectual new or broad miserable general benevolent or wise stupid and false exalted and dominant fruitful mechanical keener and broader comparatively spiritual wild, idiotic particular and impracticable poetical or lofty wild and inane indefinite but splendid inborn feudal nearest old-world incongruous pagan wrong and lustful low, radical pedantic modern unorthodox, speculative stupid romantic great and self-sacrificing vague theoretical preconceived faintest abstract complex real brilliant completely incredible positive clear distinct and exact vaguest desperately bright own preconceived maximum cool rather innovative single workable seductive but lethal horrific, revolutionary however mediaeval faintest damn ultimate and terrible basic, uncomplicated many preconceived interesting, devious soviet pre-war original and only formative distant and free ingenious but impractical maybe misguided wild cheerful dangerous and even unworkable extraordinarily resonant philosophical and juridical highest distinct few innovative exquisite and abstract outrageous such sense-ical adequate and inadequate common sense-ical own rabid profound and stunning spherical or pyramidal completely preposterous definite and inconvenient elegant but expensive ethnic or local astonishing brilliant intelligible and incorporeal faintest goddamned macabre and spectral deliciously outrageous most weird completely delectable unfamiliar or exotic perfectly precious valuable and fresh mad, melodramatic vaguest astronomical excessive vulgar thinly violent false and indelicate proprietary legal perfectly gruesome synthetic political positively sensational violent, extravagant extremely cockeyed spurious and arcane direct and worst absurd, outrageous crazy and reckless everlasting and positive strangely certain distinct complex weird, science-fictional clear abstract momentary disagreeable corpuscular fundamental wonderful inevitable original, self-evident oddly depressing subsequently wrong brilliant and extremely original imperfect and subsequently wrong fine-drawn quixotic abstract fundamental asiatic theological therefore preconceived unreal and inadequate eternal and creative abstract, inadequate fairly definite and coherent bare, awful socialistic and subversive sensible and vivid new paradoxical hazy and horrible impure and vile exceedingly serious and sensible immoral, subversive fine or luminous overpowering foreign same messianic purely conventional and superstitious preposterous and fantastic artificial optimistic gracefully romantic fancy, original absurd but gracefully romantic least prehistoric devilish humorous strange and totally unfamiliar rigid and unconquerable --fantastical dim and wholly inadequate apparently matriarchal existent collateral luminous and revolutionary dominant collective illogical and metaphysical radical and characteristic obstinate, unmanageable simpler and worthier vague persecutory prolific, eventful bizarre persecutory vague or unreasonable so-called delusional wild, feudal mild persecutory precise or fresh fanciful extravagant deliberate and abstract well-nigh unerring and perfect clear, demonstrable new and sacrilegious oriental cosmological coldly sublime precise religious unfamiliar or abstract definite or general definitely babylonian singular, bold abstract and ethereal distinctively missionary highly abstract and ethereal ill-conceived and absurd rationalistic and classical general consistent philosophic and symbolic capital and quaint definite and strictly logical undetermined, unconscious baseless and centrifugal indeterminate, unconscious subjective divine complex, concrete eternal, rational primitive and necessary great prototypal prior rational atavistic moral significant and ancient current and common general and concise homicidal and incendiary absurd morbid dominant and opposite ancestral historic inherent basic distinct or well-defined exceedingly primitive and indefinite beautifully suggestive unquestionably philosophical unique and beautifully suggestive mythical and naturalistic gothic botanical such quasi-philosophical imperfect and injurious theistic and eschatological obstructive and harmful physical and ritual august and abstract worn-out heathen vindictive, fierce mutually contradictory and destructive material and utilitarian popular catastrophic hazy but quite keen intangible, puzzling horrible slavish meaningful poetic immoral and most shameful sacrificial and messianic hateful and impious primitive sensuous suitable or true awkward modern elementary naturalistic absurd and most extravagant ancient self-evident insanely audacious ever-present native preconceived and popular essentially heathen identical fundamental reverent and appropriate elementary, abstract wondrous, stupendous religious and cosmical theological or speculative cosmical, philosophical and religious once startling widespread solar truly grand and fruitful lofty or abstract mere regulative platonic and buddhist fairly prevalent clear and coincident erroneously lofty unfamiliar strange false or sensual common or preconceived avowed central certain or clear mundane and political dull and platitudinous brilliant, breathless gross and wild perfectly funny sublime or philosophical true but fatal trivial and inflated chivalrous and beautiful blightingly rigid lofty or chimerical irritating, positive pure and metaphysical older or local unromantic and utilitarian lofty and obscure central and organic revolutionary or political cloudy vague impracticable and ridiculous trite professional wholly impracticable and ridiculous impelling and regulative airy or intense extremely important and fruitful seditious or restless foolish, grand monastic and academical clear or intelligible innate original fatuous and contradictory commandments--medical different and quite modern unsubstantial general brilliant but simple distinct standard speculative fundamental imperative and inevitable mad central graven divine hope--general still relevant and interesting hope--general and special travelled foreign comprehensive and coherent youthful metaphysical good psychical abstract determinate deadly psychical childish and narrow-minded desperate but brilliant primitive anthropomorphic entirely new and wrong great or unselfish bright or transcendent decidedly cosmopolitan ready-made and very banal forth moral and spiritual amazing, ridiculous preternatural and supernatural lofty and exceptionally noble inseparable fundamental wild and nonsensical traditional and mythological nasty and immoral tame or puerile insane, impracticable poetically indefinite general and pregnant quiet well-regulated obscure and fanciful obscure transcendental down subversive consequently partial vague unlinked clumsily-general theoretically innate one-sided and therefore false non-temporal or temporal worthless and misleading formerly revolutionary valid and possible bitter and poetic impure and carnal high but somewhat cloudy whimsical, grotesque grand and reasonable special and uneasy false malignant prime good thy coarse main and predominant innumerable romantic vain and romantic rare, extraordinary typical macho truly inconceivable serious technological almost utopian serious philosophic clear and unalterable false or unworthy mystical and powerful mad, hazy bold, constructive inspiring false certain adequate possibly justifiable incredibly dumb own half-baked absolutely modern excellent central distinct abstract popular pictorial supremely bad weird quasi-religious awfully tempting bizarre but lucrative popular get-rich-quick late corresponding fantastically wrong mysterious drunken sudden, paranoid darkly illuminating dangerously preposterous safe, depraved deeply tedious radical male tree-mendously successful theofosical people�radical viable fictional good and perfectly possible punchy promotional positively revolutionary kinda romantic damn practical ingrained sexist pure unspeakable enough half-baked political or technological age-old philosophical additionally scary uncounted new disastrous and crazy intelligible and diverse potentially disastrous and crazy rather bourgeois essential western such daft fanciful or mystical weird sadistic eternal idiotic deranged, mystical absurd but exciting present controversial obvious and rather naive crazy, half-baked fine dreadful shockingly inventive insane, improbable thorough, many splendid, desperate his…philosophical sudden and exciting nonetheless explicit great promotional strange and very difficult unbelievably weird altogether palatable fine mythological cruel, unthinkable poetical or musical simplest radical magnificent and surprising profound and even important radically cool true and obvious stupendously dumb initially astonishing disturbing, disquieting such scatterbrained stunningly wonderful false, highbrow next lousy infectious subliminal criminally asinine mad, incongruous banal and unimaginative creative, devious minor, useful old-fashioned and unimaginative difficult or paradoxical whacky but workable amazingly tasteless present sophisticated queerly persuasive capital and unpractical great and logical slightly irrelevant horribly plausible idiotic and shortsighted sadly inflated odd better usurious and preposterous deliciously salacious rotten pointless ideas—blindingly brilliant obscure, unreasonable vast revisionist perfect award-winning small, restrictive wildly disruptive thoroughly concrete fairly dear primeval political wild, aberrant central or fundamental single better previous simpler new, crucial original and sometimes wonderful reckless but potentially wonderful gracious and gay vague unspoken visionary and romantic dim, imperfect imperfect and even degrading crucial, pivotal partial and childish central and dominant whatsoever positive poisonously seductive contrary and inconsistent unutterably dreadful sensible simple splendidly wonderful repeatedly avowed wildly audacious intelligence--moral clever and risky grand napoleonic hilariously bad down revolutionary radical, left-field intellectually monotonous barbarous, barbarous good and wrong supremely poor stupid quixotic weird and funny worn-out and reactionary helluva bad unwelcome and irrelevant noble and entirely idiotic obviously abstract so-called appalling capital and foreign bloody excellent artisticopolitical profound and revelatory admirable and fruitful impossibly bold eloquent antiquated fantastic possible frightful and foolish original and well-developed poetically vivid remarkably original and well-developed generalized historical central and engrossing never vague or indefinite original suggestive played-out southern wicked and aggressive technical and stereotyped new and very dramatic powerful, illuminating mystical and indefinite well-founded preconceived positive complete barest, vague everlasting standard inspiring, helpful current intoxicating utterly out-of-date actually trivial educational and architectural flattering but baseless idiotic unjust grand and worshipful dissimilar and repugnant old, prophetic wild and unsuitable supplementary but essential welcome, original old and very popular erroneous abstract conspicuous, salient fantastic, neurotic luminous or truthful distinct or limited simple and very prudent invariable and general imperfect elusive queer partisan singular eccentric incomplete or inaccurate altogether astounding and horrifying new or opposite altogether astounding extravagant and foolhardy special progressive revolutionary and separatist wholly new and true merely local and individual low and most erroneous early culinary heretical and revolutionary truly noble and popular beastly disturbing strait-laced conventional great and truly heroic fearful and radical reasonably definite higher and simple exact and pure sentimental and enthusiastic distinct and statesmanlike rather sentimental and enthusiastic outstanding central luminous and masterful higher synthetic forceful, progressive wholly new and mighty basic, youthful old and daring temporarily certain naked general general or preparatory pompous but often hollow lofty and most original overpoweringly high great, exalted and inspiring popular armenian definite theosophical general but tolerably accurate innate complex clear vital loose theistic consequently untrue gross or impure abstract and consequently untrue vitally poetic concrete, spiritual generally striking and peculiar primaeval theistic clear and fairly definite entirely new and fascinating baffling and false lofty, eternal impulsive and childish poor abstract vile, revolutionary diabolically cynical abstract, bare one-sided, sordid foolishly generous and lavish fresh and very objectionable mighty vague clear and characteristic false elementary utterly material native and rational perfectly definite and intelligible solemn and truthful further relational healthful spiritual vague but quite serious morally helpful smarter european away preconceived solemn and all-pervading speculative and eternal excess, wild simple and almost universal high and self-respecting extraordinary, original preconceived but certain preconceived and premature fundamental german animal and mystical new and rather overwhelming fitful and incoherent heterogeneous but fairly coherent wrong and ignorant odd, unbidden erotic and religious modern and true erotically symbolical purely virile meaty, forceful stupid popular middle-aged, reasonable new and altogether revolutionary homeless juvenile bright and whimsical middle-aged, unsophisticated clear and intellectual false and depraved perfectly clear and intellectual fanciful romantic clear or accurate new, dominant complete and very exalted unexamined and untested secret and original new and metaphysical indefinite but uneasy abstract and fantastical explicitly optimistic refined and religious far deeper and nobler curious and unconventional erotic and mystic fantastic puritanical pleasurably colored religious, philosophic and artistic old, erroneous extravagantly dissimilar mentally disagreeable especially negative central and primitive misleading and erroneous ancient and even primitive absurd--political distinct and reliable primary or innate absurd indefensible gigantic or unnatural ineffably eccentric everywhere contrary untenable and paradoxical convincingly true perfectly unwelcome and involuntary expansively patriotic perfectly unwelcome moral and democratic abstract impoverished distant sterile central mythological foreign theosophical cold and sane inspiring lofty initial, individual northern and classical singularly random pernicious and antiquated native or national important and true generous and perfectly proper various irrational bold private weird, majestic perfectly disgusting and offensive different and sometimes contradictory over-national fanciful and terrible erroneous or harmful original or very distinct democratic or national concrete and anthropomorphic comparatively moral and rational childish theological clever or fantastic various pregnant fantastic but almost irresistible large or spiritual monastic and medieval vague corresponding false, incomplete new and especially abstract sporadic celtic humanitarian and internationalist pure unencumbered

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Words to Describe ideas

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "ideas" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "ideas" are: sudden, startling and revolutionary, faintest bloody, strange central, origihal, and ok, nice. There are 995 other words to describe ideas listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe ideas 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, "ideas" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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