Describing Wordsfor Metaphor

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Here are some adjectives for metaphor: undeniable and irreducible, ubiquitous, specious, fanciful physical, singular italian, nakedly technological, epigrammatic or delicate, circumstructural, immortal parliamentary, grim, tremendous, perpetual harsh, happy and inimitable, domestic victorian, confusingly anthropomorphic, trivial, happy, frigid and artificial, startlingly apt, interesting and workable, pompously academic, overly apt, wavy, blurry, appropriate oriental, vague culinary, antiquated physical, eminently inappropriate, brilliant and exact, amusingly inappropriate, rationalistic or chemical, commonplace but useful, milder but misleading, uniformly lofty and delicate. You can get the definitions of these metaphor adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to metaphor (and find more here).

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Words to Describe metaphor

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

undeniable and irreducible ubiquitous, specious fanciful physical singular italian nakedly technological epigrammatic or delicate circumstructural immortal parliamentary grim, tremendous perpetual harsh happy and inimitable domestic victorian confusingly anthropomorphic trivial, happy frigid and artificial startlingly apt interesting and workable pompously academic overly apt wavy, blurry appropriate oriental vague culinary antiquated physical eminently inappropriate brilliant and exact amusingly inappropriate
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rationalistic or chemical commonplace but useful milder but misleading uniformly lofty and delicate uniformly lofty complimentary or elegant direct mythical harsh or far-fetched fine but paradoxical striking and lofty usual and sufficiently characteristic well-worn physiological easy and apt fancy or poetical baseless and bombastic preposterous and strange fluent and florid common, unimaginative extraordinarily harsh pointedly suggestive admirably worked-out curious agricultural dangerous, bad bizarre human ordinary dramatical im­mensely larger classic therapeutic haunting and exotic hopelessly trite comfortable and pious trite double colorful human visual structural less botanical suitably overt grand cautionary punchy, unexpected possibly apt cruel, stark anatomical descriptive energetic popular far-fetched, abstruse habitual and dead pleasant introductory bold and poetical graphic contemporary horrid commercial naive physical old and often misleading coarse and terrible would-be poetical succinct and expressive easy and well-worn intensely energetic legitimate and intelligible new sordid striking visual standard primitive catachrestical enough oriental arbitrary and external indiscreet and horrid melodious and original empty and false cautionary military great cosmological fairly apt entirely paradoxical marvelous sexual noble and appropriate admirably accurate homely rustic great apostolic principal technological bold and unusual occasionally useful obvious psychological somewhat trite once vivid favorite poetic poetical or rhetorical picturesque and brilliant powerful literary somewhat vivid coloquial extremely apt exceedingly treacherous more favorite terrible sexual remarkably inept happier human rather ripe simple cause-and-effect last clever rough popular physiological and medical peculiarly fitting more awesome lovely double sufficiently characteristic singularly bold good and obvious clumsy mechanical common oriental same mythic anagogical somewhat tangled often misleading strictly scriptural apt and striking strong and sacred single false indeed mere old and outworn mere pictorial original and daring complex sexual own expressive valuable and suggestive thoroughly vicious more apt rather mundane rather opaque whole bizarre little poetical own significant brutal physical mere rhetorical less flattering somewhat violent beautiful and inspiring strictly poetic rather violent striking and brilliant purely verbal rather incongruous strictly accurate somewhat daring mere practical old prophetic apt own savage natural and pleasing powerful psychic common ancient still bolder magnificent and terrible mere poetic simple, beautiful particularly apt own random strong spiritual vivid and picturesque entirely false own vivid bold and beautiful mere fanciful perfectly valid extremely useful immensely larger historically significant new and striking obvious military natural and obvious hackneyed clear political strong and beautiful rather unorthodox trite punchy such mournful inexact far-fetched same nervous great bloated rather foolish strange, beautiful often-repeated deadly serious less painful same military ill-understood irreducible inapplicable other splendid dramatical popular modern such empty more fanciful strong emotional more expressive somewhat dangerous bombastic seismological less pleasing spacial more pertinent such horrible cause-and-effect felicitous other bloody poetic same familiar inappropriate intoxicated more eloquent poetical nautical compound worked-out such startling elliptical scatological epigrammatic unoriginal anthropomorphic venereal vivid over-arching own fine such rude biblical merely physical two-fold well-worn scriptural culinary ornithological expressive baffling jocular extravagant inanimate automotive visual bibulous oriental spatial striking infelicitous more genuine more poetic more emphatic more flexible illogical more explicit perceptual more fitting paradoxical bold much-abused rhetorical platonic more spiritual healthier shakespearean mendacious workable misleading allegorical incongruous rabbinical equestrian rationalistic tartar florid more usual ironic baseless specious meaty wrong more complex medicinal accurate flattering permissible interpretative simplified physical intangible bookish outworn unimaginative fittest eloquent undeniable grammatical appropriate fitting sexual tenuous meaningful same basic somewhat different such poor dimensional fluent primal picturesque somewhat similar colloquial doubtful horticultural disgusting more romantic more direct illustrative military subconscious more violent clumsy coy apostolic inflated suggestive agricultural awesome buddhist same general irrelevant anatomical colorful familiar convenient tawdry blurry more powerful inadequate simpler more effective violent frigid apocalyptic cautionary simplistic rustic fanciful instructive compelling bad cosmological structural unbounded architectural classic technological earthbound figurative favorite prettier succinct interesting bolder daring unalloyed imaginative false exact same more striking harsh captivating metaphorical mythic vacuous more appropriate physiological perfect unsavory happier mere ubiquitous incoherent unintelligible easy useful ready-made redundant quaint old all-purpose anal indiscreet memorable fundamental tangled correct resplendent floral biological valid botanical medical burlesque ministerial old, old legal inimitable decorative complimentary indecent suitable introductory wavy clearest beautiful emphatic worst possible ironical condensed startling drastic descriptive therapeutic musical metaphysical glum unusual appealing illuminating offensive intelligible ingenious mythological chemical open-air disused mystical particular consecutive coarse ridiculous satirical parliamentary cumbersome lunar realistic common literary more modern unorthodox kindred commonplace unexplained objectionable amusing carnal breezy pictorial idle gross constructive undersea sensory potent decent unnatural threadbare whimsical implicit elegant melodious eastern episcopal brilliant grim abstruse cleaner willing organic milder significant trivial regrettable geological improper inept unofficial frequent finer lengthy resultant mathematical pertinent ecstatic insufficient victorian mechanical verbal fancy wry pregnant conventional commercial sublime rude unhappy stale human geometric windy disquieting popular previous romantic lousy legitimate compact resonant witty unaccustomed monotonous inspiring questionable serviceable tragic prophetic energetic humorous preposterous vigorous careless sentimental more perfect habitual merest obscure runaway tasteless original transparent icy profane material barbed well-known tremendous psychological parallel consistent strong tortuous overt spiritual cryptic natural photographic happy similar unfortunate elusive central foul mundane tiresome worn-out different mythical passionate arbitrary former idiot lofty dreamy cute awkward systematic scientific powerful pleasing tasteful foolish secular classical empty malicious academic lame watery metropolitan venerable inexhaustible dormant absurd explicit characteristic deliberate harmless singular exotic disturbing obvious sloppy double effective ideal savage clever optical delicate mangled rosy naval simple newest vulgar political warlike eccentric dangerous personal mournful hardy haunting bizarre own private surgical bloated strongest unlucky exquisite dreadful ultimate religious capital horrid mad opaque conspicuous psychic pungent single maritime jewish quaint graceful hospital gracious professional fine clear remarkable animal functional obsolete complex technical prehistoric impossible artificial symbolic painful laborious aesthetic criminal acceptable inverted external total economic native conscious sparkling exact maternal handy strange ritual neat precise good old cruel italian continual pathetic terminal archaic extreme contemporary immortal outrageous medi�val ancient loose treacherous sordid ripe emotional wonderful basic horrible shocking famous flexible attractive theological charming bald pure cultural magnificent curious extraordinary superb primitive fair vicious martial corresponding foreign unconscious imaginary stupid modern animated angry abstract practical gothic continuous evident ornamental brief delicious secret mediaeval nervous usual dead frank useless final calm noble ecclesiastical desperate subtle direct unexpected hideous miserable sorry celestial true preferred further random fascinating main dumb valuable divine humble facile present dreary dramatic larger cunning current deeper splendid pious stark damned rich egyptian highest old-fashioned bright grand initial moral dainty funny fierce awful serious genuine specific odd bloody gentle net best late inevitable domestic unique tall new regular terrible biggest comfortable delightful complete general traditional sacred immense high excellent old wooden important cheap mental sweet finest special poor free rough plain occasional private proper possible cold wild soft less deep good ordinary whole

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Words to Describe metaphor

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "metaphor" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "metaphor" are: undeniable and irreducible, ubiquitous, specious, fanciful physical, singular italian, and nakedly technological. There are 847 other words to describe metaphor listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe metaphor 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, "metaphor" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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