Describing Wordsfor Monosyllables

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Here are some adjectives for monosyllables: odd, quicksilver, meaningless or feeble, quietly polite, chinese or curt, mostly meaningless, never sullen or hostile, homely anglian, muffled but eager, curtly indifferent, admirably distinctive, low and frosty, abrupt and insignificant, little two-letter, unmistakable insulting, cautious, cold, needlessly profane, explosive and needlessly profane, terrible and emphatic, nondescript, uncouth, short and dreadful, simple and energetic, dreadfully significant, single explanatory, low cautious, never sullen, prim, colorless, short and shapeless, never infantile, unpleasant negative, terse, blue-collar. You can get the definitions of these monosyllables adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to monosyllables (and find more here).

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Words to Describe monosyllables

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

odd, quicksilver meaningless or feeble quietly polite chinese or curt mostly meaningless never sullen or hostile homely anglian muffled but eager curtly indifferent admirably distinctive low and frosty abrupt and insignificant little two-letter unmistakable insulting cautious, cold needlessly profane explosive and needlessly profane terrible and emphatic nondescript, uncouth short and dreadful simple and energetic dreadfully significant single explanatory low cautious
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never sullen prim, colorless short and shapeless never infantile unpleasant negative terse, blue-collar mere toneless tense, polite usually queer perfectly unemotional abstracted and desultory sturdy, stubborn frosty little clear nasal brief and emphatic soft and wondrous occasional gruff innumerable british few throaty triliteral quiet, terse single, unadorned odd and uncouth excruciating little low, inarticulate almost irritable single curt other unmistakable private special few guttural low, grave short, terse somewhat emphatic intensely expressive tri-literal single, swift decisive little few courteous terse little single stern few cold rather tedious affirmative or negative almost harsh less intelligible same invariable few inarticulate two-letter rather weary gutteral sad, stern single cold less sacred same angry sharp, angry same british mysterious and terrible mere occasional short, hard curt few chinese quick, low sibilant other civil cold hard emphatic more expressive sympathetic little other short peremptory expressive quicksilver affirmative terse absent-minded categorical non-professional abstracted gruff few rare noncommittal sharp, short few vague incoherent short sharp positive and negative more deliberate malign inarticulate talismanic toneless low-pitched cold, hard contemptuous blue-collar briefest unsatisfying guttural unmanageable jerky reluctant uncivil refractory anglian doric cautious explanatory meaningless repressive morose obnoxious nerveless incomprehensible unemotional somber distressing reticent last little terror-stricken non-committal indecent dissenting throaty explosive derogatory pithy polite incisive sulky significant cryptic nasal snappy unintelligible plebeian contradictory negative distraught prettiest abrupt hateful irrevocable conjugal coldest affable occasional weighty desultory respectful luscious tedious irritable merest lukewarm potent absent sullen harsh mystic meditative portentous impressive everyday courteous unpleasant whimsical homeless prim listless intelligible softest deliberate slow-moving haughty dubious high-pitched fragmentary momentous chinese oral single unmistakable ironic utter brief indistinct ambiguous profane languid poor little disgusting vulgar irritating insufficient husky breathless invariable insulting unadorned frosty masculine servile nondescript suggestive convenient mysterious eloquent vague sympathetic offensive harmonious indignant leaden pitiless auxiliary unwelcome low shapeless quiet rugged lurid uncouth cold verbal musical resolute stubborn obscene superfluous muffled fierce scarce short implacable singular simple unobtrusive odd tentative gentle comprehensive energetic sleepy sharp indispensable lightest senseless everlasting slow civil vacant magical colorless unusual universal pitiful odious important mischievous feeble infantile valiant rude mild shy mournful decent pregnant desolate remarkable impatient fatal nervous icy indifferent refined rare insignificant timid desperate crisp hoarse radical angry frigid tense final dry sentimental triumphant dreadful swift distinctive japanese solitary childish amiable flat positive conventional stray stern marvelous hard handy drowsy precise most pathetic sturdy mere wondrous many other lazy modest feminine stiff placid hostile venerable dull spanish amazing sweet weary difficult terrible discreet hollow eager european customary immediate fearful easy appropriate rapid formidable nasty bare useful former faint separate awful french eternal mighty quick humble bitter sacred numerous casual necessary soft extraordinary cruel brutal primitive sad grave stupid smallest precious careful magnificent particular famous native british grim plain royal queer narrow private proper german favorite wretched sudden thin powerful special central bloody familiar strong damned ordinary strange poor usual heavy certain whole long

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Words to Describe monosyllables

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "monosyllables" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "monosyllables" are: odd, quicksilver, meaningless or feeble, quietly polite, chinese or curt, and mostly meaningless. There are 417 other words to describe monosyllables listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe monosyllables 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, "monosyllables" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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