Describing Wordsfor Old

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Here are some adjectives for old: sensuous dirty, sleepy, glamorous, empty, virginal, fabulous civilized, weird gray-beard, incomplete and prostrate, own approval, smoky, fusty, colloquial and divergent, unadulterated, real, virile, good, truculent, overbearing, formal cut-and-dried, last, sick, circumpolar or otherwise wide-ranging, irish scarce, densest opposite, corrupt and rebellious, curious, luxurious, continuous nagging, weary and wan, down-home good, hind much, regular, same, fourth and extreme, poor effete, cheap, grey, tall, least, large and beautifully coloured, old forty-nine. You can get the definitions of these old adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to old (and find more here).

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Words to Describe old

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

sensuous dirty sleepy, glamorous empty, virginal fabulous civilized weird gray-beard incomplete and prostrate own approval smoky, fusty colloquial and divergent unadulterated, real virile, good truculent, overbearing formal cut-and-dried last, sick circumpolar or otherwise wide-ranging irish scarce densest opposite corrupt and rebellious curious, luxurious continuous nagging weary and wan down-home good hind much
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regular, same fourth and extreme poor effete cheap, grey tall, least large and beautifully coloured old forty-nine anglomaniacal and general shifty, ever-changing diminutive and tattered practical communist monstrous queer white and immaculate lower, full-bodied now visible and accessible other, separate sad, austere cruel, insatiable rigid and wrinkled dreary, fearful fearful and inexorable wise, shrewd ancient, obscure dear, safe bad sick short and foul mock gothic dear safe anglomaniacal wise and unerring certain diurnal dull and joyless other pampered dumb and dead crafty, clever visible and accessible certain time-honored rich and virile picturesque and enchanting single, unchanging grotesque, deformed shabby comfortable free, honest other thrifty many exalted foolish, fond ancient and magnificent pleasant, good white, red tall perennial good, genuine ancient and loyal dear, sad several ornamental jealous, possessive lucky few certain zealous old major massive and impressive little fragrant famous chief last but not least quaint medieval stern and solemn rough and tough egyptian and other usual mild foolish and absurd stern, bearded stern, hard dear, honest own darker deep secret least, good long and eventful solid and permanent strange and tragic certain wise less well-known now visible little odd several possible same peculiar more authoritative circumpolar rich and poor much genuine true and original simple, honest dear familiar much preferred nice, clean nearer and nearer such rare little good same good more moderate colloquial own beautiful few great many curious last great past and present incomplete more obvious poor dear shifty more prosperous other similar other major unadulterated more difficult young female several other many great good solid truculent few other many, many good and bad sleepy many other virile corrupt several different smoky good many much smaller tiny little stern more distant wise diminutive jealous great many foolish pleasant dumb rigid dreary crafty little more egyptian picturesque weary fearful dear old empty nearer fourth dear grotesque ancient cheap cruel rich sad nice last dull solid visible free rough curious tall good past white lower massive strange simple regular other least short large true many single long

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Words to Describe old

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "old" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "old" are: sensuous dirty, sleepy, glamorous, empty, virginal, fabulous civilized, and weird gray-beard. There are 200 other words to describe old listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe old 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, "old" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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