Describing Wordsfor Preface

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Here are some adjectives for preface: polite but boyish, elegant biographical, querulous and apologetical, quaintly self-confident, ornate, self-congratulatory, defensive and provocative, angry, impertinent, tangled and awkward, rather tangled and awkward, heroic long, judicious well-written, vain and sophomoric, brief and tasteful, last grammatical, stiff and self-sufficient, superfluous and petulant, rather superfluous and petulant, lengthy and angry, extremely clear and able, apologetic or explanatory, artfully flattering, sensible and genteel, admirable and erudite, creditably brief, simple, witty, pithy brief, brief and defiant, rather long but necessary, discouragingly brilliant, modest and characteristic. You can get the definitions of these preface adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to preface (and find more here).

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Words to Describe preface

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

polite but boyish elegant biographical querulous and apologetical quaintly self-confident ornate, self-congratulatory defensive and provocative angry, impertinent tangled and awkward rather tangled and awkward heroic long judicious well-written vain and sophomoric brief and tasteful last grammatical stiff and self-sufficient superfluous and petulant rather superfluous and petulant lengthy and angry extremely clear and able apologetic or explanatory artfully flattering
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sensible and genteel admirable and erudite creditably brief simple, witty pithy brief brief and defiant rather long but necessary discouragingly brilliant modest and characteristic brief but bombastic touchingly helpless presumably contemporaneous odd and hardly intelligible high-spirited and witty sufficiently disingenuous characteristic satiric somewhat long and windy short but communicative emotionally true inaccurate but emotionally true rollicking humorous far-fetched, eloquent disquieting and oft-repeated brief and reverential mildly ironical relatively self-effacing apparently realistic large and affectionate candid and modest continuous and unfailing interesting and modest wise and attractive sensible but pedantic curious editorial serious apologetic comparatively mild-mannered greatly indebted conscientious and excellent somewhat sonorous long appreciative dark and certain copious and erudite ingenious critical large biographical lengthy and brilliant biographical and topographical short but substantial modest and brief somewhat necessary fine analytic short and pertinent last introductory rather smug short and characteristic long, pompous big short long and very serious elegant and delightful short but admirable rather tangled short and heartfelt noble and enthusiastic long explanatory modest and sensible apologetic and explanatory full explanatory brief and succinct cool and critical long useless brief special long but necessary adventurous french somewhat solemn deservedly famous short biographical brief and sudden rather fuller tedious but necessary long and windy brief biographical somewhat querulous rather mystical clear and able hardly intelligible respectful little basic biological long unnecessary rather superfluous apologetical brief explanatory large and bold otherwise undistinguished interesting general important and instructive short historical biographical and critical biographical extremely clear rather shorter singularly lucid hearty little long religious biographical and historical little sentimental longhand laudatory somewhat pretentious manly late ingenious long and interesting apparently intelligent valuable and interesting valuable historical rather pompous introductory self-congratulatory explanatory enormously long own inimitable apologetic indebted panegyrical extremely complex four-page ungrammatical beautiful and interesting long, dry graphical well-written somewhat long now well-known best general far nobler sugar-coated more offensive interesting historical further querulous british public autobiographic rather amusing sophomoric more fantastic little political disingenuous reverential autobiographical one-page attractive little hypochondriacal young and old penitential instructive brief bilingual much further metrical palliative exceedingly interesting succinct conciliatory supplementary invariable short anti-christian much shorter narrative historical somewhat lengthy lengthy interesting anonymous self-confident little further complimentary editorial now famous inconclusive modest squalid mere literary pardonable inflammatory communicative critical discursive topical new and interesting sympathetic eloquent rather long racy erudite wholly different handwritten judicious admirable more appropriate second bombastic egotistical original far-fetched more remarkable perceptive somewhat unusual analytic curt past and present unpublished boyish candid scurrilous self-effacing scathing sensible memorable necessary contentious controversial reformer ironical best possible provocative oft-repeated appreciative extremely interesting mild-mannered topographical boastful satiric humorous inaccurate fitting self-sufficient satirical remarkable unnecessary quaint little more valuable high-spirited undistinguished egregious suggestive tedious instrumental smug contemporaneous unpalatable valuable illuminating formal devout polite pertinent lucid affectionate amusing defiant unfinished peremptory prodigal solemn exhaustive aforesaid disquieting appropriate pompous preparatory grammatical witty flattering outspoken long frigid poetical unimportant moody slightest dubious charming little disheartening petulant characteristic excellent pedantic piquant alarming superfluous intelligible ingenious forceful spurious presumptuous suitable elegant belligerent famous angry promising impertinent sonorous tasteful objectionable neat little ostentatious ephemeral general unfailing ominous detestable acceptable spicy proper offensive nice little portentous shorter authoritative inimitable nobler sarcastic vindictive cheery compulsory geological equivocal insolent sensational fuller charming uncompromising pious genteel impudent stormy delightful pretentious special defensive heroic enthusiastic heartfelt windy invaluable garrulous old familiar seductive customary copious philosophical biological inspiring graceful skillful obnoxious abrupt fictitious brilliant merest artful lurid virulent whimsical tangled familiar audacious quaint conventional inadequate ethical famed impromptu joint fascinating patriotic handy horrific conscientious philosophic fleeting singular worthy worn-out logical striking spirited smallest extraordinary comprehensive hopeful ornate ample indispensable grave scant ill senseless slight limited usual discreet simplest pathetic vile literary musical imperial curious hearty awkward unlucky least genial ponderous actual poetic lighter realistic separate accurate humble exciting nouvelle wrong well-known luminous sentimental best magnificent courteous abominable unusual startling sinister important dazzling precious clever perpetual naive wonderful flaming considerable playful passionate noble immortal fifth neutral helpless additional significant whole able complex happy fresh former bad vigorous cool mystical corresponding dainty neat gorgeous fantastic continuous hardy petty harsh natural irish capital political mere 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Words to Describe preface

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "preface" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "preface" are: polite but boyish, elegant biographical, querulous and apologetical, quaintly self-confident, and ornate, self-congratulatory. There are 581 other words to describe preface listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe preface 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, "preface" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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