Describing Wordsfor Speech

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Here are some adjectives for speech: short after-dinner, calm, proper, beautiful and smooth, picturesque and eloquent, memorable and apparently prophetic, common articulate, sweet gaelic, inarticulate unfathomable, physical verbal, oddest gallant, lethal percussive, individual person-to-person, wholesome irish, previous sarcastic, frank, explanatory, cruel and ambiguous, exceedingly able and instructive, extremely scrupulous, short incendiary, subservient soft, similar sloppy, full-length after-dinner, implacably bitter, curt, rude, formulaic little, fairly windy, intimate vocal, miserable official, fierce, liquid, better after-dinner. You can get the definitions of these speech adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to speech (and find more here).

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Words to Describe speech

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

short after-dinner calm, proper beautiful and smooth picturesque and eloquent memorable and apparently prophetic common articulate sweet gaelic inarticulate unfathomable physical verbal oddest gallant lethal percussive individual person-to-person wholesome irish previous sarcastic frank, explanatory cruel and ambiguous exceedingly able and instructive extremely scrupulous short incendiary subservient soft similar sloppy full-length after-dinner
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implacably bitter curt, rude formulaic little fairly windy intimate vocal miserable official fierce, liquid better after-dinner thick, vulgar fair and salutary steady undisciplined unconventional after-dinner slow, cultured serene, deliberate vivid, inimitable energetic and authoritative electronic free idiotic damned sufficiently stuffy brittle and frivolous slow and rather cautious occasionally curt vehement and artless perhaps articulate proper and lofty strange jacamal apparently prophetic inarticulate, unfathomable foreign oral artificial articulate deliberate, harmonious coolly insolent rude outlandish fatal after-dinner plain verbal servitorial conventional undecorated plain compact, nervous short, melodramatic slow, archaic gracefully convoluted long and gracefully convoluted frigid official rapid, senseless also thick and indistinct brief, spare simple, succinct noble vulgar short, boisterous unfamiliar coarse bitter and indiscreet longest plain politico-atheistical violent politico-atheistical toneless audible eccentric or coarse longest inaugural sudden and extemporal intentional slow unbridled public peculiar barbarous inarticulate mystic rough unaccommodating extraordinarily succinct deliciously imperfect rare temperate curt penetrating flashy, flippant beautiful, well-behaved appropriate and enthusiastic bad harsh apparently pretentious artful and eloquent consistent and realistic amazing and notable bitter and impassioned exterior and clumsy careful, non-committal passionate and almost incoherent violent and indignant intimate, convincing bright exuberant sedate and careful short and temperate fervent and strenuous exquisitely impassioned melodious and intelligible quick fluent charming and appreciative enthusiastic, hyperbolic brief but sensible powerful, caustic wayward, illusive remarkably eloquent prudent, high-minded accurate but plainer vast husky infernal voiceless unnecessary or inopportune careless, expressive majestic and multitudinous incisive, deliberate graceful and truly vigorous fierce unintelligible loud inattentive long, eloquent and powerful quaint mysterious own commonest paraverbal slow sonorous frankly brutal intelligible and rational alliterative, incomprehensible fluent foreign thick, difficult bitterly negative magnificently boastful warlike impassioned rapid, bitter long, voluble neat and complimentary rough, unmusical formal, warlike short but persuasive musical fluent quick and fluent long hypocritical florid, perspiring quick, colloquial every-day japanese sociable and polite unuttered, unheard crisp galactic easy, correct solemn and proper normal, dry enough civilized voluble but hardly intelligible sibilant and rasping dangerously inefficient sappy little short, memorable short, impassioned sweetly frank and open voluminous platitudinous formal and sonorous rather formal and sonorous limited, genuine somewhat stilted and precise voluble, metallic captivating and persuasive final lyrical somewhat slow and deliberate excellent and conciliatory insincere and unreal sarcastic and arrogant eloquent and racy coloured, vigorous exterior and flattering appropriate bengali truly original and excellent complex classical poor and sour common loud uneducated or childish singularly brilliant and violent incidental or casual clear or coherent slow, impartial greatest pathetic sensible and prophetic softly endearing witty and reasonable emphatic and bright intelligent, illuminating utter, audible articulate and inarticulate long and veracious same anti-socialist rather alexandrine short non-polemical rhythmical or melodious polite or eloquent commonly rapid and stern commonly rapid perfect sensitive high-minded, witty venerable and most original quick, extravagant perfectly solemn and heartfelt eloquent and statesmanlike hence inflated gay and heartening suggestive and evocative personal, metaphysical and passionate metaphysical and passionate piquant and insolent spirited, piquant and insolent adroit and conciliatory flattering inaugural flattest everyday neat but brief musical, quick former fluent unexpected after-dinner slow but self-confident characteristic, articulate loud and intelligent poorest common brief but very spirited flattering and energetic somewhat languorous congratulatory and somewhat boastful startlingly natural and funny terse, ungrammatical all-around noble short and impassioned soft and faultless effective, brilliant vehement picturesque rough, truthful silent awful unpopular and eccentric thy ribald rather well-received official welcome jacamal flat and nasal almost urgent foolish spur-of-the-moment modern oral unwontedly long warm and urgent ancient and incomprehensible loud strident long and eloquent quick or slow surprisingly somber genuinely primitive slightly irreverent splendid polycultural softer northern long and deferential wise and forthright obviously well-rehearsed quick random three-minute impromptu completely deceptive deceptively primitive demeaning short tically long mysterious but significant long and emotionally difficult lunatic antiwar wanton free seditious or treasonous whole smug dramatic, notable long and very turgid haughty and reckless synthetic worldwide sharp rousing special and figurative structurally different brash, confusing normal liquid silent incomprehensible rapid, idiomatic blatant subvocal verbal and inner last after-dinner quite current and modern laggard human throaty asiatic plain, coherent unconsciously musical utter articulate sinister and extraordinary old, archaic otherwise courteous stilted serial more swift and soft swift and soft persuasive, self-pitying slightly regional quite articulate heartening fierce own gaelic deceptively ordinary hateful, guttural eloquent and economical comical but rather scurrilous smooth, intentional slow, racy scornful or disdainful speech--individual, personal speech--individual sweet aspiring last blatant --cynical swift, declamatory therefore tragic eloquent and plaintive unreasonable, angry monotonous, indistinct long and highly impressive wonderful unconventional inefficient, powerless bad dull true and stainless popular or polite comfortable and pithy cordial, rich and juicy wise intelligible studiously unfilial boyish, ebullient long, abusive apologetic introductory indignant and terrible hideous and irreparable quickly coloured eloquent unperformed racy, native inimitable prophetic cool and honest rude, unfilial short but characteristic plain, ungrammatical provocative and sarcastic unspeakably asinine persuasive or effective idiomatic spanish common and colloquial sadder human calm, fluent shortest after-dinner brief but somewhat indefinite fearless, comprehensive and eloquent brief and gracious recent belligerent terse proverbial warmly italian wonderfully fluent ordinary protectionist plain vigorous moderate and very able noble and literary easy transatlantic vehement and long rhetorical, political obviously unpremeditated eventually articulate customary picturesque interesting and pugnacious long, interesting and pugnacious long and adroit capital and convincing tolerable after-dinner fatal quiet modest, convincing unpublished but famous rudely democratic famous and simple deservedly far-famed great and deservedly far-famed indirectly anti-foreign neat and reverential inarticulate and indistinguishable impetuous and boastful poetic and often profound breathless unspoken egotistic and pedantic single uncivil democratic feminine radically plucky extremely incoherent long and extremely incoherent tart and careless frank and eloquent easy, genial and natural ready prodigious singularly able and lucid longest and most effective memorable and unforgettable unsuccessful and flat dull, ineffective palpably obstructive unanswerable little magnificent symbolic bold emphatic assertive, incisive circuitous and careful able but not exciting lengthy and able ready, enthusiastic liquid and powerful unbridled, irresponsible foolishly naive ironically incongruous happy, explanatory copious doric every-day colloquial smart and saucy childish and indiscreet clear-cut, correct rough and captious articulate, personal archaic lithuanian short, apt singularly applicable brief complimentary formal and florid equally simple and cordial disagreeable or evil common-sense, ready eloquent, sophistical long, bold and spirited long and somewhat boastful gay nonsensical carelessly everyday tepid, half-hearted girlish, unqualified rather long and careful fluent and tranquil excessively indelicate long and excessively indelicate harsh profane true and readable spare plain short and very awkward fluent gaelic specially impassioned short but affectionate laudatory public eloquent or poetic flaming republican fearless, incisive brilliant, harrowing equally appropriate and practical bold and amusing fervent bold short and grave much indistinct quite coherent and distinct briefest and most helpful so-called impromptu rapid, imperfect therefore oratorical unassuming and always charming primitive rude long and pedantic weak leaky useful and sometimes precious awfully affectionate seminal and impressive wise, seminal and impressive actual upper-class obscene or uncivil quite good and ordinary curious introductory short but gracious conciliatory and even complimentary notable patriotic appropriate and animated inappropriate and unsatisfactory brief, apt exceedingly able and effective voluble, jerky later perfect significant orchestral hoped-for repentant pompous and insolent long, explicit colloquial, informal short but highly patriotic often hard and guttural fairest flattering remarkably calm and temperate false finical sceptical, bitter foolish and incautious finest and most statesmanlike soft-spoken, melodious moral, truthful correct and rather colorless irreverent and boastful seal, free indignant or explanatory monotonous administrative singularly magnanimous musical rhythmic particularly complimentary ordinarily dreary strictly retaliatory rapid, inaudible public and attractive mischievous, disloyal copious sonorous unmusical, plain past rational peculiarly succinct singularly clever and lucid flippant, slipshod coloured and clotted fine, florid weakly maudlin dull and weakly maudlin direct and simpler ambiguous and yet startling instructive, historical frank and undisturbed resolute, vigorous brief and rather meaningless wholly boorish scientific or wholly boorish tranquil and reverential violent, pungent appropriate and patriotic affectionate but authoritative impassioned but incoherent forceful and pathetic florid western long, brilliant and humorous accidentally unhappy classical sweet scandalous plain immensely witty wonderfully clear and distinct eloquent impromptu offensive public remarkably bold and vigorous capitally witty hot democratic long, florid rude and cynical deaf phonetic evidently inadvertent curt, lithe eloquent and most pathetic long voluble eloquent and felicitous lucid, judicial indolent, reflective brief and witty open and somewhat indignant outspoken and defiant remarkably outspoken and defiant quantity--colloquial free and even intimate singularly brilliant and felicitous practical and noble short and complimentary memorable and epoch-making pleasing and serviceable scarcely wonderful brief and tactful neat and patriotic admirably direct and short sensitive and vigorous breathless abbreviated forthright but amiable regular, inarticulate nervous and copious slightly enigmatical apparently mercenary pacific and proper rough, contemptuous long, convincing moderate and almost sympathetic world-famous political fine or eloquent less anguished terse and picturesque magnetic, eloquent wittily graceful neat, well-rounded harmless after-dinner articulate or distinct high-pitched, clear-cut bright mute monotonous and inconclusive guttural and inharmonious sweet decent back hasty metallic, blatant dirty and obscene clear communicable finally insolent uncongenial human past articulate shortest offhand threadbare comic grand and somewhat heroic careless colloquial singularly smooth and perfect rough but patriotic chaste modest racy native straightforward and complimentary after-dinner or occasional fiery reactionary easy cool plain forthright graceful and good-natured humorous, graceful and good-natured nay chivalrous trenchant and humorous good-naturedly sarcastic delightfully clever and sparkling profoundly prosaic reckless or cynical well-balanced and powerful extraordinarily powerful and eloquent wise tactful poor and beggarly human beggarly human complete much well-known rapid large, biblical long or eloquent furious and mischievous short and very neat tiresome bad purest ordinary matchless royal brutal plain unusually consecutive long and unusually consecutive copious and patriotic significant and most extraordinary witty introductory pathetic, quaint inflated thy youthfully fluent and dogmatic youthfully fluent plainly disingenuous unconvincing and plainly disingenuous ornate and strictly original vehement and patriotic fluent and incisive covert suggestive irregular vehement crisp and terse usually crisp and terse slow, quaint eager guttural quite fervent tipsy after-dinner unanswerably eloquent appreciative, practical rapt and ardent commonly soft and gentle commonly soft jerky canadian soft but fierce exterior and rare apt and golden ready memorable cold, high-sounding longest and most sensible stony and unfilial rarely curt and evasive rarely curt similar congratulatory comparatively free and safe general and most characteristic uniquely sharp sweet nearer eminently diplomatic unfortunate and incomprehensible decidedly recondite long and decidedly recondite ever gilded inexcusably gruesome clearer, abler unwise rebellious long and evidently heartfelt rapid, ungrammatical hot and voluble dreadfully unfilial late significant brief and profane thoroughly seditious rapid heedless wonderfully calm and judicious non-literary rustic average after-dinner good and fiery quiet, inconsequential last fluent rude and heartless long and optimistic inspiring and enchanting low, inspiring and enchanting simplified modern ornate and stilted interesting or witty insupportably wearisome never-ending smooth ultra-political powerful armenian free dictatorial concise and obscure joyous and happiest empty, irrelevant sensible and eloquent virulent and venomous bustling fairy eloquently bitter candid, intelligible profound reflective insolently coarse insolently coarse but patriotic extraordinary after-dinner tactful and persuasive illustrative and most absurd lengthy, facetious characteristically racy clear, fluent and persuasive pompous and insulting dreary, incoherent brave, loud least inflamed stilted and somewhat pompous lengthy and fine evidently impassioned grave and evidently impassioned rapid and hearty artful and formal altogether praiseworthy brief but weighty articulate and tonal distinct understandable mighty guttural prodigiously noble impolite free regular postprandial furious and lurid uncouth popular free and indiscreet long and absolutely irrelevant long and lame ironical or disdainful sarcastic or cynical formal and complimentary witty offhand direct incisive ordinary advisory rougher western perfect persuasive entirely incoherent almost incisive uncommonly witty and effective direct curt limpid and lucid chaste and eloquent so-called seditious picturesque and often musical rapid and rousing vehement and exhaustive memorable anti-war bravely beautiful truthful and resolute ready or eloquent nervous and indulgent tearfully eloquent difficult guttural indecent rough innocent and confident long but apparently temperate truly magnificent and exhaustive capital, witty bitter and convincing particularly gallant and flattering grim and vigorous keen brief curt masterful rude or impertinent fitting, familiar free censorial intensely partisan and wearisome partisan and wearisome broad, fraternal brief but most admirable true eloquent emphatic, incomprehensible lengthy and impertinent careless frank quite proper and modest impulsive and rapid crudely evil soft and honest unintelligible childish lengthy or irrelevant humorous and able remarkably humorous and able facetious but instructive usually severe and solemn characteristic after-dinner outspoken, candid and clear-cut candid and clear-cut genuine humanistic airy, provocative polite or flattering handsome but short always gentle and quiet confidential or semi-confidential wonderfully simple and cordial wise, coherent coherent, articulate accurate and voluminous always deliberate and unenthusiastic thereafter beguiling usually terse habitually insulting eloquent and astonishing enthusiastic and appropriate impressive, well-prepared angry and unrestrained rather long and fanciful further inarticulate intentionally offensive exterior and rough ready and impressive striking and able extremely soft and rapid roughly pathetic neat complimentary unusually didactic flexible, cultured short, pathetic neat and highly laudatory wholly coherent indignant and unstilted neat, respectful distinct articulate polite and stilted divine, prophetic intensely idiomatic german colloquial well-prepared little longest and most eloquent clean-cut, languid stout and doughty modern and everyday unheeded and familiar coarse defective real after-dinner informal, offhand intellectual and eloquent highly intellectual and eloquent unintelligible, imperishable constitutionally unprotected courteous and harmonious felicitous but composite dangerous and disloyal possible, articulate clear and relevant wise, instructive always slow and deliberate indiscreet but audacious incoherent, unintelligible able and violent luminous and artful ever-changing colloquial incoherent reckless deliberate balanced playful and boisterous haughty or bitter foolish grave graceful or even correct suggestive and lewd brief and reasonable suitable introductory obscure final fairly indiscreet apparently unprepared indiscriminate free brilliant and jocose foolishly comic amiable but awkward short but highly emotional quaint, jocular impassioned, plain fine sanctified direct, emphatic short and unassuming empty, solemn noisy or pompous especially articulate cautious or timorous short complimentary mutually intelligible usual congratulatory slow, pleasant lively southern definite formal sensible and amusing honest free overly mannered usual breathy original oral utter perfect neat short rough, curt coarse northern typical thoughtless otherwise steady pitiless and cruel strange, sleepy abrupt, vivid asinine little short congratulatory impassioned little sweetly frank quite incoherent benign and modest appropriate little actual rustic short, impartial august and precious thy historic impulsive, foolish cold, fastidious courteous, conciliatory extant public brilliant and violent brilliant, bitter pure and national thy disdainful short customary frightful violent inner, silent non-polemical abundant and facile brilliant metrical solid and thoughtful similar sophistical thy misbegotten sadly prosaic boastful, empty well-balanced little strongly guttural startlingly natural hasty and wrathful common constitutional tremulous, sudden unthinking, wicked neat and appropriate utter human articulate limited free basic galactic elegant and impressive uncharacteristically long unintelligible alien slow and elegant comparatively sophisticated long unintelligible grave and merry ungrateful and selfish deal shorter grave and excellent frank and cynical rather stereotyped truly vigorous usually agreeable german or teutonic smooth rough best noble same breathy harsh and rude usual deprecatory intelligible human ideal after-dinner indeed heavy plain, vigorous delicate and fascinating

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Words to Describe speech

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "speech" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "speech" are: short after-dinner, calm, proper, beautiful and smooth, picturesque and eloquent, and memorable and apparently prophetic. There are 995 other words to describe speech listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe speech 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, "speech" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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