Describing Wordsfor Stiffness

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Here are some adjectives for stiffness: ingly painful, wooden, self-conscious, terrible, frigid, gruff, repellent, momentary blocky, slightly polite, strange, rheumatoid, peculiar rigid, wooden doll-like, grave and almost diplomatic, weird and slow, sinister and really terrifying, joint or incipient, original fashionable, legitimate and consistent, faint conscientious, uncompromising doll-like, grim, unnatural, germanic military, usual rigorous, nearly arthritic, initial, inevitable, pale, queer, coldly aggressive, natural haughty, dull, uncompromising, certain virginal, silent, pallid, faint characteristic, now cramped. You can get the definitions of these stiffness adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to stiffness (and find more here).

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Words to Describe stiffness

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

ingly painful wooden, self-conscious terrible, frigid gruff, repellent momentary blocky slightly polite strange, rheumatoid peculiar rigid wooden doll-like grave and almost diplomatic weird and slow sinister and really terrifying joint or incipient original fashionable legitimate and consistent faint conscientious uncompromising doll-like grim, unnatural germanic military usual rigorous nearly arthritic initial, inevitable pale, queer coldly aggressive
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natural haughty dull, uncompromising certain virginal silent, pallid faint characteristic now cramped additional lateral curious tense plump hard uncomfortable social already fantastic tight, knotted weird, mechanical correct nervous slightest general almost diplomatic great constructional least german once military slight rheumatic certain smooth massive, clumsy suddenly alien dry and laborious away unnecessary so-called british tense, unnatural same ungracious certain corporeal upright military customary german same shy tall elegant present moderate fine inner extreme muscular natural intellectual usual anxious rheumatoid slight foreign certain elegant certain unmistakable torsional almost military dark blonde own obstinate still considerable sufficient internal conventional military german and spanish quaint old-time little residual certain angry little shy unhealed much inner certain indefinable such double certain charming dialectical formal military rather unnecessary cold and formal brushlike average british slightly awkward fresh clean little additional much military unbent least more authoritarian doll-like rheumatic same solemn certain strange demoniacal such alien own initial arthritic papery prim starchy cadaverous little military less obvious constructional same wooden just sufficient pedantic tutorial same gentle muscular residual unpicturesque painful uncompromising slightest possible slight same odd military self-conscious almost comical gouty numb byzantine clenched armorial certain new old italian unnatural salty awkward death-like crippling archaic such remarkable sore unyielding inflexible excruciating snug unaccustomed hard-core little extra cramped virginal uncharacteristic noticeable frigid shy ungracious wrinkled tyrannical middling certain overwrought puritanical clotted sunday-school repellent momentary least little magisterial initial unrelenting lateral jerky limp equal less and less blocky purposeful uncouth haughty unmistakable sudden inevitable chalky more painful waxy obstinate stylistic formal intentional regal sufficient prodigious mechanical unalterable ceremonial sulky nagging pristine rigid deal more gruff indefinable transverse chivalrous sacerdotal unusual joint perceptible undue insupportable rigorous careful fibrous feverish heraldic longitudinal daytime conscious requisite unconquerable gothic grammatical pained brittle mournful unnecessary icy queer little official utmost overpowering preliminary brocaded preternatural additional corporeal fictitious old-time far less uncanny uneasy wooden pompous persistent antiquated angular aggressive infuriating little more uncomfortable dogmatic life-long motionless abrupt artificial implacable bureaucratic obvious indomitable intolerable considerable diffuse medieval professional tense virile eighteenth-century peculiar sweaty extraordinary evident defiant slightest characteristic proper extreme constitutional agonizing hypocritical indescribable stark inert much greater seeming inconceivable disagreeable unpleasant portentous smug usual strange remarkable regimental subsequent comparative excessive weird fullest occidental comparable permanent instantaneous austere slick conventional grievous curious much more quaint pretentious consummate girlish necessary doubtful troublesome balanced wiry unreasonable stony odd leaden stinging grim classical ludicrous mild extra crusty solemn inexorable antique laborious queer detestable architectural cold moderate thorough dull arctic unbearable incipient perverse pallid menacing consistent immovable languid foolish unspeakable british apparent conscientious irritating mathematical clumsy visible slow medi�val more or less subtle systematic customary hopeful dreadful positive natural automatic manifest physical horrid social involuntary terrible uncommon silken appalling german brisk trivial knotted insolent anxious terrifying unconscious rusty orthodox telltale amusing exceptional faint elegant cautious maddening frosty glossy ornamental nervous mediaeval ominous occasional tremendous diplomatic mock creamy less democratic majestic comical surprising mobile venerable consequent awful intense greatest old-fashioned relative corresponding habitual proud severe wary previous terrific dutch polite sinister worst sullen resolute general stubborn alarming legitimate abnormal least inner grotesque inhuman double honest essential oriental unexpected helpless defensive heroic skinny serious sombre alert normal fashionable solid northern possible alien eerie grave weary classic ridiculous ancient comic blonde gray silent delicious national arrogant religious suitable unfamiliar sturdy legal fiery desperate lofty fresh gigantic spanish intellectual gracious italian cool pale smooth moral solitary promising frequent fatal former flat temporary actual eternal gentle weak thick dreary ample sharp notable total rude charming civil hard incredible rich mental clean foreign stupid hot fantastic fearful horrible tight dry white wonderful useless dusty sheer simple vain delightful internal singular coarse present ordinary personal massive traditional angry narrow mere metal imperial primitive dead original magnificent major familiar common full more particular main long

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Words to Describe stiffness

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "stiffness" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "stiffness" are: ingly painful, wooden, self-conscious, terrible, frigid, gruff, repellent, and momentary blocky. There are 550 other words to describe stiffness listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe stiffness 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, "stiffness" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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