Describing Wordsfor Stuff

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Here are some adjectives for stuff: warm, insipid, pleasant legendary, crazy, futuristic, right tricky, unpleasant white, technically sensitive, tasteless stale, bizarre, mystical, delicious, slippery, aquatic rough, black, decomposed, dull, unornamental, seriously loopy, tragical comical, black, putty-like, practically transparent, hardly black-market, whole, visceral, sorry, useless, watery, green-tinted, wretched bald, coarse, murky, sorry, short, rings-real, wonderful, legal, much perilous, powerful, ornery, delicious, heady, lurid and derivative, sticky oatmeal. You can get the definitions of these stuff adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to stuff (and find more here).

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Words to Describe stuff

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

warm, insipid pleasant legendary crazy, futuristic right tricky unpleasant white technically sensitive tasteless stale bizarre, mystical delicious, slippery aquatic rough black, decomposed dull, unornamental seriously loopy tragical comical black, putty-like practically transparent hardly black-market whole, visceral sorry, useless watery, green-tinted wretched bald coarse, murky sorry, short rings-real wonderful, legal much perilous powerful, ornery delicious, heady
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lurid and derivative sticky oatmeal �carnival cool sci-fi crusty, knee-deep same undrinkable shiny and greasy hopeful green yellow fecal usual non-fiction good, potent soft, insubstantial indigestible feathery potent and almost magical authentic fake still unused also fascinating tough and tasteless viscous gassy illegal bacteriological wiry, transparent real fatty dental and facial nasty hand-to-hand sneaky political basic fractal repellent soft dark foamy grim and joyful useless, nasty colored, spongy moldy luminescent alone single-crystal clean precious rubbery, tasteless cram greenish wan phosphorescent superstitious babylonian enough sloppy good, salable enticingly strange damned spectacular weak aimless softer, delicate infinitely softer ordinary facile weak, sloppy cheap, impossible vilely filthy dull analytical restorative perishable nonsensical empty poor soupy intricate, impossible fiery emotional ordinary sour all-important, high-profile yellow sweet-smelling truly fancy white lighter just physiological other bake incomprehensible cosmological heavy, tangy second-hand, ill-fitting jist politercal such malleable newfangled abstract more antiwar strictly spur-of-the-moment native conditions-cultural conditions-cultural poor, boastful major scary mealy gray definitely alcoholic tart and definitely alcoholic blue-green spongy numbing powdery enough mushy glassy, volcanic mostly unregistered gentle nostalgic preferably dead more mechanized jazzy old introductory and elementary orange slick high-energy, high-speed wretched sweet stern absorbent unlawful or corrupt flashy, tricky material, beautiful provably worthless serious, big-time wishy-washy sour superior grey thick, indigestible shoddy drab dark, undeveloped stilted, rhetorical greasy yellowish useless gray just brackish hideously potent already native peculiar silken decent ordinary green sticky vigorous, fast-paced truly shiftless vile, potent savage old-time big-time, straight simply unfashionable just clean-up murky, turbulent bland, slow down hypothetical rancid meaty ruffly blue horrid nasty thick bittersweet remarkable fertile hairy softer delicate or time-sensitive practical, basic tall brittle murky mythological typically portentous hard, bad-smelling costly phoenician crazy macho sensible and socially useful fancy overdressed sloppy teenage comfortable unfamiliar sturdy, work-a-day slippery foreign orange, spongy fabled dark negative existential bitter, vile stale bottled wonderfully ominous formal, unleavened foul bitter particularly thick and sensitive airy, sweet pale gritty real low-voltage powerful wet lustrous, magnetic carving--archeological beastly soft more sloppy filmy, green usual conformist gritty, flaky fat and yellowish nutritious and very unsatisfying human mystic awesomely hot thorny, feathery sleek, luminous slow, rush-hour away top-secret thin, degenerate lewd, itchy gluey, slimy sufficiently stern enough deep and serious tough iridescent misleading, spurious commoner, meaner filmy, delightful facile cosmopolitan life—normal, boring life—normal crazy or weird ferociously destructive beautiful ribbed scheedam--capital seamless woolen wholly forgettable foreign, yellowish unripe or half-baked veins--royal hasty, perilous unideal wordy thin and sloppy trivial and wholly unusable wholly unusable rich but rather threadbare tepid, awful sparkling lacey filthy strong costly byzantine wus poor fair furry young and luscious coloured and indestructible own baked inf--ernal gloomy, grand cheap discursive probably racy obligatory sexy especially german-made decent, dark queer greasy groundless and worthless impertinent and unintelligible dark, impertinent and unintelligible dry, inanimate pitifully snobbish much romantic and sensational shiny, thin vile shoddy soft sanguine deadly airborne dreamy creamy still pallid pure mythological enough substantial marvelously romantic big posh routine clerical fine, snappy coarse light-blue clean but very coarse sordid miserable much crazy tall grassy dry gritty sweet-smelling, white things-medical such modernistic mild, slow-acting scientific funny naked factual hard see-through blue silky greenish glassy real high-octane ostensibly scary undeniably funny eggshell and gooey could-be-real mighty dismal cranky, impenetrable leathery unrecognizable pasty, fragrant bland chunky crisp tasteless bland whitish crisp textured net or neat enough neat politercal thick alive spectacular facial basic, routine mostly banal routine local things-oral few things-oral aforementioned janitorial petty, hands-on haulage, medical deeply individualistic dark and rather dirty important, exciting steady, minor mushy romantic tricky retrieval scant corporate cold, gooey nasty, repulsive slower long-distance product-design pleasantly old-fashioned trivial, trivial smooth, gooey hard criminal scientific forensic powerful and poignant just psychosomatic miserable heavy intellectual, analytical routine interstellar mainly classical pure, violent tedious female reasonably heady normal funny evil and generally strange mostly everyday quilted, shiny preternatural bad just strong-arm torch�highly emotional torch-highly emotional good showy nasty, sticky away unclaimed extra trivial surely trivial greasy perfumed most life-and-death tough, tasteless straight, undiluted wood-luckily flimsy unsatisfying thin extremely caustic filthily mobile old bluesy feeble, watered-down casual, unscheduled headlong romantic greedy primeval unformed fundamental dangerous, weighty fairly treacherous moldy purple crazy, fantastic red watery just penny-ante cool runny universally rare bloody dull straight projective enough short-range little safety-first fourth-dimensional, mathematical putty-like gray just prep impossible, crazy authentic hands-on awfully gooey marvelous and esoteric softer, sedimentary gray clammy worst darn nasty bitter filthy, revolting thick, unpalatable greenish transparent gooey brown odd gray-black nuclear-chemical digital, nuclear-chemical cool virtual viciously bitter slippery vile slippery stinging stringy greasy incredibly honorable exciting nerdy sweet-smelling, gooey exciting, seductive divisive, contentious sugary icy usual high-pressure brilliant, secret pointy, scratchy strictly off-the-shelf stale synthetic original, conclusive satisfactory ancestral precious pre-war various and windy pernicious and fantastical heavy and sturdy barbarous, shallow and worthless priceless inimitable terrible messy golden or silken filmy, unmanageable sturdily elastic tame and solid other unsaleable slimy mawkish us--transcendental valueless and useless transparent, woolen cheap, weighty strange inconsistent vile, horrid cheesy, rancid thy baser readable serious fresh snowy savory personal traitorous or craven vile, unjust and cruel warm and gay unruly volcanic rich and silken unpromising and intractable apparently unpromising and intractable unclean theatrical sickening italian obtainable imaginative bright, volatile german hot wretched music-hall scalloped red absurd, funny monotonous nondescript poor and unsubstantial queer imaginative deadly mexican coarse, marketable still shadier wretched heartless larger and straighter real jagged vile lukewarm colorless and dreary vile, bilious brown astringent funny sticky silliest rotten outlandish, cheap and second-hand hearty colonial icy, brackish first-rate operatic phony unselfish contraband sweet sweet fictitious indigestible fibrous medeevial lovely medeevial grand, hairy straight heart-to-heart metallic silky stupid egotistical simplest silvery gross and stubborn real, creamy horribly bitter rancid, indigestible mostly feathery awful classical actually worthless adventurous, buoyant poor net white tart black tart less unripe plush and fluffy dangerous coloured stately gilded dried-out, nasty paltry continental much insufferable high-class, intellectual patent-metal strange, indigestible costly native bad-smelling, black genuinely admirable theoretical, transcendental longer dirty real or only fake pale, tasteless enough scandalous gummy green sodden and lumbering operatic pastoral deadly expensive thin, slinky soft, wretched abominably dry beautiful unreal ethereal or supersensual purple thin gross and villainous florid pretentious gorgeous lacy picturesque and good sticky, syrupy delicious adorable contradictory, broken-down hazy fairy dry, stupid darn interesting superior canned invisible rigid pretentious, flatulent poor, flatulent vicious and perilous rather vicious and perilous tedious dismal malleable, variable variable spiritual bulky, insipid half-transparent, loathsome delicate flimsy exceptionally stern nectar--ambrosial spurious and deleterious flimsy japan-made japan-made fickle and transient fierce, alcoholic shallow, stupid tame and unimportant old-fashioned foreign sooty, porous senseless, insane vertically furrowed purple thick hitherto negative rare and slow-growing astonishingly tough bitter and guilty fragile leafy moderately solid wagnerian barbaric african and turkish atrocious slow crinkly yellowish despicable and useless inflexible, stubborn idle frivolous unanalyzed sensuous historical, instructive poor, every-day white, lacey gross insipid basal mental ugly green and brown dusty fluffy silly pedantic flat, unpalatable preferred western reliable, sure-fire sticky, pasty wretched osteological vile, sour grey and sticky disagreeable loose safe, mediocre pungent, scented lightly changeable tiresome, dry solid, instructive coarse and humble fine drowsy intolerable, old-fashioned superfluous green perfunctory and stupid sane, workmanlike nevertheless fine filmy japanese wild and haphazard sad insipid obsolete, commonplace handmade rough soggy, indigestible dreary and repellent rather dreary and repellent sore human uninteresting, immaterial rough and farcical divine, adorable lean or hysterical yellow-brown, coarse public genuine nasty, unhealthy puny, withered dry, archaic nasty, shifty heavy circumstantial bad, filthy fifty--utterly worthless green, pasty rotten local strange bombastic soft, indigestible perilous sweet white, insipid heady, pernicious non-rational sensible far thinner and poorer harder, firmer soft, scrupulous dark-blue silky nasty sick showy cheaper stodgy, unenlightened easy showy abusive horrible honest, indefatigable radical incendiary stilted social tough, iridescent soupy, slippery hot, hideous similarly unsuitable ordinary and empty flat, four-inch material, more flimsy woolen vile and anonymous bright, common coarse, loathsome stupid nonsensical primary, rude foolish and disturbing inflated impossible low, abominable crisp, sticky rich and stiff blank rough mostly hackneyed stout gaelic thin, crimped colored or other frigid white grey, slimy hateful, evil fairly foul dangerous and unwholesome original terrestrial white chaotic soft masculine elastic spongy real hush-hush good canned warm silken hard, stringy blue sticky coarse shiny much high-tech cornmeal and other minor, petty funny, unexplained airy silken same indestructible bottled green regular off-duty good penetrating impossibly sticky pernicious new beastly heavy universal, simple just mystic just day-to-day strange sleek damned scarce silly violent abominable brown tedious bad sweet, starchy chic new adjacent green red rotten dead purple certainly rich stupid idiot just basic sticky, stringy mostly physical startling golden strange, amorphous white fuzzy dark, brownish much fascinating coarse, reedy bedraggled green truer human poor, pretentious such sticky indeed stupid true celestial such well-made real basic maybe worse such spineless silvery reflective spicy brown thin, powdery distinctly warm certain filthy surprisingly tough more high-tech pink silken thin worsted white rich much weird delicious wet awfully tough wonderful sweet dry historical obviously fake ultramodern civilian aggressive, gay <i>real good mostly gloomy syrupy golden neo-pseudo-classical modern jagged transparent aesthetically catastrophic real last-gasp <p>truly shiftless disnormal latest, coolest platter, rough much penny-ante mainly antisubmarine crooked, fake crazy obsessive rich tasteful undamaged blue warm, crystalline stringy, salty low-risk, unspectacular scratchy, dried-out poetical, mythical other forgettable little autonomic straight, impersonal stupid psychic intimidatingly sophisticated new ethiopian desperately fine old-fashioned, unmarketable old cliched brittle, inferior scientific and meteorological more small-time cheese-easily recognizable dry polar new crazy still dreadful sensational, morbid it—real organic just sci-fi stupid alien chalky whitish depressing bread-and-butter covert operative danish, good-quality tolerable, powerful intensive hands-on scary supernatural brown foamy lighter, molten awful horrible pearly yellowish considerably softer little tougher lab-animal definitely green basic menial ly banal enough harmless much same legal cryptic simple and easier same hands-on nasty illegal weird cancerous green, flaky funny thick usually humble foreign, off-budget leathery synthetic soft, gluey fancy old-fashioned boring grown-up verbal rough inconclusive scientific impersonal but pleasant hideous but expensive material, best real nutty real arcane thick, fruity usually low-grade real, uncut earthy, pithy bitter amber murky, amorphous unquestionably hot smelly rough mysterious flexible old inquisitional elliptical, mysterious big-time local routine late-summer insurance�legal blackjacks—normal insurance—legal damaging, dangerous wistful throaty inedible, awful usual over-the-counter mostly low-key gilded ceremonial ever developed--radical developed--radical cute, fanciful boring forensic lifeless material elementary basic low-level military supposedly top-of-the-line just wind-blown other and horrible down promising slick, gooey healthy aggressive minor, everyday brown-black old strictly low-end fine transcendental locally braided red salty weird gothic mostly little-girl heavy synthetic sic fractal petty ordinary dreadful gooey �absolutely first-rate scarcely dramatic weird pathological clearly touchy real ho-hum historical, old routine, everyday loud, incendiary eally big-time dreadful, reactionary horribly sleazy bland native terribly basic sticky personal purely routine boring and extraneous neat medieval horrid green dull, tasteless helmet-funeral real helmet-funeral queer military african and haitian weird theatrical sordid political repetitive mechanical lacy, sexy real value-added cool stonelike real blood-and-guts shiny, filmy seldom forensic his�biblical plentiful scientific cute, cheerful canker-worms�nearly impenetrable red filmy fibrous pink straggly green slippery erasable dry creepy old gluey always funny nubbly synthetic grisly crusty clear syrupy straight-out crazy gorgeous, heavy queer textured heavy vital dramatic, miraculous ole freudian emotional half-witted solid, worthy real complex pleated translucent icily fiery frigid, pale-blue honest, fresh brownish leathery gritty sweet enough edible awfully academic real gummy sharp dangerous cheaply melodramatic nice high-tech slick, translucent strictly last-minute quite scary sweet, waxy seriously historic ould such smelly green nasty sticky irritating, boring red, powdery subtly flavored queer gritty pompous overblown sad archaic prime seventeen-inch �strictly proper real embarrassing fancy glossy exactly bake depressingly predictable real high-wire serious, worthy usual comical admittedly harmless synthetic wall-to-wall showy, tawdry restless, treacherous pink, stringy tough, tricky bulky and dirty potentially heady heavy unstable usual helpful psychiatric or medical filthy asian ruddy woolen fast-paced, fast-cut stern and durable damned old-fashioned more high-quality —real basic -real basic gems—technical real suit-and-tie foreign and political extremely potent and abrupt sure potent fairly heady unfixed, indestructible more repetitious marvelously soft and snowy personal budgetary seriously unconsolidated miscellaneous clean-up obdurate blue beastly sloppy dusty, withered still tame outstanding glacial fly twin-engined raw torrid trendy literary airy silvery mostly latent normal, low-level awful raw red chalky gravelly yellow mostly tan opaque, luminescent real long-distance newest, best swirly golden >really important serious, classical solid yellow-brown

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Words to Describe stuff

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "stuff" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "stuff" are: warm, insipid, pleasant legendary, crazy, futuristic, right tricky, and unpleasant white. There are 995 other words to describe stuff listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe stuff 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, "stuff" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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