Describing Words
examples:
nose,
winter,
blue eyes,
woman
Here are some adjectives for topics. You can get the definitions of these adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to topics (and find more here).
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Words to Describe topics
Below is a list of describing words for topics. 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 topics:
european and literary broad conversational ingenious or useful favorite and serious principal current worth amusing ephemreral favorite and fruitful such safer safe and meaningless esoteric philosophical exciting post-prandial serious and infinitely painful odious parliamentary chief or recurrent jocular and commonplace all-pervading feminine large, impersonal stale and common cognate indian rather dangerous and difficult extensive and refined unpleasant and very nervous natural and introductory local or exciting delicate or dangerous personally painful social and delicate tempting and very fertile safe professional popular and plausible safe easy well-known sceptical especially physiological irksome and hackneyed trifling general favorite controversial comical, general slippery and hazardous abstract and recondite copious and delightful general and decorous pleasing and constant secular and familiar other ingratiating heaviest economic usually safe same insensitive other chatty entirely horrifying cultural and theoretical seemingly contagious vital theoretical major outstanding zoological and ecological new and incidental scriptural, devotional indifferent, impersonal gravely various unmanageably awkward casual elemental stale, narcotic weighty common engrossing and delightful controversial or unusual extensive and intensely interesting stale, scanty fruitful but unpleasant stale profligate hopelessly improper minor or special ludicrously delicate regular or very remarkable simple and yet thorny lightest and most ephemeral new and entirely harmless great and well-worn conceivable interesting singularly irrelevant academic and pedantic descriptive, current agreeable and important perennially fruitful previous difficult eminently safe and respectable feverish, inexhaustible suitable nor pleasant general, suggestive political and extraneous recently obscure unpopular and risky fresh outlandish romantic, historical and modern exciting and baneful current or general latest and most exciting impersonal and larger odd and unhappy biblical and polemical vast and most puzzling jejune hackneyed ever odious other insufferable momentarily interesting intelligently general dreadfully threadbare agricultural and economical easy, suggestive popular war-time other threadbare kindred favorite interesting but highly controversial local and practical fresh and congenial controversical universal and inexhaustible pertinent musical remote, unconnected temporal, local interesting but generally minor medical, political and religious chief and hideous similar congenial rotten, irrelevant simple but civilised tempting and instructive habitual uninteresting constant and very prominent coldly venerable polite or welcome supply canned exciting and paramount uselessly perplexing safer and collectively interesting literary and current collectively interesting interesting collateral pleasant or fitting abstruse and uninviting great engrossing interesting and uncontroversial conceivable rustic technically educational intimate and dangerous public and foreign lighter ethical grave or brilliant commonplace and sensational archaeological, supernatural and other different and commonplace quite different and commonplace kindred and appetizing kindred lofty indifferent and unimportant totally strange and new nonsense--geological amorous and graceful dangerous or indecent tiresome and trite personal, social or domestic complimentary and customary agricultural and antiquarian always acute and interesting tiresome international tempting but objectionable delightful and engrossing distinct but concurrent serious or very important abstruse juridical exciting or perplexing largely literary and historical also platonic political, ethical somewhat tremendous perplexing and perennial inane and safe moral and traditional disagreeable and sometimes disgusting moderately abstract other and totally irrelevant merely biographical perhaps kindred unpleasant or controversial brilliant and transitory similar fruitful still unfailing elementary and ordinary apparently neutral dry and abstruse old and unwelcome familiar and hackneyed second main amusing or interesting less depressing such mind-numbing proper and interesting favorite conversational obvious and appropriate painful and mysterious less uninteresting separate and immediate less troubling such offbeat sensible, important currently chic >politically correct quite miscellaneous fascinating possible multiple scientific familiar and apparently inexhaustible current and seasonal rather discrete usually unpopular surprisingly intellectual personal or controversial major psychohistorical less problematical current fascinating pleasant and inconsequential hottest ecological next, domestic entire depressing apparently exciting somehow innocent and sweet more general unsettling and emotionally potent traditional encyclopedic unrelated and unresolved sundry, safe egregiously woeful acceptable and time-honored versial contemporary alluring paranormal universally safe similarly earth-bound relevant, necessary family-oriented conversational day-long perennial vulgar and insignificant infinitely painful abstract and delicate reasonably appropriate rather well-worn general, indefinite minor controversial deep and inscrutable slightest and most superficial strictly kindred wise and expedient constant and safe quietly various perfectly remote similar trivial still engrossing sensational social common or frequent few volatile ever fresh and fruitful religious, economic and social all-important and most interesting moral or traditional less transcendental small and tranquil altogether easier ordinary, impersonal obviously last-resort various and difficult generally minor improper or inflammatory common and welcome minor debatable highly unattractive necessary but secondary unpleasant and even painful indifferent and sinful obviously uncongenial such unexciting dangerously interesting agreeable, suitable undefined and shadowy biblical and philological aesthetically higher supernatural and other relatively small and definite different boyish popular and safe similar cheerful few duller whatsoever special poor threadbare dangerous but delightful arch�ological or theological archaeological or theological promising general less enthralling sacred and ethical eminently unromantic equally relevant agricultural or political coarse and uninteresting similar boring largely literary current and general sundry cheerful utterly mundane numerous suggestive sublunary and domestic private or literary fashionably prevalent sundry inconsequential wildly disparate ardent new monetary and commercial always fertile ripheral same and similar good neutral more trite current hot personal and interesting vexatious old delicate and personal new and big somewhat unconnected wholly welcome easier conversational interesting and extensive ever-genial next preliminary suggestive and fruitful innocent or ignorant musical or literary large and delicate ordinary and frequent painful and distasteful forward serious same all-important other and calmer evidently interesting rather elemental political or sociological french such ever favorite religious or doctrinal suitable special trite commonplace exotic and unusual purely social and domestic irritating or unpleasant many enthralling highest and most recondite political or educational public and literary mostly routine such relevant certain well-worn various kindred other embarrassing similar innocent religious, political general and ordinary such unsuitable true, few various cultural momentous political sudden, abrupt other feel-good increasingly irksome awesome magical similarly trivial eutral less touchy harmless but interesting sad and distressing such seminal juicy, romantic less biological big, public sundry mundane suitable conversational various futuristic increasingly obsessive reassuringly mundane wholly vulgar away volatile favorite professional mind-numbingly boring somehow innocent other arty emotionally potent stereotypically feminine interesting inner purely ordinary particularly provocative unpleasant or dangerous sole conversational current controversial same engrossing serious and frivolous entirely congenial fresh and popular dangerous and embarrassing trifling private equally commonplace various grown-up otherwise unpromising critical and political main or sole abstruse and profound distinctly quaint high rhetorical possibly painful current musical independent philosophical well such well such and such transvaal and other profound and abstract conventional and superficial petty, irritating agricultural and kindred educational and theological other and indifferent literary and miscellaneous political, religious similar safe moral and scriptural minor and incidental sometimes disgusting literary or antiquarian general and commonplace different interesting several economic many and very diverse perhaps sinful gruesome and horrible artistic or literary many main intricate and interesting dangerous and delicate current agricultural general common comparatively indifferent single marketable bloody and horrible fascinating feminine scientific or moral wide and popular knotty legal recent disagreeable special metaphysical important and very interesting equally inane possibly offensive indeed religious personally interesting foremost social altogether objectionable other unpractical familiar and constant statistical and political sole national common and convenient ordinary, mundane great exciting somewhat parallel endlessly fascinating such boring grim and horrid polite, impersonal professional or other various jewish safe social probable hostile whole uncomfortable less worrisome major current normally private other gory ortho�pical smaller, safer less suggestive recent favorite obvious great other scintillating quite unavoidable other non-business former serious less relevant excellent after-dinner consequently fewer other well-bred many contingent historical and modern moral and general aside foreign always congenial similar scientific profound and abstruse such engrossing always acute familiar and simple such arid speculative or doubtful literary, artistic and scientific poetical and other ethical and economical other thrilling same stale such ladylike less contentious eminently safe fruitful and interesting latest up-to-date next fair intellectual and abstract extensive and intricate literary and domestic somewhat useless foreign social moral or theological personal and familiar simplest and safest numerous and delicate difficult and elusive new and advantageous interesting and engrossing absolutely neutral other ready various current vitally interesting important and prominent particularly rewarding relatively neutral less incendiary always common useful introductory largely historical surprisingly hot equally safe large, convoluted important biblical particularly acceptable momentous religious necessarily painful amusing and pleasant quite abstract political and general large and intricate less resilient literary or philosophical biological and other surprisingly difficult social or domestic original and thrilling altogether unimportant new, interesting poetical and humorous interesting and appropriate mild, impersonal small and definite interesting possible engrossing less embarrassing ever fertile such peripheral especially frequent safe and respectable apparently fresh various past hopeless and useless more unsafe general and indefinite similar interesting educational and literary social or literary less ominous such speculative important jewish sublime and mysterious logical, coherent recent hot dangerous and volatile political and polemical new bold general and miscellaneous equally boring old queer most single safe neutral current general cheerful and merry wholesome, happy vital and interesting many fruitful rather hackneyed cool and indifferent various trivial geographical and ethnological few lighter painful or disagreeable more neutral such controversial next main various nautical immensely difficult good conversational other distressed such miscellaneous equally unimportant delicate and serious fashionable european pleasant, bright supremely interesting other indifferent after-meal less erudite single favorite usual favorite specific magical utterly frivolous new and refreshing always attractive important surgical general introductory important and most interesting quite indifferent intricate and important religious, political and social seemingly barren certain recurrent ordinary theological instructive and useful popular theological current international common familiar taboo less abstruse painful and perplexing other commonplace safe and familiar certain parliamentary less mournful other impersonal other graver other kindred other current merely academic other congenial 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particularly popular various musical purely theological political and theological old fatal other and similar literary and aesthetic such gruesome controversial more sublime special political many incidental many miscellaneous grave and serious important religious less dangerous fresh new many interesting other obvious purely metaphysical ordinary commonplace principal political same interesting few single less sensitive popular political less abstract equally attractive such unpleasant fruitful interesting general same august painful personal less awkward such harrowing rather uninteresting commercial and other somewhat delicate many particular moral or social more impersonal few commonplace various interesting interesting and important such vital more pleasant ethical and political >magical less ordinary new and dreadful other supernatural such amusing
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Words to Describe topics
As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "topics" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "topics" are: european and literary, broad conversational, ingenious or useful, favorite and serious, and principal current. There are 984 other words to describe topics listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe topics 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, "topics" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.
Note also that if there aren't many topics 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 topics?
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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