Describing Wordsfor Adults

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Here are some adjectives for adults: normally courteous, vacuously dull, dull irritable, responsible and marvelous, independent self-sustaining, native free, sudden eighteen-year-old, excruciatingly civilized and eager, totally aware, excruciatingly civilized, somnolent self-confident, most able-bodied, cheerfully sober, collaborative young, bolder german, mature and presumably sane, relatively corrupt, hugely sophisticated, wary neanderthal, indoctrinal, pan-global young, hypnotic and seductive, apparently mature, moneyed but dyspeptic, male, young, presumably responsible, highly reticent, bemused, petrified, responsible, unencumbered, large and brutal. You can get the definitions of these adults adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to adults (and find more here).

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Words to Describe adults

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

normally courteous vacuously dull dull irritable responsible and marvelous independent self-sustaining native free sudden eighteen-year-old excruciatingly civilized and eager totally aware excruciatingly civilized somnolent self-confident most able-bodied cheerfully sober collaborative young bolder german mature and presumably sane relatively corrupt hugely sophisticated wary neanderthal indoctrinal pan-global young
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hypnotic and seductive apparently mature moneyed but dyspeptic male, young presumably responsible highly reticent bemused, petrified responsible, unencumbered large and brutal reasonable, unattached gloriously streamlined selfish, immature juvenile or very young actually seventy-eight continuous male ordinary literate potentially responsible moderately muscular undoubtedly mysterious reasonably sociable serious, heavy-duty vastly wiser newly strange diminutive male blank-faced young sedentary urban miniature elizabethan mentally disadvantaged bestselling young theoretically mature suddenly deeper and more feeble or detestable legally responsible extremely negligent single mature extremely negligent and inaccurate occasional attentive literate male serious and somehow more scarce and old philosophic, serious hi-tech intellectual self-confident and arrogant troversial and more sports-related and young hushed and delicious equal direct extremely long and many highly intelligent and sensitive dominant female inquisitive, observant truthful male least combat-ready slightly weary male, able-bodied enough able-bodied moral, happy supposedly mature mature, intelligent mundane human robust male sole free hardworking young responsible, affectionate passably sane healthy, hard-working good-looking, such incomprehensible arbitrary relatively well-adjusted sane, able-bodied rational, enlightened most missionary small, ravenous supposedly responsible sane, mature amiable and submissive calm, responsible down noncombatant grim and hostile lesser ranking previous young overblown dead-end muscular intelligent respectable, responsible individual male able and canny full-time young crippling more likely full real skeptical solemn miniature big sentient functional, productive age--legal grave, miniature otherwise unattached mature, level-headed contemporary fuzzy typical nosy straight-backed radiant sophisticated, more responsible, intelligent sophisticated, unredeemed patiently watchful clearly complex properly mature and independent above-average young sexually receptive now fanatical mature and trustworthy formal miniature hidebound and fearful brawny colossal mature, uncomplicated all-round, well-developed powerful but normal relatively stupid monogamous young self-sufficient, self-contained powerful, abusive complexly emotional mature, civilized average blind intractable and frustratingly elusive mentally intact sexually reproductive strong and quick-tempered powerful and masculine aforementioned old chiefly male relatively scarce and old passably intelligent most well-informed slightly condescending stern-faced mature, responsible israeli and palestinian wholly responsible less gullible illiterate white healthy average multiple, several certain homosexual japanese male ardent male presumably sane strong, wonderful intelligent, well-read high normal synthetic human politely enthusiastic uncertain, ever-changing enough affectionate in-house pay-per-view normal, responsible reasonable and sophisticated silent, grey querulous and bitter actually undercover essentially uninteresting responsible, unattached short, so-called healthy, unattached people—rational mature, powerful separate naked frustratingly elusive physically capable troversial illiterate and inefficient juvenile and young slightly defective warm and fleshy fewer sophisticated teenage and young deliberately aloof youngest unmarried realistic young skilled and ferocious chubby orange male able-bodied weary, sinful otherwise diseased legally competent perfect and warmer nervous and fearsome native white many full-grown active and responsible quite rare mature young decent, respectful suddenly deeper single, unattached normal, well-adjusted sensible, cheerful strong normal true and conscious other capable straight and gay sometimes moody mostly single competent, capable healthy, single proper intelligent female, young healthy, independent always well-meaning attractive unattached strange obsessive consciously evil tolerably hungry different responsible latest bestselling physically healthy healthy, self-respecting forthcoming young theoretically superior characteristic male young sick responsible young various extinct mature and responsible mentally diseased free, healthy own self-serving most normal serious and more sexually perverse mature, more modern male current-generation completely helpless many present presumably competent coarse, brutish young, short unidentified male new, more properly mature sports-related able-bodied male successful, independent largely ignorant less combative relatively scarce largest young fully responsible next dead trustworthy and responsible intelligent and sensitive additional distinct eldest male colored male intelligent, thoughtful white, young more sardonic average male slender and graceful other fertile normally cautious overly emotional mature and independent seveial young or small present, more smallest and largest pliable young vicious human healthy and sober non-social sexually active less worthless older and lower young or middle-aged make-work many legitimate crabby old many mature physically mature reasonably well-educated reality-based non-pregnant intelligent, responsible single healthy relatively inflexible mentally healthy otherwise rational ignorant and depraved normal young young, inexperienced many male serious, more relatively sophisticated street-legal now full-grown several grim developmentally disabled equally healthy robust, healthy young, virile healthy, young beautiful blue-green such well-bred dense young several able-bodied sane, intelligent typical rich simple, uneducated vaguely hostile white male best intentioned combat-trained normal, happy countless alien sensible, level-headed british young little noble ordinary civilized healthy human healthy male few drunken other healthy perfectly sensible compassionate young lower, more taller, more fourth young mentally deficient long, boring large and perfect well-modulated reasonably sane average healthy ordinarily intelligent huge and splendid young and small entire male perfect young strong, protective few mature fully sentient young, single completely safe usual young fully competent grave, bearded physically powerful potentially troublesome entire young responsible reasonably intelligent small-screen apparently normal fully mature equally attractive studious young incredibly filthy exceptionally intelligent never mere maladjusted able-bodied more intact few able-bodied sharper, more strapping young good such less interested sure many suzdal short, slight terminally ill such older full-grown many well-meaning reasonably competent disapproving mature combat-ready such childlike equally free other significant teratological great young normal, healthy ordinary professional healthy young scrawny young stressed-out sane, rational fairly tall able bodied regular young normal healthy white female pitifully inadequate now complete many young healthy, normal large female best young universal few sober pay-per-view more male non-controversial well-known young well-adjusted highly competitive bearded young ordinary normal successful young right-handed illiterate next young addle-brained long cold semi-literate seriously ill unattached potentially dangerous _universal few male new and potent apparently indifferent competent young twelve-year-old baggy old dumber final and complete new human wisest and best childless expensive private inattentive self-sustaining brilliantly coloured many older eighteen-year-old tall, dark-haired disadvantaged relatively normal strong healthy large male so-called normal soft heavy otherwise healthy second-degree healthy borderline bluest own powerful other usual plentiful strikingly beautiful intentioned supervisory highly intelligent strong, capable different possible more and less half-clad gushy last young sane many intelligent human male large brown more conservative several distinct straight young fifty-three average well-read destitute strong, healthy healthy-looking self-confident full-size more discerning unmarried full and free abstruse newly dead fully functional female and male old and young mischievous young infirm extremely short condescending archetypal delightful young wholly independent few big big clumsy untreated more intelligent higher-level male more distinctive definitive seemingly innocuous friendlier wage-earning seed-bearing seventy-odd viable instant serious young unconditioned rational serious-minded important-looking excellent young much brighter bereft other male other human unencumbered subnormal childlike unrelated athletic young such young top-quality maimed entire few young normal noncombatant few important civilized extremely long unimproved fuller and more neanderthal expectant homosexual legal several nearby many powerful such notable bodied unsold largest and finest first-level moneyed seventy-eight more short dyspeptic fun-loving glitzy inquiring more frightening competent same strange overweight male or female large dark uneducated indecisive now full epileptic young male more critical handicapped endemic dimwitted autistic proper little combative quick-tempered beatific literate young human unsolicited maximal such different underpaid intelligent self-respecting full-fledged few spare too-large first-year well-meaning aware judgmental mandatory accessible most other knowledgeable well-educated other mysterious irritable other so-called lost robust more healthy thirsty honorary gullible many so-called many female full level-headed long-lived native-born nastier neurotic minimum normal human reticent capable midtown unoccupied more young small, thin inexperienced younger unthinking factual other young black-clad uninformed full-sized fiendish non-military sociable unarmed most vegetative unredeemed well-rounded hidebound cold hard seasoned fascist juvenile autonomous snow-white high-end such heavy streamlined courteous world-weary alcoholic shrewdest sophisticated weirdest oblivious intriguing miniature certain old sensible bemused wisest ludicrous comparable grown-up poor young self-serving serious full-blown bestselling uniformed heavy-duty white-clad free well-balanced functional boring youngest much more lightest bloodstained highly complex unspecified mediocre medium-sized more rigid consumptive palestinian unwary wacky vigorous unsuspecting deficient shortest unsympathetic abiding heavier human subsidized wiser diseased civilised gray-haired large and powerful barbed smallest prying indigent enraged impregnable such nice hard-working superior regular old watchful female fresh young pampered crafty clear-headed tolerant inaccurate self-sufficient dead-end more mature reasonable all-time sober sedentary hypnotic somnolent unrestricted irresponsible deeper and more nearest indifferent abusive total 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Words to Describe adults

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "adults" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "adults" are: normally courteous, vacuously dull, dull irritable, responsible and marvelous, and independent self-sustaining. There are 910 other words to describe adults listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe adults 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, "adults" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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