Describing Wordsfor Affections

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Here are some adjectives for affections: fond, general, lively maternal, double and sacred, grateful and open, sheer, disgraceful, wasteful and vagrant, nonpaternal, kindest parental, paternal and nonpaternal, tasteful and thoughtful, quiet, proprietary, disinterested and absurd, childlike, credulous, lonely pure, inexpressible and very singular, pure, fraternal, special and boundless, innocent and absolute, watchful, tireless, drunken, impotent, sincere and unbounded, mimetic joint, sincere inviolable, hysterical joint, sufficiently deep and stable, syphilitical, filial and conjugal, merely canine, mutual and engrossing, uneasy and carnal. You can get the definitions of these affections adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to affections (and find more here).

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Words to Describe affections

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

fond, general lively maternal double and sacred grateful and open sheer, disgraceful wasteful and vagrant nonpaternal kindest parental paternal and nonpaternal tasteful and thoughtful quiet, proprietary disinterested and absurd childlike, credulous lonely pure inexpressible and very singular pure, fraternal special and boundless innocent and absolute watchful, tireless drunken, impotent sincere and unbounded mimetic joint sincere inviolable
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hysterical joint sufficiently deep and stable syphilitical filial and conjugal merely canine mutual and engrossing uneasy and carnal suspicious, uneasy and carnal loyal and vehement furious and indiscreet principal and immoderate dutiful filial [maternal anxious and filial inordinate and sinful sullen and almost animal other pectoral old-fashioned, inveterate human and perishable secret but partial innocent bold wholly unrequited hopeless and wholly unrequited chronic, intermittent anxious and disinterested spontaneous, long-suffering foolish fruitless true but reckless fond reciprocal kindred and natural grateful and extravagant open, unabashed special sympathetic unreasoning and fierce exciting pious purest and most steadfast disinterested sweet strange back-door youthful, fond deep and uncertain commonly direct and personal obvious and ardent commonly direct sentimentally superstitious irrational and immoderate honours--filial lawful and pure ardent self-sacrificing natural private ardent submissive impure carnal deep-seated nervous constant, good childlike credulous genuinely maternal unalterable and profound formal, platonic monstrous and cynical maternal and fraternal mother--reciprocal mutual strong sadly inoperative joyful and proud once mutual always sympathetic and receptive frenzied and anxious pitiful and unreasoning spontaneous and boundless weak or abject singular conjugal ardent or overbearing thoroughly high and sincere deep and ill-starred dormant filial unqualified mutual undiminished and unalterable condescending, curious ardent filial noble honest real and virtuous parental or filial genuine, ever-growing calm, permanent evident real social and disinterested particular companionable elder and elementary unconditional, true general, morbid sometimes plain long and inexhaustible keenest parental disease_--hysterical or mimetic unhappy and immortal disease_--hysterical frank and evident earliest joint rough maternal other _functional contemptuous but real cardial and nervous slightly contemptuous but real unjust domestic clearly tolerant never hostile broad, uncritical periodical and violent curiously invincible chronic abdominal awful and reverential general dropsical forth warm and enthusiastic joint, hysterical unnatural and disordered renal or gastro-intestinal strongest paternal bilious or nervous mysterious and extremely painful vicious and morbid genuine generous joyful or grievous vile hypochondriacal violent, joyful or grievous inspiring sweet obscure mediastinal partial and cordial parental or connubial unabated and steady pulmonary and dyspeptic mysteriously humorous febrile and pectoral therefore inspiring various syphilitical rare but characteristic dropsical and visceral long and deep-rooted perfectly immediate thoughtful, watchful fleeting but painful cat--parental inveterate rheumatic feeling--parental lustful or undue alarming rheumatic worse hereditary dangerous rheumatic cancerous and glandular strongest pious entire and virgin much unparalleled ardent and fresh proud, joyful genuine or strong troublesome and often painful dutiful and disinterested strong or general undivided and unbounded pure, narrow vehement imperious stupid, conventional sober, beautiful and restful disinterested maternal temperate and generous unfortunately deep lavish canine romantic or exalted carnal and inordinate bare better conjugal, filial and paternal ancient and particular vehement paternal felial dearest, purest solid and long-established fancy, temporary --paternal and filial steadfast and even chivalrous generous filial indiscriminate, immoral merely accidental or occasional mutual and great inspiring filial mournful ecstatic clear-eyed, uplifting seemingly paternal deep and almost life-long deep, unchanged positive, sensual covetous and wide fearless and open last and passionate healthy and almost paternal fond grateful mutual soft sweet and unchangeable loud momentary warm and almost filial lukewarm and imperfect simple, fond inexpressible, guileless fearful but deep enough disinterested natural and chivalrous filial or parental ordinary filial sincere and undisguised maternal and filial chronic pectoral real and overpowering various febrile narrow intense other bronchial zeal and anxious spiritual or carnal quick, remorseful imperishable social idle and fantastic instinctive maternal spiritual, disinterested grave cerebral pale and unconvincing homely natural real, generous conjugal and parental grown-up and painful infant physical impulsive and ungoverned great, supportive unnatural, inordinate genuine paternal engrossing and pure solid sincere awfully depraved profound and remorseful hence abundant and diversified coarse, grim hence abundant blind maternal hyppocondriacal fatal, unrequited hyppocondriacal and hysterical compassionate habitual good-will, gentle wistful, animal particular disinterested former loathsome extensive generous wet and desperate universal and deep-seated reluctant and grudging radical and innocent former inescapable profound domestic gruff, indulgent chaste and warm vaguely infuriating mutual and cordial overly well-developed unimportant catarrhal innocent and forthcoming occasionally catarrhal partial unenlightened devout and filial enlightened maternal warm and pious duty--parental inordinate and vain blind unsettled highest childish intense, unmistakable closest, strongest mere unrequited benevolence--paternal, patriarchal sir--mutual benevolence--paternal stern but undying scapulohumeral joint dearest, eternal unusual and chronic unjust or immoderate indigenous and salutary genuine, deep-rooted domestic, particular respective modest earliest and sweetest devout paternal again revolutionary convenient bronchial spurious religious violent maternal chronic, abdominal posthumous filial different cardiac strange, paternal delicate chronic sublime maternal old jacobitical prenatal and unconscious local rheumatic almost prenatal and unconscious sensual and natural warmer personal obscure or chronic pure, supersensual acute, obscure or chronic supersensual, self-sacrificing primitive and deep-seated laudable and steady renal and urinary transient, true such pulmonary real, prematrimonial long-cherished and deep cordial mutual divinely bold else unselfish unusually warm and deep cool and unsubstantial natural and relative wholesome, boyish ardent squalid calm fraternal rheumatic and catarrhal self-sacrificing, generous spinal and rheumatic steadfast conjugal commonplace, wonderful secret but mutual cases--hysterical gastric and rheumatic frequently tubercular unstained and pure inward vain purest and most ardent youthful and buoyant whimsical, perplexed wild, inordinate passionate and unreasoning continually operative reverent and deep sweetest and nearest fraternal, patriotic strongest and softest strong durable rheumatic and joint narrow generous humane and temporary easy, loud-voiced judicious and fervent due paternal wonderful spontaneous foregone and mortal old and immortal sympathetic and profound intestinal chronic contrary, true and heartfelt convertible material long and very sincere still obscure and dubious happy, selfish best & most respectful amiable interesting shallow and ostentatious impulsive maternal primarily disinterested sentimental and platonic immoderate social slight gonorrheal civilized laryngeal minimum personal neurotic intestinal unbounded, undying vague and rather chronic wistful and stealthy joint and muscular steadfast, virtuous disparate painful mild, cat-like infectious joint real habitual universal, personal nearer and constant earthly fond royal and somewhat condescending intense latent undying, all-pervading severe tertiary life-long conjugal analogous secondary stronger fraternal mysterious functional perhaps ill-conceived commonest and noblest violent and perhaps ill-conceived abiding and disinterested warm proprietary certain bronchial surely ungovernable rheumatic and inflammatory real but secret thy gastronomical pure and warm inflammatory non-puerperal pious and general pulmonary or bronchial habitual, systematic ardent and girlish deserving boundless active and recipient deep and exclusive worth, warm sweet and mutual concomitant catarrhal apparent unaltered pulmonary and catarrhal dormant but hallowed social and ardent good-humored innocent destructive febrile traditional and vicarious principal congenital mild temporary maternal, filial and fraternal quaint and placid fervent and social fond but innocent ~oesophageal pious and especial benevolent or softer lavish, ecstatic totally separate and distinct ridiculously commonplace and comfortable naturally fond nature--natural noble and intense kindred and domestic mild and unruffled warm and unchanged cordial and large vague pure hysterical or maniacal vague selfish latent and real intense fraternal loose and fickle prudent, commendable unfailing and undying warm filial maternal and slightly compassionate fruitful and grateful barren and selfish constant and unaltered peculiar and almost hereditary fondest paternal hot pained ardent and unchangeable zealous and thoughtful splendid and constant high and entire unthinking, superficial endearing and mutual unalterable and unflinching disinterested and abiding painful, irritating anxious and immoderate genuine but mild distressing nor dangerous ardent and paternal pure and heroical true and unpremeditated filial and personal sincere and equal hearty and intense cordial and life-long strictly parental pure and unconquerable entire and fervent mutual undying unalterable and entire lukewarm and intermittent rare nervous constant and mutual warm, careless virtuous pure fond and blind torrential, passionate fond and emotional --connubial extraordinary fortunate selective and partial genuine and faithful enthusiastic but temporary exacting, meticulous profound and sure purest conjugal strange but constant usual inordinate cordial and absolute inward hearty creditable paternal almost repentant genuinely filial greatly unselfish conjugal nor maternal constitutional inflammatory way--natural naive, spontaneous zealous and protective strong conjugal faultless conjugal conspicuous maternal fond personal real, all-pervading sacred and life-long pious & religious selfish and dissocial expansive sentimental common and very obstinate undying and tranquil timid but faithful sheer prehistoric superior and instructive terribly superior and instructive unalterable and undying restless, exacting bygone childish unselfish mutual generous and humble reasonable, comfortable sentimental and moderate sincere and hopeless disinterested and persistent illogical and selfish immediately inspiring sincere and invariable deep-seated and unalterable dumb, vehement passionate and indestructible exclusive, passionate and indestructible unselfish maternal unaltered and unchanged stubborn domestic hallowed and sincere sincere and uncontrollable deepest parental spiritual and pure visionary, celestial deep-seated, internal inspiring, strange fond, boundless characteristic and serious mild, inflammatory latent, true inveterate and deep-rooted effusive domestic warm, unbounded active and considerate ever active and considerate sweetest, sincerest conjugal, paternal and filial ardent strong silent but ardent truest and most ardent unusual strong indestructible, faithful strong reverential profound, essential pure and most intense passionate and unbounded flush paternal forth guileless quasi-sororal quasi-filial, quasi-sororal uncommon gracious quicker and shallower late but ardent unwise but generous disinterested and ideal inspiring disinterested passionate and constant deep and uncritical common and exclusive canine and feminine sweet and perishable fondest and most exclusive sincere and calm mutual and somewhat exorbitant paternal and sincere delicate, derivative eager maternal positive and ordinary lawful and reciprocal permanent nervous undoubtedly mutual same pulmonary spontaneous paternal healthy and superficial sincere and lifelong equally disinterested and noble hopeless, unrequited mutual pure special but pure manifest undue true but pure chaste, timid old reciprocal young and mutual deepest, truest and holiest limitless, boundless incurable rheumatic warm benevolent loyal, warm indulgent and often absent-minded obvious warm common and often obstinate progressive rheumatic local nasal progressive gouty entirely functional or neurotic finally warm silly second-hand awake deep deepest mutual deep and long-lived chaste, constant and ardent blind and almost unreasoning periodical and painful passionate and mutual ardent and parental general filial peculiar nutritive long and unchanged parental and natural filial, parental and natural purest and most anxious grateful and filial special and uncommon sincere paternal pure and endearing personal nor mental unbounded lawless initial and irrepressible thoughtful, intense warm and undisguised passionate and well-founded forlorn, remorseful universal and almost personal proudest and fondest hallowed parental perfect and reciprocal sweet dispassionate happy and unselfish singular and paternal considerate and appreciative much dutiful fond unreasoning fatal cancerous common benignant always incurable acute intracranial sincere and watchful humble great strong, unalterable deep and indubitable ardent and almost overpowering loyal, unalterable happiness--mutual still fresh and young warm, unrestrained however ardent and self-sacrificing however ardent spurious fawning unreasoning, jealous curious and indiscriminate maternal or conjugal pure and sedate enthusiastic filial overpoweringly intense real and honorable cartarrhal own saner testy, impulsive undying, boundless ostrich, conjugal delightful and frank artistic or sentimental intimate sacred constant, durable indulgent, filial deep, deepest unusually strong and ardent gentle platonic reverent and entire intense mournful instinctive or personal abundant grand-paternal juan’--mutual indulgent and thoughtless inspiring sincere unchangeable mutual grateful, wistful singularly undivided romantic enthusiastic chronic laryngeal transcendental personal profound but harsh deeper, fonder noble, straightforward genuine, calm certainly mutual purposeless filial feigned and fawning weak and reprehensible unmistakable disinterested beautiful inexpressible vivid, uncontrollable entire, unalterable annoying and unbearable thoroughly high worth, deep perfect and heroic profound and pure thine endearing legitimate or pious enlightened and chivalrous completely filial steady and genuine similar impulsive therefore maternal undying fraternal monarchical, paternalistic last, filial nervous rheumatic beautiful and sane ancient and paternal sympathetic inflammatory troublesome and frequent considerable inflammatory evident respectful unbounded filial exceedingly ephemeral wild and exceedingly ephemeral candid and warm pure and romantic purely spiritual or psychical spiritual or psychical <def>parental weak social strong parental warm domestic filial and parental deep and unchanging conjugal and filial unlimited human parental and filial real and warm strongest fraternal filial certain sane intense and unreasoning original, immediate deep and stable general and calm always evident acute and inflammatory truest, fondest benevolent and amiable new and tolerant vain and inordinate almost filial many inordinate much unspeakable faithful and ardent real platonic engrossed thy parental and fraternal paternal and fraternal much fraternal other lethargic zeal and singular chronic bronchial peculiar hereditary obstinate venereal chaste paternal grateful and reverential al wicked unheard-of and monstrous otherwise organic intermittent or periodic just glassy inflammatory and nervous essential and sacred convulsive and nervous natural, inseparable warmer and closer previous pulmonary sudden and persistent your fond grateful and proud certain inflammatory pulmonary and bronchial sweetest human gentle and fine familiar, dry also nervous honest, commonplace good-will and natural little fraternal trivial and superficial personal and ardent deep and loyal ardent natural low, earthy ancient fraternal unstoical disinterested and honest pure and grateful other inflammatory hopeless, tragic deep artistic genuine conjugal real maternal warm and abiding unaltered and unalterable old deep-rooted other pulmonary truest and most faithful honest and strong hearty and humble true and regular deep and faithful evident mutual little sincere much filial uncertain and fickle true, familial endogenous psychic almost true destructive organic sweet, reciprocal spontaneous, sincere less filial inspiring warm distant and dutiful precocious and sympathetic rather distant and dutiful hearty and warm foolish, fanciful mutual and equal manly european high and mutual strange and abiding modest, everyday back inconceivable cold and catarrhal absent-minded and occasional natural virtuous same filial chloro-anaemical random but genuine pent-up human visible, deep selfish and unsocial dutiful, distant serious rheumatic mild obligatory quite untouched particularly solicitous pure and fond paradoxically fierce lively sweet savage possessive muscular and fascial placid and sweet grateful and devout warmer and easier rheumatic and bronchial plain disinterested gonococcal steady, long-standing passionate impulsive slow but genuine innocent and passionate desperate maternal virtuous and calm complacent, lazy cases—hysterical deep and long-standing chronic, bronchial odd and deep contagious or incurable sincere and warm benevolent or malevolent uncontrollable and inappropriate hypochondriacal and hysterical naive, childlike stomachical strange, self-sacrificing catarrhal and bronchial perverse and potentially dangerous benign and charitable ghostly maternal filial or paternal holiest and purest dyspeptic and other soft, nonbinding fresh and primal painful gouty strong and deep-rooted warm, brief natural and deep-seated understood—maternal dearest personal back spontaneous generous and devout secret unrequited young and warm silky and treacherous rather chronic great and instructive disturbing sensory steadfast and high-minded maternal and conjugal silent, unspoken chronic painful strongest domestic social benevolent fondest and most reverential corrupt and sinful serious, solid passionate and deep capital--filial intense and strong almost prenatal patriotic and domestic eager, complacent hysterical and convulsive supersensual, altruistic instantaneous, fleeting humanly warm secondary nervous faithful, pure many febrile vague, sour many arthritic special and interested strong exclusive spiritual and filial obstinate, adhesive passionate and uncritical good and godlike surely special painful local genuine and strong chronic mercurial old tolerant painful gastric thy unbidden various venereal deep fraternal old and innocent deep, fraternal natural lawful solid, robust corrupt healthy loyal and passionate loving and harmonious durable domestic various dermal true, unalterable warm and deep-seated ardent and genuine natural feelings--natural unnatural and excessive singular and natural approval and ardent

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Words to Describe affections

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "affections" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "affections" are: fond, general, lively maternal, double and sacred, grateful and open, and sheer, disgraceful. There are 994 other words to describe affections listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe affections 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, "affections" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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