Describing Wordsfor Age

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Here are some adjectives for age: militarily significant, extreme old, sheer old, premature old, ripe old, protracted old, georgian golden, green old, golden, overweening, fruitful old, higher median, serene old, brief, cataclysmic, ripe and discreet, great-grandmotherly physical, moderately middling, present formative, amazingly smart and competent, remote and mindless, imaginary golden, primitive golden, enjoyable old, median mental, degenerate and extravagant, compulsory old, youthful, sinful, mature old, primeval volcanic, ridiculous posthumous, cold amazonian. You can get the definitions of these age adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to age (and find more here).

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Words to Describe age

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

militarily significant extreme old sheer old premature old ripe old protracted old georgian golden green old golden, overweening fruitful old higher median serene old brief, cataclysmic ripe and discreet great-grandmotherly physical moderately middling present formative amazingly smart and competent remote and mindless imaginary golden primitive golden enjoyable old median mental degenerate and extravagant compulsory old youthful, sinful
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mature old primeval volcanic ridiculous posthumous cold amazonian manic golden physical old properly desperate healthier old shapeless stringy hideous and lonely old remote unborn dim, pre-historic weary and withered excessive old greenest old idyllic and heroic exquisitely indeterminate modern super-spherical physical or chronological problematical old poetic or fabulous greater mortal probable true incipient old squalid, unprotected comparative old late glacial immense, patriarchal improbable, old philosophic or conscious regal and prophetic larger golden stupid and tasteless comparatively unfinished present physiological brief volcanic perpetual golden enlightened and scientific dark and corrupt barely nubile indeterminate human awkward, indefinite romantic and morbid overly romantic and morbid same feckless ripe but not old approximate actual venerable or mature infirm and frigid new and physically degenerate feminine old remote and gothic corresponding mature sad and lonely old heroic or golden helpless and barbarous serene and lovely old prodigious old joyless old warm, habitable quaint, venerable uncomforted old vain, thine homeless, troubled past golden socially embarrassing problemical old earliest technological abortive mechanical second dark active and troublesome purported golden fanatically inquisitive improbably youthful absurdly acquisitive singularly undemocratic progressive golden neolithic dark still young and sensitive youngest possible imminent old busy progressive female, undetermined recent and very sophisticated nobly ripe gallant and fantastic bleak, florid dry and ugly old difficult, unsympathetic sober, tepid somewhat calamitous anxious, money-making utterly artificial and polluted artificial and polluted ridiculously immature progressive, glorious perpetual old ignorant and unenlightened universal golden crassly material energetic heroic enviable and adorable robust elizabethan brief old present utilitarian barbarous, coarse and vulgar intellectually rich complex, aspiring bygone and chivalrous scientific and skeptical greedy, commercial comparatively golden proper average stormy and chaotic lazily sceptical youthful and decrepit democratic and individual present ungallant care-free old evidently equal poetic golden servile and superstitious imminent dark restful old longer fashionable honorable old delightful, old otherwise barbaric natural old mythical golden vigorous old pastoral golden equal chronological current post-war unknown but probably enormous physically self-sufficient bygone and indiscreet streamlined modern agrarian and practical greedy, tight-fisted dour and sober mere old perfectly geological reflective or philosophical innocent, victorian junior present solvent old computerized and electro-magnetic heroic or mythological japanese old twenties-real early twenties-real lower obscene male, exact cosmic old hopefully wiser nearer old impending old healthful old infidel and revolutionary rough and venal irreverent and unfaithful wise and paradoxical contemptible and old refined and speculative amiable, ineffective freer, wiser grievous old black and ruinous gracious and old comparatively ripe carefully white-washed famed and glorious mature or old utterly common-sensical brilliantly humanistic frosty but vigorous blind and evil tardy old contemplative old transitional or sophistical mythical heroic profligate and self-indulgent enterprising and economical aimless old unbelieving and selfish primitive and refined feeble democratic inquiring and romantic anterior geological imaginative, creative and passionate morose and unlovely old lustful, flamboyant present mature already careless progressive and irreverent sad, decrepit darkest and earliest self-sacrificing old terrifically materialistic vicious and self-indulgent vain and luxurious bloodless and chaotic complex and analytical rather cautious and controversial gloriously scientific ideally blissful dismal babylonian predominantly empirical and historical predominantly empirical continental or post-glacial absolutely prehistoric harmless golden own unchristian discordant and sceptical mechanical and sceptical unoccupied old far-away glorious anterior golden loose and lax somewhat vulgar and material vulgar and material barbarous, credulous less and ignorant golden messianic classic and golden debonair and civilized canine old extreme and decrepit innocent and golden homeless old ludicrously low late second amazingly smart obvious great ever wretched endless painful naive and vigorous unprecedented golden unprodigal servile and effeminate older, alien wholesome old new nineteenth later apostolic unduly late handsome ripe peaceful old unbelievably remote mischievous and reckless median wonderfully inventive corresponding late robust old healthy old new golden swift, greedy raw and unsettled exceptional, old present post-imperial present, godless cold and old safer, old happier, peaceful materialistic and utilitarian simple former fourth glacial simpler and slower trusting new pre-pyramidal past and demoniacal limitless, ancient aseptic, modern cosmological golden former golden dreadful and premature hideously premature decadent golden culinary golden economic golden familiar thirteenth loathsome commercial global dark old throwaway aetial dull ungrateful sublime, ridiculous anarchical, superstitious unenlightened but devout equally unenlightened but devout equally unenlightened last populous classic or golden recklessly speculative obstinate and excessively bigoted excessively bigoted vigorous and great thrice loathsome important heroic own nateral sterile and repressive delicate and frivolous effete and drunken definite absolute easy-going but elegant fierce past fifth or present undisturbed old thy decrepit canting unmasculine basely material less penurious warlike, blood-thirsty subsequent apostolic sufficiently ripe stupid and hypocritical eminently uncritical later prosaic far-off and now alien early fabulous ignominious old short classical singularly gross and callous sadly irrational intellectual and satiric sober, enlightened mystic, restless present redundant busy, independent wholly critical decadent romantic heathen heroic progressive, strenuous next incipient poetic, dreamy byzantine and stationary respective normal practical and well-organized desperately practical and well-organized increasingly late eminently unphilosophical cacochymical old steady and sane dull, materialistic superb and corrupt own mechanico-philosophical genuinely rationalistic malignant ulcerated jealously competitive markedly non-rational work-a-day, materialistic endurable old rueful old ill, grim ripe and mature inimical old fat and unscrupulous physiological old corrupt, barbaric neolithic or early metal past barbaric ripe critical sophisticated and wealthy luxurious, sophisticated and wealthy spiritual dark wealthy materialistic truly great and fearless fanciful and scientific incapacitating old presumably remote manifestly impure profane and corrupt wicked and sceptical puzzling, gorgeous terribly pitiless approximately mature virile, old altogether unheroic corrupt and patriotic boastful, corrupt and patriotic infirm and desolate entirely vigorous and hearty entirely vigorous decadent, delicate romantic, supra-material tottering, powerless aesthetical, ethical wrinkled and crooked intellectual or nationalistic optimistic and so self-confident inquisitive and mournful simpler, larger discreet and positive formative, idealistic stupid and uncritical resentful and malevolent extinct geologic recent golden latest old sweet conventional safe luxurious utterly intolerant alien and past self-styled enlightened destructive, revolutionary remote and unaccountable indelicately juvenile self-conscious and critical wicked and paltry preventable old legal wage-earning median chronological effectual old lean and laggard wicked peaceable pathetically restless great but not venerable --wonderfully inventive sometimes crabbed envious, ignorant advertisemal barbarous or aristocratic beastly vulgar remote and golden obscurely unsettled nice manageable remote and elementary old parasitical productive old hereafter thine busy and brilliant unhappy and most depraved prime and old seeming golden turbulent and individualistic fiercely political easy-going and luxurious comely rustic by-gone fashionable african golden sceptical, rationalistic artificial, cut-and-dried dark bygone past tropical preposterously busy lawless, old materialistic and selfish inglorious old loose and indifferent brilliant and highly cultured popular dark tumultuous and perilous formal, materialistic illiterate prehistoric dramatic, gorgeous comparatively rude and ignorant directly previous analytic, scientific thy exact youthful bridal terribly philanthropic plump, uninteresting progressive and changeable progressive and strenuous ever careless or indolent degenerate and impatient biological old same patriarchal similar or slightly higher copious elizabethan narrow and surly old envious, miserable sodden and unwholesome presumably enlightened modern and presumably enlightened sluggish, old seldom accurate or reliable long, sinful dull or effeminate withered, dependent still brutal chaste and demure ripe thine grey and critical masculine and primitive intensely utilitarian ambiguous and querulous utilitarian or commercial thoroughly vociferous rather thoughtful and anxious european glacial practical sceptical exemplary, old grandly materialistic singular and highly rhetorical industrial, democratic correct and mechanical abnormally intellectual highly refined and civilized remarkable average minimum universal barbarous and piratical remote golden green and comely old tremendous and wearisome more finical painfully enlightened fiercely lawless and riotous fiercely lawless godless and skeptical feudal and superstitious ever associate prime or old previous victorian recklessly sensual universally loose vulgarly coarse allegoric and fabulous twenty-eighth divine younger geological sacred primitive infirm and burdensome peaceful, old wonderful ciceronian stern and old clandestine and barbarous older annual strong and sceptical dark and mythic there--coal lean, uncertain patriarchal and peaceful later shakespearian youthful physiological extravagant but essentially materialistic law-abiding constitutional pretentious, breathless attractive and talkative prosaic, heartless fifth and sixth-grade bygone athletic old-fashioned, golden mythic supernatural brilliant bygone easy-going and optimistic vicious and effeminate coarse and venal correct coming-out disordered, old extreme and childish topographic old commercial and selfish eminently progressive and utilitarian progressive and utilitarian fleeting golden gorgeous and artificial scandalously mature architectural old powerless, old extremely remote and barbarous critical and unimaginative pathological old usual literate brutal, vital imaginative and progressive dull and degenerate nervous and critical bygone and barbarous decrepit and ugly old discouragingly material puerile old journal coal milder and wiser remarkably mature and full her--unnatural lawless, cut-throat wholly free and unrestricted great but unsensational untold geological fourth interglacial last, glacial virtually rustic vile, thy wonderful by-gone back pre-historic godless and passionate sweet and benign historically attractive materialistic, luxurious materialistic and sophisticated grim and bigoted gay amorous superstitious and dogmatic intensely practical and eager eager and troubled remarkably full and red bygone and romantic venal and very suspicious aboriginal and heroic recent, geological musically material romantic and uncritical infirm querulous degenerate, sceptical half-forgotten heroic great but anxious fourth or degenerate nimble and wanton platonic aristotelian past and pagan greatest green corrupt, carefree enlightened and skeptical last and sinful fiery and fond extreme, incalculable industrial and democratic unassisted old shy, greater decrepit and degenerate expectant, superstitious late pre-monarchical ferocious, barbarous egotistic and voluptuous enlightened tolerant materialistic, utilitarian profligate and indulgent invariably conscious and more invariably conscious specially warlike immature old true sixth robust ripe noisy and plebeian slow, unreal golden elizabethan paxodoxical wise and paxodoxical young but old stereotyped old scientific, tolerant old and enlightened remotest old local inquisitive stern and hard-bitten lean and torpid desirable old past and warlike later teen gentler old poetic, picturesque earlier dreamy disembodied old rude, transitional essentially intolerant egotistical, revolutionary dreary and barbarous lax and frivolous enlightened and comparatively happy effete unbelieving pagan, spoon-fed critical and comparatively enlightened monstrously queer strenuous and complex mighty victorian sanitary and mechanical venerable and artless later civic past legendary entire ciceronian actual golden imitative and uninspired scientific, humanitarian elder, brighter late and reflective wofully unintellectual intellectual and depraved disastrous napoleonic mythical or prehistoric vicious or gloomy secondary or reptilian happy old destitute old past and greater late old young and nubile horrible unnatural normal old mutual old wondrous, wondrous rather mature impoverished old moist, tropical female old spiritual old statutory school-leaving prosperous old probably enormous same sophisticated completely secular brutal and prehistoric painful old far-off heroic female, biological splendid buddhist final old sudden, old fervent and religious mature and discreet sad degenerate immemorial old politically mature specific minimum indifferent old due old careless golden enlightened and critical same geologic classic and poetical universal old shy, unconscious creative and passionate own unequal earliest or primary human, strenuous safe and privileged effeminate, weak delightful, intellectual mere naturalistic sensitive and inquiring quite uncritical remote primitive luxurious, sensual equally patriarchal gay and rosy somewhat mature school-leaving early industrial legal maximum true mortal utilitarian and materialistic actual chronological nobler, grander present enlightened fabulous and heroic precocious old meditative old present strenuous prosaic and materialistic corrupt and self-seeking hard critical noblest, happiest tranquil old thine old overly romantic sufficiently mature long and very dark ancient new apparent young healthy and quiet frankly selfish envious old self-contained and independent new elizabethan golden old critical and sceptical brief golden pre-school past geological stellar old ripe or perfect entire glorious preimperial despairing past chro\-nological nasty, rebellious illustrious and useful ultra-rational same chronological apparent common twenty-first lost happy timeless streamlined and barbarous sick victorian so-called digital innocent theatrical thisdigital nonexistent golden non-existent golden golden, pre-industrial moderate old legal and not unusual brutal feudal nonexistent, old crucial and natural corrupt and mechanized medically enlightened ripe and obstinate embarrassingly late dropsical old chronological and emotional utterly unfathomable next glacial enlightened and technological modern, destructive endless, excruciating already mellow lengthy old madly ferocious enlightened and golden florid old chrono�logical quiescent old older, kinder inevitably tumultuous impossibly precocious serene and mature bygone golden ferociously unfair high-priced political bygone and gentler last, decadent male, apparent disposable, commercial apparent chronological glorious heroic shockingly precocious cold-blooded, incompetent quintessentially romantic �wonderfully inventive also discreet late and sterile down approximate wishy-washy new crabbed and independent real, irreparable present golden unselfconsciously sexist present, postglacial cruel but innocent final apparent indeterminate but youthful genetic golden deceptively childish playful, tolerant avoidable old worst dark past distant new mechanized overweight old absolutely ancient young and defenseless }{final old extensive metal scientific and technologi­cal protracted dark bleak, ignominious proverbially receptive all-time young new watery youngest average dynamic victorian new utopian pre-electrical past reproductive increasingly literate decadent ephemeral admirably commercial bolder, simpler fairly ripe youngest legal religious dark artificially smart reasonably complex and sophisticated second darkest ingenious golden repressive past average marital secular and skeptical scandal and old prime sexual male, indeterminate undisputed old devastating dark interstellar dark cellular old ritzy old forthcoming golden earlier gilded same indeterminable emergent nuclear strange victorian late, technological new and still nameless effete and gentle able but generally ancient generally ancient asian, apparent slack immoral effective physiological fantastical golden virtuous old inquisitive and enlightened so-called gloomy so-called victorian previous better dull and nameless extremely mature horrible and useless degenerate and vicious less ungrateful legal military impassioned and serious good, convenient visionary golden artificial and luxurious uncannily premature approximately average proud and avaricious sacred bygone gross and callous debonair old brilliant but corrupt bustling, rapid undesirable old much anterior calm and spacious recklessly extravagant and whimsical sceptical, loose and unthinking strenuous and conscientious desperately practical former simpler second prehistoric comparatively dark and benighted dangerously sentimental modern and industrial impotent old mechanico-philosophical peaceful and scientific long mythic golden and sinless great, primitive mechanical and athletic sensible and philosophic pure and truthful present ripe dull, degenerate uncouth and uncomfortable early metal stronger and old flush old placid, old tolerant and philosophic common teen peaceful and primitive correspondingly premature historical or dynastic exact geological barbarous and turbulent older, peaceful corrupt and luxurious solitary and heroic wonderfully mechanical dislocated and corrupt older and fairer supra-material wonderful elizabethan strange, turbulent deeply poetic and fertile present prolific serene and vigorous perennially sweet and old perennially sweet polite and modern

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Words to Describe age

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "age" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "age" are: militarily significant, extreme old, sheer old, premature old, and ripe old. There are 995 other words to describe age listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe age 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, "age" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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