Describing Wordsfor Alertness

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Here are some adjectives for alertness: active standby, shy and yet keen, unnatural sharp, erstwhile bright, somehow unsettling, odd defensive, new and entirely unpleasant, cautious but not feral, full tireless, sharp and avid, quick, compact, sober and buoyant, continuous shrewd, earlier sharp, apparent precocious, constant and protective, lively economic, brisk and respectful, masterly shakespearian, bravest instinctive, business-like, every-day, new sensitive, superb visual, ordinary canine, true naval, equal and sudden, horned and penurious, oddly cynical, normally ceaseless, desperate, hostile. You can get the definitions of these alertness adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to alertness (and find more here).

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Words to Describe alertness

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

active standby shy and yet keen unnatural sharp erstwhile bright somehow unsettling odd defensive new and entirely unpleasant cautious but not feral full tireless sharp and avid quick, compact sober and buoyant continuous shrewd earlier sharp apparent precocious constant and protective lively economic brisk and respectful masterly shakespearian bravest instinctive business-like, every-day new sensitive superb visual ordinary canine
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true naval equal and sudden horned and penurious oddly cynical normally ceaseless desperate, hostile unparalleled mental practical vivid almost gladiatorial tense balanced limited, partial old-time mental certain tense similar casual same frenetic hard, wary kindly blind vivid and extraordinary greater rhythmical sudden, grotesque sudden irritable normal bland peculiar lazy once rigid resourceful, cool such obedient strange, watchful native, wild curious canine keen, professional usual instantaneous constant ongoing {mental stiff, precise certain shrill curious calm keen, anxious own agile intense nervous curious sudden quick sensitive smooth and supple quick and shrewd certain imperious unpleasant new same wide-open wary, dangerous constant intellectual quiet, nervous keen quick incredible mental certain cheerful high defensive old eager cold, savage native intellectual almost catlike hair-trigger cold, implacable merry, mischievous curious animal entirely unpleasant feverish, restless slightly resentful thorough mental same shrewd old intellectual sudden massive certain dubious almost predatory keen mental morbid nervous almost preternatural sexual and social such tense same inquisitive quick, smooth now constant old bright bright, eager such feverish constant mental remarkable mental same tough usual casual certain eager usual brisk tensile same tense such abrupt perfect mental intense spiritual _mental average mental enough mental quick, silent same animal same supernatural curious new heart-pounding quick, furtive preternatural almost feverish old boyish mental almost morbid such mental charismatic businesslike hard-edged tense vulpine almost human certain practical unflagging business-like wary own natural almost animal keen fine-tuned almost unconscious dialectical edgy supernormal abnormal contrapuntal little mental lithe full clear-headed mental and physical watchful euphoric certain mental almost supernatural gladiatorial somewhat unusual great mental cool-headed such keen intellectual obedient chirpy uncommon feline frenetic feverish post-war sudden eager constant such natural sudden new nervous brisk feral more spiritual maximum taut unsmiling utmost sturdy little wide-eyed supple unsettling abrupt unusually high instant shakespearian unending canine instinctive catlike quizzical unremitting good-humored birdlike furtive mindless avid little more clenched cautious vivacious sudden sharp shrewd seafaring wiry upstanding nerve-racking penurious almost painful sensitive timorous astonishing uncanny snappy bright-eyed predatory patriotic anxious intense quick disturbing calm virile inopportune avian extreme keenest apprehensive uncharacteristic rhythmical momentary uneasy conscious crafty unaccustomed cheerful respectful febrile unusual cordial unnatural morbid peremptory ever-present comparative breezy desperate tolerant fevered purposeful habitual morose perky vigilant aggressive suspicious meditative quiet unconscious undiminished plucky dreamlike responsive obsequious swift vivid age-old animal perpetual professional unbearable sexual appreciative acute much more buoyant demure naval indefinable precocious jaunty competent implacable irritable surprising sharp wide-open imperious characteristic maniacal pleasing unexplained singular unbelievable elementary subliminal extra youthful rebellious unflinching continual usual extraordinary sensory middle-class mercurial unfailing tireless every-day customary passive much greater unceasing sober resolute stealthy spiritual agile peculiar drowsy superior unsuspected late-night silent shy instantaneous rigid ongoing excruciating natural optimum imperceptible resentful total rapt resourceful physical newfound athletic defensive suggestive boyish restful stiff inborn painful inquisitive inconspicuous stolid sufficient constitutional tedious unreasonable subtle immediate amazing remarkable corresponding intuitive far less equal suave curious dangerous bright startling sinister convincing casual grim supernatural impassive intelligent rarest naive speculative horned wonderful conspicuous impudent malignant careless dubious visual special continuous carnal remorseless relative imaginative apparent forlorn dazed necessary incredible electric feigned humorous cool martial mischievous colonial shrill weary dainty incessant restless discreet fierce oblique superficial contemptuous hereditary exceptional reasonable certain masculine radiant military complete rare balanced strange protective penetrating hostile mutual covert normal compact palpable flat primal unnecessary bland joyous greatest particular ready cold absolute defiant innate ridiculous comfortable active exquisite moderate polite ceaseless economic fearless excessive motionless precise intricate partial frightful grotesque latent cynical dreary confident neutral unpleasant lazy devilish sensible critical juvenile sombre prudent hard limited temporary merry considerable potential 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Words to Describe alertness

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "alertness" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "alertness" are: active standby, shy and yet keen, unnatural sharp, erstwhile bright, and somehow unsettling. There are 567 other words to describe alertness listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe alertness 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, "alertness" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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