Describing Wordsfor Art

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Here are some adjectives for art: immeasurably exalted, finest fantastic, right cruel, nutty and contemporary, vain phantom, venerable and well-established, magnificent and exotic, royal or political, insufficient former, sentational, esoteric and strictly racial, western photographic, superfluous and ostentatious, ancient and indispensable, regal or political, unconscious and unintentional, cheap, mighty, pleasing rogue, more elder, small but rather special, lower, weaker, especially pictorial, special and opportune, antique and italian, high, scientific, old-fashioned--real, slick commercial, strict and stylized, good casual, own illusive. You can get the definitions of these art adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to art (and find more here).

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Words to Describe art

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

immeasurably exalted finest fantastic right cruel nutty and contemporary vain phantom venerable and well-established magnificent and exotic royal or political insufficient former sentational esoteric and strictly racial western photographic superfluous and ostentatious ancient and indispensable regal or political unconscious and unintentional cheap, mighty pleasing rogue more elder small but rather special lower, weaker
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especially pictorial special and opportune antique and italian high, scientific old-fashioned--real slick commercial strict and stylized good casual own illusive high and sanctified imperfect, religious refined medical ingenious, harmless turn-of-the-century photographic big ritzy supposedly native gaunt and sulky weak dramatic beautiful erotic british culinary rhetorical or oratorical pleasant rogue wonderful self-conscious legitimate and general cunning and inimitable exquisitely realistic current black-and-white romantic imaginative invaluable mimetic inexhaustible conversational intuitive belial impassioned fine instructive fine quick and fresh immensely exalted ornamental and industrial sacred and legendary biggest floral french culinary durendal, white sanitary pastel brown depression-era bad abstract historic and monumental vicious and cannibalistic delicate and sensual authentic native impure and uncertain grave, ready municipal culinary italian figurative imitative and academic merely imitative and academic luminous and iridescent divine and most necessary profitable and ignoble fawning and flexible elegant irresistible conscious and admirable feminine fine inimitable constructive high expressive now empty and unstable ideal or theological purely emotional or imaginative pleasing and indeed wonderful egyptian ceramic popular symphonic fine or liberal glorious local foul or miscreant elementary graphic highest imitative primary manual vicious and false sacred, home-bred realistic decorative unique imaginative separate sacred subtle and enchanting conscious progressive indicated--regal or political indicated--regal specialties--dimly indicated--regal or political specialties--dimly indicated--regal noble sophistical indeed uncommon magical rustic people--universal successfully noble conventional and conventual present, antique and modern essentially revolting veritable fine brave, barbaric stylish, battery-operated fine and industrial legendary and mythological oriental martial decadent non-representational unique and timeless ungrateful and boring untrue, improper egyptian decorative eighteenth-century decorative incomplete and unorganized immor�tal southwestern native esoteric and difficult transcendental geometric chinese exotic dumb latvian subtle and divisive frenetic modern subtle poetic proper monumental photodigital truly high and beautiful right mad operative and architectural oratorical or lyric dramatic, oratorical or lyric nude and lewd abstract, antiquated corrupt grecian irremediable evil somehow mediaeval pure or beautiful noble and truly imperial rarer and far finer previous archaic specious but effective somewhat specious but effective picturesque but conventional faulty and primitive simple, ideal specially decorative verily potent convicts--ornamental dandiacal or dramatic truly great and creative indeed potent verily unsurpassed immensely high and sanctified inborn mysterious ornamental or fine immeasurably high and sanctified local culinary meager graphic incipient graphic however skilled and strong academic and national simply imitative exceedingly simple and free least egyptian decrepit grand degenerate literary noble, crazy musical and architectural intuitive decorative egyptian and classic ecclesiastical decorative amusing but ineffectual antique occidental sacred pictorial grotesque and unhealthy spanish monumental older andean cheap, every-day general, etruscan anecdotal and sentimental enthralled italian deliberate or premeditated noble and instinctive irish decorative savage pictorial restless astrological tentative gothic exceedingly defective and inefficient vulgar or purely popular down prehistoric complex and voluptuous intrinsically religious justly emblematical french progressive quite naturalistic great and exceedingly noble abstractly universal so-called mantic delightful unmoral final, high pure and subjective hypocritical and austere allegorical, political and economic dynamic illustrative authentically realistic synthetic modern highest and only desirable merely decorative and conventional vulgar and mediocre spontaneous decorative javanese culinary mayan decorative somewhat doctrinal noble culinary hard and soulless wholesome and vivid bold and privileged new and truly original noble and most passionate ancient decorative japanese decorative strictly racial authentic primitive towering, shadowy big-name, high-ticket rude elementary heterogeneous and chaotic ornate and grotesque virile and masculine chinese decorative astonishing human finest naturalistic sad or tragic nineteenth-century scientific certainly commercial best fantastical popular and high ancient freudian high and arcane prehistoric and ancient surely famous occasionally honest mayan or andean early mayan or andean early mayan intricate and clandestine stealthy, solitary barbaric conceptual total abstract expensive, labor-intensive military martial nearby municipal male martial dour religious slow martial weird, geometric soviet avant-garde primitive, uninhibited modern non-objective perhaps representational poorest relative brilliant cinematic historical fine tational, fine unusual and commercial marily astronomical mercial illustrative abstract surreal jack-mystical creative fine alive interior unusual and highly distinctive sci-fi digital visionary artistic other tional temporary fantastic athe-cial and fine athe-cial mythological and fine little backdoor impudent, flagrant happy and enchanting racily local fine, lunar grecian and mediaeval older etruscan structural and plastic unerring and unfailing sincere interesting secret and true subtle and boundless imperial moorish vulgar black unchanging and immemorial limited and mannered inflexibly pure masculine imaginative best, classic religious decorative tonsorial and sartorial exalted creative sincerest and most original sacerdotal or theological classical and elizabethan immodest heroic unreasonable rogue wonderful and difficult least, classical diseased, perfidious hence thespian prinicpal mediaeval asiatic delicate and clever ingenious social pleasing various intensely mobile saner and greater massive and inclusive specifically linguistic innate, specialized formative human sublime and fatal effeminate characterless diseased perfidious old sculptural objectively naturalistic idealistic and objectively naturalistic northern thirteenth-century critical, negative curious and questionable aztec decorative wholesome and loving sweet captive sinister and turbulent synthetic and rhythmic collective ancient intellectual, individualistic essentially permanent and universal divine literary vain memorial classic and early italian sure and skillful barbaric culinary terrible, authentic absolutely disembodied purely optic idealistic and symbolic unreal and monstrous absolutely decorative rude imitative dominant conventional primitive and austere soon byzantine degraded decorative unsuccessful domestic intimate and ecstatic venerable and pretentious home--final majestic elder diligent painstaking severe ornamental original and fastidious therefore useful and practical possible but foolish prevalent and natural far extant oftentimes barbaric mechanical barbaric efficacious and cumulative startling and assertive certain, gothic lustrous and illustrious ingenious and much-abused local and monumental oriental and turkish brutal, magnificent consumptive german truthful, modern practised and sacred pure or classic agreeable and patriotic amusing and new-found babylonian mimetic dead byzantine italian, dutch and german false or conventional dramatically emotional superb musico-pictorial classic or decadent happy expressive consummate and exquisite lesser fine such government-encouraged highly abstract and ideal mediocre or evil perhaps burmese official nineteenth-century primitive byzantine beautiful and highly useful cynical and profligate net french neolithic ceramic musico-poetical highest, literary highly complex and dramatic largely manual genuine grotesque rather feeble and barbarous quick and matchless ancient and healthy original, poetic primitive, indigenous pure indigenous easiest and most comprehensive spontaneous or facile massive and abiding royal and sublime refined conventional essentially refined and delicate industrial and high barbarous and incipient refined and wonderful exactly serious impassive, esoteric “immeasurably exalted always antique ever dramatic acceptable, byzantine original or genuine earliest decorative heroic and creative intellectual or mechanical direct fine wholly good and useful modest and democratic curiously social vigorous and highly complex pure and ornamental rare and higher characteristic byzantine finical and soulless elizabethan scenic oratorical and dramatic plebeian high modern, bad consummate and masterful bright gothic absolutely premeditated soft, communicative ideal or historical musical, dramatic and scenic moorish ceramic chinese pictorial serenely silent historic and time-honored high and conscious highly sophisticated and subtle quiet and somewhat reticent unconscious contemporary peruvian culinary refined and human morbidly naturalistic anatomical and scientific still grotesque still grotesque and dreadful low and meretricious high aboriginal necessarily second-rate dainty and playful scenic musical sullen mechanical perceptible and yet skilful exquisitely intricate and delicate madly impossible wondrous literary eventual tragic own or human pedantic and decorative mild but correct new geometric new and kindred proximate or necessary direct, proximate or necessary national fine difficult and most unique magical or infernal highest heraldic phoenician lapidary phoenician aesthetic sublime and venerable later augural old-fashioned but useful gentle but essential essentially miniature pictorial and graven light-hearted, highly-artificial sacred or poetic ideally consummate barbaric and delightful well-understood domestic delicately symbolic oft transparent deceptive or dishonest paternal and everlasting religious and monumental rustic local antique athletic kindly unconscious earliest typographical high and historical small but extremely brilliant egyptian so-called fundamental constructive military fine difficult and dainty agreeable ornamental phoenician and etruscan stale academic consummately quiet and natural consummately quiet rarer, cooler savage barbaric unformed colonial decrepit and unimaginative true allowable decadent and sterile bombastic and exuberant austere and honest ingenious and compliant etruscan ceramic already dim and troubled absolute and unrelated thy expressive humanitarian, cosmopolitan resultant dramatic submissive religious destructive and corrosive choicest italian limited and abstractive profound and unpretentious dutch, belgian and austrian dazzling and exquisite old and once familiar purely impersonal and traditional impersonal and traditional harmonious, organic spontaneous and efficient beautiful and civilized humblest genuine reproductive graphic purely disinterested and competent confident and rapid genial and supple invaluable and profitable merry or contemplative often highest subtle, deceptive perfect, poetic japanese ceramic stilted and bombastic instinctive photographic eighteenth-century pictorial ancient or contemporary poetic and graphic special aztec simply reproductive thine unaided independent and organic gracious and fine serenely devotional decorative symbolic now infantile sinful but bad most hateful cognate preliminary absolutely pious early ornamental elder ignorant conversational or descriptive adroit and spirited singularly adroit and spirited alike thine romantic, impressionistic monstrous governmental mexican and aztec lean visual british visual bright and majestic realistically decorative idealistically decorative mature and free unsettled and imitative beautiful and vulgar modern and sacred profoundest magical elegant or imitative dreamlike and transcendental thoroughly meretricious aboriginal ceramic cool, definite purely industrial and useful nervous and most expressive noble and most desirable education--especially technical gentle, well-paid bulgarian religious bulgarian medieval mysterious but highly useful noisy and demagogic now interpretative difficult and honorable mainly tragic older and perfect indeed concrete and static indeed concrete alien romantic imitative, self-conscious british fine more perfidious right welcome strange satiric particular and valuable common horticultural dangerously enchanting symbolical and decorative worthy and wholesome syrian religious fine, gothic necessary and fine constructive and impersonal multi-colored graphic rather sculptural ancient and italian sane and delightful sacerdotal and scientific finest unshackled delightful paternal portuguese ornamental feminine poetic feminine, artless typical but very different restrained--especially dramatic miraculous native higher equestrian pictorial or literary literary and bookish complex or comprehensive characteristic manual extravagant, byzantine incipient italian progressive or imperfect rudimentary ornamental religious italian pictorial and graphic old and widely practised weak or immature ancient and vulgar athenian or elizabethan golden and consummate greatest and most wondrous incisive and realistic pictorial or ornamental wonderful and then unheard-of difficult fine humble but extensive once pure and lofty direct, genial abstract, obsolete whole graphic norwegian scenic industrial domestic intense and honest unconscious, intense and honest austere ancient dramatical poetic awful and very difficult sculptural and pictorial capable black-and-white still reputable decadent, pornographic decidedly finer and better thy nicest mature gothic contemporary geometrical cautious and responsible careless dramatic critical and conscious spanish sacred incisive and compelling decorative and educational spurious high romanesque and barbaric loving decorative sincere or great entirely sincere or great childish, artless difficult and venerable vigorous armorial artistic or fine main, symbolic renowned, german spanish ceramic luminous tragic hard and microscopic lesser or practical difficult but valuable modern or gothic invaluable and rather delicate beguiling feminine italian pictorial exquisitely exact and clean-cut merely serviceable specifically operatic musical and specifically operatic high decorative tasteful constructive foreign and antique early contrapuntal best etruscan gothic ceramic exclusively realistic typical or national consistent and genuine auxiliary modern feeble, chinese portuguese and savage oriental ceramic earlier heraldic concurrent decorative present-day heraldic serious decorative wholesome and worthy exceedingly silent incomparable synthetic indispensable and useful unmistakable and distinct fifteenth-century decorative consummate and conscious divine, pictorial common unattainable heavy, latter-day conventional and melodramatic german scenic refined and ingratiating delicate and unpretentious difficult, high haply human thrice richer high, true eternal true sophisticated feminine newer spanish long-vanished, highest ingratiating social significant and troubling curiously intellectual deep elizabethan essentially practical and commercial entirely new and undeveloped gothic germanic elementary and female happy and unconscious less decadent far-reaching, infinite simple and infinitely harder dramatic phonetic serviceable and decorative older, oriental severely monotonous great and shabby unpretentious but quite insidious carefully ancient conscious and thorough strong mimetic private nor domestic strong, mimetic exquisite and luxurious impersonal and impassive merely esthetic treacherous seductive unequal but superior intimate and sorrowful sensual, lazy tentative dramatic exactly dramatic italian, dutch rotten bourgeois reflective or creative greatest manual conventional and perfect japanese martial unbelievably delicate early decorative finest rhetorical dangerous and irresponsible such peripheral high, imaginative ardently beloved difficult and useful consummate dramatic noble and heroical servile or ministerial yellow, german instinctive and compelling modern imitative possible and true true rhetorical however skilled easy and unobtrusive essentially egyptian fine and satisfactory truly philanthropical divinely artificial exceedingly nice and delicate conventional symbolic flat decorative entire ceramic spanish metal gothic military often unfamiliar delicate and meticulous henceforth egyptian imitative and composite practical and manual exceedingly defective venerable and awful adroit literary fine and mechanical praiseworthy modern perfect gymnastic romantic and naturalistic profound and practised dreadfully beautiful distinctly independent highest and most instinctive rare but happy great, unpremeditated stiff and rude social or human historical chinese dark sterile modern editorial wonderfully mysterious far modern norwegian musical profane and unprofitable japanese pictorial savage decorative imaginative and practical british dramatic vitally progressive chinese culinary exquisite and esoteric noble and benign so-called limited delightful critical still infantile least credible traditional ethnic damn filthy pictorial and sculptural merely witty decadent classical inferior dramatic modern and realistic oriental and ancient vain and chimerical noble and valuable good and original apparently antique different martial earliest ceramic recursive and self-referential twentieth-century illustrative weird bohemian byzantine devotional blinking, mindless chief feline contemporary illustrative twentieth-century popular archaic, exotic bad primitive chilly modern essential and ancient dangerous, arcane great and functional occasional goofy redundant martial esoteric martial family martial heretofore unsolved abnormal definite canadian modern cheeky table-top weighty popular graceful abstract harsh and noble taut erotic poor homosexual prior medical ultimate deceptive tough martial extreme and delicate outlandish but energetic chinese and malaysian archetypal, feminine superior oratorical modern lapidary ladylike and genteel minor protective two-dimensional visual stylish two-story obvious denominational biologically moist predatory, communicative new, tactual chinese erotic dark, esoteric brutal, caustic few spineless somewhat glitzy uniquely personal and creative past big-money different twentieth-century more pricey korean martial weakest martial precious and very private dark modern adly martial famous and most successful medieval egyptian wealthy and very unorthodox cynically mimetic messy but necessary serene fine small, high-quality leaden, depressing old-fashioned telepathic unnatural and necromantic bizarre pictorial pastoral and woodland plain and artless centuries-old martial fragile and ephemeral preferred representational combative martial much painstaking savage and repellent often reclusive naive haitian secondhand haitian pictures--original beautifully unique primarily popular liberal or mechanical latest necromantic human twentieth-century modern, contemporary attractive interior unbelievably glorious one-of-a-kind, original human representational dynamic, rough-hewn charming cartoonish powerfully raw anxious, anguished dynamic and expressive dial, unusual bright and interior loving comic several competitive award-winning fine eral commercial modernist religious arcane and bizarre literate and good arcane and secret deranged, horrific vibrant old scratchy alien sweet eighteen-year-old dancelike martial great and rebellious astronomical and astronautical effectively moody shivery two-color 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Words to Describe art

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "art" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "art" are: immeasurably exalted, finest fantastic, right cruel, nutty and contemporary, and vain phantom. There are 995 other words to describe art listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe art 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, "art" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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