Describing Wordsfor Association

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Here are some adjectives for association: malaysian chinese, salvadoran industrial, british astronomical, national repeal, african true, proper and sedate, fond and long-term, devious and unworthy, congenial and substantial, international african, independent regional, idyllic juvenile, provincial photographic, national dental, sovereign and self-governing, life-saving benevolent, british medical, british archæological, diocesan choral, british arch�ological, british archaeological, premature and popular, obscure but nasty, apparent aristocratic, selfish and imperfect, arbitrary and ideal, impotent conventional, national educational, mutual beneficial, amicable temporary. You can get the definitions of these association adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to association (and find more here).

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Words to Describe association

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

malaysian chinese salvadoran industrial british astronomical national repeal african true proper and sedate fond and long-term devious and unworthy congenial and substantial international african independent regional idyllic juvenile provincial photographic national dental sovereign and self-governing life-saving benevolent british medical british archæological diocesan choral british arch�ological british archaeological premature and popular
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obscure but nasty apparent aristocratic selfish and imperfect arbitrary and ideal impotent conventional national educational mutual beneficial amicable temporary mere snobbish transient and fortuitous undefined and indistinct anglo-international financial noble and progressive frequent intimate intimate face-to-face possible ludicrous passionately sweet dangerously familiar mutual and intricate same anarchial involuntary but not unnatural entire remote co-operative industrial jamaican medical long and mutually satisfying british dental sericultural co-operative intimate, spontaneous and informal fortuitous and amorphous imply occasional or habitual apparent modern academic, cosmopolitan obligatory and private involuntary, obligatory and private willing, persistent bold and unjustifiable puzzling and unworthy italian cultural national editorial finnish co-operative ridiculous or evil lovable or great mighty and fruitful local or antique ideal evil british laryngo-oto-rhinological extraordinarily general gross and limited sheer incongruous constant & long well-organized belgian territorial, traditional and occupational traditional and occupational mournful historical rational or philosophical non-party political british philological powerful and corporate long and beneficial mere rhythmical early archaic international medical cooperative coal long and benevolent onal medical odd but mutually beneficial avowed, legitimate early-morning, intimate polar practical linear and tional methodically linear and tional methodically linear tentially dangerous loose and secretive mutual and unsuspecting thyroid-pituitary-adrenal long, helpful and sympathetic colored burial casual or capricious powerful and prodigiously numerous prodigiously numerous dim but sublime newer, closer mutual confident interdependent, co-operative necessary or truly logical stable mental incongruous and irresistible historical or poetic political but non-partisan tenderly sacred hideous and nondescript intelligible historical involuntary, obligatory distant grand benevolent and patriotical jovial and congenial still powerful and great perfectly legal and harmless legal and harmless richest legendary intimate and inevitable german athletic infamous but irresistible closer historical indestructible legal notable constitutional provincial typographical nonpartisan and non-political meaningless fortuitous intimately affectionate long and intimately affectionate spiritual and ethnic iniquitous and formidable serene and sentimental unfortunately ludicrous juvenile protective imperial anti-socialist grand religio-political agricultural, mineral and mechanical international geodetical international, industrial classical or poetical actual or putative romantic or classic intentional and open nearer or higher loyal repeal gloomy and rapid edifying and agreeable remarkable or strange simple voluntary refined, vague dynastic, military and compulsory vast and democratic universal benevolent somewhat quaint and ancient ambiguous and even distasteful charming but unsatisfying materialistic and spacial peculiarly logical canadian humane privileged and intimate extra-legal, voluntary local conservative solemn and insistent newspapers--political sentimental or historic educational, scientific or charitable long and always pleasant consequent sensitive animal intimate eager and romantic slight or whimsical aerial experimental territorial or moral italian electro-technical sentimental or historical anti-repeal and loyalist anti-repeal appropriate and rapid territorial educational slow and almost unconscious absolutely pathological exalted and absolutely pathological small but very vindictive swedish liberal national evolutionary quiet frequent double theatrical far-famed charitable eastern or classical momentarily unimportant mechanical, accidental ideal, necessary horticultural and arboricultural one-time intimate fanatically bitter intelligent, equitable merest personal regular and helpful agricultural protective australian secular peculiar, sacred lower chaparral constant and rich secret cosmopolitan operatic festival false mythological intimate, divine never parasitic intimate but never parasitic national and olympian enough clandestine divine and exalted aeronautical historical cheerful or sacred consistently cheerful or sacred practicable, constant continental memorial temporary, voluntary narrowest tribal pleasurable, further peculiar corporate strict archaic possibly archaic common but morbid curious random genuine affectional undesirable and disagreeable previously fair central borstal reasonable, egotistical instinctive and loving political gymnastic possible ridiculous intimate, internal possibly historic intimate and purely intellectual almost involuntary and hereditary unmistakable and fascinating new unfortunate unnatural constant delightful and noble formidable, murderous vague horticultural often deeper and truer homogeneous scholastic inseparable false mutual protective congenial mental bad environmental closer natural powerful and alien rapid free memorable british kindred or similar secret and mystical junior liberal intimate and unbroken imply occasional storied and poetical non-profit cultural individual and ancestral secret democratic liberal central relative or interested unincorporated religious constant or habitual other facile private or exclusive casual and artificial naval professional late archaic early habitual international psychological chinese benevolent fruitful national more deathless vague and haphazard african international mere voluntary central liberal present loose unfavorable political free soviet exciting, amusing configural nental economic national graphical ‘central potentially restive rkably clever poetic free former long-standing avaricious alien typical architectural sovereign & self-governing british numismatic rather steady occasionally sensational brief commer\-cial stuffy, secretive infinitely terrible mutu-ally profitable voluntary planetary now three-day-old obnoxious and superficial idle and random ubiquitous and shadowy healthy and mutually beneficial proud and meaningless consolidated protective national gastroenterological secondary symptomatic fevered free largest magical whole covert fraternal protective drowsy free obviously clandestine increasingly unfair serene, simple and direct verbal free loyal and voluntary voluntary and irresponsible vaguely agreeable new and comic simply speculative international artistic original loose british classical british archeological intimate and primitive intimate conscious unhappy middle-class stray mental inevitable mutual late repeal reasonably agreeable own anti-slavery harmful intimate legal or voluntary sudden indefinite general coloured loose congregational precious maternal picturesque biblical compact and voluntary compact indistinct general congregational oldest and most dangerous national photographic spontaneous and informal faraway imaginative vast fraternal secret, political voluntary mutual gustatory-visual intellectual or political military and compulsory secular or profane clearer and closer sovereign worshipful false fleeting scientific or charitable voluntary free vast and popular literary or collegiate horridly unpleasant curious occasional competitive face-to-face romantic and patriotic secret false active and sole present gruesome unnatural and arbitrary fierce and homicidal profitable or happy next subordinate central evangelical better and unmistakable least intimate important benevolent various subcortical former artificial french free-trade upper chaparral international seismological rational or ideal protective and nutritive similarly natural british, archæological british, archaeological such angelical national coal strictly imaginative british optical consistently cheerful definite and justifiable surgical and gynecological mutual burial fascinating and memorable seemingly inseparable ingenious and dangerous great anarchical british archa|ological august medical peculiar and continuous purely local and temporary distinctly painful traditional and hereditary permanent and compulsory closest and most constant key, free apparent literary legitimate fraternal legitimate and praiseworthy constant and willing national professional fruitful, meaningful voluntary and private grotesque or paltry raucous political full and honorable musical festival certain hazy recent intellectual anarchial direct literary long and intimate mycorrhizal local philanthropic occasional or habitual apparently incoherent mere strong excellent historic previous actual positively painful long and joyous long and profitable canadian medical essential western international protective provincial or parochial direct functional unconscious automatic secret sectarian extensive and intimate closest and strictest educational and historical sweet and entire intimate and habitual long and controversial intimate official unjust and stupid truest and happiest imaginary religious possible intimate quiet but clear pleasant and sacred invisible and secret efficient and business-like loyal and national imperial archaeological literary or benevolent peace-loving and industrious absolutely unnatural constant, familiar emphatic and constant jewish colonial genuinely productive involuntary and hereditary last agreeable patriotic and constitutional long and familiar national memorial sometimes uneasy new benevolent female industrial national medical professional national hideous and strange noble and sacred daily intimate constant and intimate highly general newer national unnecessarily intimate normal and vital korean evangelical etymological and historical international phonetic newly intimate free and blissful agricultural chemical nearer personal non-inferential world-wide human intimate and frequent exclusive, selfish continuous historic loyal and fruitful fruitful human unlawful and dangerous agricultural and educational now worldwide mineral and mechanical british geological municipal electrical noble historic national co-operative oldest missionary particularly festive pleasant mutual scarlet british same inclusive local radical constant intimate straight democratic national protective public and scandalous external, mechanical great aristocratical lifelong and intimate altogether illegitimate immense secret japanese agricultural dramatic literary benevolent human main popular merely fortuitous chinese protective charitable or benevolent unreasonable and capricious true and immediate underground secret healthful, unconscious national agricultural voluntary religious closer political such unavoidable liberal and radical previous criminal galactic medical such demoniacal eclectic medical intimate literary vast international bloody and treacherous further direct open, authentic frequent and intimate free, individual distinct and frequent inevitable and fatal closest mutual archaeological and topographical great and homogeneous official, national national municipal oldest scientific correct verbal equally benevolent pre-eminently respectable formidable secret artificial and unreal especially sad numerous and highly respectable relatively frequent poetic and historic honorable professional japanese educational definite territorial necessary and regular female benevolent diligent and active benevolent protective old, boyish active and intimate perhaps long powerful secret venerable and respectable simple and unconscious parent-teacher second british voluntary and free provincial agricultural painfully vivid such intimate almost free strange intimate damned western long and very pleasant own world-wide probable religious brief commercial local liberal defective and irregular entire czech royal anthropological truly logical mutual benevolent liberal national co-operative agricultural religious sexual evangelical congregational loyal and constitutional new and intimate immense free quiet and pleasing short but impressive intimate and cordial instinctive and impulsive old, intimate present necessary sub-cortical early false historic or poetic equally fictitious general postal perfect industrial prospective public occasional direct last ministerial sacred and historic ukrainian national such productive personal public benevolent or charitable often deeper cortical or subcortical chaparral intimate british national nonprofit possible artistic interstellar political more anomalous international geophysical long and sweet tartar and chinese great repeal intimate mutual local or accidental official japanese wholesome and delightful active national immemorial human direct causal voluntary and spontaneous scientific or religious less incongruous singular and special long and habitual vigorous and practical particular such sectarian or political simple external long intimate less voluntary anti-ministerial simple temporal formerly powerful australian medical closer, tighter simply professional single painful fruitful political arch�ological and topographical legal or illegal mere artificial civic or military romantic and historical national secular intelligent and beneficial refined and superior voluntary political female political easy and constant local cooperative peaceful, harmonious ancient fundamental chief historic seductive and dangerous regular athletic choicest literary pernicious and absurd casual and transient nonprofit educational everywhere local less imitative least faint helpful and sympathetic same accidental late african new and rival necessary and constant pleasant, dreamy formal and distant mere baseless constant and definite vital historical exclusive political new athletic big musical national british international literary own discordant natural or historical less unwilling <def>habitual less intimate great mystical large secret entirely unpleasant slight and trivial federal medical total intellectual constant literary genuine democratic trivial and fleeting unusually intimate primitive biological material or physical --loyal familiar personal chinese educational medical journal general athletic strong cooperative dutch national otherwise long central medical less degrading vague, intangible excellent and benevolent other public-spirited particularly fortunate industrial educational parliamentary and political clever international considerable historic old plebeian famous continental permanent and continuous long and gentle long and quiet usual loose much intimate long personal able and liberal small philosophical free voluntary general and unlimited intimate human free international purely philanthropic curiously vivid voluntary purely voluntary same immediate true harmonic endless free long and agreeable strange and intimate educational and missionary successful musical natural and divine anti-tax last distinct serious and permanent international scientific strong primitive free religious intimate and constant such biblical italian medical wider and larger secret and subtle good federal universal musical vast popular constant numerical lifelong political intense local much delightful british african wicked fairy constant secret industrial and intellectual absurd and pernicious same incongruous simple democratic ancient and secret more intimate long, intimate mutually beneficial mutually satisfying other voluntary sensitive and delicate otherwise unaccountable free political entire evil highly laudable new congregational primitive and ancient ecclesiastico-political peaceful and harmonious high classical comparatively frequent old ethical international sunday-school such misleading own life-long foremost scientific prominent medical sad, tragic safest possible much poetical notable historic occasional involuntary secret political subcortical national commercial local and historical historical and archaeological great, free historical and arch�ological rather intimate purely verbal loose political little free long professional general sexual secret and mysterious medical missionary enterprising and successful professional and public small missionary worthy such large choral synonymous still closer remarkable historical daring and dangerous direct sexual early agricultural irish agricultural strange and unexplained old poetic agricultural and mechanical former personal dangerous secret natural and fitting themal other irrelevant open and free single local historic and literary rational and philosophical active human equally natural different sensory much historical moral and industrial such godless fine and sensitive mutually advantageous symbiotic recent local pagan religious early sexual irish parliamentary poetic and romantic single romantic large national mere financial industrial or commercial local historical rich and harmonious useful and efficient domestic and agricultural philosophical and psychological vegetational little intellectual zoological and botanical self-governing medical and surgical quite understandable cultural and historical brief and violent now further borstal co-operative complete spiritual noble national commer\-cial professional medical rich private pleasant new necessary mental somewhat intimate new and ever new peculiar and personal natural and healthful german evangelical national anti-slavery semi-ecclesiastical actual geographical highly profitable free and voluntary closer single happy interesting and pleasant religio-political secret and powerful own lifelong such indiscriminate fullest and freest occasional free french architectural old and deep other contemporaneous almost unrestrained long and continuous extensive and complete exclusively religious largest german not-for-profit intimate personal mutually profitable natural and original little jealous free civilized human somewhat quaint national liberal much german tribal or national important scientific merely professional less constant enterprising little literary or scientific long and honorable grand historic rather sentimental local commercial free individual purely german possible or probable such illegal purely poetic various professional ecumenical certain literary such so-called romantic and sentimental so-called national correct mental more improper previous medical excellent and useful royal agricultural national historical fairly intimate perhaps unconscious opulent and powerful historical and legendary constant long mental seemingly normal inseparable long political official national just political same vicious local democratic poetic and dramatic more unnatural open, public fragile new civil or ecclesiastical common military other casual fairly obvious long and successful general political different historical old nervous such incongruous long and delightful merely historical social democratic repeal clean, healthy

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Words to Describe association

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "association" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "association" are: malaysian chinese, salvadoran industrial, british astronomical, national repeal, and african true. There are 994 other words to describe association listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe association 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, "association" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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.

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