Describing Words
examples:
nose,
winter,
blue eyes,
woman
Here are some adjectives for books. You can get the definitions of these adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to books (and find more here).
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Words to Describe books
Below is a list of describing words for books. 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 books:
sparkling twentieth-century oriental printed ridiculous nonsensical early printed amusing, original exquisitely simple and truthful sympathetic and wholesome exceedingly rare and curious irreplaceable ancient crimson fairy undisputed canonical german sunday-school japanese dumpy huge, leatherbound large, leatherbound second glad brown fairy ponderous commonplace fine and readable rare primitive totally remarkable former symbolical archaic visual yellow fairy red fairy sober, somber demoniac sixth unique, splendid proverbial open heavy and handsome lilac fairy wholly remarkable wide, largest simply appalling and irresistible apocryphal and canonical manual or blue immoral other great cryptographic loveliest and kindest pornographic comic potent and magical glorious and weighty disturbing or dubious bitter, blasphemous small and deeply boring rare and antiquarian lawless bloody bad and immodest retail cheap trivial, futile long and frightfully stiff proto-canonical perfectly sober and serious parliamentary blue olive fairy unassuming and invaluable wholesomely disturbing good but unmethodical bawdy, lewd mighty lewd french signal valuable, leather-bound amazing horrid upcoming or current completely exclusive possibly technical slim, well-worn pretentious and sensational dismayingly heavy blank, leather-bound grubby, rumpled impossibly pure and innocent illiterate comic deutero-canonical marvelously simple-minded larger dumpy marvelously simple-minded and glib substantial, instructive delightful and really first-rate culpable and dangerous blue & white curious, curious big leatherbound rolled-up comic well-bound geological international antiquarian numerous interactive four-color comic erudite and obscure desirable foreign recent but imperfect hieroglyphical prophetic economic and socialistic acute and singular several high-class monthly cumulative deuterocanonical purely temporary and unconnected unlawful and unlicensed witty, instructive rare and second-hand breezy, delightful fundamental and abstruse reliable and readable so-called hermetic scarce and very dear cheap and rare superficial but pretty french new and bulky excellent and short tenth and fifth exceedingly interesting and readable few well-bound thoroughly readable tattered comic philosophical commonplace dusty nineteenth-century red, leather-bound significant and informative new stiff-backed somewhat socialistic spanish signal do-it-yourself veterinary crumpled comic seriously magical dry and inadequate aseptically clean powerfully pernicious nipponese comic supremely interesting and wholesome popular veterinary clear, practical and suggestive many well-bound thoroughly wholesome and attractive capital, such delightfully fresh and original simple, naive and straightforward amiable but imperfect naive and straightforward lean and dreary instructive but awfully dull practical, well-illustrated capital and instructive wholly fictional and imaginative second cheerful curious and exceedingly frank remote civic canonical and apocryphal slender leather-bound many non-religious epoch-making little such online small but very thick pink fairy green fairy few devotional huge leather-bound small leather-bound blue fairy tall, gilt-edged little navy-blue still scarce and expensive leather-bound old commercial comic dusty leather-bound basic great unself-critical moldy, old extraordinarily unself-critical more vellum wry, splendid non-existent, unattainable shapeless and inadequate inexpensive blank pseudo-fictional new and forthcoming dirty leather-bound best-known non-fiction white, leather-bound sixth and seventeenth entire single additions--several loose and still fragmentary newest chaotic immense, leather-bound atrociously dull grave and graver large and often inaccessible red morocco-bound historical and prophetical dreadful and really scandalous perpetually medical thoroughly fresh and original scientific uncut semi-poetical little instructive juvenile concise but luminous printed medical silly flippant seventy-six new latest sunday-school subsequent signal scarce and excessively dear creative, first-hand thoroughly wholesome and delightful exciting and most characteristic chatty and readable net other creditable and even surprising frantic and seditious larger and full --classical and philological unexceptionably genteel new, well-bound attractive unread curious and classical interesting commonplace interesting, overcrowded highly interesting and companionable singularly rare and curious wholesale cheap chatty, wide-awake handsome and really useful rotten grown-up frightfully stiff venerable, well-worn convenient commonplace _early printed big and satisfying _un_canonical thoroughly readable and instructive sober and formidable delightfully merry interesting and also valuable funny empty later sacred french unseen fair, commendable still fresh and striking full and unimpeachable genuinely fascinating orderly blue poetical commonplace antique canadian eighth recognizable old and famed sixth recognizable useless and miscellaneous charming and even captivating mill--local remarkable and most attractive extant innumerable little and very curious dull juvenile utterly false and wearisome precious academic rare and exceedingly diffuse mostly devotional witty and uncommonly interesting open privileged thoroughly feeble and commonplace thoroughly feeble miraculously foolish eminently interesting and valuable perfectly unmanageable truly beautiful and sympathetic fourth rare little blank other symbolical heavy leatherbound prestigious national little leather-bound useless modern plain impartial canonical and other ordinary blank well-written, interesting practical and suggestive fresh and individual noble and joyous oriental sacred poetical and prophetical interesting, instructive thin, harmless wildly unbalanced magnificent and inspirational specifically humorous pestilential and abominable soberly historic prophetic, mystical ordinary humanitarian beautiful posthumous professional eclectic essentially dull dusty, leather-bound damned turgid important and well-guarded fourth and absolutely final similarly worthwhile good and seminal little-known and esoteric psychotic rare free comic thick blank unbound, ragged quick, flimsy recondite and inaccessible big loose-leaf old hardbound thick tattered great indecent witty and daring rare or old svardenvyrd�near-mythical prophetic valuable second-hand indian fairy seditious and heretical powerful and illuminating intelligible, prophetic tattered commonplace several virulent tedious moral deuteronomical wonderfully rich and rewarding few stuffy recent well-received tibetan sacred indoor noisy wisest ancient baked and preposterous poetical and prophetic middle-class and mediocre fourth, fifth and seventh suggestive, sensible aside dull sensible but heavy aforesaid symbolical able, comprehensive heretical and seditious exact and valuable numerous undated authoritative and well-known certain unlicensed frigidly impartial scarce and foreign remarkable and frigidly impartial thereby second-hand sad or high-minded earlier symbolical daringly nonsensical miscellaneous juvenile trustworthy and meritorious shrewd, suggestive curious and successful earlier devotional agreeable but superficial spongy german good but easier truly serious and honest equally good but easier indecipherable ancient dear or beloved distinct buddhist modest and most interesting theistic sacred uncommonly readable noblest missionary complete and egoistical cheapest and most elegant unreal and lurid many post-war unimpeachable little wonderful and virulent apocryphal fourth sacred and apocryphal infamous pornographic proto-canonical and deutero-canonical artistic and complete lyric and moral gay and often scandalous apocryphal or deutero-canonical sensible, comprehensive usual apocryphal uncanonical jewish nobler modern well-written and brilliant rival sacred better commonplace aforesaid heretical fifth & greatest such characterless large pale-blue pure, humorous markedly scriptural mostly queer popular but instructive modern valuable tedious heavy gradual, various nonsensical ridiculous classical secular libelous little pornographic german small and cheaper humblest, good vivacious and daring characteristic or charming frightfully interesting unaided heavy extremely interesting and typical other plaintive useful and eminently practical ancient and estimable deeply influential _apocryphal effective or deeply influential old and unintelligible thoroughly regular and conventional practical and non-controversial instructive apocryphal ceremonial and spiritual well-written and valuable whatsoever precious and rare careful, erudite chiefly scientific and historical handsome attractive chiefly medical and scientific particular devout sacred median devout and edifying sundry scarce interesting and truly human rare and cheap technical wireless permanently outstanding allegorical little precious but spotty elegant and most sublime rare and generally unknown famous but little-known elementary and educational extravagant and unintelligible useful and charming excellent theosophical rare and specially valuable delightful and helpful inadequate and absurd long, composite cheap but worthy doubly abominable foreign second-hand journal, commonplace unread modern pompous and obscure canonical and classical sole historical serviceable introductory extraordinarily keen and delicate brightest and most readable stupidest popular venerable well-worn sacred or arcane remarkable and vigorous ponderous and devout amiable but rather feeble extremely curious and suggestive worked-out posthumous classical and definite bold and pernicious honest and singularly interesting truly interesting and instructive governmental, judicial sensible and brilliant singularly rich and interesting recent and satisfactory meretricious or humiliating wordy, garrulous concise and ready beloved astronomical shallow but attractive precious and marvelous dull and rather vulgar superlatively unsound seventh and most famous slim, dark-blue enormously vital reflective, charming vile papistical vast authentic large leather-bound old, unwanted scarce little dubious old old, clumsy japanese comic historical and prophetic big leather-bound leatherbound enough rare good, popular oldest and rarest honest and interesting many leather-bound thin, leatherbound earlier biblical small, leather-bound new & recent dirty comic other truer probably eighth or ninth probably eighth readable little ridiculous comic oldest comic great unreadable chief canonical suitable and instructive immediate french older historical well-worn little international standard thick leatherbound little vellum deliciously funny leather-bound massive, leather-bound evil political impossibly pure particularly reticent massive, handwritten large, leather-bound non-canonical privately printed intelligent and highly readable second vintage intensely skeptical excellent, readable thoughtful, quirky sexual how-to deep, lyric opaque and experimental elegant, elegiacal bright improbable wholly optimistic holocrystal other funniest modern how-to white comic books-real well-regarded recent rare, slim certain best-selling old, jeweled single hand-written thick, old-style eventually electronic inadvertently hilarious rather prurient single sci-fi antique, fragile large hardbound violent comic greasy inconvenient long, gaseous all-new and clearly superior rarest nautical funny, authentic educational comic abysmally crummy impressively weighty blue leather-bound fairly small and cheap extremely rare and valuable older, esoteric old stygian old, well-read green, leather-bound vintage comic practically mythological dark leatherbound small, leatherbound leather-bound medical smaller-than-average western comic old leatherbound grim inscrutable atively common dull and spineless strange and rather 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chinese canonical beautiful, legible mad democratic excellent handy canonical or authoritative instructive, serviceable cheap and pious gross, worthless popular juvenile little morocco-bound many longish worst and most tedious other and really wonderful average sunday-school multicolored and gilded classical or historical historical prophetic thoughtful and promising fascinating and intensely interesting conspicuously sincere diffuse, good hasty but conspicuously sincere secular secondhand singularly delightful and unaffected cheerful and uplifting familiar, unpretentious eternal, indispensable strange and rhapsodical old, hand-written ordinary well-written theological commonplace cryphal commonplace and even absurd little apocryphal literary and didactic rare and unread bible and other interesting, scientific respective symbolical earliest funeral historic and didactic readable and useful fifth, seventh and eighth central secular dry, unprofitable huge commonplace accurate and available wide-awake sunday-school standard sunday-school notable and artistic aforesaid useless characteristic and most popular never valuable excellent, unnoticed comparatively wellknown rather delicate and exquisite classical or german important and extraordinarily interesting annually numerous courageous and penetrating inspiring, reasonable and valuable more uncanonical old unfashionable decent readable sacred authentic unpolished french useful second-hand symbolic and confessedly obscure hence worthy old-fashioned fairy ingenious and very clever cordial, heart-warming architechural absurdly curious scarce or curious radically spiritual scarce or unique fascinating and highly popular ritual or hermetic odd, desultory honestly amorous great and pitiless worst valuable precious seventeenth-century valuable bad reports--remarkably clever surely irregular finely fascinating surely irregular and commonplace readable and salable socialist and economical sizable gray old-time sunday-school simply appalling obsolete devotional ribald iconoclastic comprehensive blue divine tenth principal symbolic fascinating and daring particularly fairy transcendental little stupid and deceitful dynamic and disturbing unpleasant and yet interesting human and worthy single biblical altogether human and worthy historically subordinate human and instructive important but historically subordinate technical and very complete away juvenile sometimes uncritical signally valuable ancient and much-thumbed brighter, few mainly biographical and topical well-known and most instructive picturesque and enthralling popular and fast-selling beautiful sixth dog-eared, grimy empty or insincere second-hand and other singularly refreshing and happy unlicensed and scandalous singularly refreshing second-hand foreign notable and beautiful frantic seditious restful and admirable distinctly vocational amazing dull dangerous mystical thoroughly good-natured and good-humored simple or pathetic good-natured and good-humored well-made, well-bound loose-leaf blank worthless or indifferent extremely clever and amusing trustworthy and informative curious and rather hybrid subsequent typographical thoroughly readable and enjoyable dangerously sinful yellow vellum old and well-read amusingly wrong-headed bengali religious exciting, passionate cheap devotional admirable sunday-school often long and capable deliciously vivid requisite blank colossally cerebral present prophetical significant small proper prophetical able and now half-forgotten anonymous or spurious singular and half-forgotten briefer prophetic hateful, revolting prophetical and poetic recent and very remarkable ordinary leather-bound large, big apocryphal several essentially unfair apocryphal moral thoroughly fresh and natural inspiring and practical shabby leather-bound bygone sunday-school huge, sensational retail, such oldest, favorite prettiest gilt good and not dissimilar original symbolical typically australian 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eminently practical readable and unreadable useful anonymous painful and unhealthy suggestive and thoughtful altogether good and wholesome tremendously reasonable wholesale many intellectually incoherent valuable and now rare delightfully humorous and clever amazingly humorous small but naturally immortal cheap blank valuable and clever ordinarily associate friendly memorial old and unsaleable convenient elementary unique and excessively rare sane and illuminating chemical and astrological new readable more rare and interesting incorrect dark inferior or immoral delightful and informative extremely uncertain and precarious exciting and enjoyable uncut and rarely beautiful indistinct poor desirable and rare big dropsical excessively valuable poor vague small and excessively valuable permanent, delightful brightest small timely up-to-date miscellaneous german shockingly unorthodox comprehensive and illuminating huge and equally interesting insufficient and dilapidated exceptionally scarce few readable delicate, fresh and breezy most ornithological famous and thoroughly delightful sole creditable idle and imperfect fine-looking, unreadable fascinating but awful properly sober and pious small but wonder-working properly sober wisely helpful fewer idiotic old unsubtle timid transatlantic practical and clearest illuminating religious outdoor handy interesting and thoroughly wholesome ugly scientific italian, portuguese and french mawkish and unreal interesting and scarce high-minded, illuminating poetical and miscellaneous strictly uncut less scarce extensive or notable more antislavery grave and most instructive dog-eared technical restful and readable numerous theosophical charming and highly poetical ordinary mathematical extraordinarily able and impressive sufficiently illustrative interesting and companionable
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Words to Describe books
As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "books" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "books" are: sparkling twentieth-century, oriental printed, ridiculous nonsensical, early printed, and amusing, original. There are 994 other words to describe books listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe books 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, "books" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.
Note also that if there aren't many books 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 books?
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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