Describing Wordsfor Buildings

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Here are some adjectives for buildings: expensive showy, grander and taller, quirky alien, shabby industrial, bewilderingly similar, rectangular beige, stark disagreeable, colored auxiliary, relatively grandiose, lesser, older, narrower, tall, interesting civic, towering, untenanted, low drab, many blocky, blocky black-and-white, white hemispherical, gray cramped, impressive, permanent, wonderful ecclesiastical, exquisite collegiate, great blacked-out, newer public, colossal octagonal, vaguely shabby, proportioned new, marvelous vintage, roundly conical, immense hexagonal, academic and residential. You can get the definitions of these buildings adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to buildings (and find more here).

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Words to Describe buildings

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

expensive showy grander and taller quirky alien shabby industrial bewilderingly similar rectangular beige stark disagreeable colored auxiliary relatively grandiose lesser, older narrower, tall interesting civic towering, untenanted low drab many blocky blocky black-and-white white hemispherical gray cramped impressive, permanent wonderful ecclesiastical exquisite collegiate great blacked-out newer public colossal octagonal
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vaguely shabby proportioned new marvelous vintage roundly conical immense hexagonal academic and residential abominable unfinished least seductive gorgeous lighthearted tall, white-walled main wooden geometric inverted dark and blocky main monastic seemingly unharmed tallest and costliest small and fantastic pleasing colonnaded hence tall larger civic secular governmental distant colonnaded modular military high, filthy taller new tall, tile-roofed ancient, windowless older, shabby creakily picturesque old and creakily picturesque grimy, industrial one-story prefab past three-story sad and graceful original one-story daring and gaudy ruinous or dangerous beautiful and stately public overcrowded, obsolete handsome public unmarked, unlabeled old and unneeded blocky but gaily colored taller modern handsome modernistic several three-story historically noble low, decrepit thick-walled permanent empty, unnecessary gaudy, empty outlying administrative hospital and nearby low-slung cinder-block now dark and disturbing heavy neoclassical many world-renowned other ramshackle largest martial beautiful municipal beautiful monastic arsenal, public interesting and historically important principal secular also smoky strong and specious apartments--principal private apartments--principal fascinating monastic ruinous great five-story flat older and cheaper capacious, irregular substantial and not unornamental flimsy meretricious stately public fine public elegant residential ordinary three-story towering multicolored low tin-roofed simple, substantial tall, domed tall, oblong grey, ancient noteworthy public principal public tall, bizarre glossy octagonal perfect, unused oldest medieval distant xeelee-material two-story public post-pyramidal corporate impossible, magical innumerable larger geometrically severe several one-story postwar high-rise fruitful, public venerable simple squalid and ramshackle more, larger commer\-cial and residential presumably taller tall midtown ornate frosty undecorated native certain ancillary regal gray immense and regal skeletal, colorless gray medieval four-story civilian impressive imperial fabulous, fanciful arched and colonnaded eccentric black bland, two-story flat cubical steep three-story squat khaki antique grey literally cellular wooden, primary otherwise plain and uninteresting strange and conventional vast, impregnable humble and decrepit public or monumental irregular, wooden claustral and conventual robust and picturesque cramped, man-made respective large elegant public graceful and stately public domed, oval tasteless public gaunt, red-brick handsome municipal oblong semicircular east, conventual outlying civil fine or substantial noticeable, public convenient and splendid beautiful, gilded lightest and grandest substantial and expensive religio-judicial monumental and private particularly striking and beautiful unauthorized human pastel colored wonderful tall down vacant architectural coral several burned-out low windowless white, windowless silent, towering massive, low strange, pyramidal towering windowless other, brighter magnificent public past squat other public modest dutch gaunt concrete tall residential flat-topped modern white, ultramodern staid, gray geometrically contorted stout, timbered already permanent planar, angular low, false-fronted lower, older high, modern colonial wooden smaller windowless homey, open hospital, municipal endo-skeletal functional endo-skeletal tall polyhedral distinctive such uniformly blocky formly blocky proportioned, modern several high-rise impressive, durable hexagonal small distinctly upscale just taller tall reflective low prefab windowless golden romantic, pastel low, functional magnificent, colonnaded modern, well-kept many five-story larger, central distant low-slung run-down older towering, cold narrow older two-story windowless old, unusable equally squashed dark decayed high, blocky sure, tall ancient high-rise blocky one-story burned-out and empty high-tech modular indefensible, new identical tumbledown twin three-story glossy towering blocky, windowless stark multifaceted ever taller low trapezoidal dilapidated twentieth-century squat red-brick somber residential temporary inflated pyramid-shaped blue soviet-classical numerous multilevel monumental, pompous large, blank-faced simple tile-roofed fancy old-time more western-style few western-style homely blank-faced squat, monolithic bulky unfamiliar taller three-story down pre-existing narrow prefab elaborate, colorful official and sacred smaller but still grand tremendous, beautiful empty, anonymous other holiest doubtless magnificent sumptuous and majestic ancient and fair hideous sooty striking and gigantic down previous removal, several empty angular large or too many four-story flat mostly mediaeval mediaeval buddhist quaint, haphazard central tall classic and palatial rather more and better smallest, foreign fairest and most admirable elaborate public squat municipal pill-factory extravagant and gigantic comfortable and very attractive enormous and perfect stately municipal adjacent conventual suitable departmental grandiose or fantastic grey mediaeval sturdy walled general paltry majestic public ornamental, noble meretricious and worthless ponderous romanesque gaunt unlovely meanest and cheapest monumental or public substantial and decent graceful or magnificent ruinous heavy resplendent ecclesiastical proportionally large proportionally large and fine massive and exquisitely proportioned modern mammoth few roomy fine and stately classical stately classical sometimes two-story feudal and monastic striking or curious noteworthy ecclesiastical fanciful and ornamental chiefly well-known unnecessarily large and expensive equally peculiar and characteristic conspicuous secular substantial, flat-topped secular useful squalid, primitive pretentious one-story raadzaal and other cleanly substantial graceful seventeenth-century ornate flat cheap, unattractive well-planned public comfortable and even aspiring clumsy and wretched irregular, uninteresting usually large and elegant immaculate smokeless numerous red-brick pacific public oldest municipal white prefab french flat considerable monastic exterior, monastic inadequate, makeshift ornamental and luxurious low eccentric squat darker principal and notable academic and secular chiefly municipal picturesque but sometimes trivial nominally gothic greatest domical hospital, administrative extensive abbatial benedictine abbatial lesser monastic attractive official beautiful and costly modern subsequently temporary original temporary domed public diverse monastic sacred and monastic particularly poor and squalid sanitary permanent poor, rickety towering, hideous incongruous western extraordinary prehistoric unsteady, tottering gloomy and innumerable solid and picturesque unfinished and partly ruinous numerous untenanted hideous, unsafe old incongruous tall odd-looking decrepit modern unattractive, modern great well-guarded exceptional and most interesting ornate and monumental stately public and private big and very efficient beautiful and magnificently proportioned narrow, poignant clumsy, gloomy new and stately public poor ill-suited filthy, bad-smelling italianate and classical well-equipped, modern hospital, missionary impressive residential storied wooden irregular outer worst and coldest costliest commercial material and suitable habitable or industrial average four-story newer ecclesiastical haughty defiant massive comfortable quasi-conventual noteworthy secular lofty and compact unmistakably important large and once important simply one-room venerable, sacred _ecclesiastical and other unadorned public copthal various abbatial later monastic and collegiate perpendicular ecclesiastical excellent palatial domestic and secular domestic and monastic white, castle-like finest municipal dali-esque curved cloistered and embattled ~bradford~--prudential special and suitable quaint tile-roofed beautiful hospital huge and enormously expensive dingy, massive grand or splendid architectural public creditable municipal various connexional down undesirable funeral, public and private finer older elegant snow-white ancient impenetrable hourly innumerable quaintly colonnaded extraordinary and luxurious auxiliary or subordinate age-old, massive interior, few roomy institutional conventual and domestic suitable collegiate old and deplorable shabby and altogether undistinguished old muffled older and principal cleaner, new and pretentious generally low and poor wooden three-story cathedral and auxiliary quaint, gaudy fifty-odd new private and substantial therefore wooden largest, public obviously outlying unpicturesque but very useful principal dependent other and again other collegiate medical squalid and rickety magnificent municipal somewhat rude and ponderous conscientious and meritorious many unpicturesque bulky, ramshackle costly public and private well-equipped academic graceful but dingy usually solid and simple oldest moorish noblest historic bogusly exalted ruinous and uninhabited substantial, public substantial provincial reminiscent and historical spacious monastic picturesque, characteristic vulgar contiguous mentioned--municipal old monasterial lofty mediaeval largest, wooden pleasing or artistic original, antiquated beautiful sumptuous one-story chinese many one-story similar old-world comfortable concrete cramped, high-rise modern showy uninteresting modern high shabby modern huge rude conventual flat, few paved, old poor one-story large, convenient and elegant large and light-colored noble public beautiful public tall modern hideous and useless costly public tall, well-designed own departmental fewer ancient numerous monastic monumental public lovely public splendid public attractive, open xeelee-material tall, antique tall, concrete dull, blocky complex and modern ornate public prefab metal blocky grey proud municipal enough tile-roofed liantly colored tall windowless impressive official same lesser many unpretentious al different hugely handsome hideous bare immense municipal familiar modest high antiquated sure, public principally wooden spacious domed extensive and very picturesque down decayed delicately quaint magnificent, high further monastic mellow, ancient ragged and tawdry romanesque civil meanest and commonest taller and taller few drab black and somber massive blocky beautiful collegiate less contiguous ornate architectural perfect ecclesiastical high collegiate similar municipal old and inadequate cheap flat old, handsome wooden public substantial public squat, angular many tiered few untouched often separate finest public new tall older public other conventual chief secular costly modern chief public modern public white lumpish new, gigantic ridiculously undistinguished same, other small blocky flat modern modern three-story several squat adjacent ramshackle elegant ivy-covered ochre, colonnaded damaging historic graceful and handsome magnificent, baffling bigger concrete massive, gigantic myriad tall shadowy, dilapidated three-story wooden larger, two-story high-ceilinged, polygonal strange, impractical one-story, dusty identical two-story protective tribunal light-industrial moderate high-rise white domed high-rise commercial essential prefab diately adjacent colder, blue still new and tenuous quaint older other cinder-block nearby terminal one-story cinder-block old, military-style sloppy commercial many high-density white or pastel noble fine large, official tall commercial circular small papal administrative major official older wooden mostly different or mere grandiose public aggressively drab blocky, red-brick high dour eerie vacant tony, two-story undulating, fragmented dark tiered wholly air-conditioned brand-new timbered squat two-story hulking, anonymous tallest nongovernmental respective two-story mediocre private turn-of-the-century, ivy-covered concrete experimental unused concrete ornate, stolid formerly ramshackle elegantly señorial neatly timbered antique hospital separate unconnected decrepit industrial mighty midtown obviously unoccupied massive, crystalline plain, industrial ugly sheet-metal unsound wooden featureless pastel plainly human sturdy, irregular concrete one-story run-down, congested medieval and ultramodern tall, upscale new tax-shelter flat-topped concrete flashy athletic gracious public largest ecclesiastical elegant and historic ninth but too many drunken pastel dark, white-washed past windowless uneasily past standard modular outlying cinder-block several corrugated-metal fairly undamaged almost fortress-like particularly public splendid topmost romantically romanesque gorgeous public dark faceless closest residential architecturally interesting large and architecturally interesting orange prefab tedious historic rough lean-to glassy twentieth-century twentieth-century gothic strangely domed bleak and equally grey past scarred preferred high-rise eccentric gray conical and cubical pyramidal, conical and cubical windowless rectangular larger one-story maybe high-rise few residential many three-story makeshift, run-down devastating small stubby, scabrous ulated�monumental one-story commercial damaging small few tin-roofed squat featureless symmetrical, frightening white municipal gray, utilitarian tremendous, white down prefab several blocky craft-several low-slung brown graceful gilt titanic multicolored blocky prefab blocky, drab stately governmental low undistinguished enormous, drab boxy industrial hard and very strong commercial, two-story commercial two-story rectangular sheetmetal neoclassical public quiet low-slung large, stark heavy, monumental false-fronted wooden still neat and clean run-down historic public or administrative mostly modular cheap sheet-metal ancient, cramped shoddy temporary tile-roofed wooden nonresidental unidentified administrative hideous public lumpish low unbelievably lofty older, massive ponderous, ancient few georgian mundane or functional modern, mundane or functional dormant concrete floodlit public newer modular three-story tall functional concrete lower oval gracious low ugly monolithic smaller, intimate old, sooty most high-rise pink cinder-block merely uninhabitable more square-built lowest storied massive, earthbound urban and attractive sensitive civilian tawdry modern lean-to wooden boxy brown tall, smoke-stained weirdly rectangular boxy concrete impressive newer intricate and fancy eerily pristine bizarre angular older, nobler low-slung industrial massive, colorless dilapidated cylindrical dry, tan vacant, inaccessible elegant, newer far-off polygonal spherical public formerly utilitarian dilapidated prefab many modernist ancient indus-trial aspiring silvery frowningly dominant odd-looking one-story anonymous two-story extent—civilian-residential lesser extent—civilian-residential blank blocky linear, no-nonsense main academic down medium-sized shabby and sparse temporary prefab neo-neoclassical mundane civic older, plain modern and eye-catching strikingly modern and eye-catching lean-to fragmentary inseveral tall, commercial squat civic tall, uninhabited colonnaded classical elegant, airy metal modular impressive institutional bizarre futuristic concrete institutional several defensible big, rent-free peculiarly domed miniature, tiny shaky grey many outdated mad fantastical large and truly fine picturesque red-brick ancient entire convenient and roomy successful ecclesiastical important collegiate heavy medi�val ancient and nobler same conventual greatest and best-preserved impressive and substantial charming low old, dusky ecclesiastical and palatial tall, sooty tall phantom lofty regular necessary hospital also primitive and simple windowless, wooden low-slung prefab extensive monastic particularly unsafe beautiful academical generally old and dilapidated unnecessarily large thy crazed distinctly monastic bright, lofty amply spacious outlying official numerous flimsy dark, medieval strikingly quaint and pleasing strikingly quaint raw angular disused stable red stable plainest public well-known and monumental fine municipal capital, beautiful ornate and very high separate one-story imaginary public unimportant secular few eighteenth-century immediately outlying tall and dominant substantial and beautiful cramped and inconvenient high, fortress-like cathedral and public low-lying wooden meaner modern smart public just european few weatherbeaten modern and serviceable domestic and palatial sombre and splendid solid, well-kept few three-story byzantine and early gothic coventual best, public one-story, tile-roofed monastic and collegiate doric little prominent secular low dural commercial and public rear sumptuous antiquated, dirty additional modern early aboriginal endless municipal noteworthy civil few conventual magnificent secular rugged, majestic handsome or interesting important monumental true several noteworthy private plainer modern old-world picturesque handsome monumental foul, squalid principal and best numerous one-story ancient conventual inconceivably enormous sombre and sordid primary clinical biggest and costliest bare lifeless such adjacent conspicuous and magnificent neatest and most substantial unlovely wooden handsome classic harmonious public high dingy famous, historic now ornamental early conventual sacred or public great peripteral modern and splendid noblest and most elegant necessary ecclesiastical extensive conventual old and historical picturesque and older magnificent official other coeval grand and admirable oldest baronial so-called metropolitan spacious and well-equipped vast and ostentatious mayan and buddhist strictly pyramidal imperial public perfect sacred adjacent tall least animated countless circular fair and civil magnificent concrete additional concrete great and inaccessible public and european gray, weatherbeaten down ancient and venerable paltry chinese colonial ecclesiastical parliamentary and departmental unique gothic fussy, incongruous small, substantial meantime massive small unsubstantial despicable public handsome but characterless new tasteful equally solid and substantial

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Words to Describe buildings

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "buildings" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "buildings" are: expensive showy, grander and taller, quirky alien, shabby industrial, and bewilderingly similar. There are 995 other words to describe buildings listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe buildings 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, "buildings" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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