Describing Wordsfor Character

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Here are some adjectives for character: morning--principal, picturesque moral, general obligatory, solemn and even tragical, rather vain and frivolous, swampy and inhospitable, recrossing--geological, bold and uncommon, civic or public, lovable, picturesque, wholesome private, infuriating but fascinating, mythological twentieth-century, amazingly repulsive, high and flawless, fiery and austere, combative and restive, definitely public, transparent and yet deep, general irresponsible, naturally savage and untrained, savage and untrained, excellent universal, mythical, fictional, feasible and enormously profitable, customarily imperishable, previous chaste, almost avaricious, trivial and treacherous, obscure and exceptional. You can get the definitions of these character adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to character (and find more here).

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Words to Describe character

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

morning--principal picturesque moral general obligatory solemn and even tragical rather vain and frivolous swampy and inhospitable recrossing--geological bold and uncommon civic or public lovable, picturesque wholesome private infuriating but fascinating mythological twentieth-century amazingly repulsive high and flawless fiery and austere combative and restive definitely public transparent and yet deep general irresponsible naturally savage and untrained
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savage and untrained excellent universal mythical, fictional feasible and enormously profitable customarily imperishable previous chaste almost avaricious trivial and treacherous obscure and exceptional humanitarian and disinterested egyptian figurative simple, lifelike intensely retail desultory and unfinal boldest and most precipitous already strong and brutal violent, glaring sacred and sacerdotal forlorn and awe-inspiring otherwise practical and sensible most unforgettable primordial hairy peculiarly definite and obvious peculiarly insidious and malignant enlightened and altogether admirable descriptive or metaphorical notoriously bad and immoral capricious or whimsical pleasantly weird deep, intricate embarrassingly hostile smarmy well-dressed finest purest well-respected and scrupulously honest perceptible general perennial, infinite strangest and most puzzling healthy and abiding simply humorous ruinously disgraceful dangerous and possibly fatal straightforward and sincere always noble and generous chivalrous and somewhat eccentric inhospitable and unprofitable dubious and unhappy hopelessly mundane shabby, unstable memorable comic wolfishly practical agicultooral revolutionary and incredible circular or compensatory new extraterrestrial slick and insidious hideous and evil otherwise well-developed perplexing and incomprehensible familiar and indelible purely whimsical intensely masterful prophetic or demoniac radically imperfect and unsound previously chaste frequently abnormal common embryological satisfactory and highly gratifying notable and highly beneficial pleasant and almost sacred thoughtful and deliberative meanest moral egyptian generic appropriate provincial permanent specific legible italian loyal and highly honorable irresponsible and illegal totally irresponsible and illegal purely anomalous incompetent and unsubstantial acrimonious and passionate sincere but rather obsequious commonplace and domestic solemn and distinct strongly heathen generally red and rusty formidably hermetic companionable and cheerful essential disastrous prevalent gloomy peculiar and very magnificent sombre and dull peculiarly arid completely reputable worthless or insignificant almost pr�ternatural profound and contradictory similar sinuous rugged, gigantic indefinite and perilous ideal or exceptional romantic and itinerant sentimental or philanthropic lofty and permanent dry and superficial childish and grotesque divan--oriental definite intrinsic athletic and hardy unreliable and bad occasional and informal naturally feminine originally vulgar altogether quadrupedal remarkably classic essentially lunar peculiar lithological alert, hoydenish audacious and diabolical essentially trusting singularly apostolic and papal singularly apostolic regular consequential un-ministerial irregularly spheroidal stealthy treacherous increasingly introspective sterile and mineral abrupt and cataclysmic ephemeral and merely provisional fragmentary and indeterminate perhaps worth but little retaliatory or coercive sufficiently heterogeneous ancient aggregate fiery, demonic austere prophetic equivocal and amphibious prandial and convivial fundamentally bad mournful or terrible already flawless palpably resolute mythical and fabulous violent and stunning acute and incisive unexpected and official undoubtedly outlandish equal and indelible feeble and indolent penurious, laborious essentially volcanic transient and hasty blackest and most sinister dispassionate, official basically feudal extraordinarily dismal courageous, independent lewd, low undoubtedly supernal stern and impenetrable harsh, brassy female heroic common functional adaptable and somewhat superficial proper and unique comprehensive and metaphorical mexican abbreviated chinese specific egyptian abbreviated worthy, remarkable clamorous and despairing discontinuous or highly various well-known desperate difficult and inhospitable exciting and captivating pristine and savage petty and purely local exclusively reptilian freely discursive much lovable shadowy ideal vicarious and substitutionary obliging and well-known outward authoritative essentially supernatural stationary national central and consistent realistic and exciting unique, lofty individual and strong distinctly typical uncritical and inaccurate absent-minded, flighty perverse and deceitful amiable and exalted feigned, conventional mysteriously deep innocent and well-known sluggish and torpid odious and cruel truly admirable and enviable incendiary or inflammatory renowned warlike shameless and flagrant estimable private metallic and volatile ideally bad ignoble and bestial basic british unorthodox and even criminal japanese, chinese or korean splendidly improbable magnanimous and noble unmistakably modern personal and illegitimate coarse and cheerful new and quite dramatic widest and most elementary unfathomably human sympathetic bad subtly provisional unchanged hungry rather extreme and violent oppressively grave self-reliant and methodical awful, unhappy pathetic self-righteous stubborn apolitical refined and ethereal striking and exciting usual ptolemaic queer, sullen equally material and mundane steady and satisfying unexplored and untested honorable and serious real but illusory magnificent and astonishing weird and outlandish abysmal, perverse sentimental comic hitherto ideal extremely well-known and popular weird and fierce men--national appreciable individual definitely australian ferocious or noble devotional and even sacrificial teutonic or druidical interested, rapacious inflexible and intrepid specifically italian dusky sublime essentially municipal distinctive poetic salutary and excellent furious enraged disinterested and abstracted equally singular and amiable abominable and iniquitous trivial and even ludicrous strongly incongruous substantive or pronominal profoundly sincere and natural double or amphibious essentially magical technical or special fair and respectable pedantic and theological hogg--practical intensely degraded markedly erotic consciously despicable essentially crafty and selfish essentially crafty wholly sentimental or philanthropic high and unblemished wild and necromantic proud, maritime reflective or sentimental oldest diplomatic weirdly imaginative and speculative dismal and unfortunate remarkably miscellaneous purely structural or morphological cautious, unassuming interesting, instructive and refined investigation--evanescence--mental almost mystical and religious steadfast, noble queer ominous distinctly ceremonial melodic or rhythmic directly tentative directly tentative and empirical tentative and empirical standard and scientific abrupt and sometimes precipitous thoughtful intense spotless personal many-sided and interesting amiable and lofty common cirripedial illustrious and well-established languidly monstrous peculiar blended savage and gross insipid pedantic fleshy, succulent gay and questionable sister--general intense and positive durable and equally respectable exceedingly miscellaneous heroic and hardy probable or real stern and tragical breezy, romantic open and benevolent agriculturally laborious petersburg--general worst general intermittent but recurrent manifestly dishonest powerful and appealing unusually powerful and appealing scarba--geological infallible astronomical arbitrary and malicious out-and-out, unequivocal strongly byzantine extremely vexatious dissimilar mineral nutrient and digestible unquestionably counter-revolutionary undramatical physical features--general features--general island--zoological flora--tropical fascist or anti-democratic extremely rococo exclusively proletarian strange and versatile essentially fiscal auvergne--mineral formations--mineral triumphal and agreeable strongly controversial fixed--general brahma--moral _timone_--general seneca--general highly transitory nay venerable horrid satanic justly human violent and boorish philosophically imaginative sokrates--rhetorical or dogmatical sokrates--rhetorical quite exclusive serious and virile sensuous or materialistic definite and numerically determinate numerically determinate strictly instrumental apparent british inessential and purely ornamental rugged, warlike knotty and corrugated sleepy and solemn wretched and impracticable wild unprotected obvious and determinate fanciful and somewhat fantastic massive, war-like grand woodland affectionate and resolute less sanctified strictly sacrificial deepest, essential purely spontaneous and voluntary worthless or infamous temporary and distinct rhetorical and sonorous somewhat rhetorical and sonorous personal native stiff, italian amorous, flashy predictive and messianic faint and somewhat ill-defined impersonal, non-individual special, ornate spiritual or preternatural less generic wild and utterly unsound intense and eccentric healthy, common-sense shrewd and prying vigorous and somewhat austere crafty, violent psychological or humorous sanguine, unsteady originally devout and warlike originally devout archaic and unfamiliar primitive and rigorous somewhat primitive and rigorous difficult and captious painful or sad positively maternal singularly interesting and critical versatile national superficial, chivalrous virile national scrupulous and fastidious restless, dauntless disreputable and perilous weak, deceitful headstrong and frivolous impetuous and vigorous moderate and somewhat conservative immediate and economic rigidly primary abstract and far-reaching genuinely neutral spiritual and sanctified loose, bold picturesque and miraculous calm and inert formal, german preposterous and unexplained quite authentic and original paternal and effeminate indulgent and wise volatile and reckless primitive and provisional conspicuously pacific non-sectional and non-partisan bitter, warlike necessarily statistical apparently egyptian predominantly preventive insane or nervously degenerate slight and not severe straightforward and unaffected western and european manly physical and intellectual capricious and daring high, refined unwarrantable and preposterous haughty and fanatical noble and purely intellectual stainless private good moral distinctively military radically imperfect somewhat monstrous external and trifling purest and most noble human, lovable essentially historical romantic or dramatic malignant and cruel unfair and illegal unfinal unblemished private partisan or political strong and comfortable sandy and sterile wise promising obscure comic ultra-emotional interesting and wise unlovable main former straightforward small, hard-bitten typical salty casual, transitory complex and deeply human single fictional basically decent and intelligent emotionally up-front remarkably controversial completely new and anonymous straightforward, harmless puzzling, ambiguous lovable, charismatic tough-looking, silent genuinely recurrent admirable shakespearean profoundly human and tragic human and tragic genuinely pitiable wayward and original normal, contentious usual friable lofty ideological huge, hard-bitten tough-cynical timidly silent desperate and fierce savage and extraordinary apparently volatile and restless uncommon agreeable violent and formidable intricate and extraordinary emblematic or spiritual hard, immutable impregnable and aggressive edifying and exhilarating generally apolitical unblemished personal otherwise amiable evolutionary or historical severe and parsimonious intelligent and singular substantial, conservative careful asian refinedly peculiar progressive, revolutionary complex or abstract fictional canine gluey, soulful rarely composite enterprising and revolutionary gloriously quirky notorious and even popular wonderfully peculiar entirely irredeemable singularly mendacious nervous and indefinable strange treacherous extraordinary and superhuman well-known pacific peculiarly chaotic synthetic, systematic non-spatial or punctual free intelligible unavoidable anthropomorphic physical and aesthetical imperative or obligatory flinty and hypocritical stern and monastic undoubtedly contradictory and inconsistent undoubtedly contradictory constitutional or habitual abominably scurrilous eccentric and even fantastic practical and plain-spoken singularly practical and plain-spoken formerly operative uniformly commonplace generally pastoral decidedly burlesque pronouncedly pastoral highly occasional spotless private downright pathological offensive and degrading true, eternal and primary essentially languid purely preparatory titanic, reckless lewd and depraved narrowest and most exclusive fatal revolutionary artificial ill giddy or doubtful strong and somewhat stubborn fervent, forceful elliptical and anomalous avaricious and contemptible arid and jejune somewhat heavy and pedantic human and merely personal national and authoritative good ludicrous military and baronial military and high-spirited hypothetical and indefinite generally constructive irregular, sinful undisguised, native composite and tertiary low and magical youthful australian savage and sombre sacred, irresponsible contemplative and poetical pre-eminently spiritual important and symbolical highly important and symbolical heroic and military tranquil and literary vigorous and authoritative deliberately circumscribed negative and deliberately circumscribed warlike and semi-political severe and impersonal austere and impersonal somewhat slow and steady generally congenial startling and erroneous revolutionary and bloodthirsty geologic and geographic obstructive and fragmentary typically august generally deceitful indescribably wild and rocky preponderantly italian purely luxurious obstinate and energetic distinctive, luminous prevailingly legendary legendary or anecdotal prevailingly legendary or anecdotal synthetic or real comparatively special and complex comparatively special pleasantly superficial flashy and bold academic and educational purely academic and educational requisite biological estimable maternal political and nationalist peculiarly reactionary eager and fervent purely undenominational humanitarian, philanthropic or charitable supra-national and non-political formal and administrative icy and impassable rare distinctive prophetical or sacred cosmopolitan and metropolitan warlike sacerdotal singularly non-literary thoroughly vile and rotten polemical and partisan highly polemical and partisan distinctly affirmative attractive and substantial consistent and promising aggressively missionary pure and very lofty generally decent and respectable limited or negative decidedly inferior and limited accidental and confidential grave and almost sombre nondescript occasional _quasi_-sacramental monumental and historical historical or monumental lazy and inquisitive easy ridiculous visibly dominant academic and liberal coldest and most selfish eminently masculine slightly injurious effeminate and yet unconquerable profoundly french obviously anti-human arid, artificial necessarily unfashionable area--general materialistic and self-interested peculiar and lifelike late fantastical acutely inflammatory or febrile acutely inflammatory little salient typical and practical essential decimal shallow and somewhat artificial differential or peculiar fragmentary and abstract classical or illiterate decidedly sacrificial now unique primordially striped social, economic or moral genuinely rudimentary intrinsic qualitative fragmentary and baffling usually vague and ambiguous dreadfully rugged public associate austere and energetic principal and distinctive suitable and indelible insidious, deceptive strange ungovernable fitzwilliam--general encyclical or general purely penitential obstinate and unpleasant malignant or obstinate effeminate mental extremely special and limited uncertain, irresolute imaginary and conventional proverbial or figurative purely proverbial or figurative purely proverbial conventional standard easy and conciliatory poetic, lovable practical and exalted peculiarly visionary abnormal and desperate germinal ecclesiastical ethically high synagogal, national social, composite religious, philosophical national or collective weak or odious turbulent and unscrupulous mere transferable routine or automatic undoubtedly atheistical seemingly atheistic rustic and rather simple generally inheritable hybrid or intermediate absolutely clerical flimsy and frayed predominant and real well-regulated moral majestic and gorgeous flawed private traditionally apostolic jagged and angular curious and somewhat mysterious vivacious and cheery symbolical and prophetical racy, rough stubborn canine formal and self-important growingly critical craggy and stony fragmentary, incidental extremely grotesque and repulsive peculiar geometric distinctly sacred total and awful pleasing but solid inconclusive, desultory seemingly unimpeachable morbid, sensitive necessarily feeble evil and reckless spotless and lofty substantial comic virtuous male puzzling meditative unautobiographical same unautobiographical coarse, robust geographico-political same geographico-political mystical and almost divine beautifully conservative stern, frugal similar unintelligible distinctly rancid general legendary singularly patriarchical ancient unattached originally cosmical overbearing, violent romantic or amusing perfectly individual selfish, perfidious and cruel excellent and even noble sombre, unscrupulous cosmopolitan and humanitarian cosmic or supernatural similarly comprehensive abstruse and merely speculative additional negative separate, solitary venturesome and outspoken many-sided ethnic chivalrous and open exceedingly inert same labile pensively-poetical apostolic and papal rough and imperious intractable and troublesome antique and foreign truly archaic double and opposite dramatic and discursive seemingly mathematical unstable and effeminate delicate and implicit morbid and eccentric spotless and almost puritanical toughest national sometimes burdensome peculiar and popular vague and composite apparent composite unpoetical and unimaginative altogether impersonal unstable and unreliable complete metamorphic otherwise strong and perfect feminine, unstable threatrical official, personal bold and truthful virtuous, gallant allegorical or weird general fluffy similar but not uncommon turbulent and polemical specially turbulent and polemical specially turbulent metaphorical or pictorial original or experimental eternal or ideal strangely heraldic ironical and trivial exclusively telescopic unintelligible and illusory uniformly suitable invariable and uniformly suitable practical and imitative fashionable complaisant lazy inquisitive important or prominent noteworthy or unusual complex spanish purely equitable commendably energetic composite or fabulous provisional and imperfect primitively pictorial small, amiable untamed and untrained essentially sylvan delightful, amusing vehement, energetic dangerously elastic obviously disinterested open, infantile uneconomical, volatile abstract sacred scurrilous and blasphemous patriarchal idyllic uniquely local closest and most condensed suitably tenacious aromatic, little similar and equally high inordinately speculative arbitrary and symbolic scandalous and daring fearfully devastating particularly loose particularly loose and sandy legendary and popular scholastic and unoriginal briefest and barest vaguest and most puerile rude and quaint passionate and sometimes treacherous intermediate and instrumental negative or prejudicial keenly carnivorous absolutely ignoble peculiar and hybrid superfluous and disheartening teleologically connective worth and misleading merely schematic haphazard, fragmentary clear and unsuspected boorish, violent fairest and most amiable strong and self-assertive undecided and timid distinct unknown worst and most funereal resolute and scientific imperious and resolute wasteful destructive jubilant martial strangely heretical slight and shifty praiseworthy or meritorious purely retaliatory aesthetic or normative briefest and most perfunctory predominantly tribal stable and traditional vulgar and servile treacherous, profligate remarkably grave and religious gross and purely physical intractable, unchanging purely theological or controversial widest and most pernicious profoundly anti-national serious and yet enthusiastic partially revolutionary entirely terrible intrinsically authentic decidedly indigenous remedial and providential religious and even mystical simple and plaintive motley and uncouth peculiar and pungent different and apparently discordant truly onerous noisy or quiet accidental and uncertain dangerous and irreparable malignant and often fatal simple and innate collective and wholesale social, collective and wholesale exalted mythical rather non-historical mythical or rather non-historical dramatic or idyllic honorable and truly respectable partially ecclesiastical generally homogeneous apparently proverbial humane and quiet cold-blooded and obstinate individual and immutable positive and anti-poetical singularly active and inquiring geologico-historical excretory and noxious distressing, painful hypothetical and precarious exclusively political and social feeble and trifling selfish and irresolute somewhat selfish and irresolute new and strangely powerful materialistic and impersonal generally anachronistic inherently rhythmic absolutely aggressive meek, timid and gentle natural, fresh and youthful wayward and splenetic specially public timid or courageous slight spongy general and non-military inalienable and separate prophetic or anti-sacerdotal fine, stoical indifferent neutral despicable or worthless intractable and desperate sombre and uncomfortable systematic and conclusive balanced and unselfish integrally personal and permanent integrally personal excellent previous

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Words to Describe character

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "character" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "character" are: morning--principal, picturesque moral, general obligatory, solemn and even tragical, and rather vain and frivolous. There are 994 other words to describe character listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe character 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, "character" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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