Describing Wordsfor Characterization

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Here are some adjectives for characterization: rather succinct, charming, old-time, fletcher--general, deft humorous, charitably indulgent, practical and best, sufficiently savage, platitudinous, worshipful, humorous and flippant, subjective and individualized, increasingly subjective and individualized, increasingly subjective, stereotyped and extravagant, somewhat stereotyped and extravagant, simple non-technical, witty and apt, better or briefer, injurious and utterly groundless, poetic and fictitious, skillful contemporaneous, simplified but basically accurate, fine and lifelike, delicate and keen, robust and splendid, predominant female, inaccurate and false, unsettlingly accurate, excellent, vivid, deep or sensitive, slight or typical. You can get the definitions of these characterization adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to characterization (and find more here).

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Words to Describe characterization

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

rather succinct charming, old-time fletcher--general deft humorous charitably indulgent practical and best sufficiently savage platitudinous, worshipful humorous and flippant subjective and individualized increasingly subjective and individualized increasingly subjective stereotyped and extravagant somewhat stereotyped and extravagant simple non-technical witty and apt better or briefer injurious and utterly groundless poetic and fictitious
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skillful contemporaneous simplified but basically accurate fine and lifelike delicate and keen robust and splendid predominant female inaccurate and false unsettlingly accurate excellent, vivid deep or sensitive slight or typical impossible or unconvincing best applicable good, brief subordinate and strictly unnecessary pungent and humorous refined and original comic or quaint coarse and hasty lofty and exalted sincere and effective humorous and realistic best physiological sharp, perceptive blended strong honorable and affectionate striking and accurate clever and pleasant strong and sympathetic basically accurate strictly unnecessary able and sympathetic ingenious musical happy, unconscious incredibly foul perhaps superficial much realistic fine realistic fairly true real and sympathetic best brief somewhat stereotyped clever psychological utterly groundless exquisitely happy in-depth little strong fine psychological creedal extraordinarily deep thoroughly delightful rather scornful profound and original more apt new and vital same sure fairly basic less eminent secondary sexual pseudo-classical succinct fairly complex true dramatic non-technical such critical epigrammatic inapt platitudinous better and better much fine apt such brief nearly perfect overdrawn rather severe graphic subjective incisive dramatic deft individualized more accurate lifelike more definite more genuine more vivid humorous realistic satiric stereotyped briefer thematic climactic jejune virile life-like condensed groundless accurate unsubtle more moderate insightful clean-cut witty convincing truthful applicable psychological vivid concise more refined comic best possible still less little french racy immoderate musical believable caustic easy-going skillful simplified perceptive eloquent unconvincing instrumental superficial repellent contemporaneous regrettable flippant sympathetic clear-cut three-dimensional inept indulgent subtle physiological worshipful admirable brief incomplete delightful ignominious gravest pungent facetious supple lyric ethnic safest unkind definitive sarcastic robust outstanding unsuccessful consistent injurious trenchant inadequate illuminating unchanging inaccurate poetic excellent adequate abstract pictorial dynamic clever distinctive shabby scornful sufficient sour skilful strong insufficient contemptuous impartial biblical impeccable severe pregnant general terse unconventional prodigal suggestive refined geometric striking minimal faulty compact exquisite stinging delicate superlative prophetic preposterous vigorous remarkable better fictitious old-time helpful splendid interesting boundless acceptable perfect truer rational superb broad cynical essential hasty vital definite preliminary sane masterful critical merciless further authentic exalted sincere indistinct unusual false sloppy keen abrupt fine initial intriguing gross editorial affectionate exceptional separate impressive bizarre especial compelling appropriate individual competent savage able surprising eventual haughty logical extravagant deepest acute original negative bitter happy true sentimental chemical broader charitable typical symbolic startling moderate recent sober subordinate rudimentary personal honorable legitimate fair priceless wonderful well-known grotesque distinct effective reasonable sexual immortal cute clear eminent quaint final artistic flimsy additional genuine brilliant odd complex formal profound successful charming slight pious coarse extraordinary rich brutal highest correct feeble foul colorful historical unconscious simplest valuable entire practical fitting wholesome proper human universal possible ultimate female rapid key complete unhappy suitable solid skilled lofty best unnecessary intense considerable beautiful fundamental useful swift full previous deep superior special faithful serious powerful sensitive inner bold traditional extreme similar short unfortunate total latest minor direct natural impossible vulgar careful magnificent famous sudden scientific basic secret alien actual mere public curious average grey necessary finest former flat french sure real new common sharp good usual simple bad less poor

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Words to Describe characterization

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "characterization" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "characterization" are: rather succinct, charming, old-time, fletcher--general, deft humorous, and charitably indulgent. There are 416 other words to describe characterization listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe characterization 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, "characterization" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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