Describing Wordsfor Characters

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Here are some adjectives for characters: morning--principal, picturesque moral, general obligatory, solemn and even tragical, rather vain and frivolous, secondary sexual, apocryphal or mythological, swampy and inhospitable, recrossing--geological, archaic unfunny, bold and uncommon, just principal, civic or public, secondary masculine, lovable, picturesque, wholesome private, infuriating but fascinating, mythological twentieth-century, amazingly repulsive, high and flawless, fiery and austere, combative and restive, indifferent specific, definitely public, transparent and yet deep, general irresponsible, naturally savage and untrained, savage and untrained, sharply individual, excellent universal. You can get the definitions of these characters adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to characters (and find more here).

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Words to Describe characters

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

morning--principal picturesque moral general obligatory solemn and even tragical rather vain and frivolous secondary sexual apocryphal or mythological swampy and inhospitable recrossing--geological archaic unfunny bold and uncommon just principal civic or public secondary masculine lovable, picturesque wholesome private infuriating but fascinating mythological twentieth-century amazingly repulsive high and flawless fiery and austere combative and restive
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indifferent specific definitely public transparent and yet deep general irresponsible naturally savage and untrained savage and untrained sharply individual excellent universal excellent specific 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 useless specific already strong and brutal never major violent, glaring lukewarm and abortive 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 wholly unidentifiable pleasantly weird cheap and every-day deep, intricate uniformly uninteresting embarrassingly hostile similar variable smarmy well-dressed pterylological 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 imaginary or historical hopelessly mundane coarse and modern shabby, unstable singular and often undesirable memorable comic so-called generic 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 ancient and crabbed strongly heathen great, foot-high generally red and rusty ously suspicious formidably hermetic quarrelsome and restless companionable and cheerful white computer-generated essential disastrous especially repulsive prevalent gloomy lifelike artificial peculiar and very magnificent marvelous and noble sombre and dull imply vicious peculiarly arid originally useless completely reputable -morphological worthless or insignificant distinctive osteological almost pr�ternatural substantial, noble profound and contradictory s--sensual and eccentric similar sinuous s--sensual rugged, gigantic antique alphabetic 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 somatic sexual fundamentally bad mournful or terrible magnificently smooth already flawless angular crabbed palpably resolute rude but concise mythical and fabulous various alphabetic violent and stunning crabbed black acute and incisive respective fictional unexpected and official sexual, morphological undoubtedly outlandish modern alphabetic equal and indelible figurative and linear feeble and indolent despicable and vicious penurious, laborious cranial and dental essentially volcanic constant osteological transient and hasty comic real blackest and most sinister --_chemical dispassionate, official imperfect or odious 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 clear distinctive estimable private useful specific metallic and volatile ideally bad elaborate chinese ignoble and bestial unartificial, down-to-earth basic british worst and most depraved unorthodox and even criminal simplified childlike japanese, chinese or korean realistic jewish splendidly improbable curious and archaic magnanimous and noble professional loose unmistakably modern complex and believable personal and illegitimate unique and likable coarse and cheerful seemingly repugnant new and quite dramatic triple and opposite widest and most elementary certain totemic unfathomably human originally dissimilar sympathetic bad neutral and indecisive subtly provisional italian pantomimic unchanged hungry sexual secondary rather extreme and violent unimaginably depraved oppressively grave genteel moral self-reliant and methodical sober and venerable awful, unhappy external and often subordinate pathetic self-righteous initial mnemonic stubborn apolitical certain diagnostic refined and ethereal several correlated striking and exciting cultural and morphological usual ptolemaic cultural and microscopical queer, sullen well-bred natural equally material and mundane external, conspicuous steady and satisfying abstract and merely typical unexplored and untested anomalous optical honorable and serious crystallographic and physical real but illusory cranial osteological magnificent and astonishing strong, susceptible weird and outlandish unregulated, impulsive abysmal, perverse strange or otherwise questionable sentimental comic younger, frivolous hitherto ideal slightly mechanized extremely well-known and popular appropriate and conspicuous weird and fierce otherwise good and great men--national important humorous appreciable individual useful but necessary definitely australian less, improper ferocious or noble congenital or innate 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 secondary male special german stainless private good moral often undesirable distinctively military radically imperfect somewhat monstrous external and trifling purest and most noble human, lovable essentially historical romantic or dramatic malignant and cruel historical or imaginary unfair and illegal unfinal unblemished private partisan or political strong and comfortable sandy and sterile offensive, arrogant wise promising old-fashioned symbolic obscure comic tough, uncomplicated ultra-emotional destructive and manipulative interesting and wise often strong and independent unlovable main distinctive minor former straightforward shallow or flat small, hard-bitten noble upper-class typical salty lower-class and comic casual, transitory golden memorial complex and deeply human crabbed smudged single fictional especially disreputable basically decent and intelligent cool luminescent emotionally up-front un-poetical remarkably controversial believably alien completely new and anonymous several stocky straightforward, harmless cliched minor puzzling, ambiguous rough, disobedient lovable, charismatic archetypal italian tough-looking, silent awesome fearsome genuinely recurrent sassy and sexy admirable shakespearean wild secondary profoundly human and tragic positive, hard human and tragic salient mammalian genuinely pitiable longer allegorical wayward and original still original normal, contentious opposite military usual friable angular alphabetical lofty ideological masculine and generous huge, hard-bitten tolerably distinctive tough-cynical idle, low timidly silent surgical bacteriology--general desperate and fierce bacteriology--general savage and extraordinary definition--etiology--general apparently volatile and restless decidedly mammalian uncommon agreeable strenuous native violent and formidable objectival physical intricate and extraordinary crooked, clumsy emblematic or spiritual indelible and eternally permanent hard, immutable desperate and villainous impregnable and aggressive odd anomalous edifying and exhilarating further, various generally apolitical uncouth and legendary unblemished personal normal provincial otherwise amiable certain osteological evolutionary or historical nay entire severe and parsimonious conspicuous and simple intelligent and singular commonly fictitious and artificial substantial, conservative commonly fictitious careful asian approximate simian refinedly peculiar --vestigial progressive, revolutionary |_faunal complex or abstract varietal or specific fictional canine _osteological gluey, soulful eminently variable rarely composite short diagnostic enterprising and revolutionary certain _formal gloriously quirky illustrious, uncompromising notorious and even popular few apostolic wonderfully peculiar ignoble or atrocious entirely irredeemable inferior and sometimes repulsive singularly mendacious such hieroglyphical nervous and indefinable familiar astrological strange treacherous anthropomorphically emotional extraordinary and superhuman selfish or extremely generous well-known pacific fewer phonetic peculiarly chaotic finest alphabetical synthetic, systematic queer, crabbed non-spatial or punctual conversely female free intelligible various indelible unavoidable anthropomorphic episcopal or medical physical and aesthetical ordinary or questionable imperative or obligatory poetical and amiable flinty and hypocritical amiable and even admirable stern and monastic good, strong and beautiful undoubtedly contradictory and inconsistent alphabetical and phonetical undoubtedly contradictory lower and average constitutional or habitual decidedly reptilian abominably scurrilous cranial and skeletal eccentric and even fantastic particularly artful and shifty practical and plain-spoken artful and shifty singularly practical and plain-spoken chief mammalian formerly operative truly strange and original uniformly commonplace simplified chinese generally pastoral easier chinese decidedly burlesque chinese seal pronouncedly pastoral weaker and timid highly occasional morbid, erroneous spotless private toughest and most notorious downright pathological outstanding criminal offensive and degrading pale but legible true, eternal and primary best comical essentially languid truly noble and ideal purely preparatory necessarily utilitarian titanic, reckless likewise hereditary lewd and depraved many and highly peculiar narrowest and most exclusive specifically diagnostic fatal revolutionary numerous constant artificial ill useless generic giddy or doubtful originally specific strong and somewhat stubborn diverse varietal fervent, forceful secondary psychic elliptical and anomalous romantic or theatrical avaricious and contemptible biblical and shakespearian arid and jejune extremely natural and convenient somewhat heavy and pedantic bourgeois and rustic human and merely personal cuneal national and authoritative dauntless and unselfish good ludicrous volitional and conceptual military and baronial interminable chinese military and high-spirited sympathetic homosexual hypothetical and indefinite distinctly astrological generally constructive additional diagnostic irregular, sinful additional cranial undisguised, native legible imperishable composite and tertiary genuine pestilential low and magical present or ancient youthful australian homespun domestic savage and sombre constant differential sacred, irresponsible such fairer contemplative and poetical sometimes profligate pre-eminently spiritual bad and sometimes profligate important and symbolical other pantomimical highly important and symbolical burlesque female heroic and military philanthropic public tranquil and literary constant distinctive vigorous and authoritative freakish, unusual deliberately circumscribed fictitious or historical negative and deliberately circumscribed fresh and indelible warlike and semi-political mythological or symbolic severe and impersonal sorry domestic austere and impersonal stiff and crusty somewhat slow and steady best but suspicious 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

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Words to Describe characters

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

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

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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