Describing Wordsfor Childhood

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Here are some adjectives for childhood: classically miserable, similar poverty-stricken, quiet and most happy, generally vivid and permanent, generally vivid, particularly normal, miserably religious, unhappy racial, innocent, introspective, piteous, prostrate, cramped but not unhappy, miserable and abusive, happy and relatively uneventful, usually easy and satisfactory, precocious, anxious, pert, precocious, demure victorian, singularly happy and trusting, carefree, enjoyable, mostly complacent, relatively solitary, foolish and far-off, innocently confident, hungry, grubby, desperately humble, healthy, bread-and-butter, normally eventful, singularly happy and unclouded, already strange and disagreeable, refined and intense. You can get the definitions of these childhood adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to childhood (and find more here).

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Words to Describe childhood

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

classically miserable similar poverty-stricken quiet and most happy generally vivid and permanent generally vivid particularly normal miserably religious unhappy racial innocent, introspective piteous, prostrate cramped but not unhappy miserable and abusive happy and relatively uneventful usually easy and satisfactory precocious, anxious pert, precocious demure victorian singularly happy and trusting carefree, enjoyable mostly complacent
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relatively solitary foolish and far-off innocently confident hungry, grubby desperately humble healthy, bread-and-butter normally eventful singularly happy and unclouded already strange and disagreeable refined and intense tottering and rickety unhappy and narrow naturally selfish and self-centered sorrowful humble fiercely careless instinctive, happy sunny provencal vagrant and wayward innocent and uneventful turbulent but very cheerful precocious and neurotic wretched, motherless eager ebullient especially unfortunate or unhappy fresh and sensitive truly best and dearest rather fanciful and fantastic barren, inarticulate indeed bright and sunny cheerful, devout drunken weary peaceful and promising happy, hoydenish studious and affectionate grave, studious and affectionate usually bright and cloudless solitary and rather morbid real, joyous real, rich lawless, spontaneous alert and beautiful gentle sinless garrulous, inquisitive otherwise miserable and barren always vague and hazy troubled royal lonely dreamy ragged and fiercely imaginative quaint and wholly exceptional unchecked and undisciplined ideal, prospective freedom-loving, joyous joyous, simple miniature feminine gay, wonderful artless and unaffected thy tottering poor and painful hard, poor and painful interestingly ecumenical desperately teasing ly happy and trusting fictive, protracted naive and real simpler, sunnier privileged victorian submissive, unhappy various traumatic misguided or underprivileged formerly lukewarm prim, impeccable staggeringly functional unquestionably gray truly brutal healthy and well-rounded sullen and miserable gothically devout presumably miserable generic soviet quietly miserable inely happy sad painful innocent and warm-hearted happy and unclouded cloudlessly happy wild demonic pre-pubertal essentially savage many wide-eyed shy, worshipful eager, docile immaculate, long unfortunate or unhappy impoverished and savage willful and passionate truly best precocious and dreamy innocent carefree sweet, remote unthinking and careless unnatural and unreal healthy rough wretchedly artificial fiercely imaginative prosperous and gorgeous pure, vital difficult and solitary naughty and fascinating extraordinarily luxurious unhappy or depressed earliest, incapable naturally pure and innocent scarcely past sweet, fragile few irrational ever wise golden, happy simple imaginative short but happy perverse and disobedient healthful, beautiful joyous and irresponsible sensitive and timorous indeed bright free, rich rich, real innocent french own difficult old, thy happy and trusting clear, tranquil happy, well-fed ly happy overly vivid italian, fewer once idyllic bland, boring relatively uneventful preferred perpetual happy and uneventful happy and promising own bavarian almost earliest unaffected, artless fanciful and fantastic happy foreign new mystic own primeval innocent happy brief, golden pure joyous beautiful thy happy, peaceful intense and serious purely sweet single traumatic truly desolate non-identity especially unfortunate early happy blithe and cheerful gloomy, sorrowful fantastic and romantic fair happy innocent, chubby happy, naughty hardly past earliest usually easy naturally selfish happy and wholesome miserable and barren otherwise miserable simple unconscious innocent, ignorant own stormy joyous eternal own satisfactory black and icy just morbid terribly happy own carefree short, troubled far-off happy dreamy poetical merriest possible own homeless thine earliest thy earliest own impoverished normal, happy bright, intense pure and loving happy, stable own mangled idle and reckless wild, unfettered sweet, healthy happy, glorious always vague careless happy own motherless once joyous long, idle own earliest helpless female pure golden admittedly bizarre reasonably happy reasonably prosperous happy careless unhappy and unfortunate average healthy jolly queer joyous and beautiful ignorant, credulous own barren poor brief stupid, weak rather wayward long and mysterious less bleak gay and innocent ideally happy sad and barren happy innocent own sorrowful roughly parallel fresh, joyous own furtive innocent and happy barely past own happy relatively happy unimaginably remote extremely cruel somewhat unpromising careless and happy extremely natural somewhat stormy long happy immensely distant happy, healthy own stray own cheerful rather troubled strange and miserable hard, toilsome somewhat solitary loving, trusting already strange never nearer own far-off wonderfully happy otherwise dull singularly happy quiet, uneventful strange and solitary free and healthy rather abstract few joyful wholly exceptional extremely vivid almost immortal pleasant and happy poor and unhappy naturally pure own dreary happy and healthy calm, gentle completely unnatural happy, irresponsible such sunny own innocent healthy, happy long secret free, happy dear, dead carefree happy, care-free long miserable clumsy, awkward bright rosy dramatic little thoroughly consistent happy usually bright drug-free bright, joyous already past rather unhappy deep and satisfying sad and shocking happy and innocent happy, sunny otherwise unremarkable rather morbid still happier pale, sad terror-filled more blissful own fanciful own unhappy careless, happy peaceful and happy sweet and beautiful rather uneventful cramped and narrow hard, bare full, free otherwise happy hoydenish almost idyllic extremely unhappy innocent human simple, beautiful own horrid own sad wild, rebellious same true thrice happy traumatic unripe now-famous rather fanciful own normal thy glorious own stern thy blissful preventable bright and joyous fairly normal long, happy healthy and happy happy, careless uneventful own solitary own helpless now distant now past motherless fond old cruel and heartless charming new just past more horrific all-too-brief gay and careless once certain old, happy happy, carefree own glad tranquil and happy joyless own rotten own joyous happier many happy own wayward unusually active unhappy near-fatal spanish and italian underprivileged precocious innocent bright and happy many peaceful own eventual long human bright, happy own mysterious idyllic own bleak disadvantaged freedom-loving rather bitter thy sunny bright and sunny long past nostalgic sweet and simple good and happy sad and sorrowful permeable best and dearest early often painful half-forgotten last sweet free and happy thy happy late victorian own troubled own hard careless own rude completely normal asexual care-free lonely compatible particularly vivid ebullient mortal and immortal stressful sinless legal and political bleak and desolate thy white unguided singularly unpleasant abusive own strange more unhappy unfilled unreflective wayward own fond truly horrible jocund introspective life-long rudimental well past almost normal other precious own pleasant poverty-stricken unremarkable pampered dysfunctional destitute troubled docile far-off blissful unclear more unfortunate tottering more normal beautiful, beautiful credulous guileless sunny sual joyous unthinking own miserable fondest thoughtless orphan difficult unclouded halcyon same grim own comfortable normal slighted much past primeval own familiar rosy unsheltered bread-and-butter holy healthy impoverished dreamy trusting self-willed own wretched unenviable stainless helpless extremely short own favorite unstained dependent fortuitous other significant communicable self-absorbed artless thy little formative second perpetual healthier far past well-adjusted tragic lousy unsatisfying penurious ecumenical repellent miserable horrific seemingly random sadistic unquiet sunnier sad sorrowful studious encyclopedic tidy little irresponsible fictive three-year irrational sylvan indian unprotected stormy undifferentiated inquiring toilsome inarticulate unconventional by-gone perfectly ordinary tempestuous unaffected own past three-foot well-rounded unconcerned far distant eventful perfectly safe well-regulated imaginative favorite ill-conceived robust more cheerful protracted remotest many secret other serious distant desolate long and difficult buoyant more severe evangelical perfectly normal willful well-fed unfettered abiding peaceful fictional self-centered turbulent healthful lawless leftover homeless undisciplined normal human timorous embarrassing far-away impassioned roly-poly cramped unendurable past racial privileged portentous vivid disobedient solitary elfin crummy ravenous maudlin nightmarish real nice worst victorian youngest unchecked dandy eternal abbreviated terrifying unbridled lumpish uneducated tiniest abstracted provencal barren fickle briefer unpromising inquisitive hallowed unbidden midwestern simpler wretched unsettled own dark merry adventurous harmless abnormal unsophisticated inscrutable impotent cloudless mercurial complacent blithe unending heedless gloomy laborious prudent chubby never-ending optimistic warm-hearted brief neurotic spotless cheerful remote entire memorial ignorant unflattering juicy primal bitter tranquil headstrong regrettable brighter routine diseased anxious untoward bleak gaseous sensitive sanctified fleeting loving glorious graver good or bad playful worshipful pert nomadic gleeful dismal demonic sweet archetypal subterranean godlike enjoyable brutal inexperienced territorial fragile harrowing sickening own sweet incurable uninteresting closest defenseless claustrophobic unconscious rotten garrulous piteous spiritual old familiar pliant tangled forlorn unspecified dim wistful electronic sinful hateful inevitable invalid free prostrate undeveloped happiest proper well-developed collective appalling late real-life intuitive bumpy unformed trivial more perfect dauntless hilarious pious unfortunate rainy cloistered unoccupied wonderful whole wide-eyed curious bavarian authentic wholesome perverse literal insecure scary incapable bloodstained unpleasant faraway dearest reverent feminine industrious devout indulgent savage hazardous feeble phantom serious obsessive permanent easy grown-up furtive bygone immature painful unforgettable precious unimaginable awkward small-town unreal plebeian nearer dull poignant fond extreme civilised briefest ancestral fanciful vagrant sordid vague uncomfortable rebellious marginal ideal ingrained devastating tragical unnatural chaotic unsatisfactory grubby own particular deaf wintry dreary burmese incipient golden steady humble winsome tropical boring riotous pure perilous heroic simple delicate willing delightful intellectual able bad thoughtful common obedient totally different contagious wanton impeccable hard excruciating lukewarm tough mystic limited precarious morbid parallel incomprehensible gay tremulous rough horrendous reckless everyday promising distressed saucy prosperous intense strange usual vehement refined disreputable invaluable suburban satisfactory unsettling faulty satisfying unconquerable errant boisterous terrible timid restless political horrifying beautiful impertinent tidal familiar royal terrestrial submissive pleasing ragged daring rickety national sexual nervous immortal mischievous horrid mystical volcanic wondrous immaculate foolish colorful secondary sick misty naughty hazy monumental fortunate rural european commonplace romantic lusty actual celestial undisturbed amiable strenuous persistent ceaseless mutual harsh dear old fearless horrible universal conscious barbaric absolute heartless loathsome naive glad drowsy radiant solemn easiest short mysterious rustic vicious quiet natural comfortable breathless idle long, long unusual tiresome depressed passionate faithful confident fragmentary intermediate hopeful fantastic vital ordinary religious fearful creative gracious wise belgian safer ruddy placid shocking shadowy prospective instinctive deeper spontaneous alert absurd sincere female unbroken ambiguous mature tedious residual sicilian bright exquisite spanish corrupt candid involuntary monastic disagreeable calm wicked italian teasing exuberant mental amazing legal perfect constant comparative

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Words to Describe childhood

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "childhood" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "childhood" are: classically miserable, similar poverty-stricken, quiet and most happy, generally vivid and permanent, and generally vivid. There are 995 other words to describe childhood listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe childhood 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, "childhood" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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