Describing Wordsfor Complexion

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Here are some adjectives for complexion: tanned, creamy, naturally florid, naturally dusky, clear olive, ancient, yellowish, perfectly clear and milky, sallow, unwholesome, unbearably unpleasant, brown florid, dynastic and monarchical, sickly leaden, still yellow and bilious, unusually swart, exquisitely fair, ruddy, florid, sallow and almost alien, greasy, unhealthy, olive or reddish, particular happy, leaden, pale, muddy, pale, dirty, leaden, boyish fresh, dark and somewhat sallow, dazzlingly clear and fair, extremely swarthy, clear brunette, warm, dark-brown, darker celtic, pale, spotty. You can get the definitions of these complexion adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to complexion (and find more here).

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Words to Describe complexion

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

tanned, creamy naturally florid naturally dusky clear olive ancient, yellowish perfectly clear and milky sallow, unwholesome unbearably unpleasant brown florid dynastic and monarchical sickly leaden still yellow and bilious unusually swart exquisitely fair ruddy, florid sallow and almost alien greasy, unhealthy olive or reddish particular happy leaden, pale muddy, pale dirty, leaden boyish fresh dark and somewhat sallow dazzlingly clear and fair extremely swarthy
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clear brunette warm, dark-brown darker celtic pale, spotty unnaturally shiny otherwise leaden delicate lithuanian sallow or swarthy high sanguine pure sanguine bright, swarthy ruddy healthful fair and transparent noticeably dark muddy blonde transparently pallid fair florid pale or delicate ultra ethiopian orange or ochre remarkably pure and fine delicately pink and white pale, sodden naturally rosy brilliantly fair slightly sallow rather sallow clear, ruddy pallid, hothouse dusky greenish original fair dazzlingly pink and white morose and sour clear and milky opalescently white pallid, pasty beautiful but inexpensive creamy, clear yellowish, sallow strange mother-of-pearl pale, wilted sanguine and ruddy florid and jovial present-day racial extremely fair and beautiful somewhat olive freckled, florid somewhat brown or dark somewhat brown fair and sanguine yellow, tanned delicate and weaker yellowish, dusky perfect, fair lively fair livid unwholesome specifically municipal hazel, fair superb swarthy dusky, spanish slightly tawny merely dusky white or merely dusky sallow sunburnt healthy brownish swart or fair rather pink and white sallow and unpleasant abominable dark remarkably pure and delicate fatal pale peculiarly soft and white remarkably fair and brilliant bronzed, rich pale but bronzed disagreeably sallow clear, olive rich olive sallow, olive pale and sallow dull, sallow languidly elegant lovely variegated nervous or sanguine peculiarly fair clear sallow normally sallow naturally fair somewhat fair somewhat moorish pale and flawless palely sallow lithe, sallow normally olive unfashionably dark fragile, freckled almost swarthy relatively swarthy freckled, fair grown-up, fresh sunny, oriental clear, dusky different and frightening own sienna perfectly clear and lustrous extremely pale and cadaverous fresh and ominous usually tragic ordinarily brown indolent and imaginative unlined, clear youthful, vivid pallid, prebendal bleached indoor prettiest fair regular, pale florid girlish ripe sunburnt splenetic and amorous dismal pale villanously dark immorally dazzling healthful and dainty dark-brown or tawny distinctly protectionist purely colorless exceedingly fresh and fair wholesome ruddy sandy, freckled rich, olive yellowish, waxy perennial, waxen distinctly serious and responsible healthy and sunburnt healthily ruddy unusually clear and fair naturally immaculate transparent blonde florid, reddish long-suffering fair substantially black bright olive ruddy open-air brown ruddy dark and yet clear ordinary sallow swarthy eastern singularly swarthy naturally fresh and bright naturally fresh dusky, sallow flaccid unwholesome avowedly moderate rugged and rusty bad, pallid exquisitely pure and delicate solitary and severe romantically bilious deeply florid red cheery dark and strongly jewish pale but delicate healthy, clear clear, creamy fair or even white bilious indoor passably neutral pink and freckled steadily black fair and florid inevitable instructorial ruddy or florid dear brunette unnaturally fresh sallow or tanned rather sallow or tanned mellow olive cold-boiled-veal palpably legal unusual spotty florid, clear yellow, washed-out singularly amorous prettier, fresher clear, sanguine coppery, orange ruddy, olive exceptional blonde ruddy but fastidious pallid thick spare, blonde formerly rubicund pallid, muddy singularly dingy passionate and partial markedly fine theological or technical florid clear lighter, clear exquisitely delicate and fair muddy, sweaty indisputably native rich but indisputably native livid tan genteel fair faint pea-green sallow and somewhat darker bright & ruddy wan and powdered cadaverous, sallow colorless but healthy youthful and pleasing comparatively sallow modern and comparatively sallow beautifully ruddy swarthy clear somewhat pallid and dark healthily yellow partly sunburnt clear and partly sunburnt poetically pale white and colorless round-faced, excellent fresh and yet delicate unpleasantly sanguine tea-rose-petal brutal and somewhat harrowing colorless, brunette softly pink rosy, fresh gray, pimpled once courageous olive, fair clear, white and pink pallid, unwholesome naturally red and coarse equally fresh and colored brownish, tanned fiery rubicund rather dark and healthy dark and healthy somewhat pale and sallow particularly distinct and striking bronzed and sanguine pallid, bloodless olive and vermilion brown and papery unhealthy, sallow clear sanguine sanguineous ruddy smooth, colorless death-like, waxy remarkably fresh and clear brown but somewhat pale singularly soft and youthful waxy, bloodless greasy and dingy positively sunburnt drab and yellow shaven, dark yellow and bilious extremely yellow and bilious brown or swarthy usually vivid and fresh pure brunette nervous or febrile florid brunette faultlessly clear dark but ruddy florid, pure good, healthful and attractive foreign and dark middling dark peculiarly soft and clear dreadful sallow girlish, rosy tolerably fresh and rosy exquisitely clear and delicate freckled and serviceable bright brunette healthful pink fair red-and-white youthfully fresh and ruddy childishly fresh bloodless, funeral palely dusky pale but brunette healthily pale but brunette sallow portuguese uncommonly pasty manly sunburnt yellowish or fair smooth olive pale olive lovely olive naturally dark pasty yellow originally fair dark, spanish almost olive naturally ruddy already ruddy dark and sallow soft olive dull blond pale, clear slightly ruddy normally pale perfectly powdered fair sunburnt remarkably pink and white dazzlingly pink girlishly white normally florid fair, girlish nice olive pristine dark singularly clear and pale various indistinct deep brunette dark but delicate dark or brunette extraordinary fair fresh transparent brown healthy brilliantly pure extremely sallow normally ruddy fair and ruddy dazzlingly fair usually ruddy somewhat coppery brilliantly pale normally swarthy perfect northern thin, olive sallow, unhealthy sallow brown slightly olive unbelievably smooth same sallow somewhat swarthy peculiar dusky sallow somewhat sallow rather rosy naturally pale clear ruddy extremely fair pale sallow fair, florid fair, ruddy beautifully fresh fair, delicate rich brunette dark olive pale, sallow pale, yellowish well tanned pale, transparent naturally sallow normal rosy naturally greenish freckled, hard unlined olive flawless, tawny adally pale natur\-ally pale dazzlingly soft pale, florid flawless tawny extraordinarily fair beautiful olive already pale slightly purple pathetic, pale horridly pockmarked puffy, florid milky, sun-kissed unreasonably fresh fresh, healthy-looking enviable olive normally creamy ruddy, vigorous exquisitely translucent dusky stygian fresh, ruddy distinctively pallid typical milky lustrous asian sharply olive own swarthy gray, meager clear and healthful pink-petal pink-cheeked healthy singularly smooth and unlined smooth and unlined washed-out pale cadaverous livid dark, tawny overweight, florid normal olive healthy blue perpetually florid big-boned, motley glowingly flawless normally reddish reddish bronzed unhealthy ruddy normally enviable fashionably pale smooth flawless flawlessly creamy rugged healthy characteristic wan unwholesome high usual mother-of-pearl new, pasty now-most-unroyal ruddy creamy olive totally pale flawless, tanned tremely fair pale but not unhealthy belly white naturally robust and healthy funeral-lily pale surpassingly sallow wrinkled but clear bald, pasty clear blond sallow, puffy typical tan pasty and unhealthy somewhat pasty and unhealthy clear, pale sallow, freckled rosy brunette fair, diaphanous fixedly pale youthful, rosy still fresh and rosy rosy, wholesome pale, olive habitual brilliant lustrous tropical transparent olive fresh and smooth red and swarthy unnaturally rosy clear sun-browned healthful ruddy fairer, clearer slightly fairer colorless brown transparent, delicate dull and black usually sallow delicately clear and refined healthy, sunburnt ruddy sunburnt wholesome smooth instructorial unspeakably hideous almost florid rough, dark-blue creamy, colorless naturally fair and sanguine bronzed, swarthy slightly pasty healthy sunburnt olive asian exquisite, fresh richly soft bright, sunburnt rather pasty bloated pale sallow, swarthy dark but clear official and international recently bleached golden, warm fairest and brightest delicate and fair somewhat freckled naturally sanguine pallid, dry clear waxen black and blasphemous rather waxen wholesome german emotional vocal natural fair indeed sombre rich vivid pale leaden suspiciously delicate transparent and unhealthy delicate but healthy fine brunette ruddy fresh exceedingly swarthy pale and refined pale, tanned fair or brown peculiar unhealthy dark, bilious dazzlingly clear peculiarly clear and delicate extremely yellow almost ruddy wonderfully pink brown, wholesome livid freckled healthful and attractive usual swarthy rather bilious transparent, soft clear red-and-white once healthful freckled, sandy deep, olive already dusky pale, dingy pale and clear pallid but clear sentimentally yellow similar or even graver mildly liberal doctrinaire and authoritative gray, putty-like dully fair red, swarthy healthily pale warm, brownish pasty, freckled dusky or dark bad and dark clear, fair unusually fair remarkably fair deep olive beautifully fair clear and delicate marvellously fair dark, sallow swarthy, sunburnt rather pink sallow, yellowish delicate artificial clear, dark fine ruddy strong and complete smooth, fresh peculiarly pale general irish faint, wan olive almost tawny singularly fair healthy, ruddy truly satanic healthy, florid fresh, brilliant fresh and ruddy extremely fresh pale livid soft, olive highly brilliant rough, sunburnt fair and clear singularly white fair and bright comparatively fair pale dark rough, ruddy rough, reddish dusky, wrinkled ruddy tan own coppery already imperfect pale celtic already swarthy naturally clear delicate, silky rather ruddy tanned and ruddy clear, tanned fine portuguese strictly international fair, brilliant old homey true olive clear, sensitive pasty, unhealthy manly brown gloomy and cynical somewhat ruddy somewhat sanguine handsome, sallow extremely pallid fair but pale humane and benignant softest pink fair ruddy usually florid natural clear fair transparent naturally brown fresh ruddy transparently white fresh, florid transparently pale rather tawny singularly unhealthy youthful and healthy godly white clear florid lovely brunette extraordinarily transparent high florid raw sienna brown or fair high, fresh fair or ruddy sandy or reddish dark, pure brown, dull extremely transparent singularly pale own tawny sober, tranquil youthfully fresh dark but rich wonderfully fair fair, freckled brilliant and delicate delicately fair clear, rosy somewhat pale florid, handsome extremely florid already pallid smooth, dusky slightly rosy exceptionally fair somewhat florid fair or dark delicate blonde almost cadaverous pale, flawless fair beautiful clear, brown fresh and rosy clear northern dull, thick swarthy florid oddly yellow usual olive natural exquisite rather washed-out flawless facial remarkably pink clear creamy normally fair normally pink old, nice leathery dark pale indoor normal hearty german or spanish uncommonly pale yellow pale clear, beardless flawless olive peculiarly yellow stocky, ruddy creamy, perfect healthy, tanned ruddy, freckled slightly tanned natural blond creamy smooth unwholesomely yellow always florid ordinarily dark youthful, unlined already fair warm freckled flawless pink japanese herbal unblemished olive slightly freckled pleasant olive traditional blue-green normally tan fresh and florid lost thy exceedingly fresh ruddy, sunburnt contrary political slightly swarthy fair and pale clear, brunette clear and almost transparent radiant blonde delicately pale full blonde remarkably fresh fresh olive reddish blonde clear and refined fresh rosy fresh smooth coarse, florid natural pink fine tan pale and waxy healthy, fresh yellowish tawny fresh, frosty pale and spiritual never high pale coppery almost spanish clear and white somewhat harrowing brown or olive olive yellow decidedly unhealthy tolerably fresh somewhat yellow considerably darker tawny reddish fair, flawless still fresh and ruddy creamy, pale swarthy italian entirely desperate almost sandy delicately pink fair, unmarked dusky, warm purely transparent greasy, coarse clear brown creamy brown still yellow bright, ruddy fresh, clear smooth, ruddy almost livid rosy, healthy clear, pink dark, olive beautiful, fair entire and full rich, fresh pale clear extremely pale unusually dark beautiful fair clear pale dark oriental lightly freckled deeply bronzed somewhat dazzling decidedly rustic fair dutch distinctly serious strong oligarchical rather swarthy dark and dry preponderating political fair, rosy greenish tan usual florid usual pallid delicately transparent transparent colorless deep, tawny clear rosy wondrously fair healthy, bright dull, brownish particularly distinct fair clear usually fair almost sallow vivid and fresh warm russet fresh, fine fresh, brown fair, blonde clear, healthy delicate fair rather pale dark, ruddy dry, pale fresh, rosy rough, scarred same swarthy dark, clear pallid yellow full and florid delicate and transparent rosy brown clear, fresh perfect pale rather florid exceedingly fair fair, clear exceedingly dark clear pink ruddy same florid golden warm completely bloodless brown, fair pale, northern fresh vigorous clear tanned delicate translucent almost gray smooth dusky flawless, creamy slightly pale perfect dear clear, sunny such swarthy rather fair exotic white almost yellow startlingly yellow pale, unblemished unusual yellowish pale ghostlike rather fresh wonderful pure pale, sweaty rough and ruddy amazingly delicate naturally pallid deep coppery brown and ruddy ruddy dark dark, creamy relatively fair still fresh and beautiful thick, waxy strongly jewish somewhat brownish delicately clear somewhat sunburnt brown, healthy almost doll-like ruddy, healthy clear, flawless curiously rich usually fresh pure and translucent dark sunburnt pure olive equally fresh radical socialistic slightly bronzed black swarthy finer and fairer soft and clear fine bronzed smooth, transparent fierce and indignant fresh, delicate nice blonde wonderful irish white, freckled olive or yellow bright, rosy dead yellow white, bloodless average white smooth golden somewhat tragic pure, pale same ruddy clear healthy high, fair high, good brunette own dusky fine blond pale, freckled remarkably pure normally white fresh boyish pale perfect dusky, dark pallid gray same bronzed remarkable dark delicate, pure clear dark usually brilliant slightly brown pale and bloated white and clear fair youthful rich ruddy brown italian fair, transparent clear fair fair and fresh rather girlish rather dark pasty unnational dark coppery fresh dark pale freckled unusually pale peculiarly clear fair, fresh typical dark creamy tan otherwise familiar usually pale normal pale milky smooth ruddy irish pale, creamy faintly olive naturally swarthy handsome tanned extremely dark pale nordic unnaturally pale pale, ashen wide-eyed, pale somewhat pasty more sallow brilliantly healthy pale plump smooth, unwrinkled white and ruddy mental and psychological brown or dark healthy, sanguine wonderful fair creamy colored clear, colorless dark, pale usually colorless more teutonic naturally red fresh, red fair and fine marvellously clear usually vivid decidedly dark fresh blond uncommonly fair unhealthy red healthy olive dark bronzed own unwashed pimpled deadly white scaly green smooth, creamy almost alien pink and white warm olive

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Words to Describe complexion

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "complexion" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "complexion" are: tanned, creamy, naturally florid, naturally dusky, clear olive, and ancient, yellowish. There are 995 other words to describe complexion listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe complexion 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, "complexion" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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