Describing Wordsfor Concepts

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Here are some adjectives for concepts: older, dynamic, increasingly separate, sufficiently weird, awesome and brilliant, supply robotic, academic philosophical, fuzzy abstract, such relativistic, clever but believable, abstract or unfamiliar, fairly abstract, common neurotic, properly negative, apparently outrageous, reasonably esthetic, foolishly material, alien biologic, sexual and scatological, obscene antisurvival, stupendously awful, peculiarly australian, familiar twentieth-century, entirely notional, particular, specialized, somewhat notional, basic ideological, frightening, awesome, psychologically incompatible, foreign and distressing, derivative, invidious. You can get the definitions of these concepts adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to concepts (and find more here).

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Words to Describe concepts

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

older, dynamic increasingly separate sufficiently weird awesome and brilliant supply robotic academic philosophical fuzzy abstract such relativistic clever but believable abstract or unfamiliar fairly abstract common neurotic properly negative apparently outrageous reasonably esthetic foolishly material alien biologic sexual and scatological obscene antisurvival stupendously awful peculiarly australian familiar twentieth-century entirely notional particular, specialized somewhat notional
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basic ideological frightening, awesome psychologically incompatible foreign and distressing derivative, invidious highly un-american more community-based irresponsible and superficial fundamental, new vast and awesome completely unworthy most insane always clear-cut latest galling moldy philosophical completely cheerful such second-stage outmoded mythological concrete, spatial impersonal geographic dangerously emotional unknown and intrinsically unknowable horrible, immoral intrinsically unknowable human philosophical technically audacious early ethical discursive or general revolutionary fundamental indeterminate and immediate widely generic indifferent theoretical transcendental or widely generic further mystical same widest refined aristotelian psychological therapeutic pregnant new puzzling mythological evolutionary darwinian indeterminate common indeterminate and generic common and philosophical accurate twentieth-century new and fleeting wide, negative exceedingly superfluous exclusive and conformist esoteric new alien and delightful multinational financial utterly basic good three-dimensional intriguing alien fleeting western classic revival fascinating and potentially useful gaudy, audacious workable basic basically immature distant and purely intellectual \-pletely inconsistent well-defined mathematical equally outmoded eminently bothersome meticulous civic tenuous buddhist different astronomical hazy, frightening currently simplistic common or easily acceptable superficially independent unknowable and terrifying nearly interchangeable useful and valid deep-seated theistic entirely incredible and alien fairly meaningless narrow, atavistic anthropological and existential essentially psychotic unoriginal, medieval incontrovertible new less defunct ring—mathematical colorful, cooler down original halfway definable breathtaking psychiatric time-honored, comfortable mentally unacceptable bloodless platonic basic and terrifying half-understood and completely foreign truly relational ture-fantastical same relational corporate ture-fantastical secondary relational unbounded and undefined independent, radical essential relational derivational or radical abstract and relational decrepit nationalistic identical relational organic and historic impure relational definite poetic basic relational imperfect and sometimes misleading basic or radical complete complex unavoidable relational active philosophic philosophically accidental hard, theological fundamentally concrete nascent racial non-syntactical relational distinctly intensive other classificatory conventional and unreal intangible and purely mental plain but tremendous vague, contradictory and unsatisfactory human, mental intricate separate fleeting, human manageable and portable mediaeval and material hazy geographical quantitatively limited unclear or insubstantial prior unexamined misleading theological utterly general ready-made mechanical convenient mathematical precisely coincidental intelligent spiritual ill-defined, obscure corresponding generic primitive indistinct newer revolutionary faulty psychical reasonable or natural entirely antithetical distinct and unmetaphysical far-flung and essentially racial perfectly distinct and unmetaphysical luminous and mathematical unteleological darwinian empty logical past and clearer impersonal and non-moral furthest mathematical backward nationalistic distinctly unscientific mathematical or economic sensuous, human abstractly ontological human corporeal cloudy and elusive imperfect and uncorrected primal critical inadequate and adequate unimportant and unpractical therefore unimportant and unpractical primary or inexplicable nationalistic and religious petty and parochial tal and material unchanging and permanent such dizzying supposedly alien especially abstract normal, understandable entire doctrinal simple labor-saving rather outdated crucial religious bizarre and illogical ancient totemic vague and often contradictory basic cosmological disturbing and difficult such qualitative abstract generic treasonous, heretical final philosophic outmoded, elitist general rational complex specific wide and negative abstract, discursive higher generic pale mental foreign human archaic traditional acausal connective outrageously impossible obvious and inevitable similar abstract startling and revolutionary antisurvival strange and horrifying nonmathematical key human many sophisticated totally relative human and naturalistic distant and fragile unfamiliar galactic exotic, difficult previous, many moralistic, racist incorporating innovative overall op�erational culturally dangerous nicely romantic otherwise foggy straightforward, childlike innovative political rather traditional terrifying, romantic marvellously contemporary sophisticated, abstract staggering, awe-inspiring totally new and different mystical or cosmological unexplored surgical xtremely difficult unnecessary emotional high-sounding but empty threadbare scientific basically specious exist--mental simplest overall cal or legal mildly complex rigid, dogmatic queerly consistent separate and simultaneous unwritten but queerly consistent so-called inspiring new statal incorrect, entire simple but extremely effective articulate new whole godlike surprisingly witty and original nice feudal surprisingly witty nebulous and arbitrary reactionary theological entirely new and amazing arcane technical brand-new sociological math\-ematical and physical four-dimensional sensory such un-american easily acceptable religious, cultural and political vague and troublesome many cutting-edge essentially anti-social sur­prisingly modern incredible and alien grippingly visual basic pragmatic hackneyed—stfnal dubious human exciting, brave still unproved perhaps holistic rather devastating untested basic big, fabulous apply mortal past and faint rigid or self-centered perfectly inept victorian behavioral ridiculous and perfectly inept disparate and separate precise psychological simplest telepathic wholly man-made significant binary thorny western separate various terrifying abstract completely abstract odious and terrifying crucial aeronautical highly nonsensical new, higher-level often discretionary thunderous new quaint and often discretionary sloppy anthropomorphic vague and juvenile flighty, slippery impossibly endearing inherently relational elastic, probabilistic concrete relational basic redemptive certain relational critical mathematical supposedly essential wonderful but physically impossible other relational antiquated out-of-date certain theosophical sudden, new and shocking contradictory and unsatisfactory powerful fictional anthropological and political basic comparable typical humanistic key important central metaphysical monolithically theoretical artificially limited brilliant money-making purely physical and mechanical cally religious non-racial new nightmarish material mental primitive earthbound abstract and refined theuniversal backward traditional rather unclear western statistical old and much-abused analytic and geometric unfamiliar, unheard-of highest and most transcendental overall linguistic recondite metaphysical alien and unsettling best, “spiritual remote and alluring simple sociological esoteric or arcane soon moral nearly foreign clear, definite and adequate simple, age-old general psychoanalytic far empty famous juridical ambiguous legal rather subjective particular substantive irrelevant mental complex logical sometimes misleading prior indeterminate comprehensive religious shadowy new subordinate specific staggeringly imaginative dim new original distributive smallest and most ordinary sufficiently compelling and different decadent western nearly meaningless important racial human, material familiar and useful original germinal abstract theoretical picky little innate mathematical toilsome and humiliating ordinary ethical older orthodox direct universal primitive evolutionary new and acceptable truly unusual human mathematical fairly late scientific and esthetic marvelously simple such relational absolute and inflexible false and disturbing useless and trivial essentially racial nearly unfathomable therefore unimportant markedly foreign suggestive and fruitful feed-lot entirely incredible especially obnoxious perfectly unified central and basic simple poetical human or physical particular mythic audible mental single inclusive important societal artificial general single ceremonial contemporary theological ordinary and scientific rigorous philosophical original graphic just mathematical basic operational absurd moral spiritual or psychological entirely theoretical big overall derivational less straightforward quite brilliant immense new ingenious new thoroughly alien totally foreign patently absurd whole robotic pertinent scientific antique political rudimentary spiritual op�erational past cultural completely lunatic peculiar, alien whole unethical strange economic tricky philosophical traditional monetary highly untrustworthy intriguing scientific mournful and romantic large global classic medieval individual philosophical fascinating and ambitious vague, unimportant somewhat macabre mythological and religious new or alien later mythological bold, innovative perfect, unique splendidly human abstruse theoretical peculiarly dutch ‘unusual outdated human purely physical and mathematical real kooky libertarian social then-radical seemingly outmoded dangerous philosophical more exploitative whole naive superficially disparate traditional, dogmatic rigid ethical abstract and simple religious and mythic highly abstract and simple fundamental quantitative broad and inclusive common or collective sole universal somewhat composite otherwise transcendent single and constant other quantitative abstract and universal relational phenomenal new broadly similar profound and fundamental highest formal specific or generic such outdated great humanistic proper theological mortal material valid logical purely genetic new and relevant interior mental just philosophical true verbal many mythic interesting metaphysical ancient romantic fundamental metaphysical technological or scientific other sensuous agro-industrial apply general general strategic various biblical few geological general philosophic several stray pure rational other abstract readily accessible little-understood simplest economic totally radical simplest abstract uniquely japanese exotic and fanciful japanese strategic quite incompatible altogether useful witty and original entire operational own three-dimensional sociological and criminological >intellectual whole demoniac math\-ematical truly overwhelming such thankless mere generic largely abstract singularly unstable standard sci-fi impossible, intolerable essential and non-essential most tremendous distinct and fundamental good creative finest and most precious magnificent abstract entirely materialistic amazing and terrifying other aristotelian totally gross scientific and theoretical strange, slippery new aerodynamic certain transcendental objectively valid general animal ultimate physical abstract theological completely hopeless same mythological highest and richest mortal, material purely relative few buddhist definite and real less erroneous wrong mental less determinate mere spatial quaint and fascinating own imperfect certain irreducible single mathematical totally new totally meaningless pletely alien totally abstract mathe-matical whole monumental quite inconceivable community-based difficult abstract totally awesome vast and fantastic extremely naive broad strategical classic high chinese philosophical exclusive literary various abstract bare abstract rigid and ready-made human, mortal definite and adequate modern technological other colorful absolutely splendid new additional sugary sweet strong, central rigid logical earliest legal french educational material human less hazy new strategic single and particular true cosmopolitan many nautical out-moded such abstract corresponding chinese other elusive bad operational already-known mutually understandable own mediocre vague, abstract ordinary space-time rather slippery certain generalized sharp central beautiful abstract human material such crippling ever nobler broad geographical same generic more determinate incomplete and imperfect such determinate sufficiently compelling abstract general new theoretical complex and abstract relatively innocuous seemingly disparate somewhat paradoxical generic or specific abstract philosophical basic technical extremely abstract pure, abstract such intangible whole mediaeval purely morphological unmetaphysical =moral highly dubious same philosophical totally bizarre astro\-nomical ahistorical “operational overall operational illogical human intriguing new new and radical obscure mathematical bizarre and disturbing strange medieval vague intellectual new and shocking logical or scientific hard emotional scientific or economic more unimaginable few abstract totally improbable pure philosophical entire strategic basically different same mythic altogether natural primitive and fundamental universal or general other ultimate vast, vague especially certain third-dimensional philosophical and spiritual perfectly modern mechanical and mathematical moral, social and political radical new such devastating definite spiritual such ephemeral truly vile such high-tech generally acceptable other empirical original intellectual equally vicious more self-contained elementary practical whole false human mental cutting-edge finite human interesting legal such fictitious precise and exact powerful female mere mathematical strong visual particular and definite such initial unique human truly ancient many alien own dubious scatological massive architectural such convoluted totally original likewise different surprisingly sophisticated more worthwhile truly fascinating new and intriguing original male new philosophic brilliantly simple several theoretical true and consistent such simplistic distinct general nearly indistinguishable new sensational less concrete correct mental artistic and religious such basic indigenous abstract mathematical abstract univocal basic scientific simple mathematical new basic new and unusual matical merely abstract traditional religious rather elegant traditional theological closest human such nebulous vague, nebulous larger geographical whole material asocial physical and mechanical somewhat broader such unauthorized modern biological enough interesting abstract logical wholly modern distinctively modern purely philosophical serious intellectual strange and bizarre more devious other idiotic vague and feeble obscure medical basic and fundamental different temporal vile and dangerous such unfamiliar basic legal same basic other pure more elusive completely foreign non-empirical certain mechanical philosophical and theological such precise abstract human many time-honored new defensive bewilderingly complex charmingly naive human psychological single common different legal political or economical such heterogeneous null few fundamental own harsh mere intellectual newer, better outmoded many scientific unknown and unknowable such final many fundamental modern critical nontechnological equally startling almost obvious frail mortal contemporary scientific uni\-versal lofty and heroic other meaningful such theological possible practical such complex few philosophical ethical and aesthetic mere logical revolutionary new heretofore unsuspected steady-state surprisingly complex single emotional major technological truly fiendish many fantastical cold intellectual wildly speculative psychical and physical traditional chinese basic economic antithetical utterly ridiculous mechanical or chemical interesting new such elementary purely metaphysical other basic wildly imaginative wholly artificial rather tenuous real central purely theoretical few technical precise and definite simple, obvious basic mathematical span>general modern ethical crucially important such western mildly amusing anthropic clear general own aesthetic such transcendental important economic least, such uniquely human certain grammatical particularly elegant new imaginative startling new many basic mere academic sufficiently clear mathematical problematical marvelous new inapplicable interesting modern welcome new deepest spiritual clear and certain apparently incompatible generic certain philosophical certain difficult bizarre new single mental somewhat obscure modern mathematical definite economic simple logical reasonably clear jural larger and broader almost religious modern psychological clear and correct new legal rather romantic corresponding mental new philosophical fundamental fundamental economic mutually antagonistic mind-boggling such secular mere metaphysical new mathematical statal many sentimental well-nigh perfect specific and generic same formal sufficiently accurate un-american mechanical and chemical true and false often contradictory such comprehensive less stringent _mental whole absurd physically impossible relatively simple half-understood modern human conventional human somewhat elastic incredibly difficult new and exciting biologic prepositional actual political present low other fundamental useful new particularly fascinating own visual new evolutionary whole scientific notional dystopian old scholastic real strange non-mental simple, basic practically useful ordinal conformist other philosophical farfetched whole new physical and mathematical merely intellectual new and frightening seemingly unrelated brilliant new utterly false more basic more elemental basic such ignoble rather shocking everyday human “unusual more arbitrary same fundamental difficult highest human rather narrow

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Words to Describe concepts

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "concepts" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "concepts" are: older, dynamic, increasingly separate, sufficiently weird, awesome and brilliant, and supply robotic. There are 981 other words to describe concepts listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe concepts 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, "concepts" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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