Describing Wordsfor Connotation

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Here are some adjectives for connotation: crude biological, figurative or symbolic, unintended sexual, typical, symbolical, proud secondary, logical and abstract, merely logical and abstract, inappropriate metaphysical, sentimental or amorous, special or technical, obvious, sexual, severe or forceful, profane but eminently courteous, invidious racial, possible erotic, slyly lewd, emotional or informational, rich positive, unintended cynical, exact musical, altogether complimentary, eminently courteous, traditional and natural, slightly comical, correspondingly different, rich emotional, sly sexual, colloquial, familiar, vulgar sexual, strong symbolic. You can get the definitions of these connotation adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to connotation (and find more here).

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Words to Describe connotation

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

crude biological figurative or symbolic unintended sexual typical, symbolical proud secondary logical and abstract merely logical and abstract inappropriate metaphysical sentimental or amorous special or technical obvious, sexual severe or forceful profane but eminently courteous invidious racial possible erotic slyly lewd emotional or informational rich positive unintended cynical exact musical altogether complimentary eminently courteous traditional and natural
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slightly comical correspondingly different rich emotional sly sexual colloquial, familiar vulgar sexual strong symbolic purely racial strong mystical usual favorable pejorative remarkably elastic originally simple subtle but undeniable definite emotional less metaphysical ever subtler usual editorial rather sinister new and immediate bad moral profound religious rich intellectual special scientific official and personal definite and precise specific emotional purely geographical simple, clear much poetic ordinary moral slightly unpleasant less precise merely logical present popular derogatory more hallowed own awful same emotional much religious real religious spiritual and ethical particularly evil certain undesirable vague and general distinct religious emotional and intellectual almost magical double or triple purely secular little moral more ominous intellectual and emotional cold, dead negative far wider indeterminate such wide more definite almost unanimous sexist positive or negative sexual more unpleasant felonious more sinister more popular figurative somewhat different precise more comprehensive sinister totally different biblical antithetical distinct misleading emotional definite psychotic bawdy unalterable ill-defined undergraduate appetizing worst possible more limited whole new poetic dual subtler informational abusive technical symbolical biological etymological metaphysical incorrect clear-cut illegitimate unpleasant exact ironic special more accurate mythical complimentary broader depraved symbolic additional colloquial tional sardonic intrinsic faintest exclusive irrelevant comical wrong religious moral magical comprehensive ribald vague psychological baser specific theological unfavorable racial humorous pristine ethical wider different unanimous sensuous sentimental unsavory territorial geographical intellectual secular convenient ignominious instinctive uncertain aristocratic obnoxious mystical elastic richer lewd hereditary positive obscene widest forceful ominous sultry amorous generic hallowed clerical satirical ecclesiastical subtle neutral classical undeniable agreeable undesirable concrete own particular offensive modern disagreeable historical cozy comic abstract editorial mournful evident erotic conspicuous logical administrative evil limited military courteous ordinary loose aesthetic popular profane customary triple celestial present literal frightening dismal spiritual social favorable contemporary cynical scientific secondary natural peculiar jewish fresh amazing correct accidental darker romantic entire practical musical wide full whole unfortunate rare democratic particular legal accurate delightful personal clear traditional possible familiar general physical necessary strong double official highest foul typical previous true awful odd appropriate original usual severe simple unusual obvious grim extensive actual immediate less sacred universal certain current bad dead cold former happy royal strange french main new

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Words to Describe connotation

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "connotation" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "connotation" are: crude biological, figurative or symbolic, unintended sexual, typical, symbolical, and proud secondary. There are 298 other words to describe connotation listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe connotation 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, "connotation" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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