Describing Wordsfor Connotations

examples: nose,  winter,  blue eyes,  woman

Here are some adjectives for connotations: colloquial sociological, oddly positive, accidentally offensive, coercive or authoritarian, dangerously evil, crude biological, original, pessimistic, figurative or symbolic, barbaric and sexual, warmer and dearer, inaccurate and inapplicable, current negative, unintended sexual, powerful and endearing, typical, symbolical, modern, obscene, proud secondary, many and so deplorable, logical and abstract, mundane negative, merely logical and abstract, moral, practical, inappropriate metaphysical, fewer restrictive, sentimental or amorous, mostly comic, rich and special, special or technical, greasily appropriate, obvious, sexual. You can get the definitions of these connotations adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to connotations (and find more here).

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Words to Describe connotations

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

colloquial sociological oddly positive accidentally offensive coercive or authoritarian dangerously evil crude biological original, pessimistic figurative or symbolic barbaric and sexual warmer and dearer inaccurate and inapplicable current negative unintended sexual powerful and endearing typical, symbolical modern, obscene proud secondary many and so deplorable logical and abstract mundane negative merely logical and abstract moral, practical inappropriate metaphysical
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fewer restrictive sentimental or amorous mostly comic rich and special special or technical greasily appropriate obvious, sexual demeaning and insulting severe or forceful sexual or comic profane but eminently courteous origi\-nal, pessimistic invidious racial irrelevant theological possible erotic obscene social slyly lewd inconvenient aristocratic emotional or informational time-honored emotional rich positive unfortunate emotional unintended cynical obvious devious many homey inherent mythological unfortunate supernatural contemporary sociopolitical indeed opposite erroneous or stupid wrong sexual exact musical obvious medical altogether complimentary dogmatic and political distinctly sexual preternaturally solemn eminently courteous deeply ironic traditional and natural deep superstitious different subjective eerie, uncomfortable slightly comical correspondingly different rich emotional irresistible military sly sexual many incorrect colloquial, familiar vulgar sexual strong symbolic purely racial personal and religious strong mystical generally negative usual favorable rather negative least unpleasant pejorative remarkably elastic originally simple subtle but undeniable definite emotional less metaphysical ever subtler vaguely unpleasant emotional or intellectual proper cultural less murderous usual negative usual editorial such cerebral rather sinister new and immediate few alien possible offensive same negative bad moral utterly inappropriate profound religious usual sexual rich intellectual special scientific official and personal definite and precise specific emotional purely geographical simple, clear much poetic ordinary moral attention-grabbing slightly unpleasant derogatory less precise origi\-nal merely logical powerful emotional present popular obvious sexual more alarming many negative more hallowed such unfortunate own awful particularly noxious same emotional rather unfortunate strong personal such negative more humorous much religious real religious inapplicable spiritual and ethical accusatory particularly evil certain undesirable vague and general distinct religious recent political emotional and intellectual freudian strong religious physical and social almost magical negative more overt double or triple more harmless mechanistic purely secular many weird little moral many evil such modern more ominous intellectual and emotional infelicitous authoritarian almost religious cold, dead far wider indeterminate much heavier sociopolitical such wide almost mystical archetypical negative and positive more definite almost unanimous coercive sexist incorrect subliminal sexual positive or negative sociological more unpleasant antisocial felonious more sinister sinister more popular figurative misleading political or religious dearer utterly different somewhat different precise pessimistic more comprehensive such different inaccurate totally different biblical antithetical demeaning distinct emotional definite psychotic bawdy unalterable ill-defined undergraduate appetizing restrictive religious lower-class far different distasteful quite different worst possible more limited unpleasant widely different many different whole new amateurish poetic dual subtler informational abusive alarming slightly different technical homey symbolical healthiest naughty august biological endearing etymological metaphysical such dreadful clear-cut horrific more usual ominous illegitimate comic unsavory deplorable exact mystical racial fantastical disquieting ironic special more accurate mythical phonetic complimentary sensuous broader depraved hopeful symbolic additional colloquial tional sardonic dogmatic obscene intrinsic warmer offensive faintest ghoulish exclusive irrelevant positive comical wrong moral magical diffuse contradictory comprehensive such terrible ribald vague psychological baser specific regal theological unfavorable evil unfortunate undesirable different nationalist humorous pristine ethical wider unwanted barbaric unanimous finer amorous romantic sentimental subjective happier sepulchral territorial geographical intellectual erotic secular allegorical rebellious convenient ignominious instinctive inappropriate political uncertain aristocratic effeminate erroneous disturbing obnoxious melodramatic elastic above-mentioned heavier richer lewd hereditary nebulous literal overt supernatural widest esoteric forceful mythological sultry multiple generic hallowed favorable cerebral clerical satirical ecclesiastical subtle neutral noxious devious classical undeniable agreeable cultural concrete own particular canine social modern disagreeable milder historical cozy warlike gross abstract editorial insulting mournful demonic evident regional wicked personal current medical repulsive conspicuous logical sinful administrative limited military solemn courteous literary ordinary inherent loose distinctive aesthetic popular profane customary triple celestial present opposite frightening dismal spiritual careful cheery honorable contemporary cynical further scientific superstitious secondary natural peculiar jewish harmless fresh amazing correct eerie foreign terrible accidental darker entire practical musical aggressive wide uncomfortable full whole myriad bleak rare democratic particular psychic legal physical accurate strong bad similar murderous formal mystic deliberate delightful hideous singular childish usual obvious alien clear traditional possible dreadful familiar general necessary false double official highest picturesque foul impossible typical painful previous private true awful odd appropriate original ultimate horrid certain rich complex severe simple weird unusual worst grim extensive actual violent immediate less sacred universal important rude powerful mighty cruel primitive dead interesting stupid cold former happy various royal warm strange best local french main past green new ancient dark many

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Words to Describe connotations

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "connotations" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "connotations" are: colloquial sociological, oddly positive, accidentally offensive, coercive or authoritarian, and dangerously evil. There are 527 other words to describe connotations listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe connotations 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, "connotations" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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