Describing Wordsfor Contrast

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Here are some adjectives for contrast: glaring and hilarious, own small-time, strikingly refreshing, stark and erotic, striking and delightful, sick, jagged, grainy and low, incredibly grainy and low, incredibly grainy, pleasant and striking, strange and even awful, startling, welcome, abrupt and fascinating, quite antipodal, great but pleasing, deliciously sarcastic, striking and wholesome, complete and most charming, strangest and prettiest, strangely terrible, recurrent and violent, complete and stark, oddly startling, oddly startling and charming, violent, gut-wrenching, sharp and flattering, always sharp and bitter, strange and glaring, painful or sudden, humiliating and bitter. You can get the definitions of these contrast adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to contrast (and find more here).

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Words to Describe contrast

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

glaring and hilarious own small-time strikingly refreshing stark and erotic striking and delightful sick, jagged grainy and low incredibly grainy and low incredibly grainy pleasant and striking strange and even awful startling, welcome abrupt and fascinating quite antipodal great but pleasing deliciously sarcastic striking and wholesome complete and most charming strangest and prettiest strangely terrible recurrent and violent complete and stark oddly startling
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oddly startling and charming violent, gut-wrenching sharp and flattering always sharp and bitter strange and glaring painful or sudden humiliating and bitter strong chromatic unexpected and bizarre strong and very pleasing definite modern sadly unfavorable final or perfectly sharp refreshingly sharp striking and total extraordinarily weird sorry, sordid glaring and offensive startling and interesting noble and instructive strong and pleasing stark and noisy ancient, compelling sharp and appealing alarmingly stark sharp, baffling sharp, demonic dramatic, organic startling, unconscionable perversely intentional stark and startling sharp but tolerable often comic dazzling and superb singular but magnificent striking and cheerful unimpaired instructive sardonic and repulsive useless and fanciful astonishingly cool suggestive and piquant violent and voluptuous full but amicable pleasing dramatic unbearably glaring almost diametrical violent and glaring mournful and even ludicrous striking and perhaps interesting striking and most pleasant gloomy disturbing strange and almost majestic exquisite, exciting fantastical and absurd sharp and vividly dramatic strikingly happy striking and comfortable sharpest apparent yellow and pleasing hence impressive impassable, abysmal sharp and incongruous singular and not unattractive remarkable and advantageous common and admirable direct and strongest significant botanical largest and most decisive singular and most curious immediate and pathetic grievous and startling direct flagrant acute and bizarre visible, absurd intoxicating, maddening analogous sexual bitter and depressing uncommon stellar violent and striking striking and precious =emotional interesting and optimistic sublime and overwhelming striking and flattering outrageously insolent powerful but not inharmonious striking and most grateful striking and sometimes grotesque sufficiently bold and striking striking and almost painful complete and whimsical black and startling plain, sharp adequate illustrative regular and not much minimum perceptible evident and hopeless unfortunate and distasteful absolutely frightful painful but inseparable exact antithetical bold and enviable welcome and vivid precise symptomatic fine but pleasant singular and piquant absolute and curious inconceivable, unthinkable pleasingly blended vivid and radical falsely uncomplicated strange, majestic spicy, piquant effective and ludicrous illimitably humorous devastating and illimitably humorous staggering, ludicrous bitter and significant mighty and unexpected complete and glaring similar and sharper salutary and striking crisp and charming striking and most favorable astonishing and satisfying dingy, lighter grievous and mischievous striking and gratifying whole striking rich, welcome strange and unfitting antipodeal sharp ironic startling and ludicrous strikingly analogous greatest and most painful fundamental and spontaneous pervasive moral accurate and happy strong and delightful terrible and unendurable striking and agreeable fairly startling perpetual and irreconcilable surprising and curious vivid, revolting appealing and sensuous bludgeoningly unsubtle stark and dramatic screamingly grotesque starkly nonchalant noisy, exciting quite glaring almost jagged ultimate and grotesque solitary and vivid curious, amusing exotically stunning strange, primordial criminally inept deliberate hierarchical muscular and healthy pleasantly rebellious stark sartorial creamy breathtaking fashionably gaudy cool sensory seemingly playful great and most striking glaring and violent mighty striking dangerously sudden unpleasantly harsh dramatic and instructive sharp and humiliating complete and unfortunate medically useless startling and strange splendid and unexpected sad but striking pathetic and simple strong and intentional striking and grotesque vivid and almost humorous separate and simple similar unfavorable solemn and grim rich, graceful remarkable and painful unusual but beauteous somewhat unusual but beauteous amusing textural broad and startling abrupt and unconnected ridiculous and extraordinary finer and clearer painfully strange altogether truthful sharp and intelligible awful and vivid pure black-and-white curiously welcome strange and irreconcilable strange and obvious frightfully powerful striking or essential striking disagreeable magnificent, harmonious pleasant and piquant pleasing and intellectual striking possible striking and refreshing striking and almost unique delicate, charming sharp climatic deliciously restful wild and fairy perpetual sharp tremendous thunderous extreme and awful corresponding technical constantly vivid superbly effective strange but attractive poor overall total and admirable consequent sharp striking and necessary singular and poetic usual asiatic false and excessive striking but happy violent and singular striking striking and painful singular and wild striking and pleasing singular and delightful great and sharp strongest imaginable more stark apparently sharp singular and suggestive true humorous wonderful odd remarkable and vivid painful and dreary admirable artistic truly dismal quaint and pleasant strangely discordant moral, social and spiritual prominent and broad greater ethnic admirable and curious amazing and endless strange busy startling literary sharp and immediate peculiar but pleasing strange, pitiable startling and unpleasant strange and cynical almost incongruous visible and painful amusing and pleasing gay and silken new, bitter singular and vivid strong and suggestive painfully striking striking and emphatic sad and sharp significant and symbolic singular and rude sudden and injurious long and striking hardly definable strong and refreshing plain and everyday such sharp strange abrupt poor and vulgar sinister and significant strange and suggestive strange and almost weird gigantic and brilliant somewhat striking odd but pleasant strong and painful further strong obscurely ominous stark and absolute sharp, unwelcome fairly striking harsh, black-and-white disquieting, powerful no-nonsense, low perhaps deliberate appropriate high gloomy and painful steady, unchanging startling and impressive radical and violent true and impressive perhaps interesting always sharp absolute and fundamental strange and forlorn singular and pleasing vivid possible strange, sardonic strong but peaceful bizarre and extravagant unconscious personal strange and perfect sharp and striking wild, peculiar stronger and rougher white and vivid vivid and curious rich and striking similar violent charming artistic curiously sudden strange and preposterous grand and dramatic sufficient relative welcome and pleasing painful and shocking ironical and bitter green, great sharp and dreadful interesting racial such striking sharpest possible highly comical little sinister severely classical more striking vivid and striking striking pictorial constant and inevitable direct and striking vivid and sudden beautifully blended profound and real sharp and vivid strange and pleasing strong and hopeful striking artistic singular and striking strange and attractive mere wicked somewhat notable strange golden impressive and striking sharp, shocking sharp male intensely sharp sharp dramatic violent and extraordinary sharp negative grotesque and ridiculous violent dramatic pleasant and surprising similarly striking immense and inconceivable strange and scandalous noble and happy similar but greater vivid and pleasing mere sensational strikingly vivid splendidly picturesque same secular striking architectural almost graceful rather conspicuous continual and painful striking social vividly dramatic _visual next violent immediate and startling agreeable and charming strange and awe-inspiring strange and ludicrous swift, abrupt strange, livid strange and turbulent present grim bright and brave simultaneous and successive such stark curious and thrilling nude white cool solid stark, colorless political and poetical bold and splendid rather unlucky obviously intentional exact moral =political simple mediaeval almost irreconcilable strange, violent sufficiently bold fine characteristic somewhat unfavorable powerful and majestic decidedly sharp perfect classical sharp and unexpected curiously suggestive absolutely startling vivid and gorgeous almost ludicrous sharp and painful proper musical strange and striking quaint victorian utter social wild and unnatural sad and startling sudden poignant remarkable and striking almost startling sufficiently striking strongest possible dark and dramatic physiographical grotesquely hideous strange, vivid strangest possible noble and striking impressive and significant deep and thankful simple and gracious perfectly sharp strange and humiliating sharp, strange generally dark sturdy and wholesome more horrid sharp equally striking less striking startling artistic and moral stark sudden dazzling strongest conceivable soft and harmonious often startling somewhat strong true ethical diametrical such glaring such startling almost poetic beautifully sharp clear black-and-white apparently discordant obvious and striking such advantageous complete and striking more glaring sad and painful grand and gloomy pleasing such vivid remotest possible almost amusing strong, vivid remarkable and picturesque swift, sweet singular and painful greatest and happiest strange and shocking rather insolent almost absurd sharpest odd and striking normal bright odd and disquieting new and sharp highly pleasing oddest possible vivid and beautiful sad, painful rare and fine strong and interesting vivid certain comic almost humorous almost shocking quietly beautiful fantastic and beautiful striking and singular less glaring striking and suggestive sharp and distinct sometimes grotesque true aristocratic more uncouth clear and striking somewhat amusing specially strong same eerie once bold pleasant and welcome brilliant and striking strange and singular other edifying elegant and attractive strange and vivid typological fine and impressive refreshing smooth, tanned rather superfluous less singular violent and unnatural vivid and delightful more provocative strong and strange more idiotic singular powerful dramatic almost majestic striking and dramatic strange and gloomy present considerable almost weird bright and dazzling striking and instructive curious and striking pleasant and amusing such strong ludicrous certain fascinating wonderful dramatic rare and delicious striking personal more vivid more pregnant particularly striking greater dramatic direct and practical true, strong absolutely appalling strange and amusing happy and peaceful happy and independent glaring equally curious strong and sudden strikingly similar strong and beautiful strange and impressive rather comic piquant >additional rather vivid strong and striking striking and remarkable beautiful and expressive intense dramatic disadvantageous more singular strong strong dramatic textural apparent moral “visual interesting physical greatest imaginable striking and effective strong artistic singular and picturesque such ludicrous instructive bright southern strong and vivid hideous modern rather stark infinitely stronger striking and beautiful strange and sad catbird such irritating altogether unusual highly instructive almost violent same abrupt more incisive forth strange agreeable equally distinct almost cynical rather frivolous same striking present much more instructive vivid white sudden and striking bold and striking such unfavorable sharper paramagnetic curious physical strange such humiliating fine artistic such quaint nearly similar striking and significant more startling bright and pleasing strange and strong interesting and characteristic highly dramatic rather fantastic somewhat sharp almost direct more comical almost ridiculous almost dramatic complete and entire dark, terrible rather sharp strange and thrilling happiest possible almost comic greatest possible more shocking somewhat analogous painful equally strong more complete equally significant remarkable more historical fine dramatic direct still sharper singular and interesting shocking brilliant and effective other corresponding broad general sudden startling such hopeful still sadder more sorrowful more ludicrous greatest conceivable great and strange unfavorable stronger such odd curious fine poetic always interesting sudden and sharp dramatic more remarkable rather rare free and joyous somewhat formidable such overpowering bright crimson almost awful clear sharp gratifying such broad such comical whole grand amusing complete almost theatrical greater intellectual short and sharp inharmonious such fascinating rather startling somewhat grotesque strange and tragic subdued somewhat embarrassing such singular great medieval strong and brilliant somewhat painful strange and startling rather striking strongest sad and terrible more illuminating more painful strange, strange truly delightful picturesque and interesting somewhat sinister strangest irreconcilable warm and cheerful somewhat strange particularly handsome rather painful violent startlingly clear ugly such pleasing strange and painful almost similar antipodal vivid scarlet almost sinister same internal strange and mysterious ironic already strong more revolting more salient more amusing odd advantageous considerable personal more whimsical such subtle more alluring high and honorable more brief such artistic delightful same painful ironical dreadful, dreadful particularly sharp same pitiful more relevant much weaker such painful clear and simple such awkward true and real same splendid violent political highly artistic strange and beautiful singularly fine harmonious less material social and spiritual almost cruel suggestive same sharp almost terrible such flagrant such sad such strange great and striking more noticeable noticeable such fantastic interesting small-time bright and sunny actual historical sad intuitional such black almost comical stunning great and constant still wider such dazzling such fresh equally remarkable extremely poor last sharp same violent singularly interesting more curious somewhat curious same false unfitting emphatic decidedly odd strange and interesting somewhat ludicrous unedifying strikingly beautiful more fundamental notable such hard rather unpleasant same strange favorable almost exact more expressive invidious intentional hard bright sudden and complete whole social beautiful and striking edifying such harsh rather surprising great philosophical humiliating abrupt dazzling more momentous tragi-comic comical astonishing equally strange strong mental such grim sudden sharp gut-wrenching more acute more strange pitiable comparatively slight extraordinary quite obvious unfelt effective such fearful highly satisfactory almost painful black-white almost pathetic almost unique welcome wonderful and beautiful more pathetic such utter perfect such violent many heroic grimmest salient quiet and peaceful such bizarre more acceptable queerer impressive crisp black bright and pleasant adverbial tragical simultaneous grateful dead white whimsical wondrously beautiful humorous harsh more admirable symptomatic anachronistic more impressive charming spiritual and intellectual incongruous well-managed still stronger hilarious absolute more extraordinary dulcet illustrative fundamental more advantageous surprising more logical widest possible amazing clear and distinct such direct bright, happy utter pitiful such bright such solemn oddest artistic such formidable fair and beautiful wonderful such complete happy comic picturesque appalling extreme unpleasant less happy strong personal simplest possible significant condemnatory more decisive nearly complete disagreeable more miserable evident bitter rather strange same curious absurd climatic stylistic heart-rending episodic disheartening such perfect almost unbelievable frightful eerie mournful many-sided depressing happiest pathetic almost inconceivable great final ill-conceived shivery poignant new and striking less violent galling debonair hideous total more favorable admirable conspicuous more easy piteous broadest humbling pleasurable grotesque stupefying erotic antithetical distinct astounding illuminating deliberate acute flattering tragic brilliant eye-catching bold grainy immeasurable immediate profound more notable more charming sorry more violent great old perpetual unenviable such splendid

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Words to Describe contrast

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "contrast" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "contrast" are: glaring and hilarious, own small-time, strikingly refreshing, stark and erotic, and striking and delightful. There are 995 other words to describe contrast listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe contrast 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, "contrast" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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