Describing Wordsfor Diction

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Here are some adjectives for diction: once indelible, vicious poetic, eloquently perfect, purest and most florid, proverbial and familiar, sonorous elizabethan, figurative picturesque, impassioned dramatic, plain and calm, fancy and felicitous, rich, idiomatic, regular tragic, stilted poetic, pure, energetic, spurious poetic, full and tuneful, chaste and unadorned, sometimes harsh and uncouth, elaborately poetic, insincere poetic, often languid and slipshod, often languid, turgid and bombastic, clear precise, precise academic, marvelously distinct, melodious and splendid, merely felicitous, classical, chaste, perfectly simple and graceful. You can get the definitions of these diction adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to diction (and find more here).

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Words to Describe diction

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

once indelible vicious poetic eloquently perfect purest and most florid proverbial and familiar sonorous elizabethan figurative picturesque impassioned dramatic plain and calm fancy and felicitous rich, idiomatic regular tragic stilted poetic pure, energetic spurious poetic full and tuneful chaste and unadorned sometimes harsh and uncouth elaborately poetic insincere poetic often languid and slipshod often languid turgid and bombastic clear precise
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precise academic marvelously distinct melodious and splendid merely felicitous classical, chaste perfectly simple and graceful chaste, classical pedantic, over-technical clear, commercial crisp western feeble or ridiculous exuberant, melodious lumpish and tedious bright, exact pure and fascinating obsolete or peculiar obscure and highly artificial subtle tragic smooth and sonorous loose and ungrammatical hyperbolical poetic sonorous and splendid pompous and unintelligible nervous poetical romanesque and florid strongest and most nervous flexibly expressive terse, bald rapid, magnificent commonplace, colloquial charming biblical moderately antique lofty and overwhelming leisurely old-fashioned recital and thrilling rhetorical and ambitious vivacious, unaffected magnificent miltonic fluent, liquid florid or elegant preternaturally majestic sonorous and copious singularly luminous and expressive decidedly un-oriental extravagant and grandiloquent notably precise notably precise and clear appropriate, chaste or beautiful chaste or beautiful picturesque and pungent often bombastic extravagant and often bombastic false poetical cultured and graceful frigid poetic convincing and graphic colloquial and feeble tailor-made british fancy and chaste own shakespearian perpetual metaphorical fresh and realistic pompous artificial fancy and pictorial rough and prosaic refined and natural unfamiliar poetic artificial poetical chaste and well-balanced figurative and hyperbolic nervous but unusual faultless spanish elaborately precise grand imaginative exact and felicitous spanish poetic admirably precise and exact slowly solemn laborious and florid practical and concise stern supernatural transparent and harmonious artificial poetic lucid and copious opulent and coloured gorgeous poetic blasphemous and vulgar extravagant, blasphemous and vulgar self-conscious or stereotyped always simple and easy native and legitimate chaste and vigorous vulgar colloquial metrically exact urbane italian archaic or poetic over-technical pompous medical noble and appropriate french poetical lofty british phony aristocratic purposely simple obscure, highfalutin precise and deliberate swollen and vicious stumblingly rapid usually wonderful contrastingly clear elegant judicial fluent but somewhat archaic correct professorial precisely animated phoney archaic overly proper slo-mo sinister nal poetic concise, tight once awkward choicest poetic cold and stilted stately poetic picturesque, expressive peculiarly vulgar shakespearian dramatic severely pure abstruse mystical sweetly formal simple and nervous correct and noble dual and poetic plain, lucid quintessential and concrete graphic and elegant chaste and lofty less racy affectedly antique terse and elegant invariably perfect easy and eloquent mock-moral native simple traditional tragic usual idiomatic fancy and lofty truly poetic and exalted nervous expressive nervous masculine nervous and impetuous incisive, picturesque exceedingly formal easy and copious concise and nervous robotically precise clear, careful same goddam studiously simple formal poetic splendid and accurate rich idiomatic often splendid modern picturesque generally eccentric affluent and exuberant rich and expressive soft and careful rhetorical and poetic plain and rude harsh and jagged shakespearean and elizabethan somewhat glaring precise, elegant conventional eighteenth-century painfully precise extravagant and absurd happy, easy easy, clear deliberately neutral japanese and upper-class high precise gorgeous gothic clear expressive natural superhuman charming poetic correct and appropriate correct careless requisite good singularly luminous quaint and vigorous correct and lucid trite and hackneyed correct and classic pure and magnificent copious and felicitous manly nervous classical or academic conventional poetic pure athenian pure and harmonious familiar classical elegant and expressive gentle, old-fashioned own colloquial calm and pleasing traditional poetic poetic and exalted almost stilted admirably precise simple, vigorous exceedingly well-bred pure ionic same pompous same faultless high distinct soft, precise indeed poetic same figurative dictatorial and insolent concrete and figurative rich elizabethan curiously formal mere metrical such chaste clear and impressive same lucid rich and exquisite peculiar poetic lofty poetic usually precise ordinary colloquial eloquent and graceful un-oriental poetical and figurative so-called poetic extremely precise never poor usual crisp clear, lucid sometimes harsh clear and eloquent simple unadorned plain french mere grammatical old poetical graceful and poetic own poetic poetic militarily precise simple slow larger, freer clear and forceful sometimes obscure vulgar and commonplace own simpler clear, musical eloquent and noble chaste and sober direct, simple rich poetic elegant and appropriate somewhat stilted more immortal peculiar mechanical new poetic perfect german purely spanish best poetical such flaming always simple high poetical broad, simple direct and vigorous vigorous and energetic rather stilted beautiful pastoral pure and elegant same poetic terse and vigorous easy and simple pure italian somewhat ponderous dramatic and poetic smooth, beautiful grave and simple highly poetic plainest and simplest charming and picturesque often obscure swift, nervous easy and agreeable petrarchan clear loud usual precise somewhat pedantic truly poetic bold and energetic idiomatic stilted slow, hesitant usual careful cold and heavy fresh and vivid pure and exquisite elegant and refined highest poetic slow, quiet fine poetic somewhat artificial graceful and elegant same elegant more current clear and simple poetical old poetic highly individual diktat merely ornamental miltonic high poetic such feeble own poetical colloquial slow and careful felicitous new poetical figurative truly splendid somewhat archaic good, clear more artificial same splendid french literary perfectly correct highly artificial coarse and vulgar slow and deliberate mock heroic pure and noble serious and important rather commonplace such clumsy rich and brilliant true and natural high clear fast-forward mere poetic incisive german literary more poetical indelible perfectly simple unpoetical oratorical quaint and curious chaste deceptively simple own powerful astrological slipshod florid ciceronian bombastic precise more formal somewhat formal archaic highfalutin true dramatic least attractive expressive recital terse simple natural elegant sharp, clear unadorned ungrammatical turgid hyperbolic shakespearian lucid real-life faultless concise such magnificent faulty pompous rhetorical comparatively simple rough and ready metaphorical such admirable fluent unimpassioned inflated such elegant pedantic short-cut such delightful copious sonorous more prosaic self-conscious grammatical classical elizabethan grandiloquent psychoanalytic racy lumpish epigrammatic fictive dramatic harmonious formalized elaborate eloquent uncouth graphic exuberant choicest crisp upper-class correct more simple illogical energetic tuneful highly coloured purest plainest graceful romanesque biblical impeccable artificial near-perfect vigorous unpolished far-fetched self-willed well-balanced careful ionic melodious appropriate tragic cultured extravagant shakespearean oral impassioned condensed lofty clear own natural exquisite newfound feeble forceful hackneyed stereotyped inaccurate ornate artless adamant snappy overblown trite well-bred such good quaint picturesque musical prosaic imitative imaginative eighteenth-century thirteenth-century immaculate unimaginative undistinguished ornamental imperfect exalted affluent vulgar proverbial mellifluous commonplace etymological conventional professorial liquid simpler pedestrian conversational academic erudite limpid pastoral unworthy nervous unsuitable splendid freer obsolete ponderous classic formal opulent genteel dictatorial voluble meticulous metrical jerky easy unconventional redundant polite unaffected seventeenth-century perfect quintessential refined allegorical peculiar matchless unfailing pungent lyrical imperishable pure day-to-day goddam ludicrous confident more perfect noble such perfect vivacious creative own peculiar repetitive incomparable cosmopolitan insipid routine persuasive noteworthy clearer amorous clean white majestic absurd athenian literary unintelligible gorgeous intermediate plebeian pleasing blasphemous fanciful virile elliptical scholastic familiar pictorial dynamic fastidious italian nineteenth-century fashionable antique exclusive awkward hesitant monastic happiest asiatic abrupt legal fancy exact ambitious sensuous alluring simple emphatic simplest plain technical incongruous impressive dreamy primitive fervent impersonal grandest seductive philosophical realistic brilliant adequate theatrical straightforward careless immortal flagrant magnificent introductory obscure slow calm deliberate laborious animated scriptural convincing antiquated fitting harsh nobler fascinating tolerable respective thrilling happy naive gentle dumb charming cumbersome decorative proper romantic glaring superhuman vivid sandy heroic transparent noblest beautiful luminous smooth flawless structural sweetest rapid stuffy concrete tedious corrupt sloppy direct sublime admirable commercial mystical modern rosy memorable intricate rich bald eccentric coloured gothic rotten overwhelming jagged deplorable supernatural elder masculine pretentious superior natural british grave loose magical mere medical popular french dual compact quiet accurate spanish hasty brighter rough gracious medieval fine ready sumptuous vicious defective solemn unnatural artful agreeable impetuous rugged delightful terrific german singular unusual exotic uneven dutch sober clever sparkling swollen marvelous legitimate judicial wonderful flaming old-fashioned grotesque distinct facile outrageous strongest everyday neutral lazy oriental artistic crafty genuine sensible current odd rude true powerful bad superb fabulous clumsy bright western best ridiculous insolent barbarous native cold fresh mechanical sacred horrible general individual characteristic religious excellent mediaeval military civilized sturdy aristocratic crooked gigantic intense stiff curious finest higher japanese coarse sinister common actual bold traditional queer practical crystal similar contemporary ordinary high irish proud feminine average original attractive false extraordinary limited clean serious tight political soft golden larger loud definite sharp basic swift delicate local full broad wooden numerous particular important foreign strange ancient poor good usual heavy certain white

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Words to Describe diction

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "diction" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "diction" are: once indelible, vicious poetic, eloquently perfect, purest and most florid, and proverbial and familiar. There are 850 other words to describe diction listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe diction 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, "diction" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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