Describing Wordsfor Effect

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Here are some adjectives for effect: measurable, unfavorable, more soporific, progressively detrimental, enormously detrimental, devious but significant, symmetrical general, vaguely exciting and disquieting, exciting and disquieting, desperate theatrical, fine casual, gay, nonchalant, virtually maximum, permanently deleterious, tranquilizing, hypnotic, somewhat hypnotic, occasional injurious, momentary japanese, cumulative and final, bad special, foolish technical, sufficiently salutary, delightfully comic, atrocious special, reciprocal damaging, perceptible ill, serious detrimental, singular chromatic, strong extreme, peculiarly weird and desolate, science--moral. You can get the definitions of these effect adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to effect (and find more here).

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Words to Describe effect

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

measurable, unfavorable more soporific progressively detrimental enormously detrimental devious but significant symmetrical general vaguely exciting and disquieting exciting and disquieting desperate theatrical fine casual gay, nonchalant virtually maximum permanently deleterious tranquilizing, hypnotic somewhat hypnotic occasional injurious momentary japanese cumulative and final bad special foolish technical
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sufficiently salutary delightfully comic atrocious special reciprocal damaging perceptible ill serious detrimental singular chromatic strong extreme peculiarly weird and desolate science--moral military science--moral peculiar, disquieting immediately revolting twofold wholesome natural and very desirable antigravita-tional cinematic special natural centrifugal definite and sometimes extraordinary necessary propulsive explicable alien alien mind-altering peculiarly weird and solemn conciliatory and useful similar and equally advantageous inevitable reactionary wonderfully sylvan and rural wonderfully sylvan temporary ill primary and plain instantaneous and surprising vivid and ultimate powerful and indelible strange choral usual exhilarating somehow three-dimensional slowly destructive lush, restful extensive evil opalescent, translucent fourth ill fifth ill subtle dappled nauseous and perhaps dangerous nice soporific longterm practical strangely irritating rapid, surprising and inexplicable dreadfully cavernous wonderfully impressive and exciting unparalleled grand agreeable and benignant unique and even elegant interior sacramental intangible, external subtle impromptu markedly bad gloomy and startling permanent present vivid exemplary momentary stunning peculiarly disquieting anomalous gravitational vaguely exciting generalized local strong fimbal fimbal maximum dramatic actually harmful national psychological infectious and unsettling emotionally profound subtle and emotionally profound salutary humbling deliberately null peculiarly nerve-racking terrible physiological greater damaging inexpressibly wicked and guilty happier and not uncommon beneficial cumulative supply dramatic real and pernicious intangible fearful temporary, debilitating desirable psychological unusual optical irritating and unpleasant curiously debilitating indifferent esthetic broad spectacular absolutely pernicious slight and direct incomparable and unique absolutely illusive graphic and dramatic inward sacramental immediate and most noticeable dreadful and almost supernatural peculiarly ragged and grotesque ragged and grotesque strangely eternal immediate and beneficial handsome and decorative dull and almost brutal wild and very gay beneficial and far-reaching convincing special marvelous special strange narcotic nice sparkling huge and positive marvelously spiritual ultimate solemn absolutely catastrophic direct and negative practical and disastrous grander general surprisingly harmonious nicely subversive unreal and theatrical indescribably unreal indescribably unreal and theatrical slight tidal exquisitely comical slightly dampening drastic, distant precise hoped-for unfavorably exciting familiar notable farther perceptible unexpected adverse interesting baroque subtle but salutary little beneficial rather confusing and disappointing inconceivably charming happiest general satisfying and delightful admirable picturesque romantic and pleasing precise artistic splendidly tragical definite cumulative radical personal knotty, angular objection--general profane, discordant similar narcotic steadily immoral consequent aerial else triumphal real and splendid humorous or brutally honest wonderfully steadying visibly disturbing war--moral curious photographic unmistakably poetic precise literary general beautiful uncertain good good but innocent happiest dramatic grand and rare curious and indirect discordant and ridiculous preternatural and sinister strange and instantaneous deliberately luxurious general cloudy direct inhibitory indirect and remoter persistent, ascertainable dark scenic perhaps destructive sensible mechanical aggregate and permanent duly dismal little advantageous indirectly injurious exquisite and magical misleading physiognomical lurid and dismal truly libyan obvious and overwhelming strikingly pleasing wholesomely steadying exact disturbing somewhat scenical stunning revolutionary fine and showy less shocking spectacular visual strange illuminating instantaneous and unexpected distinctly depressing sudden and very slight sympathetic and persuasive delightful distant startling theatrical visible or perceptible fantastic natural specifically dramatic extremely intoxicating decidedly unsettling small cumulative much tidal surprising aphrodisiacal unnecessarily divisive fuzzy, disheveled eerie photographic odd, supernatural harmless steroidal nice wind-blown nevertheless negative marginal but nevertheless negative generally dampening childish and heroic crippling psychological impressive aesthetic strangely tranquilizing faintest off-center subconscious inhibitory serious cumulative same harmful overt or practical mutually triumphant strange and almost startling consequent astounding total temporal cumulative psychological scenic and indeed supernatural devastating political peculiar and equal consequent unfavorable perverse but welcome emotional and soporific particular decorative hackneyed melodramatic weird atmospheric sombre, iridescent immediate intoxicating late but certain usual analgesic immediately beneficial observable proximate curious and not unpleasant terribly weird and disconcerting distinctively elephantine ticklish spinal pleasantly numbing eerie and fascinating final inhibitory own diversionary slight lopsided immediately lethal negative initial purely marginal necessarily confusing and discordant necessarily confusing immediate explosive intensely soporific powerful vibrational peculiarly blue and distant speedy and often disastrous continuously depressing doubly beneficial awful, unintended general and even remarkable inspiring and intoxicating surprising and inexplicable solemn and depressing absolutely japanese immediately salutary secondary and indecisive curiously depressing impressive and exciting exact contrary absolutely tasteful gorgeous but absolutely tasteful odd, dreary deliberately rugged perceptible artistic rotund, noble superior rhythmical longer-term spiritual collateral psychic toxic degenerative singular but irresistible visible and great special imitative marvelous rhythmic distinctive phosphorescent harmonious and pleasing splendidly dramatic and austere responsive illuminating sudden, pernicious brilliantly decorative legal and coercive stronger immediate immediate and most vital comic and realistic awfully grand and dangerous immediate but transient reliable, constant other coexistent queer amphitheatrical doleful and woeful remarkably picturesque and graceful wider and ultimate definite and inheritable powerful subjective singularly rich and harmonious bad and depressing immediate or visible similar but far greater pure and sole economic or hygienic impressive interior singular bizarre similarly harmful otherwise pernicious wide and stupendous remarkable remedial familiar injurious startling or seductive irresistible and astonishing pitifully painful complex but possible weak and sugary superficial, pleasing absolutely separable distinct and absolutely separable surest and most powerful tellingly seductive imaginative and mental strictly topographical solemn distant small and absurd emotional or ethical grave and better teaching--historical gradual and final extraordinarily visible rare and contingent prominent visible free vocal perceptive and concrete more dampening indirect cumulative definite, psychical picturesque or poetical indescribably emphatic sufficiently new and striking sufficiently new peculiarly awe-inspiring definite and harmful exhilarating and picturesque thrilling and overpowering extraordinarily restorative cheaper ornamental further expansive singularly pleasurable peculiar illuminating decidedly toxic antiquated and archaic intoxicating or inspiring same resultant rapidly excellent sudden or terrific peculiarly somnolent extremely life-like consequently innocent thrilling and magical ultimately beneficial thrilling and exhilarating singular destructive visible and salutary similar thrilling negative social unusually depressing sudden and sure common optical almost slow-motion beautiful visual general dismal beneficial psychological wicked and guilty inexpressibly wicked immaterial phantom enormously beneficial appropriate and gloomy childish, painstaking pleasurable and exhilarating curiously ambiguous rich pictorial peculiar pathological imaginative and musical partial and inharmonious singular bitter same devastating precise emotional same peripheral maximum magnetic decidedly injurious entirely german slightly intoxicating creative and wonderful net long-range odd natural immediate electrifying distinct three-dimensional slight rotational exceedingly grim and unpleasant sadly fantastical genuine hereditary immediate genetic residual second-order localized and temporary negative or undesirable suitably decorative but martial suitably decorative decorative but martial extraordinarily destructive cheap special sinister, claustrophobic decorative scenic absolutely overpowering slight beneficial surprisingly beneficial somewhat inhuman already cataclysmic initially devastating powerfully catalytic striking and immediate magical dampening pleasing blinking ancillary residual momentary heartening similarly fashionable profound and possibly permanent hair-trigger arousal almost quintessential total volcanic unified, dreamlike immensely sensuous immensely sensuous and appealing greater numbing unsettling and unwelcome expensive special unusually corrosive huge random predictable and immediate long-term, alien unreal, hypnotic rather inhibitory overall aesthetic powerfully dampening enormously debilitating overall exterior negative psychosocial miraculously fleeting just dramatic approximate climatological strong optical strong tranquilizing invaluable secondary slight soporific seriously deleterious different dental jonasoidal difficult esthetic full thrilling slightest cathartic gradual and good vicious and striking striking and exotic theatrical, magical and mysterious high, spectacular additional decorative sykological candid and wholesome extremely rich and picturesque old-fashioned, operatic minor dizzying weird dimensional bizarre and anachronistic temporary beneficial artsy optical odd perspectival vivid, disagreeable deliciously impromptu obvious undesirable immediate and deleterious striking optical disturbing and crippling spectacular dramatic martial and picturesque consequent deleterious indirect nervous secondary adrenal compelling vocal chemical considerable deadly cumulative oddly tropical odd and slightly drunken far contrary speedier and deeper grand or really poetical peculiarly naturalistic punctual double inevitable and most salutary cumulative and conservative direct and pristine modest, sacerdotal depressing and disheartening mysterious atmospheric immediate and seismic unusually significant wonderfully fine and noble desirable oval cool atmospheric never-ending orchestral immediate and perhaps temporary extraordinary and dismal maximum satirical frequent coincident amorous and domestic sad and ghostlike indescribably sad and ghostlike preponderating repulsive vastly gratifying instructive composite predominant and final ultimate and wider entirely non-logical extremely piquant and surprising overwhelming but fascinating striking and unpleasant rather psychological and financial rather psychological pictorial or dramatic oratorical and moral deliciously exhilarating immediate and incomprehensible cloudy or indistinct generally restful strangely comical quaint bizarre more top-heavy full beneficial preposterously comical indescribably weird and startling grim and poetic inexpressibly delicate and mysterious inexpressibly delicate commercial and unflattering considerable exhilarating thrilling and tremendous total acoustic unusual acoustic general acoustic unspeakably charming wonderful and immediate blinding, gaudy distinctly curative generally perceptible uncanny but strangely responsive extensive and baneful special, sensational rich, gorgeous inevitable and sole alternatively bad helpful and fruitful extremely insipid scenic and romantic changeable and temporal original and most restful tonal or dynamic certainly dramatic canal mischievous utmost useful entente--moral abominable democratic vivid spectacular overwhelmingly oppressive automatic selective brilliant or bizarre instantaneous and astonishing instantaneous and visible zeal and rather startling influential sexual auto-aphrodisiacal injurious nervous first-rate spectacular fortunately transient due and immediate visibly disastrous indifferent spectral correspondingly abrupt usually sudden and startling brilliant pianistic adequate and even triumphant moral and scenical delightfully harmonious and artistic unexpectedly decorative sixth dysgenic marvellously beneficial real scenic profound indirect well-known prejudicial mechanical and hollow important or really damaging terrific spectacular archaic linguistic correspondingly prejudicial strangely sketchy burlesque, dramatic always tidy and satisfactory certain transverse general picturesque musical and especially rhythmic chief classic decidedly beneficial similarly injurious artistic, oriental ballistic or disruptive distinctly restorative purposefully artificial south--social artistic and colonial natural necessary warm and very pleasing mild pictorial more tranquilizing complete but imperceptible better decorative distinctly metrical grand and even romantic singularly striking and persuasive total rhythmic pleasing, chaste useful luminous indirect stimulative dreary and soporific mournful and dreary apparent and seemingly sudden incomparably comic probably disheartening distinctly beneficial unusually exhilarating original, musical contrary personal purely photo-physical strongest and most complete negative and natural inexpressibly attractive and pathetic inexpressibly attractive attractive and pathetic total imaginative monthly injurious ultimate cumulative helpful reactionary markedly perceptible peculiarly dusky buoyant, exhilarating decisive and appropriate severe metallic irresistibly striking and interesting irresistibly striking weak and monotonous unusual controversial disproportionately beneficial indescribably weird and impressive marvellously filmy solemn and spiritually uplifting sheer cumulative incongruous and yet beautiful gay and uncommon lurid, demoniacal extremely gay and bright harmonious, joyous poor and even disagreeable hooting and mournful unreal and irritating peculiar corrosive perfectly certain but small extraordinary and enchanting always large and general normal and fugitive salutary corrective complete illusory usual psychical startling chromatic suburban picturesque paternal and almost majestic magnificent and professional indirect medicinal bizarre but beautiful especially scintillating and rich especially scintillating singularly helpful marvelous but transient necessary and incontestable irresistible sunny great debilitating sombre and horrid broad, mellow enormous and universal alarmingly depressing correspondingly depressing almost rhetorical demure and puritanical immediate and reactionary insidious and ultimate curiously processional entirely gracious and satisfying singular experimental general naive desirable decorative sombre but rich negative, resultant ever new and surprising single melodramatic genuine and inevitable fleeting, beautiful general and quite illusory sensible medicinal loud-pedal overpowering and harmonious general rhythmic directly noxious direct dysgenic immediate eugenic perhaps imperceptible fascinating, bizarre strangely voluminous and oriental strangely voluminous extraordinary and instantaneous overwhelming tragic salutary and amusing lifeless, decorative open net-like principal sacramental somewhat deleterious double and contrary deceptive and marvelous perfectly deceptive and marvelous perplexing retro slight definite ornamental and somewhat italian somewhat italian enormous and intimate gorgeous picturesque disastrously disquieting sunny and dazzling slightest harmful special poisonous dramatic and passional last tell-tale peculiarly simple and massive impossible naturalistic squared open-work evenly ribbed weird, old-world irritating, uncomfortable proper picturesque additionally injurious practical and long-lasting salubrious and widespread evil and unlucky fullest practical consistently profitable rather poor and scanty dramatic or rhetorical proper stimulative incongruous and unpoetical obviously pernicious just architectural thoroughly mechanical and unsatisfactory gummy or clammy similar but equally pernicious indescribably humorous additional and very charming airy and beautiful unfortunate psychological singular and very pleasing theatrical or artificial oddly harmonious conscious and picturesque visibly depressing powerful germicidal grim and horrifying dramatically sudden and startling especially salutary and satisfying especially salutary resultant and harmonious undoubtedly salubrious perceptible and substantial deleterious and pernicious decidedly repulsive faultlessly pictorial sombre artistic cumulative dramatic quaintly anachronistic correct total legitimate expressional peculiar and most wonderful full and salutary speedy and felicitous neat and harmonious terrible theatrical warlike and picturesque unusual and somewhat striking extremely graceful and elegant superb declamatory disagreeable and slavish gentle and distant cumulative, favorable decidedly lopsided fitting pictorial twofold unfavorable undue alarmist sad, musical vague complex important and very different curiously hard and guttural hard and guttural curiously fantastic and unreal comic or malicious indescribably dismal strangely sad and sombre unearthly weird full repulsive extraordinary and even startling truest ironic seemingly ill pernicious and rapidly destructive strikingly emotional excellent indirect cool and young wonderfully airy and poetic wonderfully airy definite and corresponding worst and most unfortunate queer inquisitive peculiarly beneficial apparent injurious rather curious and quaint strange but wonderfully harmonious perplexing optical charming and thoroughly pianistic quiet decorative attractive decorative comparatively broad and simple actually weird deeply domestic grotesquely placid special, striking evident equal grand and full useful or noxious wonderfully restful exotic, incongruous perfectly irresistible and uncontrollable peculiar but very cosy decisive and salutary singularly noteworthy distinctly injurious remorseless, far-reaching styptical bright and almost unnatural general and beneficial ribbed or striped generally greater and nobler generally greater rich processional ultimately solvent much solvent dainty decorative thrilling, far-away cumulative and finally perfect striking and somewhat singular scarcely overpowering charming but scarcely overpowering unsettling and convincing alternately unsettling and convincing alternately unsettling sizzling and electric relative or negative mainly relative or negative mainly relative pleasing parrot-like beneficial religious temporarily exhilarating languid artistic best and most tranquilizing invaluable and abiding dull and stupefying distinctly steadying stupefying and crippling same tonsorial exceedingly debilitating exceptionally destructive curiously decorative peculiar, hypnotic beneficial or serviceable joint precessional average precessional complete and solemn pleasant and somnolent anarchical and ruthless sinister, cross-eyed indescribable and charming profound and specific exceedingly spacious and free ~detrimental disturbing structural deleterious or beneficial anti-conservational almost smaller deliberately pornographic quiet panoramic highly rural uncommonly jaunty entirely triumphant potent, beneficial fine tonal intensely thrilling and electrical mysterious but irresistible quick and mortal monotonously flat less feathery graceful linear dazzling, startling quiet but sure inevitable and far-reaching curiously astringent truly beautiful and graceful truly graceful and beautiful extra scenic brilliant and charmingly intimate so-called astringent direct peripheral main and simplest similarly intoxicating refined and classic perfectly distinct and characteristic subsequent distant immediate or chief immense immediate extraordinarily romantic haggard, weird grave and perhaps decisive singularly exciting and beautiful corresponding depressing vivid and sunshiny immediate strange somewhat intoxicating weird but beautiful ready and sensible directly detrimental infinitely sardonic permanently depressing grand but oppressive palpable evil indeed depressing unusual but most happy primary and almost universal often perfect and pleasing mild and extraordinary gaudy, overpowering extremely affirmative subtle but positive glaring and disagreeable spotty and uneven consequential, expansive dramatic or critical small or trivial

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Words to Describe effect

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "effect" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "effect" are: measurable, unfavorable, more soporific, progressively detrimental, enormously detrimental, and devious but significant. There are 995 other words to describe effect listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe effect 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, "effect" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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