Describing Words
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nose,
winter,
blue eyes,
woman
Here are some adjectives for english. You can get the definitions of these adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to english (and find more here).
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Words to Describe english
Below is a list of describing words for english. 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 english:
many half-drunk daintily prim and bookish french and vulgar simple and idiomatic elegant, addled expensive oversized perfect grammatical worn-out, jaded plain and very pungent much archaic antique but good fluent but very unconventional careful, fluent forceful, fragrant plain independent lean but rather lengthy german french correct standard brilliant and disdainful stout, slow musical jamaican drunk and very wealthy eminent and very wealthy faultless but peculiar clear, idiomatic fluent and ancient rich and limitlessly polite faultless stereotyped fluent exotic nice, red-cheeked universal etymological painful but sincere powerful rude brief bald loyal moral grammatical, readable daintily prim florid or perpendicular perfect idiomatic broad and rude tidy nineteenth-century robust but mercifully transient seventeenth-century native foolish, complacent similar arrogant painfully slow and correct coarse abrasive middle-class nineteenth-century rude, unformed strong, racy rather stiff and pompous german, bad french or worse illuminating and characteristic french and worse strong, concise olive, amiable modern low famous and very elegant cool unflinching possible current mostly early bold graphic simple, melodious scarcest old gaelic and very little french and bad savvy much chinese and bad single third-rate often quaint and curious unattended and doubtfully attired concise and muscular quaint, precise dutch and very little fluent, correct clear british bright and tall-masted fluent, idiomatic spanish and worse urbane british good spirited perfect, rapid modern and readable correct careful good and fairly neutral crisp, refined purest and most grammatical densest poetic fluent and colloquial best rudimentary common well-educated formal standard spanish and good french and mangled flat and sober theatrical northern silent or timidly orthodox real, understandable excellent idiomatic typically healthy and sober sinewy idiomatic nervous, idiomatic good, idiomatic good terse literary or standard vigorous and somewhat pedantic charming floppy polite eighteenth-century few but decent simplest clear limpid and noble idiomatic, modern handsome two-line pure, nervous french and tolerable white unsalted noble gracious bygone, beautiful remarkably clear and simple correct and fluent pure tremulous pure, idiomatic correct, plain spanish and elemental colloquial and cursory racy and delectable french or pure outlandish, unnatural colonial and old ancient correct assorted but perfectly intelligible graceful idiomatic matchless elizabethan gothic early quaint and often majestic efficient average rich and mostly solid closest and most unpolished exceedingly racy and idiomatic exceedingly racy mellow, precise barbaric departmental nervous clear terse, clean-cut admirably neat and sufficient admirably neat intelligent and vastly superior entirely superficial and formal simple and often foolish pure facile gusty, lusty cultured and very well-connected seventeen-year-old little quaint, jerky good dusty difficult picturesque best idiomatic random other rough and profane wicked terminal excellent colloquial brave rough modern and polite valuable and logical local or common sober, well-to-do glib good frankest, freest red, broad neat modern useful but always dangerous just pallid and less just pallid eighteenth-century terrestrial dear, concise ridiculous archaic rich, conventional flawless british flavored british normal plain portuguese and essential careful stilted solid, genuine spanish and passable typical sour slow and exaggeratedly formal prominent seventeenth-century mock honest poor but passable lean unlovely slow and correct southern standard polite and flawless precise, gutteral soft cultured drunken violent lush and wild robust but incomprehensible incongruous colloquial flawless, crisp dank wintry stuffy proper wilted northern perfectly innocent and useful perfect precise perfect shakespearean bronzed and brawny correct and even admirable easy and colloquial nervous homespun strong striped french or comical vigorous but incoherent brutal secretive refined, grammatical grave and not uncongenial extremely pure and elegant illogical but altogether admirable middle-aged nervous always correct and elegant characteristic admirable french and exquisite out-and-out, smooth stubborn practical eloquent and well-known limited and very practical perfect and cultured largest and most genial bad or questionable contemporary, middle-class racy vigorous junior remedial irish and rebellious quaint and absurdly stilted dutch and good typical substantial emphatic but improper slower and cooler pure and even elegant smooth consecutive certain well-read curious northern rough, red-faced free honest favorite and now venerable correct but stilted would-be old readable and generally sympathetic excellent but somewhat precise understandable, common-sense masculine and idiomatic noble and masculine direct, refined steadfast and most considerable grammatical, idiomatic plain, precise plain bashful many unsentimental careful, unfamiliar ordinary well-made resounding and glorious ardent idealistic despairing, ingrained least dormant savory sweet separate best joyous, perfect everlasting ponderous ordinary keyless rich sinewy healthy but somewhat rough harsh and headstrong sparse and precious quaint, deliberate bright uncertain indian and early careful, foreign adequate and attractive beautifully clear and fluent always generous and extravagant good, gruff unpleasant western slow and grammatical racy elizabethan rare, correct wholesome conservative straightforward, work-a-day shakespearean old fluent but quite foreign lucid and incisive flawless, monotonous musical and fluent comparatively new and artificial excellent guttural simple idiomatic open interesting correct and finally expensive sundry preconceived legible familiar natural and thoroughly individualistic direct and intelligible plain, direct and intelligible fluent, incorrect pure terse fluent but ineffective humorous and frank always hearty and humane old but decayed best and most significant peculiar, less idiomatic, controversial cheapest original tight and sinewy youngest eminent italian and bad french, capital pure, simple and strong spirited judicious clean, colloquial abhorrent unthinking intelligible old vulgar and excessively shallow sloppy, slipshod tautological and slipshod excellent but too plain plain, well-bred french and rapid-fire crisp, insipid irritating dirty french, rare plain and idiomatic strong, idiomatic already rich and flexible famous but unpopular conventional and inadequate slow, aristocratic --original pure pure, lucid and noble german and flexible virile and virulent singular arbitrary turgid but interesting poetical and rhythmical often poetical and rhythmical ancient philological modern and graceful literal, decorous serious, stubborn plain nervous perfect and delicious false or intolerable concise, grammatical dingy, clumsy unknown and comparatively insignificant french or sullen simple but sinewy same oridganal extensive and apparently modern simple and easily readable entirely superficial or formal frosty perpendicular french and very poor gross, barbaric european and even certain hideously cruel and superstitious singularly pure and correct perfect and idiomatic foolish loyal resounding elizabethan german and splintered grammatical and good handsome and typical hideously corrupt and vulgar hideously corrupt vulgar but very expressive deliberate but tolerable fluent and perfect graceful, incisive crisp, admirable unknown historic rapid and faultless french nor good open, home-bred remarkably pure and graceful famous pre-war clean colloquial stupid and uninformed slow but excellent lucid, idiomatic weighty, correct fluent, inverted calmest and most elegant french and caustic fascinating old-fashioned dutch and more rich and forceful thoroughbred, black noble but now decadent plain contemporary clumsy but understandable purest and most idiomatic brilliant opulent throaty guttural graceful, idiomatic queer, personal real gaunt nasal but recognizable well-known and very successful longest modern careful and even servile remarkably pure and idiomatic pure sinewy classical, forceful prim and correct sonorous, vigorous good and grammatical neat appropriate good and elegant splenetic, supercilious pronouncing whole soft-spoken, perfect quick but very bad distinct and nervous pure, distinct and nervous french and archaic german, french and archaic clear-cut, imitative irish or old irish but bad dear, superstitious fourth smallest soft correct irish and more perfectly good and clear excellent vigorous sheer commonplace hereabout several supply obsolete and obsolescent supply obsolete easy, natural and unaffected early old typical and rather chaotic querulous suburban correct and straightforward emphatic and excellent stiff but correct eager eyes--typical _philosophical and practical grave, temperate soft precise bright, racy complete and enchanting noble, rhythmical shorter but too definite quaint and strange terse and excellent precise and literary excellent and vivid modern and composite clear and idiomatic common old-fashioned afraid bright symmetrical, typical accurate, plain and unmistakable adorable foreign careless, frank and muscular wretched but picturesque guttural and emphatic gothic or old younger but greater well-known and highly meritorious simple and somewhat narrow-minded correct or fluent poor and very proud fresh and somewhat simple-minded brilliant but grossly perverse commonplace green average melodramatic fair but not fluent best but plain graceful and nervous soft faultless flawless, musical courageous double invasive unwelcome simple eighteenth-century successful first-class short but very exact voluble, effective hot victorious abbreviated old stand-still old idiomatic, picturesque quaint but forceful bad eighteenth-century stern, alien virile and nervous typical uneventful modern northern incoherent and very bad racy, straightforward great forthright humble inviolable least communicative fluent, good full gruff self-indulgent, masterful dear straightforward good, intelligible plain and violent genuine, logical little illiterate curious, monotonous competent concise brilliant and indefatigable quaint uncertain safe sensible plain and unmetaphorical ready, stupid informer much direct vigorous old sure-fire rapid, indistinct rural old pleasant and ancient own sulky genteel and conservative wide, darkling beautiful cloudless crusty, patriotic certain bright-eyed willing, brave german or old biblical and shakespearean picturesque and fluent several ill-starred suspicious strait-laced cold-blooded artistic brand-new immortal quaint and literal fluent or passionate well-bred blonde forceful, idiomatic good and homely old fluent patrician pure, intelligible heavy, imperfect royal russet new fanciful idiomatic, vigorous new, expensive thick and awkward simple indicative merciful and reasonable racy and idiomatic same carnivorous gruff, heavy stout, stand-up healthy, open simplest every-day excellent bad perfect colloquial bronzed, honest strong racy enlightened, independent bad but charming excellent present genuine idiomatic virtuous and well-bred solid, business-like clear and unprovincial fleshy old easy excellent correct, well-born shy and dumb old far-away german and old mere strange domestic, inexpensive fluent and simple apt and parallel superficial and formal nervous, dramatic slow, correct helpless many brisk, red-cheeked pure and idiomatic illogical old unlovely swiss and hot musical subcontinental simple and vigorous plain, vulgar clear, unconquerable obsolete and provincial staid, silent noble, classic hearty, straightforward boastful, flamboyant intelligent and elegant good elizabethan cupful chopped quaint, antiquated honest and discreet welcome, little formal and limited german and pretty good torrid new beautiful idiomatic subversive twentieth-century grammatical and often idiomatic best archaic flawless, haughty wholesome, vigorous flawless international pure and liquid mangled, throaty well-bred, unemotional plain tame smug, detestable german, excellent clear, comfortable fine upper-class sour elizabethan upper-class little massive and practically indestructible bold and loyal common, modern fluent, colloquial polite upper-class pallid civilized high-pitched but intelligible clear but sibilant fewer vertical doll-sized ideal flawless midwestern occasional prewar sappy, infantile economic, good indigenous bohemian tongue-tied or nonexistent hopelessly tongue-tied or nonexistent hopelessly tongue-tied proper, civilized normal colloquial toneless but perfect perfect, british perfect but deliberate eloquent and ironic impromptu one-hour slow occidental unmistakable, impeccable awkward, throaty guttural, rough black antique perfect, colloquial regular, colloquial pale, prim beefy arrogant poor ungrammatical grand, eccentric madly wealthy and eccentric madly wealthy lanky and rather odd-looking simple but quite beautiful african and old foggy dark meticulous, stilted small disobedient lower junior breathtaking old precise, cultured precise and colorless daft young precise and unconcerned pure, academic slight working-class correct, unemotional frigid and silent italian, irish and additional french and adequate realistic medieval modern and outdated blocky grey crisp, clean-cut incongruous upper-crust disembodied upper-class archaic but perfectly readable frank, untarnished correct mediæval careful but understandable major former impressive full-throated middle-aged remedial convoluted, archaic typical rainy pink clean nice pear-shaped typical upper-middle-class murky, unsatisfactory part-time undergraduate proper highbrow earliest native-born current and obsolescent good colloquial weird formalized precise, guttural awful power-starved icy upper-crust unadorned midwestern unique northern pedantic, faulty better consolidated clear correct fat or clean german and many well-to-do, conventional true deliberate stupid commonplace courteous and perfect unaffected, unsophisticated typically healthy substantial and well-bred fine or correct concise, unmistakable venerable and wealthy ponderous and durable modern standard _universal etymological belgian and many simple self-taught travelled and observant stolid, middle-class quaint but correct massive and extravagant loyal and standard french and original wiry, splendid useless, gentle well-bred, normal elizabethan or old truly great and permanent pure and vigorous oldest genuine rich careless native, genuine pure and virile own dual able and readable fortunate and true modern conversational wholesome, sunburnt nervous and idiomatic pure idiomatic previous, certain quiet thorough expressive old well-meaning but slipshod red-faced beefy correct and musical seventy-six largest curious but little-known corresponding or analogous gallant and life-like fresh, full-blown little intelligible gallant and interested witty and pious readable modern plain and spirited grand and nervous indirect, accidental rare characteristic commonplace, peaceful sweet, modern typical, creamy clean-cut, terse free teutonic standard present-day prettiest foreign high-spirited, good-hearted hospitable, true clear-headed, common-sense obscure, middle-class well-bred, courteous pure and native british and common adroit and willful imaginary but traditional straightforward, pure rough and barbaric good stout-hearted pungent, persuasive plain and understandable irish and bad net eclectic rhythmical and melodious correct conversational enthusiastic and erudite common, well-known prim, well-mannered elegant and idiomatic refined, brave prim, hazy perfect middle-class original, less strong and trenchant pure and forceful naturally warm and impetuous always hearty excellent, copious and clear brutal, wanton eminent and highly respectable honest and intelligible veritable ancient fashionable and effective poor and incorrect well-worn and commonplace singular, old wholesome ordinary distant and unwholesome fair idiomatic wonderfully clear and good ornate and musical vague or weak prosperous, typical literary standard french but little mellow and neat human and hospitable solid independent perfectly correct and idiomatic substantial and very commonplace usual disappointing sluggish and sensual lucid and noble keen and dependable well-known conservative quiet-spoken, grey-haired always brave and generous murky, leaden often poetical exclusive and dominant large and long-established smart and refined fat and far-famed purest old good and cool french and new careful foreign odd imperial wainscoted, out-of-the-way simple, idiomatic reliable and well-known rough and famed several prim typical and enjoyable long, opal sweet throaty literal, word-for-word picturesque but limited superficial or formal typical and thoroughgoing broad famous finnish and such conservative but indomitable graceful, complete expensive and efficient nervous, continental late, third-rate corrupt and vulgar immaculate, typical own contemporaneous derivative and cognate old and contemporary clever and notable aristocratic and fastidious superior and well-paid obliging and more real cunning general middle-class excellent and pure haughty and hostile blithe stout-hearted far-off peaceful charming and faultless pure, correct french and old material, common peaceful, luxurious supple and less quaint obsolete recent and very careful fine, fruity ordinary, untrained simple but high-minded straightforward, genuine powdered, extravagant hearty unsophisticated plain and careful direct, sinewy clear, every-day good and aristocratic vile, bad unmistakable and melodious fine colloquial precise foreign lucid, sinewy cumbersome antiquated impatient and ambitious clear and trenchant unusual or local direct, sincere noble, white-bearded curt and often rough actual, chivalrous typical, delightful screechy, twangy fragrant, gentle genuine, characteristic elegant and impressive unimaginative, bourgeois italian and older ordinary virtuous obese but famous homogeneous, industrious correct and precise furious foreign german or modern poor homespun sturdy ancient plain understandable rapid, smooth strong, unformed real verbal much cultured cheap miscellaneous strenuous, pitiable strong, temperate bicameral and other sleepy and irate old intelligible sombre and haunting devout and influential obsolete or unusual frank and muscular irish or low simple and spirited spanish but tolerably good courteous, unaffected grey, raw polite but commonplace pleasing modern rollicking or eccentric ideal, conventional real perfect small typical certain damned voluminous and well-known well-trained, unemotional little outlandish expressive, old smug provincial mere fierce courageous and sensible cut-glass, spotless denial plain lawful plain martial plain eligible plain sorry plain meager plain short but exact sympathetic, depressed racy, thorough duller and darker curious contemplative miscellaneous second-hand strongest and most poetical open, interesting prim, strait-laced intelligible or biblical seventeenth-century colloquial idiomatic and commercial broad, fluent conventional smart conservative, frost-bitten prosperous, jovial cool, insistent vulgar, incorrect good intelligible wealthy, warm old-fashioned, healthy drowsy, decorous bold honest good idiomatic sensible, prosperous indefatigable, inevitable sweet boyish
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Words to Describe english
As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "english" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "english" are: many half-drunk, daintily prim and bookish, french and vulgar, simple and idiomatic, and elegant, addled. There are 995 other words to describe english listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe english 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, "english" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.
Note also that if there aren't many english 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 english?
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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