Describing Wordsfor Explanation

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Here are some adjectives for explanation: fair allegorical, entire charming, convincing and unexciting, simple, deterministic, conjectural and unsatisfactory, particularly benign, natural hypothetical, interesting and quite logical, imprudent or sudden, common teleological, modern, logical, consistent and fairly probable, subtle and bizarre, lame ventriloquial, phsyiological, long phsyiological, curious but certainly correct, satisfactory rational, plausible and rational, simple, palatable, satisfactory and philosophical, remarkable and sensible, excessively burlesque, indispensable and circumstantial, concise and seemingly plausible, halfway convincing, long moralistic, subsequent and most satisfactory, favorite liberal, easier and clearer. You can get the definitions of these explanation adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to explanation (and find more here).

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Words to Describe explanation

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

fair allegorical entire charming convincing and unexciting simple, deterministic conjectural and unsatisfactory particularly benign natural hypothetical interesting and quite logical imprudent or sudden common teleological modern, logical consistent and fairly probable subtle and bizarre lame ventriloquial phsyiological long phsyiological curious but certainly correct satisfactory rational plausible and rational
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simple, palatable satisfactory and philosophical remarkable and sensible excessively burlesque indispensable and circumstantial concise and seemingly plausible halfway convincing long moralistic subsequent and most satisfactory favorite liberal easier and clearer ideally universal painful and interesting fullest and bravest slow, simplified slyly technical transparent biological racist biological ready or sensible inept and incredible convoluted psychological coherent ideological hazardous and unpleasant equally glib tolerable or probable real satisfactory reasonable and material clear and eager _ir_rational dramatic and lucid scanty unconnected long and partial less far-fetched lofty and wonderful discreet imaginable miserably lame proper or satisfactory humanitarian and universalistic nice, glib full rational fairly probable perfectly resonable adequate but horrible simple and perfectly correct terribly glib traditionally rational overly convoluted old sociobiological long and soulful theoretical or conscious supernaturally intelligent sensible all-around completely murky valid, convincing ingenious and sufficiently probable scientific and reasonable brisk, mutual causal or mechanical simple but highly ingenious obvious and creditable ancient word-for-word new but very distinct inadequate philosophical accurate and sufficiently wide swift, technical unanswerably rational consistent and appropriate ridiculously philosophical submissive and satisfactory authentic rational shallow, rationalistic shallow rationalistic reasonable or possible moderately plausible allegorical mystic savage scientific probable hypothetical probable, coherent dull and pitiful false, literal unnatural or unfounded plausible and graphic adequate or even plausible lucid and entirely satisfactory complete etiological accurate, complete easy scientific lucid but equally impossible satisfactory alternate spare painful ready and intelligible sufficient and perfect ultimate and exhaustive psychological or scientific truly teleological same conjectural prosaic but truthful little glossarial short but candid good, logical automatically defensive somewhat simplistic lengthy mathematical ultimate causal mechanico-causal rational and commonplace plain, hasty so-called technical particular possible somewhat far-fetched satisfactory physical long, stilted short, succinct full expansive conceivable run-of-the-mill solemn, careful brief, simplified natural or human rational, causal sorry, best leisurely official interesting epidemiological rational sober radonal typically cryptic logical, reasonable and innocent less unremarkable necessarily lengthy precise uninteresting cautious low-key insufficient and unclear easy, acceptable tersely convincing improbable but completely convincing sacred, beautiful incredible, unacceptable immediate clear simple and therefore popular specific and adequate moral, liturgical and canonical liturgical and canonical sole or most compelling convincing, comprehensive bald, stupid brilliantly satisfactory ingenious but futile seemingly lengthy perfectly rational and sufficient wholly plausible adequate anatomical necessarily perfunctory ultimate, exterior clearest and most characteristic conduct--sociological sole plausible nude and intelligible painfully strange glandular and quantitative long and very uninteresting long and very wearisome fanciful and traditional profuse verbal concise, modest plausible, false satisfactory mechanistic psychological, causal cynical and inadequate damned commonplace real or ultimate machine--physical ==physical satisfactory mathematical ingenious and wholly satisfactory definite or rational formal or incidental probable and sane doubtful but curious easy and consistent paltry scientific convenient and devout distinct or sufficient true and fairly simple physiological, experiential plausible and simple disconnectedly self-conscious full mutual pseudo-natural bitter and ungracious mechanic-causal hypothetical and mutual sufficient and scientific full and rather startling brief and somewhat scornful lengthy, precise satisfactory mutual complete mechanistic possible mechanistic exceedingly farcical dramatically sufficient partial and very incomplete lucid and candid sufficient philosophical obvious and trite slightly discursive consistent mechanical full or true so-called _mechanical poor, ineffective sinister and plausible highly astronomical perfectly satisfactory and convincing true and durable clear and outspoken profound and lengthy imaginary or purely theoretical true but uncomfortable full and plausible early paternal final or philosophical significant and adequate perfectly prosaic and positive rapidly thought-out tangible and reasonable miraculously simple picturesque and realistic refusal and frank logical and possible ingenious and highly improbable subtly voluptuous ingenious astronomical charitable and not improbable scientific or anatomical apt allegorical condensed but lucid dubious but innocent comprehensive tentative brief but disingenuous rational and competent entirely rational and competent plausible and creditable obviously dishonest denial and plausible probably shallow and deficient naturalistic or scientific other suave already sketchy little-understood scientific sufficient hypothetical fifth, such easy physiological quick and glib positive conclusive remotely tenable somewhat vague and unsatisfying impossible mythological true or comprehensive symbolical algebraic quite tautological simpler esthetic perfectly parliamentary loyal and perfectly parliamentary evident but untrue frank quiet ready specious pathological or other simple, clear and satisfactory rational magical satisfactory or suitable plausible, practical or scientific perusal and verbal usual etiological easy psychic geographical or geological rational or probable head--satirical prosaic and natural intelligent and allowable laughingly conjectural easy and certainly correct further and franker nearly satisfying general apologetic equally vague and unsatisfactory simple rationalistic understandable ultimate natural proximate denial nor satisfactory original and convincing customary psychological =metaphysical peculiarly ready and ingenious subsequent contrite satisfactory, true easy and yet satisfactory specially scientific simple and wholly plausible apparently simple and sufficient satisfying and ultra-economical particularly plausible common but dubious contradictory or incredible mechanico-physical sole reasonable collective and consistent satisfactory and lucid same credible enticingly simple good qualitative charming scientific simpler and more inclusive far-fetched prophetical ingenious and possibly truer sufficient and ultimate simple, dogmatic plausibly satisfactory short and technical true and platonic good--general but not constant good--general general but not constant final and unequivocal astonishing etymological christian-moral innocent, christian-moral intelligible and credible wild, voluble artless but somewhat fatuous fair or plausible approximately reasonable cartesian mechanical needless and elementary somewhat lengthy and tedious rapid, condensed grave, profound capricious, arbitrary brief simple ready and copious popular and mythical partially mythical possible and most thoroughgoing courteous but quaint full or additional certainly correct sufficiently probable simple possible neat and dramatic universally satisfactory ready and simple satisfactory or adequate logical, nonsupernatural absolutely technical usual psychiatric own one-word somewhat clinical empirical, scientific good possible full or satisfactory comprehensive mechanical satisfactory military final or satisfactory clear and technical necessary but distasteful distinct and public obvious and probable grossly literal older messianic distinctly dubious reliable or satisfactory perfectly unequivocal somewhat methodical sufficient and natural singularly thin full and cool ordinary verbal further oral apparently rational obvious and logical more stupefying hasty popular ingenious and satisfactory outrageous official serious and adequate purely false completely mundane entirely sufficient possible satisfactory reasonable, rational perfectly dull redundant technical tragically simple perfectly mundane murky official rather plain and direct complete and highly technical ridiculously convoluted totally comprehensive self-consistent and totally comprehensive valid, anthropological concise scientific innocent psychological loud and laborious vaguely believable evident, rational structurally serious perfectly good and reasonable outlandish, paranormal elaborately circular possibly rational easiest and most reasonable nice glib ultimately correct eoretically possible reasonable and innocent admirably succinct likely logical ripe and reasonable halfway lucid properly prudent seemingly plausible scientific and comprehensive surely confusing lengthy and surely confusing complete or dependable unimaginative but reasonable later practical elementary, condensed more insightful depressingly reasonable ready, logical totally lucid wild and metaphysical vaguely surreal normal, scientific frantic, incoherent obvious, boring logical and nonsupernatural perfectly logical and nonsupernatural acceptable medical simpler neurophysiological mathematically valid monstrously exact mute but entirely sufficient rather nonchalant last conciliatory less cryptic long self-serving nearly credible terse and frightening abrupt, quiet overly profound satisfactory scientific pitiful, incoherent mildly flattering harmless and mildly flattering enthusiastic and generally unintelligible long, defensive rational, simple brief, informative startling but logical incredible, truthful sensible, sane acceptable but secondary commonplace meteoric logical down-to-earth transparently wrong improbable and fanciful tidy, simple more far-out lengthy and complex entirely normal and logical superfi\-cial least fantastic scientifically acceptable plausible but completely untrue natural or nanotechnological lengthy astronomical supernatural or para-normal computationally realistic suitably cosmic green terrorist natural or benign clear interactive expression—logical reasonably rational typically warlike conclusively definite immediate and charming thoughtful, enthusiastic simple, disgusting plausible but fictitious plausible, mundane customary and rather lengthy complex, functional early nonmagical unnecessary and unsatisfying similarly weird confusing and unsatisfactory frank and precise vague and rather incoherent impossible and horrifying persistent and popular crisp, thorough perfectly tedious condescending and perfectly tedious unexpected true safe, acceptable typically short and simple typically short credible genetic ludicrously weak probably incoherent horrible and altogether unbearable unsuspected partial common, charitable reasonable supernatural simple, biological less farfetched benign, rational fairly mystical plausible geological otherwise unconventional extraterrestrial or otherwise unconventional extraterrestrial or unconventional thorough but efficient apparently lame practical and faithful modern, twentieth-century hopelessly technical cynical and lucid ordinary unphilosophical manual, standard savage philosophical coherent and reasonable better rational full or satisfying simple profound simple and inglorious radical and adequate full and liberal fantastic and ignorantly vague ignorantly vague current and convenient artfully irritating possible physiological poor and flippant materialistic or natural purely materialistic or natural plain and lucid intellectually credible necessary and brief necessary much clear and most beautiful vivid oral ridiculously lame difficult and false legitimate and possible rational, mechanical adequate and perfectly natural other and reasonable philosophical or psychological present merciful apparently plausible general satisfactory reasonable and good straightforward, loyal singularly satisfactory dishonestly simplified catagorical ingenious allegorical logical and symmetrical consistent causal proper and primitive sufficiently fundamental wild, legendary intelligent and convincing correct and philosophical intelligent or intelligible uncertain or doubtful perhaps truer prosaic and positive concrete and definitive briefest necessary painful preliminary deep phonetic altogether adequate correct evangelical fantastic and superstitious simple one-page plain psychological adequate and scientific reasonable and probably true naive and somewhat incoherent tersely short trite but simple miserable and abortive unphilological resistlessly persuasive plausible and workable now compulsory satisfactory and rational whole lucid mystic or symbolic perfect and indubitable extremely materialistic ordinary rational ingenious physiological original and satisfactory further or better short but necessary satisfying scientific unknown scientific simplest and most probable ultra-economical adequate and intelligible charitable and honorable satisfactory etymological obvious and historical scientific, economic far adequate cynically frank possibly truer quite irrefutable religious-historical curious and plausible sufficient or satisfactory full and reasonable sympathetic and ingenious easiest and most certain plausible and satisfactory verbal and metaphysical stupendous, simple directly theological simple and most natural natural and very simple reasonable and probable hardly satisfactory broad statutory true and only possible sudden possible ingenious but very plausible foolish rational precise and coherent profound and plausible seeming rational false and humiliating painstaking and eloquent verbal and merely apparent brief, technical lengthy or even apologetic ingenious and paradoxical mythical and non-scientific popular, lucid tumultuous and apologetic perfectly good and valid crudest and stupidest suggestive and simple false or specious primary and basic more probable simple, rational perfectly plausible best simple thorough and satisfactory absolutely astonishing satisfactory and sufficient least improbable awfully weak considerate and courteous possible rational intuitively obvious similar rational long, technical arbitrary and incorrect simple and plausible other logical simple, reasonable approximately adequate absolutely satisfactory entirely intelligible equally unintelligible satisfactory other satisfactory eminently plausible logical, inevitable possible logical plausible rational, scientific simple and satisfactory irrational but harmless grossly simplified reasonable scientific nice, logical generally plausible whole genetic vaguely positive quick, last-minute plausible physical reasonable, honest therefore popular short apologetic adequate psychological obvious and sufficient profound and exact somewhat rational truer and clearer condensed and simplified merely impersonal partial or occasional far-fetched and ridiculous luminously clear scientific and mystical easy mechanical exceedingly improbable sufficient and final scientific and psychological more shorter reasonable and philosophical simple and fair possible, rational feeble, apologetic somewhat crusty other, simple decidedly clear immediate special glib and specious probably shallow systematic theological reasonable and scientific probable and natural equally voluntary perhaps satisfactory vague and unsatisfying concrete causal interesting and plausible exceedingly inadequate satisfactory historical somewhat redundant disappointingly simple less feasible ready and ingenious peculiarly ready least impossible purely physical and mechanical last allowable singular but characteristic apparently untenable perfectly logical quite logical entirely adequate other plausible mighty convincing completely adequate simple, logical last and complete distinct verbal frank and sincere ultimate and true perfectly rational full and satisfactory long and convoluted simple and sufficient somewhat esoteric brief but necessary fullest and most satisfactory simple, obvious true and sufficient false historical apparently idle other rational perfectly reasonable boring, obvious totally unconvincing perfect and sufficient initial simple swift apologetic neat psychological complex and irrational clearest brief correct magical vaguely plausible wildly inaccurate totally rational altogether illuminating presumably brilliant apparently simple and open simple and understandable satisfactory, logical fectly logical long and voluble generally unintelligible little demographic reasonably concise easy or direct brief, incomplete clear and immediate completely untrue reasonable theoretical less facile dreamy, hopeful nicer, prettier ively simple psychological or medical bizarre and unsettling simple, one-word fantastic historical cruel and cold sociological or economic altogether unbearable less factual final or absolute far satisfactory rational and sufficient careful previous easy and acceptable easy and probable brief but perfect own crass mere clear rather plausible deep metaphorical full and consistent ingenious but improbable affectionate and sensible careful and clear useless further simple and prosaic purely circumstantial full and official tolerably plausible correct philosophical finest ancient real and sufficient clear and final obvious and complete merely correct chief and sufficient consistent and intelligible different hypothetical simple and common-sense least, partial sufficiently logical brief lucid subjective artistic painful and futile singular and perplexing possible philosophic absolute, final perfectly tame ordinary and reasonable satisfactory logical clear and condensed ostensibly innocent perfectly reasonable and logical frank and proper mere ultimate rude and contemptuous quasi-logical possibly correct true or general secret, ineffable easy, sociable careful and fair mute but convincing more plausible other reasonable rational full and candid easy and satisfactory complete mechanical less anthropomorphic long and copious racial or cultural wholly satisfying serious and scientific common and easy completely satisfactory full and frank clear and helpful clear, coherent strong traditional completely believable entirely believable exact and absolute full and calm immediate, violent current orthodox definite and logical historical or mythical simple and satisfying simplest physiological over-simple adequate and complete useless and mischievous perfectly prosaic wholly clear somewhat horrible general and easy rather poetic wholly commonplace much anatomical correct and scientific frequent popular long metrical scientific and material perfectly simple wholly satisfactory thoroughly excellent equally satisfactory more simplistic sociobiological mild and soft remotely plausible excellent and satisfactory natural and satisfactory logically possible same ready simple and consistent etiological logical likeliest standard evolutionary >psychological long and lucid miserable and futile trivial and simple reasonable and simple fairly explicit immediate and precise less cataclysmic reasonable, scientific other glib simple, factual logical and straightforward practical, concrete totally bogus scientifically plausible long, apologetic easy and specious partial and unsatisfactory neuro-chemical good alternate bizarre, supernatural simpler, sharper clear short horribly plausible scientific or rational almost plausible oh-so-rational nice pat candid and honorable eloquent and lengthy perfect and consistent decidedly curious necessary verbal somewhat officious highly natural little fuller certain and satisfactory such glib long guttural much likelier familiar conversational clear and popular much troublesome altogether erroneous scientific or naturalistic rigidly logical conceivable mechanical purely preliminary complete and clear fullest and most ample truly clear meticulously exact usual apologetic particularly lucid own lucid startling and sensational full and simple purely dynamical merely materialistic anti-supernatural

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Words to Describe explanation

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "explanation" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "explanation" are: fair allegorical, entire charming, convincing and unexciting, simple, deterministic, and conjectural and unsatisfactory. There are 995 other words to describe explanation listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe explanation 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, "explanation" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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