Describing Wordsfor Formality

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Here are some adjectives for formality: archaic and inane, excessive and rather ridiculous, equal, senseless, ultra old-fashioned, stilted and awkward, somehow effective, mysterious and indispensable, dormant, dull, graceful impressive, painfully austere, equally redundant, merely excessive, proper doctor-patient, appropriate intimate, infrequent, curious, suddenly military, boring parliamentary, antique, quaint, silent, unemotional, foolish and out-of-date, dismal, urgent, certain, characteristic, strictly commercial and legal, gracious, placid, inconceivable official, prim and awkward, usual seignorial, due managerial, stern magisterial, necessary, respectable. You can get the definitions of these formality adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to formality (and find more here).

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Words to Describe formality

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

archaic and inane excessive and rather ridiculous equal, senseless ultra old-fashioned stilted and awkward somehow effective mysterious and indispensable dormant, dull graceful impressive painfully austere equally redundant merely excessive proper doctor-patient appropriate intimate infrequent, curious suddenly military boring parliamentary antique, quaint silent, unemotional foolish and out-of-date dismal, urgent certain, characteristic strictly commercial and legal
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gracious, placid inconceivable official prim and awkward usual seignorial due managerial stern magisterial necessary, respectable plausible but vicious characteristic courteous courteous but extreme decent and negligible funereal, artificial characteristic old-fashioned due and impressive similar invariable inborn nice conventional and cold obligatory polite unnecessary and tedious sudden seeming ridiculous and useless stiffly correct empty, stiff basic, little time-consuming and expensive curious vulture-like distant and rigid particularly banal rigid, exact equally placid stiff and impersonal ancient strict merest curt total and precise heartless, empty irksome and galling red-tape--official less byzantine unfamiliar, embarrassing empty, hopeless mere ineffective proper and solemn mere farcical absurd spanish stilted artificial slight, courteous empty and hollow conventional rigid useless and burdensome mere rigid usual decorous troublesome and inconvenient certain brittle certain liturgical empty religious rubber-stamped beautiful, liquid dry and rigid slow, polite distant, respectful rigid external mere ritual cold, artificial usual terse brutal, offensive uncharacteristic and stiff obviously affectionate imply military somewhat gratuitous stiff, gloomy unnecessary and laborious official or legal decidedly useful proper and due abstract and cold stiff and distant little judicial almost vain ridiculous and unnecessary queer stiff little previous curious stiff slight, grave quiet, thankful quiet unmoved unexpectedly solemn same traditional much mere small customary now traditional slight legal mere customary damned japanese curious geometric usual ridiculous merely perfunctory certain prim previous matrimonial stiff, artificial trial or other stiff and stilted absolutely meaningless stiff, quaint commercial and legal usual rigid mere hypocritical certain stiff tedious preliminary apparently well-to-do mere international stiff spanish former proud certain interested mock serious certain mock cold artificial legal or religious mere polite doctor-patient somewhat stilted appropriate military such frigid much nice meaningless social specific or generic rather self-conscious much tiresome cool, impartial certain unexpected much logical mere meaningless same stilted coldly polite empty and useless odd, old-fashioned mere conversational old and easy delightfully quaint due legal rather ridiculous own antique always amusing brief and businesslike little voluntary much cool rather stuffy quick and painless cold and dead purely official stiff-backed brief political exceedingly grave somewhat stiff such scant special high strict military rather futile entirely superfluous necessary legal same gloomy almost oppressive certain exquisite heavy dutch somewhat painful stilted mere routine painful and disagreeable such logical _legal never less mere official brief preliminary same modest little unnecessary such rigid strictly commercial religious or other mere civil sudden, terrible same respectful slightly stiff usual stiff stern, cold new civil own stiff scarce less old easy certain ritual certain gentle equally cold such cool stiff same casual more trifling neoclassical such stiff strict legal much unnecessary almost military deal less somewhat fantastic mere empty almost solemn certain cold perfectly correct much military rough, hard now less extremely ancient hardly less almost sacred such cold atypical legal last such frigid such tedious unessential mere mere technical polite rigid cold, dead more respectful such gloomy time-consuming old aristocratic mock rather cold merest strictest vulture-like unimportant little tedious cut-and-dried same cold seignorial respectful mere social equal curt same calm such outrageous certain grim dull, heavy farcical stiff little procedural needless little further reverent unnecessary same smooth liturgical rather less prim ill-understood hesitant shortest inane utmost scrupulous staid categorical strict ungenial due more universal undue little preliminary terse unaccustomed regal mighty little ostentatious out-of-date cold same dark courteous old-world distasteful phoney archaic full military flawless meaningless tiresome perfunctory stiffest stiffer lapsed trite rather stiff burdensome magisterial irksome grave strange little decorous excessive processional solemn necessary profoundest hypocritical uncharacteristic ritual military dispassionate humbling little more extreme pure and simple regrettable glib stuffy pained grudging icy preliminary statesmanlike such cruel outmoded juridical same strange slow, deliberate empty trifling ingrained official monochromatic impressive token precise such grave scant other legal managerial heartless indispensable academical ironic ridiculous further awkward vivacious unemotional unrelenting unimportant toneless briefest scholastic careful eighteenth-century fullest pompous minimal coldest useless brittle other little somewhat less punctual frosty undiminished antiquated old-fashioned senseless well-mannered routine full-dress far less automatic little less cool judicial odd banal severest ironical theatrical customary playful aloof insulting all-important inanimate galling inconvenient stricter almost painful painful superfluous redundant insipid hackneyed urbane exemplary supercilious quaint humorous shy indulgent geometric negligible joyless much less pseudo repulsive didactic unusual black-clad benignant glacial administrative diplomatic deliberate disagreeable somber rather heavy conventional pure dormant petulant self-conscious appropriate pedantic traditional slightest unmoved comparative impassable usual pat depressing ineffective slight troublesome immaterial downcast greatest possible technical bothersome invariable austere pointless impeccable wry severe brief businesslike less rigorous proper enough gracious brisk stereotyped tardy stern insignificant colder previous last-minute inflexible geometrical correct funereal creepy simple little obsequious ponderous emphatic painless gloomy considerate consequent sudden religious sullen artificial initial memorial tremulous chaste lifeless considerable hollow demure quiet distant decent cosy dutiful perplexing transient infrequent gratuitous absurd civil clerical wearisome parliamentary oppressive bygone weak linguistic annoying symmetrical certain affectionate incurable messy professional medical minor ludicrous idle obsolete placid florid complementary classic undesirable symbolic antique simple edifying profane ineffectual imaginable unavoidable seeming precious little brutal repentant martial humiliating social dismal conversational matrimonial pleasant little crisp deal more byzantine sour compulsory curious exquisite irritating untoward venerable thankful chivalrous grotesque grim drunken gleeful nicer verbal literary legislative foolish overwhelming cautious resentful meticulous essential intermediate absolute pretentious graceful plausible girlish republican suggestive academic easy impersonal disgraceful conspicuous purest logical foreign voracious intimate stark stony bland cuban exact intense greatest informal specious annual hopeless innate terrifying spanish sufficient wary chinese august obligatory monumental whimsical painstaking architectural dull external profound lean serious hateful unexpected puny languid alarming slow requisite particular cramped mediaeval minimum imperturbable perfect dead mathematical full awful majestic generic bureaucratic well-to-do remote vulgar elegant morbid decorative outrageous unyielding splendid superstitious unpleasant fantastic excess uneasy transparent peaceable harsh standard futile habitual sheer unfailing childlike exterior pious singular urgent interested amiable formidable persistent calm important effective sarcastic disgusting trivial dry deep simplest possible commonplace expensive abstract gothic superficial impartial turkish fitting sacred aggressive cheerful careless maddening much more unmistakable sad impatient trial bleak significant stupid embarrassing surprising boisterous sweet haughty flat aristocratic queer sole imperial medieval native lush spectral tense dingy relative apparent nominal unwelcome awesome inherent ancient more or less laborious childish high dutch special sinister sober strange frightening liquid regular tranquil lesser political constant victorian joyful distinct reasonable arbitrary blank serene subsequent dreary ceremonial fond helpless additional critical casual fashionable similar harmless public eastern obvious offensive extraordinary temporary vicious appalling vain voluntary mysterious striking imaginary ordinary smallest brilliant international amusing extra delicate uncomfortable universal silent characteristic nervous gentle ominous complete unhappy unfamiliar civilized final quick total commercial unique modest enormous classical immense mild least brave respectable basic peculiar useful smooth swift comfortable moderate preferred grand intricate anxious angry slender terrible principal proud familiar normal charming bald loving damned hard false cruel clumsy well-known gallant moral funny common mechanical petty specific national safe suitable rare entire inevitable southern heavy natural male japanese british rough warm actual fine occasional excellent poor beautiful physical thin mighty present typical horrible french past dark gray clear next true general noble single vast open short different more long old whole

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Words to Describe formality

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "formality" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "formality" are: archaic and inane, excessive and rather ridiculous, equal, senseless, ultra old-fashioned, and stilted and awkward. There are 894 other words to describe formality listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe formality 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, "formality" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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