Describing Wordsfor Handshakes

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Here are some adjectives for handshakes: sophisticated grown-up, soft left-handed, polite, dry, simplest secret, awkward simultaneous, normal two-tone, long-range virtual, warm, forthright, lax, moist, new counterculture, unpleasantly limp, overly masculine, long, phony, friendly corporate, politely formal, nervously vigorous, limp and fishy, steady, fraternal, swift, intimate, short and arid, expressive and warm, decorous limp, vigorous, cold, archly fashionable, brief, hearty, hearty, silent, substantial golden, genuinely warm, quick, straight, solemn preliminary. You can get the definitions of these handshakes adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to handshakes (and find more here).

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Words to Describe handshakes

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

sophisticated grown-up soft left-handed polite, dry simplest secret awkward simultaneous normal two-tone long-range virtual warm, forthright lax, moist new counterculture unpleasantly limp overly masculine long, phony friendly corporate politely formal nervously vigorous limp and fishy steady, fraternal swift, intimate short and arid expressive and warm decorous limp vigorous, cold archly fashionable brief, hearty hearty, silent
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substantial golden genuinely warm quick, straight solemn preliminary weak or reticent nerveless and silent moist, hesitant warm, fraternal rather drawn-out sensual electronic quick and impersonal polite but superior warmly grateful short, neutral abrupt continental warm presidential hearty double strong succinct burly old-pal normal, charming awkward three-way limp and sweaty moist limp proper witchy perfectly sedate perfectly sedate and functional strong, grateful formal but hearty hasty and somewhat limp warm, double satisfyingly strong and stiff satisfyingly strong short perfunctory seemingly good-natured somewhat limp official galactic overly aggressive kindly golden brisk hard embarrassingly weak generous golden old-pal usual lifeless brief hearty frank, careless final electronic real boyish rather limp radiantly warm warm, cordial big, phony rough masculine final warm unusually cordial brief, dry simple, silent hearty and cordial weak, limp warm double brief but vigorous warm and vigorous dry, strong last hearty cool, little typically german brief formal proper secret quick automatic many hearty warm, hearty few musical warm and hearty same civilized under-the-table solid, warm conventional western slightly cold rather casual hearty painfully hard massive and powerful slightly awkward limp and lifeless own hearty highly proper more perfunctory sincere and genuine slightly grubby perfect feminine quick, businesslike counterculture friendly social cordial quick, vigorous vicelike quick warm own bony strong swift frank and cordial strong bony stiff, cold good, hearty such tiny thoroughly professional warm, strong long warm cold, formal last strong soft, dry congratulatory soviet-american same gracious double and treble great and loving two-tone rather stiff soft loose long strong limp surprisingly gentle perfunctory quick, hard more hearty long, warm various secret fast-acting heartiest complex human three-way left-handed curt unsatisfying unenthusiastic warm vigorous businesslike long overdue more secret almost brutal forthright hesitant few last convulsive fishy no-nonsense clammy ritual quick hard, dry grown-up large golden good honest brisk secret hasty more formal good-night sincere flaccid gruff courteous nerveless witchy bashful formal polite phony explosive electrifying treble fraternal aural token incautious lax grateful masculine fervent crippling many such same little loving anachronistic obligatory succinct golden presidential affable own secret tepid more rapid aggressive lukewarm brief good solid overdue reticent conventional frank drawn-out furtive woolen final awkward sketchy simultaneous collegiate creepy knotted dry self-conscious solemn silent casual good strong cursory genial corporate galactic stiff newest decorous tentative three-cornered double confidential sweaty dandy canine strong incorrect crisp lifeless preliminary electronic momentary expressive mammoth moist jerky warmer enthusiastic mutual historic cold weak last-minute pastoral arid frigid humid permanent introductory swift proverbial wary traditional stylized detestable muscular customary bony affectionate hardy delicate own special preferred languid straight indifferent lengthy leathery virtual defensive boyish simple dynamic fastest grubby proper glad little old good-natured chivalrous trustworthy protracted musical cautious continental impulsive rapid nervous solid impersonal democratic fleshy repulsive dual intimate imperial high gracious energetic cool selfish functional feeble complex initial greasy frantic ardent occasional digital awful mere impending tight anxious terminal impressive passionate careless neutral ceremonial unpleasant usual unexpected icy hostile fashionable gentle powerful special ready royal eager shy continuous mechanical hard uncomfortable unfamiliar civilized formidable single grave basic steady soft fierce triple heavy faint distant odd good old human stronger professional ordinary pale strongest feminine significant automatic numerous long noisy brutal old-fashioned standard dainty funny honest painful previous similar serious genuine bloody vast careful happy national generous short normal weird superior personal further invisible european universal loose german wooden charming damn official direct western terrible stupid social rare fat general famous mysterious different modern peculiar quiet good massive empty public curious sudden best dead big certain whole great

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Words to Describe handshakes

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "handshakes" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "handshakes" are: sophisticated grown-up, soft left-handed, polite, dry, simplest secret, and awkward simultaneous. There are 448 other words to describe handshakes listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe handshakes 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, "handshakes" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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