Describing Wordsfor Idea

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Here are some adjectives for idea: sudden, startling and revolutionary, faintest bloody, strange central, origihal, ok, nice, mighty abstract, gently fiendish, good one-sided, strange, bold and ingenious, romantic and very foolish, dainty and poetical, large, logical, prevalent calamitous, idealistic, sappy, cloudy abstract, peculiarly un-christian, brilliantly heinous, stupid and repressive, same mixed-up, purely material and utilitarian, wonderful, salable, vulgar, inaccurate, accurate precise, death-rehearsal, luminous and complete, sinister and cynical, least damned, simple and possibly justifiable, obviously unattractive, tremendously daring. You can get the definitions of these idea adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to idea (and find more here).

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Words to Describe idea

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

sudden, startling and revolutionary faintest bloody strange central origihal ok, nice mighty abstract gently fiendish good one-sided strange, bold and ingenious romantic and very foolish dainty and poetical large, logical prevalent calamitous idealistic, sappy cloudy abstract peculiarly un-christian brilliantly heinous stupid and repressive same mixed-up purely material and utilitarian wonderful, salable vulgar, inaccurate accurate precise death-rehearsal luminous and complete
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sinister and cynical least damned simple and possibly justifiable obviously unattractive tremendously daring resentful, angry typically fiendish entirely daft moronically simple colossal new outrageous and unworkable primal and permanent counter-tactical vague impracticable astonishingly bold and grand great or fruitful splendid or luminous uncontrollable and overwhelming vivid and general accurate or precise definite and terrific amazingly sensible startling and revolutionary new and entirely useless thoroughly stunning playful, psychological philosophic and pleasing sublime or extravagant wild but not unattractive wholly frightening awesome and wholly frightening tremendously daring and original two-bit bright great, definite mostly impractical simple but mostly impractical absolute or unchangeable dim, half-baked particular hare-brained uncertain, general tragic and inspiring immensely funny and clever physical and culinary fatally simple thrifty and laudable illusive and illogical determinate abstract positive abstract inadequate or faint simple abstracted dimly prevalent silly final vague, far-away distinctly mediocre somewhat farfetched different better preposterous and deeply tedious brilliant, world-shaking horrific, logical highly undemocratic full republican peculiar, nonsensical palpably insane bad theological alliterative and attractive remotely original utterly crazed weirdly plausible aforesaid fatal sudden and valuable interesting but repellent scathingly brilliant sudden, perverse stunningly simple good but half-witted vague, theoretical complete and yet concise central and happy true and invaluable remorseless, sweet simple and determinate lax and indeterminate common and erroneous modern or secular current pessimistic foolish and chimerical artful and traitorous trades--poetical grand and reverential indecent or ridiculous scandalously iniquitous puerile and pitiful grand, revolutionary glorious hazy altogether mad odd irrelevant pernicious but favorite thoroughly picturesque childish seventeen-year-old vague and rather dismal inadequate, incorrect regular napoleonic welcome and not irrational intelligible and essential sudden and ridiculously obvious bigoted and sour old grievous great and self-sacrificing vague theoretical faintest real brilliant completely incredible positive clear distinct and exact vaguest maximum cool single workable horrific, revolutionary faintest damn basic, uncomplicated interesting, devious original and only formative ingenious but impractical wild cheerful extraordinarily resonant highest distinct exquisite and abstract sense-ical common sense-ical profound and stunning completely preposterous elegant but expensive astonishing brilliant faintest goddamned deliciously outrageous completely delectable perfectly precious mad, melodramatic excessive vulgar false and indelicate perfectly gruesome positively sensational extremely cockeyed direct and worst crazy and reckless strangely certain weird, science-fictional momentary disagreeable wonderful inevitable oddly depressing brilliant and extremely original fine-drawn quixotic asiatic theological unreal and inadequate abstract, inadequate bare, awful sensible and vivid hazy and horrible exceedingly serious and sensible fine or luminous same messianic preposterous and fantastic gracefully romantic absurd but gracefully romantic devilish humorous rigid and unconquerable dim and wholly inadequate existent collateral dominant collective radical and characteristic simpler and worthier prolific, eventful vague or unreasonable wild, feudal precise or fresh deliberate and abstract clear, demonstrable oriental cosmological precise religious definite or general singular, bold distinctively missionary ill-conceived and absurd general consistent capital and quaint undetermined, unconscious indeterminate, unconscious complex, concrete primitive and necessary prior rational significant and ancient general and concise absurd morbid ancestral historic distinct or well-defined beautifully suggestive unique and beautifully suggestive gothic botanical imperfect and injurious obstructive and harmful august and abstract vindictive, fierce material and utilitarian hazy but quite keen horrible slavish immoral and most shameful hateful and impious suitable or true elementary naturalistic ancient self-evident ever-present native essentially heathen reverent and appropriate wondrous, stupendous theological or speculative once startling truly grand and fruitful mere regulative fairly prevalent erroneously lofty false or sensual avowed central mundane and political brilliant, breathless perfectly funny true but fatal chivalrous and beautiful lofty or chimerical pure and metaphysical unromantic and utilitarian central and organic cloudy vague trite professional impelling and regulative extremely important and fruitful foolish, grand clear or intelligible fatuous and contradictory different and quite modern brilliant but simple speculative fundamental mad central hope--general hope--general and special comprehensive and coherent good psychical deadly psychical desperate but brilliant entirely new and wrong bright or transcendent ready-made and very banal amazing, ridiculous lofty and exceptionally noble wild and nonsensical nasty and immoral insane, impracticable general and pregnant prime good main and predominant vain and romantic typical macho serious technological serious philosophic false or unworthy mad, hazy possibly justifiable incredibly dumb own half-baked absolutely modern excellent central distinct abstract popular pictorial supremely bad awfully tempting popular get-rich-quick fantastically wrong sudden, paranoid dangerously preposterous deeply tedious tree-mendously successful people�radical good and perfectly possible positively revolutionary damn practical pure unspeakable political or technological additionally scary disastrous and crazy potentially disastrous and crazy essential western fanciful or mystical eternal idiotic absurd but exciting obvious and rather naive fine dreadful insane, improbable splendid, desperate sudden and exciting great promotional unbelievably weird fine mythological poetical or musical magnificent and surprising radically cool stupendously dumb disturbing, disquieting stunningly wonderful next lousy criminally asinine banal and unimaginative minor, useful difficult or paradoxical amazingly tasteless queerly persuasive great and logical horribly plausible sadly inflated usurious and preposterous rotten pointless obscure, unreasonable perfect award-winning wildly disruptive fairly dear wild, aberrant single better new, crucial reckless but potentially wonderful vague unspoken dim, imperfect crucial, pivotal central and dominant poisonously seductive unutterably dreadful splendidly wonderful wildly audacious clever and risky hilariously bad radical, left-field barbarous, barbarous supremely poor weird and funny helluva bad noble and entirely idiotic so-called appalling bloody excellent profound and revelatory impossibly bold fantastic possible original and well-developed remarkably original and well-developed central and engrossing original suggestive wicked and aggressive new and very dramatic mystical and indefinite positive complete everlasting standard current intoxicating actually trivial flattering but baseless grand and worshipful old, prophetic supplementary but essential old and very popular conspicuous, salient luminous or truthful simple and very prudent imperfect elusive singular eccentric altogether astounding and horrifying altogether astounding special progressive wholly new and true low and most erroneous heretical and revolutionary beastly disturbing great and truly heroic reasonably definite exact and pure distinct and statesmanlike outstanding central higher synthetic wholly new and mighty old and daring naked general pompous but often hollow overpoweringly high popular armenian general but tolerably accurate clear vital consequently untrue abstract and consequently untrue concrete, spiritual primaeval theistic entirely new and fascinating lofty, eternal poor abstract diabolically cynical one-sided, sordid fresh and very objectionable clear and characteristic utterly material perfectly definite and intelligible further relational vague but quite serious smarter european solemn and all-pervading excess, wild high and self-respecting preconceived but certain fundamental german new and rather overwhelming heterogeneous but fairly coherent odd, unbidden modern and true purely virile stupid popular new and altogether revolutionary bright and whimsical clear and intellectual perfectly clear and intellectual clear or accurate complete and very exalted secret and original indefinite but uneasy explicitly optimistic far deeper and nobler erotic and mystic pleasurably colored old, erroneous mentally disagreeable central and primitive ancient and even primitive distinct and reliable absurd indefensible ineffably eccentric untenable and paradoxical perfectly unwelcome and involuntary perfectly unwelcome abstract impoverished central mythological cold and sane initial, individual singularly random native or national generous and perfectly proper bold private perfectly disgusting and offensive over-national erroneous or harmful democratic or national comparatively moral and rational clever or fantastic fantastic but almost irresistible monastic and medieval false, incomplete sporadic celtic pure unencumbered archctypal grotesquely senseless persistent, recurrent unrelated or insignificant erroneous and obsolete mythical social fancy, versatile simple and perfectly clear audacious but not impracticable tolerable accurate distinct and tangible traditional messianic doggedly comfortable obstinate theological timid and polite rather timid and polite other and disparate characteristic ancient fallacious and most ridiculous singular and very french single and precious fairly clear and accurate painful, offensive sharper, better prevalent or ingrained singularly dim utterly foreign and contradictory faintest contradictory vague and ever present musically poetic odd and rather piquant overweening and altogether unjustifiable fine and terrifying romantic, far-fetched uneducated and weak crudest and most repulsive big country-life unnatural and fantastic tremulous nascent vitally serviceable profoundly erroneous and reactionary profoundly erroneous extremely unjust and one-sided delightful, original high and new sensible and obvious magnanimous humanitarian original theological typical and abstract defective numerical fresh, funny general superstitious new or thrilling entirely wrongful absurd and strange german tactical ridiculously unjustifiable aristocratic, monarchial approximately full and definite senseless and quixotic honest, probable false flashy remarkably mystical new and un-american grand luminous greatest and most ambitious queer and perverse new and possibly unorthodox grim and sick half-baked or crooked eager but general thrice fruitful primary and immutable great or central religious and realistic religious quasi-historical strange obstinate beautiful fundamental daring but not impossible general but clear impossible but startling almost impossible but startling original and germinal miraculously inane initial and most obvious defined--general sublimely glorious central biological disagreeably clear primitive biblical subconscious, selfish preposterous and idiotic insidious, hateful central and all-powerful hazy traditional new and very noble big and bigoted profound and incontrovertible distinctly audacious appropriate and plausible wonderfully great and perfect eternal invariable erroneous and vicious everlasting matrimonial halfway bad ludicrously inverted vague and half-crazy sufficient and contemporaneous premeditated or rational deeper and worthier scientifically illogical central and sole definite and really artistic horrible, mad ingrained vain startlingly delightful extraordinary and incorrect excellent and workable large and highly satisfactory old reasonable old and somewhat prevalent phonetic or alphabetic unreasonable or old-world marvellously original unusually happy and original preposterous and vague new and most accidental whole zionist tepidly lustful definite, typical modest and felicitous philosophical or pseudo-philosophical absurd or whimsical utterly absurd or whimsical irrational, unacceptable sombre and simple daring, absurd equally youthful and enthusiastic grandly fruitful simple but grandly fruitful common but most erroneous glorious abstract delightful melodic pathetic or appealing purely negative and destructive detestable and degrading intensely humiliating fundamental teleological artistically pleasurable shadowy undefined rather original and bold utterly wild and preposterous sublime and imaginative incongruous or humorous popular but unfounded queer fascinating new and highly sentimental uncomfortable and wholly groundless fundamental and most distinctive somewhat clear human imperfect flattering and almost universal cruel, absurd popular but absurd strange and fiendish approximate, concrete old and apparently rational far-off, strange remarkably full and satisfactory tremendous and joyful radical, ultra-modern original and favorite entirely biblical sufficiently exact and comprehensive absurd, hazy new and most unpalatable frantic and farcical central tragical indeed public-spirited wise and indeed public-spirited wicked capitalistic eternal and impersonal perfectly true and spiritual perfectly true and necessary markedly anthropomorphic concise adequate therefore highest elusive spiritual personal sanctified chimerical and favorite single preconceived aristocratic monarchical curious cruel prevalent but erroneous sudden and subtly hideous common semi-metaphysical single and abstract single, grand uncanny, eerie powerful or fashionable old legalistic sensible and eminently laudable distinctly ingenious strongest and most exclusive common and collective scientific-practical original and economical basic delusional faint and very imperfect perceptible architectural serious or witty old, inert sudden and extremely interesting horrible instinctive wretched, ignominious atheological moral incomplete and incoherent further and quite different fourth basal complex and ill-defined vague and transitory wild, inexcusable generous or daring vague and alluring abominable but not unlucky german graphic unscientific, impossible contingent finite definite metaphysical vividly suggestive curious but vividly suggestive new salacious strangest and most limited sufficiently correct or comprehensive deep-seated fundamental distressingly insane singular and distressingly insane fleeting unformed delightful original swift crafty happy and benevolent fancy or ridiculous conspicuously effective definite and very different new or ambitious comparatively simple and incomplete foolish and even dangerous insanely erroneous ingrained and deep-rooted immortal omnipresent prominent, tangible venomous commercial limited and subjective solitary and grandiose rational fundamental ever horrible completely nutty false and always ruinous always ruinous natural but false intelligible and simplified ponderous allegorical fond, painful wonderfully pictorial preconceived and brilliant inexcusable, daring interesting but absolutely false consciously active subtly patriotic morbid, monkish opposite or indifferent faintly approximate quixotically fantastic permanent, incessant genuine and helpful devilish fascinating buddhist theological good and quite comprehensive curious platonic intelligible or metaphysical tolerably clear and reasonable or-r-riginal ingenious but mischievous loathsome theological random and somewhat dim true diminutive original and crafty universal and abstract new and just political important and really new quite hazy once abhorrent evidently useful sufficiently original and daring brilliantly possible awful and irreverent rather awful and irreverent wild but just possible distinctly new and valuable crudely ineffective dominant and inspiring clever, safe durable and correct disturbing and distinct present-day socialistic dim original full-grown provincial ridiculous, petty faint and very wrong philosopho-political great, all-pervading wearisome, threadbare prolific central appropriate and frequently humorous proper and great attractive, promising delicate or strong central and almost sole foolish, bad terribly humorous palatable new heretofore vague indelible and incomprehensible utterly false and ridiculous odd or curious truly ingenious and original perverse, fatal particularly fruitful and illuminating firmly preconceived faintest religious fresh and prominent accurate and satisfying real, conceptual typically jeffersonian general and indelible vast and patriotic appalling and unforeseen simple-minded shakespearean shocking, startling common unchristian pudical chief humorous funny, selfish reverential and sublime pernicious and despairing arbitrary, non-physiological always noble and grand senseless heathen fancy or perverse original, new primitive and most universal general immaterial vague disagreeable characteristic darwinian common and fallacious asiatic egocentric hard, religious later poetical and popular carnal, jewish centimental true and concrete intrinsic social large or adequate ingeniously perfidious long-cherished napoleonic particular abstract wretched and coarse old-time competitive dominant cosmographical old climatic new and even amazing common and not unpopular also material and real ultimate proletarian somewhat materialistic and startling amiable or humble brand-new brilliant clearest, purest and wisest prevalent and absurd indefinite, misty if--equally revolting vague but wild reasonable, tangible refined and mystic practically inoperative valuable socio-economic relatively indeterminate traditional theistic fresh sartorial narrow, stubborn possibly fruitful comprehensive, exhaustive whole road-building singular or original neo-marxism--fundamental clearly revolutionary essential and fruitful beautiful but far-fetched dogmatic and sacerdotal merely dogmatic and sacerdotal equally evangelical impossible federal hazy and general cardinal and fruitful erroneous and terribly harmful brilliant but ancient slight and correct new and very good opposite protectionist soft-hearted, foolish inner implicit ordinary socialist viciously erroneous intrusive or european always limited and defective courageous, human lofty or baser still newer and bigger sacerdotal and sacramental old ecumenical mad, whimsical equally possible and requisite more lively strong intense faint and improbable general, inconsistent proper positive stray unconventional single prolific awful, all-pervading finer educational ingrained undisputed shadowy, far-away earlier abstract easy, convincing dim and belated wrong and unscriptural curiously far-fetched sufficient and striking prevalent and most dangerous thought--capital good thought--capital least unreasonable less prescriptive true and progressive possible and intelligible itual or true abstract and exclusive absurdly infelicitous erroneous and degrading distinct, positive older cosmopolitan profound but obscure intelligent, modest beautiful and vague solid and salutary miserable and lunatic unaccustomed, unconstitutional unusually clear and complete childish but demoniac false and most unhappy conventional or orthodox false and defective ecclesiastical single general but very accurate political or european altogether visionary and illusive additional clear cramped and morose luminous dramatic vague, dizzy adequate substantial single, correct metaphysical, negative negative, metaphysical vital protoplasmic general and sufficient positive or definite abstract and nebulous odd or ludicrous real stupid obviously attractive tolerably precise remotest tolerably correct eminently politic sudden irrelevant nasty, vile amusing and ingenious completely dissimilar amazingly intelligent important progressive exceedingly ordinary high severe gross and general continuous private central mediaeval somewhat prevalent entirely perfect more erroneous weird and dangerous ok, stupid surrealistically bizarre stupid sentimental clear and magnificent fiendishly simple magnificent, irresistible monumentally foolish rather prevalent new and trivial general symbolic clear-cut, simple luminous and helpful remarkably vague old ciceronian divine missionary peculiar or extraordinary

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Words to Describe idea

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "idea" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "idea" are: sudden, startling and revolutionary, faintest bloody, strange central, origihal, and ok, nice. There are 995 other words to describe idea listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe idea 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, "idea" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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