Describing Wordsfor Inquiry

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Here are some adjectives for inquiry: painstaking and fairly competent, exhaustive formal, frank and pitiless, deeper, rasping, theotechnological, critical empirical, candid but rational, luridly sulphurous, ~cial, long and scrupulous, free and almost indifferent, theoretical or factual, terse, impatient, dreadfully austere, immediate and intensive, wholly speculative, federal, judicial or legislative, further laudable, straightforward step-by-step, exact and unimpassioned, particular reflective, vaguely timid, intense, poignant, perhaps presumptuous, previous magisterial, useful judicial, expensive judicial, last, vital, admirably laborious, slightest procedural. You can get the definitions of these inquiry adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to inquiry (and find more here).

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Words to Describe inquiry

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

painstaking and fairly competent exhaustive formal frank and pitiless deeper, rasping theotechnological critical empirical candid but rational luridly sulphurous ~cial long and scrupulous free and almost indifferent theoretical or factual terse, impatient dreadfully austere immediate and intensive wholly speculative federal, judicial or legislative further laudable straightforward step-by-step exact and unimpassioned particular reflective
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vaguely timid intense, poignant perhaps presumptuous previous magisterial useful judicial expensive judicial last, vital admirably laborious slightest procedural unceasingly active courageous further preliminary and entirely fruitless intellectual and intelligent prying such second modest historical mythological idle and insignificant directly experimental previous systematic undoubtedly free anxious and decisive irish lunatic conscientious and public-spirited generally fruitless and pernicious generally fruitless exhaustive, definite freest critical interesting historico-critical crypto-psychical diligent and respectful welcome psychological impartial, diligent almost distressed diligent and impartial immediate special subtle and careful persistent and dangerous confidential and highly skilled discreet local dryly statistical ruthless and thorough past or modern rational and mathematical lawful and gentle suspicious and stern curious and severe memorable magisterial drastic post-mortem baffling, unspoken quietly appealing interesting and cognate polite and business-like painful, revolting casual, tactful avail--personal curious or impertinent methodical, thorough abrupt, swift disinterested rational petulant, silent new rigorous absurd but felicitous racial and hereditary vexatious and captious competent or independent diligent and full astonishingly personal open and decisive laudable scientific careful and apparently incidental further and natural systematic and disinterested courteous but eager opposition--naval further timid unreasonable, judicial boldest private greatly scientific impartial parliamentary loyal and scrupulous oblique and general hard, meditative limited and even trivial preliminary public characteristic, intelligent scientific and physiological enigmatic and profound hitherto anatomical previous and coeval scrupulously fair and impartial exhaustive and intensive strict but quiet altogether polite comprehensive and deliberate futile and perilous bland but emphatic disinterested and curious casual rudimentary disinterested and abstract alert judicial habitual but affectedly careless next meek mute but keen private supplementary sad and impartial painstaking and critical foolish nor unimportant preferred joint farther historical and philological frivolous and mundane rigid and scientific further physiologic historic or scientific fearless and unbiased philosophic, critical glaring furious studiously fair full and drastic huskily tremulous piquant, vigorous tedious and diligent anxious, steady welcome thorough particular and exhaustive keen and almost fierce mild but somewhat anxious subsequent perfunctory systematic and competent universally conclusive somewhat arctic constructively experimental acute and hopeful supplementary statistical bald and trivial senseless and superfluous perfectly senseless and superfluous lofty and audacious would-be polite impartial and prayerful diligent, impartial and prayerful grave and undisguised long respectful uneasy, pained same unauthorized unremitting, anxious hasty, mute naked and narrow trivial and apparently purposeless special and most careful affectionate but not politic faithful and truly scientific genuine reflective inter-professional free and serious serious and humbling superfluous or unprofitable antiquarian and ecclesiological faithful and gracious gentle but imperious exhaustive and strictly philosophical inevitable wider dispassionate, exact deeper, bolder practical, comprehensive evil, preliminary unbounded free deliberate and temperate restless and acute intrusive personal serious rational further circuitous equally frank and free preliminary foreign formal, such stiff, unsympathetic mute submissive adroit personal intense and hard conceivable ontological frank, tolerant no�logical nooelogical suavely persistent somewhat damaging free but reverent immediate and rigid candid historical swift unspoken illusory and quantitative preliminary criminal inter-spherical free and ingenious peculiarly urgent private psychic official dutch terrible judicial empirico-psychological curious or antiquarian wistful, uneasy strict and general baffling inconvenient incessant and unlimited continuous and intelligent almost superficial speculative historical special and partial anatomical and systematic due preliminary serious and long statistical and social perfectly liberal merely automatic next anxious full and strict critical scientific free scientific cold suspicious friendly off-the-record polite but cool bare routine inevitable congressional painful and careful terse one-word unspoken, formal barest formal copious and critical direct parliamentary widespread scientific routine congressional own cursory straightforward, civil governmental scientific philosophical or spiritual high crazy sardonic and skeptical ly calm thence consequent old, analytical ordinary perfunctory old-fashioned parliamentary genuine statistical thorough and judicial reasonable and due wholly courteous systematic and extensive formal or judicial medical and medico-legal eager religious vacant and wistful quaint and pregnant last satirical much exterior further troublesome last imperative diligent and anxious laborious and comprehensive hoarse, imperious next stern much diligent casual, civil common and concerted belgian agricultural everlasting hard widespread and careful original imperative fruitful scientific missionary and actual casual civil obscure and unsettled personal and most urgent loose or general anxious, pathetic diligent and calm low and meek accordingly scientific breathless and perplexed dispassionate impersonal quiet maternal deep and rational dumb, sorrowful recently serious long and impartial completely comprehensive strict and critical informal, preliminary personal free everywhere diligent rough provisional comprehensive experimental physiological, psychological and physical painstaking and systematic unfettered intellectual nonconceptual further discreet polite and very flattering artless and roundabout direct significant plaintive and persistent diligent and discreet deeper logical protracted parliamentary further legitimate botanical and physiological fullest and keenest judicious and salutary intense and pitiful diligent and secret swift, hungry intense and hostile experimental and chemical faithful and exhaustive serious and truly literary meekly curious sufficiently intrusive doubtful, anxious sensational legislative disapproval and polite patiently exhaustive bland and scrupulous oddly self-confident cheerful and oddly self-confident careful and recent diligent and painful <def>judicial high and accurate normal scientific serious and respectful careful statistical scientific religious eager intellectual solemn parliamentary immediate official abstract psychological casual, polite practical and comprehensive specialized scientific grave, impersonal solemn and effectual moral and speculative subsequent careful serious parliamentary profoundest philosophical perhaps tedious least, worth thorough and honest limited biological hoarse, stern hasty and anxious scientific or professional gentle, pacific expectant, anxious strangely intricate systematic psychological arduous but necessary rigid parliamentary forth anxious affectedly careless swift, animal-like further cautious further vexatious farther historical ardent scientific significant sociological antiquarian and philological frequent and diligent grave and interested interesting subordinate painfully commonplace fresh eager deliberate and conscientious shrewd and persistent proper judicial rational and interesting clever private fundamental and difficult strict and immediate cool and mature much troublesome scrupulous and unremitting much auxiliary rather discourteous benevolent and paternal purely reasonable fascinating and suggestive keen and angry merely experimental mute and mournful delicate private much and careful good, accurate careful and particular private telegraphic less oblique onefinal natural and responsible <span>naval routine painstaking initial scientific thoroughly unexpected initial, intense deep and acute courteous but decisive judicial or legislative scientific and journalistic open-minded and sympathetic equally simple and direct careful military short subsequent probably vain careful and anxious mild, sentimental private and free careful general entirely fruitless successful experimental deliberate and impartial perhaps fruitless eager and constant steady, stern vast judicial bold and straightforward momentous and important general restless protracted official proper methodical forthcoming presidential careful judicial hoarse gruff independent and personal special and comprehensive simple and courteous free critical systematic logical cold but courteous comprehensive statistical profound diplomatic sober and scientific recent morphological much and frequent aa critical rigid governmental fresh, eager careful and full wholly reverent hasty and abrupt intense and hungry zealous and competent former futile seemingly strict disinterested intellectual grave parliamentary loud and eager abominable private laborious and sober comparative philological fair and formal famous confidential honest historical formal or systematic scientific historical diligent brief professional systematic scientific tense and anxious direct mental candid and deliberate same vexatious painstaking scientific subsequent judicial cold, tranquil simply polite adequate philosophical useful and rational nice historical loving and sweet tedious scientific alert and conscious further and distinct hasty last swift, anxious stern and indignant calm, interested revisional strange and penetrating careful and strict rigid and precise efficient and systematic solemn, judicial much distressing full and anxious particular and specific impartial judicial intricate and laborious reasonable religious somewhat unprofitable full parliamentary subjective psychological much antiquarian old and oft-repeated full judicial mathematical and philosophical possible congressional innocuous social [verbal fast private closely scientific urgent and secret next preliminary careful, impartial strict personal conventionally polite serious philosophical undoubtedly serious vague philosophical same unmoved authoritative and conclusive stern sad honest and resolute strict judicial last polite ingenious and important wide and systematic own incidental extensive and protracted careful and extensive somewhat cautious frequent anxious frequent and anxious high and serious perfectly dispassionate suspicious, fearful pure historical fresh and deeper fresh critical long and judicious interesting economic long reflective full preliminary fairly systematic historical or philosophical genuine, unrehearsed simple and logical cool, deliberate long and diligent same hypnotic loud and sharp regular judicial free religious long and delicate coarse, guttural formal judicial endless and fruitless civil judicial curious statistical accurate experimental strict and impartial frequent and careful difficult but important protracted and difficult active, personal historico-critical vain and superfluous true experimental perfectly senseless public judicial anthropological and historical final and vital extensive and careful impartial, disinterested low and anxious experimental and theoretical critical and anxious more exhaustive secret official intense, eager thorough and exhaustive careful preliminary distant, shrill rigorous and exacting ongoing scientific politely ironical mature and deliberate real judicial occasional polite abstract historical strict mental apparently incidental more and deeper impartial historical almost sharp free intellectual kindly social historical and archæological whole preliminary best confidential deliberate scientific same querulous mere complimentary careful private strict numerical tedious and protracted much fruitless somewhat complex somewhat futile psychological and sociological seemingly idle fairly competent aside further full and impartial steady cold profitable and interesting full and public positive scientific much anxious full and authoritative pure scientific serious and conscientious fair and complete disinterested and impartial particularly sensible strict and serious big, fancy somewhat absurd more pertinent public local much scholastic politely curious rational, scientific much confidential serious official accurate statistical such insistent mere statistical little adroit political or ethical universal feminine strict and formal mild and meek possibly valuable further psychological thorough personal little theological philosophical or metaphysical further judicial severe and diligent unusually formal exhaustive judicial rational scientific long and circumstantial now direct scientific just scientific strictly biological special parliamentary slightest historical high philosophic biometrical sober scientific actual experimental strict and stern precise scientific bold and faithful formal and public calm and sober honest and candid somewhat skeptical cold scientific thorough and comprehensive polite, noncommittal little unofficial gentle, warm serious judicial gentle, hesitant laborious and difficult careful and subtle keen and quick strict chronological mere perfunctory scrupulously fair pure philosophical judical essential preliminary metaphysical or philosophical urgent secret strange pathetic full and careful fullest and freest loose and careless critical and philosophical free and candid such methodical strict grammatical historical and anthropological careful and diligent strictly confidential broad national scientific and philosophic rather frigid german theological much laborious further official legitimate intellectual highly negative same detestable least worth genuine philosophical semi-judicial fresh individual honest and careful much cautious much experimental little courteous same accurate careful personal impartial and disinterested truly literary impartial scientific formal and polite anxious long and careful thoroughly exhaustive calm, grave judicial and military sharp, nervous equally eager recent parliamentary little judicious perhaps further candid and impartial eager and anxious more particular modern scientific own unofficial delicate financial equally legitimate deep and fearful much animated rather practical rather thoughtful such previous careful and impartial important and solemn anxious and eager further almost indifferent modern physical nonpartisan little further careful and thorough little troublesome pyschological rather superfluous frequent private dumb, helpless hot and eager least previous beautiful and generous sharp, explosive careful and exhaustive careful important special more straightforward discreet private public or official purely philological semi-occasional diligent and careful rather blank long annual quite fundamental fair and impartial polite single further calm judicial somewhat petulant cool and impartial slightly supercilious merely polite dangerous and exciting rather acute quasi-judicial parliamentary much curious solicitous special historical thorough scientific genuine and sincere lengthy and arduous routine planetary less hasty gentle and reasonable important preliminary more demure such candid usual sarcastic half-expressed slightly sarcastic pertinent much careful historical or scientific thorough and efficient present historical somewhat anxious equally frank merely casual mute private personal fact-finding atomic and molecular historical and philological strictly impartial thorough and careful keen and penetrating true critical strict free and frank general and abstract preliminary philosophical same anxious religious and scientific legitimate scientific rough but hearty almost infantile scientific and historical real historic psychological and physical original scientific rather anxious extremely acute calm and solemn modern philosophical experimental statistical more careful magisterial soft, full wide and general modern historical simple single simple and humble strictly philosophical british parliamentary sociological impartial successful scientific psychological and biological whole present calm and reasonable steady, cold sober and judicious formal official equally careful ecclesiological important and far-reaching calm and careful strictest solid scientific careful and cautious curious and instructive rather ironical russian-language profound scientific whole private important and fundamental somewhat flippant eager and intelligent independent religious free and open natural and simple purely theoretical graceful and delicate common irish new philosophical congressional somewhat informal usual respectful secret and confidential almost jaunty interesting or important further and fuller rather intricate modern ethical honest and simple free individual little careful formal legal more diligent eager more strict vain and fruitless seemingly irrelevant frank and free purely administrative cold and hard equally necessary little discreet full and independent political or legal last significant fascinating and instructive grave historical such larger same troublesome difficult and delicate somewhat puzzling further general small preliminary agreeable and useful long, laborious quick, furtive apparently purposeless much original medico-legal unspoken relatively calm pure rational long scientific rather angry geognostical rather nervous such metaphysical bold and open almost careless inquisitional truly scientific much vain profound and subtle somewhat sardonic much preliminary much silent last loving procedural usual official legislative and judicial speculative new legal anxious, eager semi-legal somewhat abrupt natural feminine genuine scientific easy and familiar extremely personal such diligent catechetical fullest possible rather fierce scarcely worth much previous mere scientific seemingly casual same stern purely speculative major scientific much unpleasant regular public much useless historical more dispassionate special physical further public perfectly commonplace historical and religious mild and innocent apparently careless physical and metaphysical special scientific same mournful almost cheerful essentially feminine more accurate metaphysical free same polite strictly historical open and public almost timid

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Words to Describe inquiry

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "inquiry" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "inquiry" are: painstaking and fairly competent, exhaustive formal, frank and pitiless, deeper, rasping, and theotechnological. There are 995 other words to describe inquiry listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe inquiry 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, "inquiry" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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.

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