Describing Wordsfor Language

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Here are some adjectives for language: official and common, official, primary, international auxiliary, foul and abusive, unequivocal and emphatic, major african, assorted strong, peerless and unequivocal, highly interpersonal, variable and highly interpersonal, stubborn and devilish, straightforward, somber, cumbersome and imperfect, musical and prolific, scientific universal, cold, guttural, guttural, simplistic, insubordinate and obscene, expressive and pertinent, awkward and ambiguous, harmonious metrical, single oral, common asian, awful german, racy, genuine, figgeral, profane, demonic, foul or abusive, much abusive, hateful and guttural. You can get the definitions of these language adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to language (and find more here).

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Words to Describe language

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

official and common official, primary international auxiliary foul and abusive unequivocal and emphatic major african assorted strong peerless and unequivocal highly interpersonal variable and highly interpersonal stubborn and devilish straightforward, somber cumbersome and imperfect musical and prolific scientific universal cold, guttural guttural, simplistic insubordinate and obscene expressive and pertinent awkward and ambiguous harmonious metrical
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single oral common asian awful german racy, genuine figgeral profane, demonic foul or abusive much abusive hateful and guttural hieroglyphical and sacred complimentary and ceremonial pretentious and empty uncouth and unknown bold, uncivil classical and familiar largely universal characteristic but affectionate respectful but vigorous figurative eastern official and national rigid symbolic mute chemical violent or luxurious unknown and primordial liquid norwegian polite and rather old-fashioned original figurative untechnical, vivid eloquent and solemn especially metrical pathetic and startling plain and passionate respectful but plain strange, spidery universal auxiliary mortal sonic bland and formal excessively ornamental horrid, guttural expressive, intricate soft and charitable inadequate common foreign but similar completely made-up obsessively foul original colorful highly tonal passionate fierce metrical and coloured terse but terrific wonderfully terse and clear wonderfully terse dead or foreign simple untechnical premature mutinous gaelic or italian bold and figurative little uncivil mild, evangelical scriptural and prophetic utter disgusting chinese vocal strong and graphic slipshod, literary frankly archaic warm, skilful supplementary visual reasonably non-technical less clinical awfully posh distinctly unimaginative special-purpose technological inexorable french silent, arcane free and violent rude gutteral perfectly pure and simple servile and flattering discreet and ambiguous elegant and copious unrecognizable guttural primal naacal nasal native positive and dictatorial melodious, expressive vibrant secret accentual and rhythmic other, slippery pleasant and endearing indecent or profane musical and beautiful artificial international precise conversational figurative and boastful comprehensive and melodious similar siberian cunning or deceitful harsh incomprehensible reprehensibly strong foreign and dead rude and sonorous scintillating and picturesque insolent and offensive airy cloudy infernal fine often spotty bald and often spotty strong relentless impatient and deplorable pregnant, passionate awful symbolic own guttural dead universal foreign or dead universal simultaneous complex and accurate modern and highly civilised rich, descriptive normally fluent quick lilting vigorous and unorthodox elegant neat largely germanic guttural private cryptic poetic obscene and abusive complex, efficient own chirpy high-pitched and totally incomprehensible abusive and inappropriate jagged, guttural possibly separate formally stilted precise and dogmatic clear and actionable own inexact tersely expressive poetical and highly figurative kindly significant thy significant vulgar, unauthorized needlessly pompous careless and incautious rhetorical and persuasive divine italian coloured and concrete often coarse and vulgar bold but respectful political canting figurative and emotional chaste but illuminating educational, commercial and administrative rhythmical, metaphorical original and homogeneous easy artificial universal artificial innocent strong uncouth but vigorous peculiar, uncouth but vigorous approximate and poetical strongest and loudest emphatic but irreverent severe and imperative sternly courteous unknown and harsh authoritative and magisterial noninflectional gestual eloquent, instructive pompous, characterless exact descriptive infamously defamatory bald and prosaic figurative and symbolic vivid and figurative philosophic or universal profane and improper artistic and charming flexible and harmonious passionate and abusive smart and emphatic vigorous and pictorial sacred and literary direct and submissive profane and objectionable strange and symbolical blasphemous and bad foul or profane harmonious and sweet nervous and vigorous harsh and sinful simple, strict plainest everyday elegant and lucid correct, elegant and lucid careful and unrhetorical frivolous or harsh classic, cultured promiscuous scriptural quite unnatural and incongruous moderate and commonplace eloquent and artful origiual chaste and expressive tolerant and courteous usually tolerant and courteous plain authoritative uncommon civil blithe, genial plainest frankest passionate or declamatory fierce and unqualified strong and perhaps extravagant sly resentful mild, chaste condescendingly colloquial ready spontaneous strong and rather satirical strong and undue impassioned and highly figurative never filthy major foreign barely familiar difficult, guttural copious and pleasant strange throaty harsh, alien musical, passionate good, useable fifty-millennial complexly simple unfamiliar visual vocal human difficult and unpopular analytically exact exact analytical uncommon and mystical european pure evil and slimy metaphorical, anthropomorphic alternate sophisticated contemporary, everyday always simple and fresh colorful, figurative nervous and lofty bold, nervous and lofty strong, uncluttered almost evasive erotic, mystical sharp, obscene sometimes plainer new and sometimes plainer harsh and choppy fully semantic throaty, mystic otherwise guttural harsh, impenetrable secret, native open and disinterested pious and decent significant and proper honest inadequate cool, prosaic coarse barbaric sober peremptory decent and many dark and poetic classical bad own hard-edged silvery shadowy strange and rather fascinating time-consuming japanese archaic native colorless and unsentimental expressive, sibilant tremendously flexible useful medieval electromathematical foul, furious little insulting less non-technical subtle, complex and refined loud airborne melodic native mushy native abstruse poetic own choppy tangled and archaic fully artificial unintelligible, human quaint universal secret fairy same strange-sounding guttural and unintelligible most articulate barren and unphilosophical colloquially technical rough but impulsive strong and condemnatory strong and peremptory startling and peremptory pure and expressive comparatively unstressed pedantic, technical low or profane philosophical uncommercial common, artificial copious and energetic often copious and energetic remarkably clear and strong bald and rude somewhat bald and rude unworthy and illiberal ordinary untechnical rugged and popular offensive and insulting querulous and impassioned marvelously symbolic rather figurative foul and indelicate well-nigh extravagant greatly figurative vague or figurative figurative or tropical exalted and yet definite swollen and pompous convincing and eloquent vehement and exalted passionate and unequivocal immensely odd and irregular immensely odd archaic and secret brutish and inhuman solemn and thus stereotyped hot, abusive overdrawn sentimental simple didactic extremely soft and malleable simple or unfamiliar bulgarian literary abstruse and almost unintelligible extreme and peremptory apparently extreme and peremptory nay elegant foul or scurrilous neat ciceronian rich insurrectional submissive and deprecatory figurative and other plain, non-technical high-sounding and vague official and universal unintelligible or difficult insolent, arbitrary and menacing arbitrary and menacing temperate and decorous peculiarly beautiful and expressive antiquated and sometimes difficult true but unadorned dead brahmanical pleasant and persuasive mild, pleasant and persuasive ethically colorless phonetic articulate rough and endearing strong but indisputable persuasive and respectful every-day ancient ornate and metaphorical edifying theological dogmatical, cunning and rude haughty and improper rich figurative made-up, childish difficult and irregular poetic and extravagant complete teutonic kachikal original or aboriginal other inflectional abundant figurative fluent and often graceful riotous and insulting almost platonic insidious heretical intelligible literal noble and enchanting beautiful, flexible hungarian judicial soft and abbreviated exceedingly vigorous and weighty melodious and poetical profuse and enigmatic graphic and emphatic insurmountable french strictly identical vulgar, profane slightly precise cool, simple and clear generally moderate and conciliatory difficult dutch playfully pretentious suggestive, musical incomprehensible and noisy always easy and picturesque perfectly plain and ordinary brief and almost brutal poetic and vulgar briefest and strongest faintly nebulous perfectly universal idiomatic figurative tense and quiet religious metaphorical pure and grammatical ancient and richer poetical and ecstatic quaint but energetic simple but most pregnant graphic and figurative often graphic and figurative intelligible natural interpretable natural indiscreet and improper obscene and injurious occasionally obscure appropriate ambiguous entirely grammatical tame or conventional familiar or facetious humorous, jocose cumbersome babylonian weird desolate concrete, figurative abstract and serious severely scrupulous dreadfully correct suitable poetical vigorous controversial conventional, metaphorical impertinent bad violent and even insulting rigid, artistic scholarly dead needlessly irritating horrible and abusive figurative melodious deliberate and circumstantial strange etruscan endearing and obscene vulgar or unauthorized native fashionable constant and appropriate clear accurate rigid, legal frightfully harsh vague and obsolete native philippine insolent and irritating auxiliary international less figurative variable human scientific and common considerable bad `remedial indecent and profane such abusive prim galactic profoundly formal obsolete and mysterious powerful, uncompromising antiseptic aristotelian dead visual pure and accurate dreadfully impolite violent and scurrilous bad and terrible correct poetical more panegyrical injurious and slanderous vile and indecent dreadfully blank better and briefer outrageous bad simple and perfectly transparent main international vile local beautiful liquid violent and profane almost hyperbolical more abusive miserable makeshift ngunawal clear and readable untechnical rather contorted stiff corporate practical, idiomatic complete tactile suitable, musical incomprehensible foreign different and far inferior powerful, esoteric unconscious unspoken sacred archaic vocally limited arcane pharmaceutical shockingly profane quintessentially wonderful remarkably coarse peculiar hessian tribal celtic alien and heretical useful, forceful common, transmittable dead and far simpler nonetheless melodic commercial standard interpersonally sensitive clean legal harsh, strange-sounding weird graphic strongly tonal violent and insulting alien ancient sweeter southern depraved and decadent curious neat single different same decent petite, such tense, bleak guttural, primitive senseless or pretentious genuinely harsh com\-pletely made-up ancient liturgical sizzling, booming amiable, adjustable beautiful, musical irreverent colloquial often slipshod common or kindred always slower and more purposefully obscure -ing foreign husky unintelligible guttural mayan terse and very undiplomatic ordinary, non-legal new and private entirely new and private rich non-verbal rapid-fire shrill obscene arcane new philosophickal pseudo-biblical beautiful, precise hardly diplomatic incomprehensible, guttural deliberate gestural simple, evocative stale, stilted florid and sentimental loving and yet enigmatical foreign, lilting frankest and plainest poetical or artificial unwarrantably strong boorishly gigantic amazingly strong and rich vehement and abusive spectacular, hysterical coarse and furious elegant, artificial copious and apt decent and temperate ancestral teutonic unduly constitutional hazy nautical poetic and visionary unusually captious unusually captious and supercilious temperate and convincing anthropomorphic and inadequate studiously insulting sonorous, vocalic highly valuable and satisfactory wholly inadequate and weak poetical and monumental key and classic plainest and most colloquial genuine and emphatical pithy and familiar evil and great violent, rude obscene or abusive instructive, interesting profane and dreadful wonderfully simple and easy harsh and bombastic internal strong correct mythological muffled and highly technical least abstruse exact, elastic international modern queer sibilant highly spiritual and metaphorical uncommonly picturesque confident and menacing low and atrocious atheist and other pagan african elegant and considerate smooth quaint sensational and declamatory vulgar, fine complex, poetical polite but energetic unnecessarily technical primal inarticulate terse and direct copious oriental positive and careless enthusiastic but somewhat unintelligible extraordinary and highly offensive unusually sensuous certainly melodious elegant parliamentary obviously metaphorical clearest official alien ornamental sublime and aspiring locally diversified archaic germanic unknown, absolute appropriate and epigrammatic indecent scurrilous bombastic but confident old-fashioned, artless sensual and psychic terse, felicitous strong, patriotic severe and satyrical temperate but courageous loud ungrammatical coolest and most diplomatic quite sulphurous diffuse and prodigal poetically figurative exact and poetically figurative hieroglyphical or symbolic temperate, respectful vague picturesque strong and even pathetic old-world, romantic coldest scientific private metaphorical muscular and variegated inflated and metaphorical concise and significant freely vigorous silent, symbolical equally inflated scientific, contrapuntal bogus antique pardonably extravagant pedantically exuberant strong but affectionate new bengali extremely simple and straightforward ideographical abusive and insulting undisguised and explicit bold, undisguised and explicit rather unclerical peculiar, abbreviated lurid but humorous highly flexible and expressive quaint and archaic strong and abusive foul injurious unwritten, indescribable figurative and misleading contemptuous and indecent gorgeous and memorable almost eloquent traditional and often symbolic common and official mellifluous and articulate solemn and suitable earlier apocalyptic foulest and most blasphemous strong polite dull sicilian pungent or characteristic picturesque and inflammatory sometimes insulting strong but expressive considerable frank popular but highly significant adequate and remunerative rude communal creditable and plausible true, natural and universal general conciliatory natural or universal true telegraphic naturally ornate and eloquent naturally ornate elegant and high-sounding best, imperfect stupefying, ironical clean-cut flawless strangely unintelligible treasonous and unpleasant difficult and unintelligible unconsciously offensive undeveloped poetic abusive and violent intelligible and vulgar simple and rhythmical elegantly accurate insulting and irritating semi-scriptural, symbolic certainly strong and plain ambiguous or figurative indirect or figurative concise and poetical charmingly concise and poetical charmingly concise courteous diplomatic careful and picturesque unclassical and indifferent especially polite and respectful expressive emotional figurative and enigmatical fashionable, universal insubordinate and abusive hideous and unfilial merely virulent virulent or wicked merely virulent or wicked rough and emphatic intelligible and yet celestial vile, insolent rhythmical native lofty and mystic international, auxiliary easy international easy or regular easy, international ultimate international cleverly circumspect calm and cleverly circumspect affectionate and conciliatory unadorned but persuasive unchristian and extravagant admirably lucid and racy consistently buddhist conventional, poetic disgusting and superfluous felicitous and expressive otherwise inadequate foreign scholastic seemingly courteous literary and liturgical eloquent, eager considerable ornate scrupulously clear and simple new, symbolic sentimental and florid severely theological official and cold sweet celtic religiously energetic heartfelt and serious difficult burmese maccaronical frightfully obscene and profane plain, terse austerely graceful plain, untechnical compelling, terrifying natural but inarticulate intensely figurative mild and decent mildly provocative deliberate and elegant servile and illiterate rather servile and illiterate uncouth and unnatural distinct, unwritten mysterious and gentle scientifically justifiable easily metaphorical fashionable and difficult impassive french thurrawal lurid but limited raucous and obscene pathetic and most submissive perfidious and unconstitutional daring, perfidious and unconstitutional incautious and violent appropriate and emphatic ornate or attractive prevalent and everyday fervent and edifying such ciceronian plain, unprofessional naked, immense savage and woeful diplomatic and common-sense unintelligible and unheard-of contrary, unconstitutional euphemistically appreciative terse, quaint homely idiomatic stout, elizabethan ambiguous and diplomatic singularly vigorous and clear obscure and inexact original rumanian unusually picturesque and vigorous rabid and insolent moderate and decorous terse idiomatic expressive, idiomatic uniformly bold and energetic idealistic but vague profane, scurrilous or abusive often difficult and uninteresting abusive or violent german, spanish or italian formal and grammatical old and rather fictitious dispassionate routine corrupt or post-classical scurrilous or offensive same concise insolently insubordinate exacting and peremptory succinct and explicit flexible and weighty effective, interesting blasphemous and insulting scarcely diplomatic rather abusive beautiful and even eloquent manual and silent such immodest far figurative or metaphorical far figurative improper and even boastful oftentimes immodest coarse and dreadful charming parliamentary old-fashioned and artless pledge--legal symmetrical and scientific real or official admirably strong and concise indiscreet and objectionable difficult nasal rather mysterious and alarming majestic and highly figurative puzzling, old-fashioned important and most elegant plain, non-figurative strong and highly colored perfect and normal eloquent and unqualified erroneously prophetic official and polite indecent or abusive metaphysical and elegant highly metaphysical and elegant impressive and rhetorical literary technical symbolical and pictorial temperate and proper foul and godless ancient but highly respectable profane or obscene uncouth guttural mute, wistful elegant, convincing diffuse and mystical respectful or deferential intercourse--oral human intercourse--oral plain and harsh beautiful, sonorous and flexible professedly classical vivid and barbaric warm and menacing vague but conservative fluent and sometimes eloquent violent and declamatory vulgar or indecent truthful and striking nervous and graphic eloquent and exciting totally contradictory and unintelligible sentimental poetic uncommonly beautiful and poetic rather peculiar and unusual however inadequate unwarrantable and harsh considerable foul strange & uncouth recklessly vindictive lofty and figurative non-technical and popular coarse, abusive tactful and obviously sincere obsolete and cryptic indispensable japanese clear, untechnical genuine and chaste however monumental extremely poetical and pleasing bald and merciless ornate and fervent exact and even picturesque stilted chivalrous forcibly figurative vague and rather grandiose sublimely indignant insulting and ironical low, vulgar and infamous abusive or invidious considerable indiscreet simple unorthodox unknown but wholly understandable bald, traditional abstract, rational official and predominant naive and expressive attractive and perfectly easy plain but pungent plain, impressive natural and almost necessary immense and primeval suave and plausible polite or considerate concrete and symbolic terse, graphic invariably grammatical and precise invariably grammatical merely foul and dirty merely foul frequently gorgeous obviously anachronistic uniformly refined and decent uniformly refined characteristic shakespearean inflated, empty artificially sentimental emphatic but courteous sufficiently decorous extensive descriptive queer, ambiguous unadorned or figurative mysterious or diabolical logical and persuasive brief but most attractive brave and sonorous magnificent emblematic plain non-technical simple and non-technical beautiful and precise ironically cautious unusual and far-fetched exceedingly difficult and rare vulgar or ungrammatical whole colloquial

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Words to Describe language

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "language" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "language" are: official and common, official, primary, international auxiliary, foul and abusive, and unequivocal and emphatic. There are 995 other words to describe language listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe language 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, "language" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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