Describing Words
examples:
nose,
winter,
blue eyes,
woman
Here are some adjectives for life. You can get the definitions of these adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to life (and find more here).
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Words to Describe life
Below is a list of describing words for life. 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 life:
hence immortal devout and holy righteous and sober average, routine human terrestrial intensely interesting and exciting continuous native intelligent avian unprotected biological happy, outdoor vast and too remote ultimate, unorganized free, outdoor loose and criminal permanent zero-gravity decorative ambulatory happy eternal vibrant, busy busy and complex entire frivolous disgustingly peaceful tranquil and luxurious awful and wretched outdoor and animal innocent and most exemplary welcome everlasting low and rustic moneyed and fashionable hard-working, wholesome long and healthy happy civilian greater hyperspatial self-centered and constricted rather self-centered and constricted peaceful and carefree secular and studious long and touchy uninhibited private short pampered warm, weird private and vindictive new and somewhat angry reclusive and religious endless, active ghastly smooth clean, outdoor outward wayward regular and useful tranquil and unhurried whole ornery normal, full original, normal new and unified gross and vigorous wild, eventful relatively lean bygone and distant safest thy huge and proper superlatively lofty superlatively lofty and beautiful measurably brief high and luxurious exciting, adventurous easy and almost amusing semi-provincial fashionable supremely interesting and important supremely satisfactory free, open-air free civic collective mental prior dull dreary ordinary monstrous, amazing bookish, cloistered puny and pious rich suggestive truly solitary hard, open-air solitary and adventurous usually boring obscure and profane shorter and nobler active or contemplative staid and mannered long and generally happy decent and satisfying decent, satisfying active, industrial inner genial sad and heroic primary and youthful variegated, dramatic unselfish and enjoyable candid inner rude and rural white, cloistered vacuous, troubled active musical careless, comfortable poor real pointless and painful cold your eternal mortal dull and middle-of-the-road idle, aristocratic miserable and unclassified impure single never monotonous or stale frenetic social strangely startling and interesting strangely startling deliciously crooked and worth deliciously crooked empty and deceptive often empty and deceptive nearer, illuminating sensory and articulate vibrant, strange egocentric and selfish basically egocentric and selfish basically egocentric corrupt and often lawless high, progressive dependent and abject comprehensive massive laborious, innocent easy, merry soon human already brutal and savage active, human vivid conscious vivid, conscious wholesome, lusty wide and adaptable intense far-away wholesome, affluent studious, introspective obscure perilous happy, sumptuous ruddy vigorous exuberant and terrible larger, larger circumscribed and comfortable essentially circumscribed essentially circumscribed and comfortable long, laborious and useful private and happy willingly long-cherished social human simple, strenuous active and contemplative stultifying and increasingly boring delicious, luxurious colorless barren nocturnal, conversational awful galvanic earthly organic extinct or prehistoric obscene reptilian horrible independent spiritually bereft largely uninteresting strange and possibly criminal slow-moving crystalline short and fairly happy publicly monastic new bustling full and purposeful long and acquisitive preterrestrial precisely unstained higher and green tough, ratty incredibly indestructible organic and intelligent primitive, corporeal intelligent corporeal brisk and breezy quite easy and simple trebly worthless simple, open-air athletic outdoor scarcely nascent thy unsteady single and chaste peaceful, well-paid organic and animal openly immoral solitary and sedentary jolly separate official or industrial remote deep eager, gallant domestic or ordinary humble, hardy healthful outer pompous and gay dirty, multitudinous subsequent prosperous harmless but rather stupid gothic religious guileless youthful energetic, noisy long and generally successful superhuman and immortal former bustling intimate, cosy superb and happy superhuman, immortal long and useful wild and successful whole limited native intelligent dreary aristocratic vegetarian animal boisterous, ghoulish hard, adventurous whole, wretched unique everyday usually short and bitter full and virile dreamy and dual wretched past institutional and intellectual tranquil, wholesome bustling, communal gaudy and vigorous percival wretched inevitably short busy or affluent restless resentful local microscopic full, long and happy quiet reclusive restrictive and obsessive comfortable possible quiet and reclusive psychic or intellectual rational and articulate dominant sentient lonely public and private nowadays religious terribly remarkable great and adventurous thoughtless irresistible intangible esthetic arduous and troubled popular artificial luxurious and coarse ordinary actual humble & peaceful wonderful democratic real informal idyllic easy-going stormy inner quiet subsequent protracted and happy double mysterious dirty and unrestricted long, useful and honorable common conjugal highly mythological and fabulous highly mythological princely feudal happy outdoor poor precarious religious, economic and political spiritual, divine and everlasting austere eremitical voluptuous and desultory real and every-day fecund and mysterious scandalous and effeminate fantastic, indeterminate rough patriarchal greater, human solitary eccentric young, sensuous lean, impoverished luxurious, indulgent often picturesque and adventurous afterward conscious common, limited restless, fussy whole frivolous helpful, altruistic exuberant, abundant straightforward and reputable pious and studious dazzling viennese disgraceful wicked rural and colonial often guilty gloomy and unavailing radically artificial private, social average nymphal lazy and sedentary happily immortal august, everyday wholesome, open-air emotional colored eternal eternal truly communal civil and artistic expansive, all-round weary and aimless regular, decorous sublimely penetrating lazy selfish human or temporal useless, cruel solitary and gentle loneliest single rude idyllic long and happy fairly eventful worst predatory free outdoor top animal long and busy lurid private utterly fashionable current native ferocious prehistoric active utilitarian ordinarily eventful obscure and vegetative natural real long and moderately interesting tempestuous private safe, purposeless busy subterranean frequently unhappy short and frequently unhappy intolerable, mental long inventive timeless, immortal single courageous pampered, frustrating rigorous outdoor low, torpid decent and domestic luxurious and glorious patriarachal drab ordinary invisible, residual happy luxurious rich, adventurous formerly quiet and peaceful pathetic, irrelevant quiet, decent and respectable stable private alien, carnivorous active or speculative obscure, obedient pastoral and military simple joyful bloody high complex and monstrously malevolent monstrously malevolent eloquent, simple solitary intellectual lukewarm, dull foolish and dreary direct and clean dull, momentary complex secret nice productive alien avian biologically compatible rewarding, rich and unusual quiet, cut-off already eternal bad and lawless practical and busy warmer, gentler marvelous and long courageous and harmonious ceaseless, febrile rich and earthy fresh and adventurous uneventful and somewhat self-contained aimless, irrational contemptible and profligate actively virtuous carefree girlish long and pragmatic sudden baleful sub-intellectual religious lonely dissatisfied fairly unclouded wearisome, joyless riotous uncontrolled newer and freer human and savage terrible spidery grander national hard and lonesome young, vigorous and promising studious and social probably fewer and simpler independent, interior socially delightful higher, fuller wholly sedentary private and monastic dismal and illiberal social and monastic tranquil and meditative vigorous, natural whereof human thrilling silent perilous and dismal austere penitential civil and active greatly protracted new, divine frail and short long and eminently useful austere but not unhappy easy, uneventful young fearless wretched conjugal merry, real former bookish perpetual single traditional haitian comparatively peaceful and happy true municipal tolerable corporate decent reputable careless and joyous devout and severe rakish, topsy-turvy difficult but not desperate unfettered, active splendid and influential plain and somewhat dreary low or rustic immoral and lewd perilous, miserable turbulent and unhappy entirely sedentary happier, fuller sacred, human mock or burlesque idle and contemplative rude and unsocial meditative and pious fashionable, monotonous sedentary, stagnant luxurious, gay perfumed, southern free, buoyant beloved, visible late adventurous intrepid defiant recent placid inexplicable plain vivid and visible refreshed active beautiful, blissful and eternal contemplative and penitential indeed fair and precious intoxicating and barren important--actual genuine, abundant vain and careless stainless, industrious strangely visionary quiet, stainless worthier, richer exclusively mere useful, innocent modernly complex productive and rewarding healthy, productive and rewarding happy domestic probably worthless abundant animal fine and joyous vast, unwritten long, useful active public largely sedentary outwardly serene conscious inner own every-day eventful and useful eternal and blissful tolerant and peaceful desultory and apparently aimless well-dressed, proper mute, blank personal and inner regrettably brief eventful national fuller spiritual healthy, open-air pastoral and nomadic busy social dull mundane luxurious and tame new, sensorial passionate primitive hard and tricky hard and rootless richer and animal cabal corporate least, intelligent languid pastoral ribald mental short and decent short and wretched noisy animal fuller, happier scandalous secret precious, noble brief, vibrant necessary animal short and supernal early cellular carefree and unattached horrible mighty rugged outdoor lazy and hedonistic unseen animal mad, one-night gentle, easier previous cloistered full and decent considerable fairy pallid sub-emotional full, busy calm immemorial passionate and intricate innocent and hilarious intensely thrilling and precious happy, full inner and tumultuous philosophically tranquil sweet and patriarchal physical and absolutely innocent honest, fortunate relatively lazy and independent relatively lazy lazy and independent uneventful studious absolutely identical and idle identical and idle conjugal or social whole notarial easy, prosperous profane true bestial and diabolical drab, limited signally tumultuous former, actual prodigiously dull secretly unhappy absurd and highly indecent earthly active simple, drowsy microscopic primordial prolific animal self-conceited modish private and scholastic heartless high private and industrial short operational overlong, miserable profitable, predictable short, unworthy dull rural cheerful continental calm and well-guarded seemingly calm and well-guarded extraordinarily intense and vital bold, obscure virtuous, quiet ol animal stray animal busy but short sentient biological miserable previous difficult nomadic comfortable and privileged rigorous, simple always sharper and harder always sharper cloistered, contemplative solitary peaceful frivolous scandalous dangerous immortal previous other indigenous bacterial inimical animal lazy, sun-kissed vagrant, careless sparse animal exuberant green unknown, inaccessible pleasant but too monotonous real, deeper many mammalian perverse and diseased degenerate intelligent somewhat wild and lawless tragic but amazingly successful vagrant and triumphant decent and upstanding clean, decent and upstanding resounding and stormy illicit domestic insistent, thirsty sick and pitiful busy personal inhuman but intelligent true intense stable indigenous entire, brief indomitable, boisterous simple, laborious dietary and private insensately ferocious grandly happy useful and grandly happy beautiful and grandly noble calm, studious narcotic and shadowy dreary and languid england—social old, profane modern everyday tolerably gay quiet, bovine apparently agreeable and full higher and endless rural and humble exalted agricultural strangest mimetic squalid indifferent alone civil strenuous and useful healthy, joyous clear self-reliant gay, prosaic fuller, larger honorable, happy rudimentary economic comfortable, indolent high progressive independent and useless despicable, independent and useless loose unconcerned sedentary inactive independent and larger ludicrously narrow mute, solitary monastic and social free vigorous adventurous, nomadic short and transitory personal and ministerial somewhat romantic and imaginative highly unsophisticated singularly pure and virtuous transcendently dramatic divine and strong innocent rich hard and thrifty merry, luxurious vally public happy and complex solitary rural tenacious animal merry open-air hopeful, warm long, brighter early orphan old amphibious exclusive scientific still whole and vigorous adventurous and pleasant heroic and familiar desirable wild ecclesiastical and altruistic coarse conjugal higher, mental active outer vehemently active actual or social inward immortal naked elemental cosmic universal genuine civilised inner jewish ideal devout merely natural and sensual pious heroic notoriously wicked and scandalous scant animal formal modern commercial, professional and industrial wealthier spiritual vigorous inner eremetical healthy civilised oppressed and degenerate illiberal, dismal life--actual emotional coloured formidable and monstrous adventurous, formidable and monstrous serene and healthy active and solitary false, hollow bitter and heavy studious musical placid and pleasant apparently regular and free fuller, firmer seemingly aimless and useless embryonic animal comfortable and tranquil actual, every-day scrupulously regular dearer out-of-the-way adventurous outdoor private and spiritual unselfish and gentle wildest outdoor peaceful and intimate impassioned or imaginative regular and temperate gay but rather reprehensible simple and strenuous richer, freer social, educational and political nationalistic and intellectual eager and vigorous poetic or divine unquenchably wild and strong unquenchably wild thrilling, nameless indolent and monotonous monotonous, inactive eventful and unhappy cheerful physical do-nothing, fashionable present, domestic gay metropolitan merry and prosperous easy, ideal already brutal lightly human frugal, civilized empty and unhappy singularly simple and hard-working spiritual and ordinary coarse, unthinking dreadfully idle joyous, fresh sanguine but uncertain consistent and unbroken social and inner comparatively animal terrestrial domestic strenuous, fierce nomadic and simple rough-and-tumble political sanguine and cruel unrestrained and lawless busy, intense cold, scant intensely grand intensely grand and glorious long nor eventful superb mundane vegetative or organic mysterious, shut-in mere daily intensely interesting and animated lack-a-daysaical godlike and eternal righteous, religious peaceful free troubled and adventurous lazy, monastic austere, hard-working unaccustomed rough unchanged patriarchal previous immoral ardent and glorious useful happy individual, poetical shy and rather sombre illustration--religion--professional education--geometrical illustration--religion--professional poor, toilsome hardy open sleek, easy-going unutterably loathsome pure, ill-fated joyless and monotonous simple laborious inactive indoor sober real fierce floral political long constant open-air busy and hard-working worthy communal sober parochial bitter rough coaxing, comfortable closer intimate busy rural armenian social ordinarily long busy, unnecessary richer public equal and simple redundant nervous notorious, infamous solitary monotonous unchanging, silent average mundane inner ethical freer and richer feudal and agricultural archaic or protoplasmic humble and subordinate dusty, practical primeval tribal desolate and fruitless ungenial, outer oft tempestuous brief agricultural constantly studious frivolous, self-indulgent petty kinetic petty indoor multitudinous, material correspondingly intense and high-strung normal barbaric engrossed useful wolfishly evil egyptian and algerian cultured, passive young, sincere and healthy happily simple and uncomplicated happily simple generous, hot-blooded hitherto unchanging primitive and virile undisciplined and vagrant wonderful, ample motionless inorganic stinging, vibrant stinging, vital cove--animal precious, dearer lewd, vicious now dreary and wild harmonious animal philippine official adventurous and profligate joyous, pure eventful and glorious sterile and solitary arid and toilsome mystic and unnatural joyous, satisfying single, average pampered and rather vicious otherwise strenuous uneven, unhappy forlorn, haphazard glorious independent civil, peaceful lighthearted, glorious utterly new and wonderful quaint gentle invariably sentimental invariably sentimental and romantic quite smooth and pleasant busy, effortful narrowest, meanest canine social extra-industrial organically industrial efficient collective effective everyday undifferentiated economic archaic devotional otherwise animal well-nigh exemplary spiritual and civic innocent, external purely unimaginative care-free, idle active and toilsome lusty human dull calm ago proemial pleasant, industrious happy, expansive migratory, luxurious unclean and sordid rotten, scheming merciless, conscientious weary inner quiet but not unhappy loving domestic valuable, immortal corresponding and proportional temperate, hardy blank, joyless useless, graceful vaster, richer amazingly keen and true cold, prosperous idle prosperous shameful, degraded quiet and so monotonous cheerful, reasonable gregarious and festal painful and perturbed poor rational dreary conventional pleasant drowsy tranquil sensuous coherent purposive strenuous and frugal flawed, contradictory happy every-day simple past placid, normal dull day-by-day well-known and very able quiet, open-air profitable, pleasant complete urban barren and often dangerous compulsorily frugal painfully worthless and disreputable painfully worthless long and not inactive poor outer practical, competitive fruitful and stainless liberal and spiritual adventurous professional active, thoughtless passionate and blood-thirsty unstintedly successful easy and skeptical lazy, pastoral obscure, useless ancient, golden abundant strong natural, cosmic cool connubial _rural and domestic else desolate modest, devout persistent spiritual active rural dutch religious exuberant 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Words to Describe life
As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "life" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "life" are: hence immortal, devout and holy, righteous and sober, average, routine, and human terrestrial. There are 995 other words to describe life listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe life 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, "life" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.
Note also that if there aren't many life 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 life?
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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