Describing Wordsfor Manner

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Here are some adjectives for manner: dullest insipid, positive and dogmatical, candid charismatic, unhurried, quiet, annoyingly indifferent, best barbarous, snotty, superior, surprising and astonishing, warm sincere, proud but sombre, stately metaphorical, native and ancestral, lucid and agreeable, disgraceful and unbridled, businesslike and satisfying, free and straightforward, poetical and mild, pleasing, familiar, dangerously casual, responsible and prudent, cordial and unsentimental, peculiar and fitting, cool and very eloquent, small and clumsy, erratic and pitiful, timid and almost awkward, purposeful and meaningful, casual and unintentional, slow, stay-at-home, olden merry. You can get the definitions of these manner adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to manner (and find more here).

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Words to Describe manner

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

dullest insipid positive and dogmatical candid charismatic unhurried, quiet annoyingly indifferent best barbarous snotty, superior surprising and astonishing warm sincere proud but sombre stately metaphorical native and ancestral lucid and agreeable disgraceful and unbridled businesslike and satisfying free and straightforward poetical and mild pleasing, familiar dangerously casual responsible and prudent cordial and unsentimental peculiar and fitting
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cool and very eloquent small and clumsy erratic and pitiful timid and almost awkward purposeful and meaningful casual and unintentional slow, stay-at-home olden merry correct but perfectly expressionless unusually rapid and delightful subtle but compelling calm, low-key sweetest and most cordial awkward but comical handsome and submissive sympathetic and inefficient unmistakably possessive meaningless and idiotic inspiring official cursory and imperfect frank debonair boyish insolent delightfully frank and outspoken atrocious human pleasant and trusting fully animate no-nonsense, business-like cavalier and disinterested earthly feminine predictable or reliable intimate and complex warm continental gay, gracious similarly gorgeous simplest and most agreeable peaceful, reasonable and honorable decorous or decent practical and fascinating superficially normal devious and effective stiff, regular thought-experimental extraordinary, equivocal usual obliging quick, telltale generally fair and impartial deliberately offhand open, appealing efficient, professional secret and clandestine offhand, unimportant efficient criminal usual authoritarian decidedly paternal characteristic forthright decisive professorial surreptitious and eccentric mournful, terrifying absurd pompous dutiful and constitutional courteous, autocratic tentative and almost apologetic insulting, ironical more sharper fierce but adroit mild, merry grudging and almost contemptuous shy and lumpish skilful and instructive precise but ineffectual genial and brisk subtly sarcastic admirable casual cunning ingenious natural and structural gray, unhappy somewhat squeamish direct and private natural but dazzling highly visible and final patriotic possible substandard and hazardous appropriate creative affectionate, open peculiarly judicious intense helpless wild and rather weak heroic and monumental mysterious and guilty purposeless, accidental mechanically submissive sumptuous and dazzling quiet self-confident massive genial quiet and didactic convincingly arrogant gentle and picturesque shuttered, unreadable stilted and insulting remotely valuable grotesquely brutal intense and self-sufficient cold and quizzical more undetectable decidedly snotty rough-hewn exterior uncannily lifelike former authoritative smooth, affable dreamy, stilted avuncular and uncharacteristic decidedly avuncular decidedly avuncular and uncharacteristic stiff and almost insulting unexpectedly juvenile spontaneous and infectious slovenly wretched gentle franciscan easy and outgoing subtle and surreptitious arbitrary and draconian slovenly haphazard positive and angry indirect and oblique expeditious and convenient insulting and arbitrary loose, unconnected violent, illegal vindictive and apoplectic vulgar and carnal formal and courteous quiet and every-day unqualified or indirect jocular, smart bland and cordial indescribably comical extensive and unconditional loyal and satisfactory haughty and ambiguous unsatisfactory, haughty and ambiguous languid and extremely nonchalant hideous and dreadful futile and fruitless confidential and mysterious rapid and unconscious plainest and most simple constricted but not painful rather subtle but fundamental incredibly informal monstrously offensive appropriately lifeless frank and reasonable rather vague and hazy arrogant and disagreeable peremptory and arrogant aimless, erratic new and non-competitive comically aggressive similarly officious miraculous and particular unpleasant and personal particularly unpleasant and personal sarcastic and suspicious unpleasant and immoral heart-rending and pathetic funny and natural disagreeably furtive quiet, suave typically curt childlike and endearing decidedly kittenish amiable and spirited briskly amiable uniquely primitive efficiently bloodthirsty positive, self-assured sociably acceptable offensively expressive equally pitiful customary gruff sudden authoritative third-rate, sheepish grave heartfelt characteristic authoritative intense, pretentious drowsy sorrowful mild professorial shy fearful ostensively charming affable and ostensively charming strange overall easy, passionate abrupt and clamorous familiar acrobatic horribly personal former quicksilver consequential and haughty daintily cynical scarcely accidental pleasant and tactful positively rollicking amiable and suave gay, chatty boyish, heroic substantial and workmanlike civil and respectful violent and invincible nervous and undecided bright and yet simple serious, all-important welcome, elegant rational and coherent less delusional slightest and most humble hasty, negligent fanciful and pedantic extremely reasonable and natural frightful, boisterous competent and painstaking remiss or negligent explosive, febrile previous impassive strange and witty fullest and most whimsical natural and respectful clear and paradoxical sufficiently hilarious plaintive, far-away reckless offhand indolent, boyish quiet but brief usual, abbreviated cool, sullen sufficiently professional softest and most coaxing cavalier and open impertinently aggressive decent and genteel impudent, profligate proper and obliging overbearing or impudent late languid deucedly shabby powerful and distressing effortless, interminable pleasant and especial sorrowful and disgraceful hardest and most unusual drowsy or cursory lazy and obscure desperate desultory fierce, fond ludicrously incorrect calm, patriarchal pleasing and modest straightforward and public civil and apprehensive disdainful and offensive revolutionary, gothic gentle, half-hearted entirely casual and jovial casual and jovial admirably accidental comical and vivid affectedly shrewd pompous and affectedly shrewd free and plentiful careless and chaotic disconcertingly alien entirely new and thorough remarkably feline deft graceful bitterest and most pathetic nobly contemptuous refined and sentimental tolerably intentional usual ingratiating foolish and loud deliberately offensive brash and decisive punctual and graceful nearly undiplomatic rough and most unsatisfactory increasingly negligent narrow and deductive sarcastic, magisterial rigid, hierarchical casual, throwaway dispassionate self-confident rough and stern sumptuous and comfortable hollow, odd dismal, surprising forthright, considerate dry, studious ancient, deliberate customarily luxurious fine hilarious hollow and dismal old obedient contemptuous rough frankest and most unconcerned peculiar and rather irritating cunning and sneaky terse and efficient outwardly respectful completely indefinable slightly deliberate softest and most captivating agreeable possible tranquil but mournful kindest and most persuasive mild and careless obviously oblique gentle but authoritative gruff, unsophisticated typically evasive clearest and most solemn hostile and peremptory leisurely care-free formal and grateful cautious and restrictive delicate but entirely professional obnoxious asiatic uncomfortable and sickening oddly jovial mildly appalling fascinatingly smooth absurdly royal usual repressive blithe, unconcerned disarmingly cheerful wretchedly strong-willed low and repetitive mildly authoritative polite sympathetic strangely decorous docile, well-bred sharply polemic respectfully inquiring original businesslike rapid and almost intuitive dry testy neutral neutral customarily brisk and efficient customarily brisk majestically royal dolefully submissive placid and offhand tough and easy solemn and sanctified grimly tragical formal and habitual harsh and successful quaint serpentine odd conversational warmly professional unjust and fraudulent courteous and jovial critical and life-long exact declamatory emphatic and vindictive extremely dissatisfied careless and perfunctory confidential and affectionate subtle and yet effective purest and most orthodox degrading and scandalous humblest and softest kindest and most handsome cheerful, cordial stringent and narrow rural, innocent intense and legitimate animated, graceful slow and peculiarly emphatic calm and submissive ardent and impressive secondary and degenerative easy and deliberate intolerable and appalling obviously unconcerned ordinarily familiar and cordial energetic and solemn shameful and flagrant cheapest and most humble unassuming and respectful strongest and most expressive facetious and curious proper and advantageous aggressive, brazen expeditious and complete abstract and academical rather abstract and academical more unconcerned forceful, attractive noisy, dogmatical whole genial wholly incidental simplest and most expeditious decidedly promiscuous singularly deliberate vivacious and significant singularly soft and sad serious and graceful amiable, candid simple but luxurious trivial but correct contemptuous and irreverent usual prosy benevolently frisky broad and benevolently frisky artistic feminine cordial deferential dry neat delicately obscure surprising superior objectionable humorous gravely simple bright, courteous formal and unnaturally respectful unnaturally respectful loud uncomfortable easy, democratic unrestrained, graceful usually quiet and deliberate severest and most tyrannical sour, polite frank and glad simple, aristocratic cursory and courteous absurd hysterical ingenious bovine curious and somewhat uncanny unfortunate and transparent equilibriously concentric unwarrantable and unjustifiable imperious and energetic violent and unnecessary obviously unaccustomed jerky, sullen coolest and most business-like silent but hearty highest and most passionate free, flexible clean, workmanlike awful and lifelike highly visible and savage visible and savage odd and forceful insignificant but personally significant similarly oblique licit and socially positive socially positive best tragical exceedingly businesslike therefore ineffective uncontrolled and therefore ineffective bemused and paternal normal aloof clumsy and ludicrous curiously clandestine neat and workmanlike grave and dismal deceptively random scrupulously legal deplorable and inhuman frosty self-contained theatrically suitable tense, stiff painfully abstracted deliberately didactic and professional deliberately didactic didactic and professional intriguingly obliging intricate and intriguingly obliging genially self-effacing uncharacteristically chatty dark disinterested sour, rustic childish and garrulous startling but sensible best resolute professionally busy incomparably insolent deliberate superior incomprehensible and surprising obscure and graphic sufficiently conjugal politely frigid natural and easygoing perfectly natural and easygoing listless, despondent irrational and uncontrolled jovial, jerky menacing, official properly grief-stricken profound and keen audacious and bloody workmanlike and skilful eager and unsettled buoyant hopeful meek and deferential gloomy and prophetic proud and coarse uncomfortable and discomfited somewhat uncomfortable and discomfited sedate, immovable listless, meditative variable, enchanting wild vivacious orderly business-like brisk, sudden calmest and slowest singular and unprecedented familiar but expressive playful and exhilarating highly panegyrical furtive and shy smooth and complacent nervous uneasy surest and most ancient chillingly offhand suitably businesslike appealing and winsome sexy, explicit obviously affectionate effusive and energetic politely negative degrading and insulting nervous and purposeless respectful and most delicate especially casual customary cautious quickest and most painless acutely emotional heavy-handed conspiratorial confident and forthright curt vigorous gentle indulgent teasing and easy-going brisk and self-important pleasantly convenient odd, avian affable, urbane aloof but courteous totally disdainful inhumanly attractive graceful economical less elliptical usually ingratiating absurd and most unjustifiable aggressive, competitive proper impassive normal casual unobtrusive authoritarian courteous and calm chillingly efficient gracefully careless suspicious and furtive childish and affectionate unexpectedly placid old affable generally solemn amicable well-bred particularly disapproving absent and perfunctory strangely clinical typically reasonable competely impartial irritatingly obsequious wearisomely predictable frank, affable practical hand-to-hand jaunty carefree thorough but disinterested utterly theatrical solemnly self-critical peculiarly furtive unfamiliar but graceful capable and praiseworthy thoroughly capable and praiseworthy particularly wild and futile gravely deferential deceptively pleasant and cheerful deceptively pleasant curt, dictatorial agreeable but frugal mysterious and abrupt able and satisfactory former concise punctual and correct scrupulously punctual and correct systematic and workmanlike dispassionate and cool sufficiently legal astonishing and unusual handsome articulate concise possible imperious and hostile childlike, guileless truly workmanlike exquisitely constitutional perfectly national free and diffuse correct and expeditious stalwart and judicious regular attentive apologetic, confidential charming and indescribable deliberate, bearish inimitably charming clumsy and objectionable thence irresistible natural and thence irresistible public and explicit spontaneous and pleasant clandestine and unprecedented odd, unconnected scientific and elegant hysterically defiant childlike impetuous thoroughly diplomatic kindly charming formal and impressive equally analogous analogous and pleasant equally analogous and pleasant absent and uninterested polite and natural unusual and emphatic ludicrous and fanciful lively elegant habitually nervous quiet and somewhat mournful particularly barbarous and unjustifiable courteous and serious gradual, unobtrusive extremely oppressive and corrupt customary hearty verie ample reciprocal and permanent hearty, affable cheerful and thorough dismal surprising cold, thankless familiar and cordial merciless and barbarous sincere and convincing jocular and insulting best and most workmanlike public and unblushing somewhat dishonorable neat and intelligible pompous consequential somewhat reverent usual impassioned frightful and hideous colloquial, theatrical truculent, defiant similar serpentine sober and private courteous and deliberate ordinary and constitutional concise, regular and beautiful irregular and unclerical impressive and explanatory aggressive and menacing habitually respectful abrupt, hearty judicious and convenient rational, all-round wonderfully bright and animated delightful, affectionate brave joyous possible and honorable striking, peculiar unnatural and hysterical sad and almost solemn properly romantic insolent and proud perfunctory and unsatisfactory conclusive and able authoritative and insolent shiftless, careless companionable and persuasive silent but heartfelt correct continental strongest and most affectionate acronycal absent or abstracted solemn or impressive appropriate or proper apt or suitable vehement and hostile laughingly defiant good-humored and laughingly defiant old impressive thorough and workmanlike strongest and most emphatic peculiarly pompous and overbearing occasionally cynical and audacious occasionally cynical downright italian gracious, quiet modestly tentative candid and proper new, indirect irregular and unaccountable inhuman and rough ignominious and obscure juvenile and ludicrous indecent and imprudent reverent and deeply spiritual wholesome sympathetic closely circumstantial unprecedented and unlawful comfortable, gay forlorn and careless low and uneasy charmingly deferential quiet and truthful delicate and witty advantageous and efficient consequential and indirect dubious and limited dissatisfied, inconsistent miscellaneous and pastoral handsome and complimentary properly dictatorial properly fraternal lucid and perfectly satisfactory miraculous and unintelligible emphatic and grave furious and shocking circuitous and very humble charming and cordial limp and uncomfortable awkward, abashed cavalier and deliberate welcome and proper free, voluptuous wantonly rough and disgusting wantonly rough richest and most courteous rude and quarrelsome rough, insulting honorable and ingenious authoritative and confident precocious western grave satirical rather prim and precise decent or suitable intrepid, heedless respectful but very grave unreasonable and unworthy awkward playful affable and attentive perfect and scientific startling and effectual impetuous and uncouth kindest and fondest fearlessly equitable alert deferential eager exalted gentle and scientific grandiloquent public perfectly business-like tempestuous and unstable supercilious or contemptuous obstinate and somewhat ungracious frigid, unchanging skilful and lucid in-depth but theoretical bustling and grotesque lofty and impersonal peculiar naive unnecessarily graphic poetical and graphic eager and amiable spirited and zealous unmannerly disagreeable ready and enterprising free or rough virile and amusing exciting, unreliable cheerful, perky graceful familiar hospitable comfortable true serious public and condescending inflammatory and generally unwholesome own viennese casual, unconventional quiet, unexplainable indolently careless and irresponsible indolently careless former exemplary infallible and energetic steady and adroit terse business-like undaunted and independent grossly mutinous heedless and rather caustic instructive and convincing distant and glacial parliamentary steady agreeably personal undisguised and bold careless and somewhat insolent peculiarly patriarchal unqualified and violent placid, agreeable and instructive technical and circumstantial slow, rebellious musical, intimate benevolently paternal studiously scholastic formal and studiously scholastic tolerably lucid and brilliant specially miscellaneous chronological prosaic authentic and competent archaic and vicarious austere, archaic and vicarious instantaneous and almost casual truculent ministerial best declamatory rhythmic, decorous drastic and disagreeable public and striking charming deferential signal and appalling imperceptible and continuous jerky and intermittent sharply naturalistic rather cold and impassive straightforward and serious fervent and insane systematic and peremptory strange, semi-mechanical irresolute, absent indifferent, irresolute careless or perfunctory healthy and rigorous full, healthy and rigorous condensed and systematic different and very simple interesting and most effective uncomfortably doubtful hitherto cordial awkward vague punctiliously precise cheery easy-going would-be pompous public and extravagant simplest and most careful suave, ingratiating direct and vehement extraordinary and hopeful uncomfortable and desultory cold tolerant ornate and startling vulgarly familiar coldest and most haughty conventional, cheerful gentle, inattentive peculiar jocular exclusive and durable reckless and rude noble and wholesale absurd and petulant brutally ungrateful strictly proportional alert, authoritative suitable and well-known precise, jerky futile, incapable free and agreeable free and ornamental hostile and violent feeble and inarticulate jaunty, airy apparently languid succinct and graphic obviously conventional sufficiently didactic cool and impatient nervously effusive charming slow familiar dictatorial contemptuously satirical decidedly aloof surprisingly abrupt and disconcerting pleasing and unassuming eloquent, brilliant remarkably frank and genial best and most ponderous ruthlessly business-like unpardonably bearish bold, playful boldest and most innocent unaccountable and vain perfectly hygienic true and life-long nasal familiar fresh and inimitable stern distant inexplicit and conjectural unreasonable and very dreadful unconcerned and easy vexatious and disingenuous eloquent and lofty hostile or traitorous usual offhand horrible and startling rational and contemplative absolutely believable best psychiatric obscure but impressive visible and final faintly catlike solely practical abstracted and nervous innocent and enchanting carefree, cheerful cool, direct suitably destructive somewhat stiff and formal vaguely distasteful relentless and meaningless quiet ladylike able and conciliatory amusing and natural peculiar lazy languid and desultory extremely nonchalant rapid and delightful handsome and liberal ingenious and unexpected creditable and satisfactory usual didactic usual forthright former representational remarkably familiar dramatic or subtle impetuous or thoughtless heavy-handed and foolish rather heavy-handed and foolish usual iconoclastic vaguely erudite precise, painstaking slipshod and unscientific sufficiently forceful best unintelligible quiet passive discreet and genteel profoundly fundamental relatively effortless sanctified but relatively effortless obviously pacific tough and sophisticated paternal and happy slow synthetic increasingly obsessional unconventional smashing spanish ordinary usual contentious gaudy and disturbing cheerfully idiotic plump northern exterior and most ungracious passionate, intimate casual but seemingly interested effective, aggressive feminine, sexy sudden and messy theatrical and public

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Words to Describe manner

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "manner" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "manner" are: dullest insipid, positive and dogmatical, candid charismatic, unhurried, quiet, and annoyingly indifferent. There are 995 other words to describe manner listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe manner 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, "manner" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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