Describing Wordsfor Narrative

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Here are some adjectives for narrative: otherwise bald and unconvincing, slightly toneless, bald and unconvincing, coherent and readable, correct consensual, limited omniscient, copious and candid, particular and contemporary, full circumstantial, succinct but clear, curious, old-world, frightful and heart-rending, tedious and desultory, simple circumstantial, honest and curious, coherent and internally self-consistent, concise and superficial, quaint but happy, prospectively popular, straightforward dynamic, intelligible and authentic, tedious, bare, deeply interesting and full, intimate, classic, suitable and authentic, engrossing and instructive, chronologically progressive, otherwise bald, short but real, social linear. You can get the definitions of these narrative adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to narrative (and find more here).

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Words to Describe narrative

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

otherwise bald and unconvincing slightly toneless bald and unconvincing coherent and readable correct consensual limited omniscient copious and candid particular and contemporary full circumstantial succinct but clear curious, old-world frightful and heart-rending tedious and desultory simple circumstantial honest and curious coherent and internally self-consistent concise and superficial quaint but happy prospectively popular straightforward dynamic intelligible and authentic
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tedious, bare deeply interesting and full intimate, classic suitable and authentic engrossing and instructive chronologically progressive otherwise bald short but real social linear single four-part lyrical poetic somewhat choppy and repetitious graphic and thrilling condensed and imperfect extraordinary coming-of-age plain, unscientific accurate tactical delightfully clear and probable accurate and sober breezy, wholesome suggestive and characteristic necessarily dry and tedious perplexing and uncritical fragmentary and one-sided vivid precise graphic but imaginative remarkably sensible and well-written racy and startling striking and straightforward earliest and most particular brief, unassuming expressive and luminous intelligible and animated animated or impressive concise and unadorned exhaustive and faithful modest and unegotistical apparently candid and simple critical and continuous quite ridiculous and absurd fuller and evidently original interesting and manifestly authentic homely metrical wonderfully direct and unbroken internally self-consistent touchingly pathetic secret historical beautiful and artless fully intelligible long prosy long, coherent supremely idiosyncratic pointless and interminable otherwise naturalistic simple, recursive colorful, self-aggrandizing rousing historical lengthy and mostly incomprehensible terrible cosmic otherwise unconvincing preferable personal classical, less haughty internal distinct and animated homely historic truly many-sided frankly first-personal seemingly historic ancient and purely mythical awful or solemn real fictitious ingenious, fictitious garrulous and incoherent enormous original vivid, human muddy, powerful succinct, unadorned modest, unadorned non-biblical but similar easy, diversified oriental and bizarre secular historical uncommonly curious and interesting unbroken, readable curious and succinct authentic and fullest whimsical or ludicrous amusing and sufficiently copious completely everyday joyous and painful extraordinarily vivid and simple dry and faithful brief, elliptical equally vivid and vigorous dull serious equally true and particular diffuse and tangled somewhat diffuse and tangled personal mythological fashionable and criminal irreconcilably divergent well-written consecutive numerous monkish succinct and circumstantial logical, probable small sacramental frank and formal copious and general satisfying and humorous double and often contradictory lurid and somewhat pessimistic highly colored and untrustworthy distinct evangelical clear continuous significant pantomimic former or recent diffuse conversational elaborately ingenious diffuse and even puerile straightforward personal fearful and instructive humorous or sarcastic vigorous elizabethan scandalous and apparently interminable true and absolutely unbiased fluent historical circumstantial and authoritative downright realistic admirably philosophic somewhat dry and bare unaffected interesting authentic and simple simple and rather commonplace fictitious or conjectural grave and prosaic own uncolored simple and apparently artless ready, spirited simple and very clear spirited biblical entirely intelligible and uninterrupted intelligible and uninterrupted brief and unpretentious virtual oblique suave and fluent anonymous and tolerably industrious lucid, popular careful but tedious unedifying or uninteresting always graphic always graphic and picturesque jolly pictorial coherent and attractive equally positive and explicit strenuous realistic otherwise fair and conscientious tasteless, tedious and revolting dreary and often prosaic consistent and credible graceful and highly interesting pleasant and true bald and bloodless drab, unrelieved life-like and spirited already brilliant and exciting care-free, casual patriotic and stirringly romantic always readable and interesting always readable sparkling and agreeable full and well-balanced brief but sublime graphic and well-written harmonious and vivid sympathetic but uncritical marvelously vivid and realistic singular and circumstantial rough first-hand spicy and highly colored somewhat monkish fuller and very readable clear or full careless, simple thoughtful and spicy best captive coherent and continuous fluent and wordy artless but thrilling prosaic and authentic statistical, geographical and descriptive geographical and descriptive brilliant and trustworthy descriptive historical imaginative and allegorical cold unsupported always fluent and interesting simple, oral compact and picturesque calm, bald vaguely epical admirably terse and lucid coherent and understandable breathless and scrappy clear and fascinating fragmentary british picturesque but historically accurate continuous biographical copious and spirited diffuse and sentimental horrible and pitiful well-written historical rarely tedious human and rarely tedious amusing first-hand autobiographico-historical tedious incomprehensible wondrously powerful dull and weak unserviceable or uninteresting coherent and credible fairly coherent and credible temperate historic chronologically consistent _--early french fascinating first-hand straightforward, humorous interesting and somewhat apocryphal pathetic and highly interesting interpretative and not mere strangely inadequate and pointless inadequate and pointless true nor complete immoral or absurd rapid and picturesque easy, dramatic picturesque parliamentary simple, abbreviated regular, chronological romantic but perfectly true original autobiographical sparkling, crisp decidedly interesting and thrilling exhaustive and reliable simplest truthful credible and certain fair undisguised obscure but very dreadful merely referential picturesque and faithful grotesquely shocking entirely apocryphal wonderfully dramatic and instructive lame or defective similar meticulous exceedingly interesting and exciting vigorously dramatic accurate and strictly political circumstantial and spirited condensed and misleading humble but unflinching lyric, original rather long and complete composite, continuous clear, continuous short fictitious straightforward naturalistic separate brief curious and humorous marvelously vivid necessarily dry straightforward and interesting sensible and well-written straightforward, logical authentic and comprehensive ancient fabulous admirable and simple faithful and picturesque graphic and highly interesting burgundian historical long garrulous manifestly authentic wonderfully direct vivid and simple whole biblical tremendously amusing spirited and agreeable highly circumstantial consecutive and harmonious interesting and heroic brilliant, exciting direct and concise magnificent biblical plain and faithful much artless beautiful romantic corrosively funny sometimes mythical best, bad flat, continuous somewhat choppy somewhat discontinuous nearly nonstop twentieth-century graphic dark and perplexed authentic and impartial copious and circumstantial consistent and probable truly fanciful dry, unsatisfactory coherent and seemingly correct somewhat long and literary brief, coherent bald and boring dense, single-spaced inspirational and exciting long and fairly pointless highly synthetic pleasingly non-linear effective, visceral intricate and multifaceted seem-ingly unrelated single, serial languorous, satisfying chiefly incoherent crazy, sickening perfectly open and natural carefully pedestrian ancient and ongoing cruel, intimate ticularly coherent serious, complex vivid circumstantial totally continuous largely unstructured bald, straightforward short and distinct bold, romantic modest, vivid topographical and etymological usual wordy always animated and picturesque singular and captivating compact and animated latest and most familiar short, close-knit true and fictitious presumably edifying succinct and true formal and historical spirited and attractive solemn and circumstantial artless and direct partial and inconsistent polite and rhetorical engrossing and very unusual graphic, familiar continuous or disinterested direct, historical whole shameless dry and delightful loose and immethodical sufficiently straightforward highly puzzling brief and insufficient correct and deliberate long fictitious concise and condensed easy, hopeful naive and valuable trustworthy and graphic vivid brilliant interesting and spirited uniquely ironic stirringly romantic oldest lengthy graphic, spirited ample and systematic partly serious animated and graphic continuous fictitious sordidly realistic racy, spirited rude and naked exceedingly graphic plain and unaffected closely continuous interesting and very instructive precise and circumstantial prosaic and literal charming and chaste always fluent easy oral admirably terse charming and merry concise and authoritative vivid scriptural fair and lucid tedious allegorical severe and business-like new ridiculous rapid, simple rapid, concise sober and consistent otherwise fictitious strangely inadequate distinct and circumstantial graceful and persuasive evidently original curious and graphic picturesque and spirited touchingly interesting dry and stern bald and otherwise unconvincing otherwise copious long analytical coloured and romantic literal biblical dramatic and instructive true and careful interesting and philosophical wild historical impartial and truthful religious or reflective clear, indisputable mythical or sacred concise but impressive false and insufficient dull boring dull and feeble smooth and agreeable rapid, impetuous false and fanciful consecutive and intelligible genuine and remarkable highly instructive and interesting simple, bald brief but potent oldest biblical accurate and truthful continuous historical swift and incisive quite unemotional brief, unadorned scanty and simple short allegorical rapid, vivid spirited and graphic concise and rapid plain and circumstantial grave ironical absolutely unbiased evidently truthful pleasing and readable perfect idyllic tolerably industrious tedious and revolting brief and faithful clear and animated exciting and glorious direct, incisive renowned historical fresh and convincing quaintly delightful formal general admirable and peculiar compelling and convincing familiar and accessible simple and veracious authentic extant discursive and desultory true descriptive highly fabulous brief and severe rather unconnected vivid autobiographical modest and self-effacing faithful and circumstantial broad, coloured brief and straightforward later principal straightforward and natural altogether interesting consecutive and consistent strongly condensed regular and elegant brief but spirited plain, literal unegotistical candid and simple brief and terse remarkable long rather technical straight, factual singular and terrible full and heart-warming bright, untrained sparse, uninformative straightforward, linear coherent and symmetrical vulgar and cynical mobile but personal forthright political less fictional down traditional first-personal easy and fascinating episodal subsequent biblical rapid and exciting preferred smooth uncommonly curious naive and artless rather obscene mere continuous refreshingly frank plain and truthful direct or oblique lofty and vigorous fitful and capricious quaint rabbinical otherwise tame less consecutive accurate and authentic short and true authentic and veracious naive and fascinating concise, dramatic personal or autobiographical simple and characteristic entirely intelligible fair and conscientious often prosaic succinct and lucid extremely circumstantial best and most exhaustive short and accurate early proven�al early provencal legendary or historical simple prosaic shorter and slighter undoubtedly remarkable terse and lucid brisk and rapid curious incidental thrilling and fascinating modern fictitious naive and vigorous same editorial same evangelical whole babylonian naive and amusing long, supercilious _scriptural simple and evangelical candid and ingenious bright descriptive strictly authentic older parallel vigorous, spirited dreamy, shadowy clear comprehensive vivid and vigorous best plain lengthy and important obscure and imperfect long lyrical dull and tiresome strange psychical tediously long complete and authentic sympathetic and interesting sufficiently copious plain personal clear and consecutive ordinary unemotional pleasant poetical rapid and condensed good elizabethan vivid and faithful exquisite and artistic easy and clear quiet, charming sober, reliable wild dreamy ordinary monotonous lucid historical rapid and spirited pathetically simple admirably vivid simple spirited clear and continuous thy extraordinary rational historical quaintly interesting short historic curious and exciting long circumstantial bald official brief but startling entirely fictitious busy and interesting interesting and well-written completely personal full and graphic clear and elegant vivid emotional apparently candid direct and unbroken abominably bad otherwise unintelligible clear, succinct simple and genuine utterly original fairly realistic graceful, economical funny and clever slightly loopy other two-dimensional similar twin traditional historical crisp, straightforward single straightforward always animated brilliant and accurate complete biographical introductory and intermediate true and particular thrilling and eloquent easy and effortless plain, definite patriotic and historical interesting and plausible fresh and agreeable swift and fiery dull and pedantic powerful and dramatic present veracious true and veracious full and simple brief and incomplete graphic and picturesque complete and typical fearfully interesting bare, simple continuous and consistent original danish rapid historical final authoritative clear and temperate little straightforward strange and sensational long and voluble simple and edifying clear and probable truly delectable simple and concise clear and honest long and circumstantial circumstantial dry and tedious strictly chronological mostly incomprehensible long and instructive simple, forthright complete and continuous brief poetic easy, light-hearted vivid and personal single consecutive excruciatingly funny judicious and faithful picturesque and pathetic beautiful and musical best continuous earlier prophetic current historical straightforward simple clever and fascinating full and lucid less circumstantial complete and consistent careful and trustworthy bare historical earliest biblical full and vivid plain historical more specious seemingly correct fairly pointless profoundly satisfying straight historical authentic original plain and short own condensed complete and unbroken eighteenth-century colonial good imaginative much descriptive utterly fictitious popular medieval exact and scrupulous important and authoritative generally intelligible quasi-autobiographical concise and comprehensive quiet rational often thrilling romantic and pathetic continuous and unbroken equally veracious much spirited long and prosy full and unqualified terribly exciting vivid human swift and simple almost dramatic delightfully clear brilliant and eloquent short personal concise and clear apparently unbroken dry and technical brilliant and exciting immethodical simple and illiterate matchless military brief and modest correct literary clear and succinct simple poetic simple, truthful false and frivolous vivid and picturesque biblical veracious new evangelical mere chronological cool and impartial plain, direct somewhat melodramatic plain straightforward succinct honest and forthright single cohesive usual masterful startling and extraordinary clear and pleasing true and impartial comprehensive and liberal less improbable remarkably sensible rapid and comprehensive otherwise sombre clear true simple biblical picturesque and vivid quick, curt simple romantic graphic and characteristic dry and naked dark, harsh clear, straightforward whole terrible genuine and original free and familiar simple and artless busy and exciting coldly scientific plain and sober simple and consistent clear, easy swift and dramatic vivid, picturesque somewhat apocryphal external political scriptual clever and popular interesting and striking thrilling personal full and impartial overly complex more autonomous somewhat garrulous somewhat pessimistic somewhat obsolete striking little clear and impartial brief, pithy highly readable vivid and impressive somewhat brief vigorous and spirited strange and improbable charming personal highly graphic quite unwarranted quite ridiculous vivid and terrifying long and valuable unconvincing bright, attractive whole sacred complete and independent spell-binding terrible and tragic able and impartial new and very different highly symbolic oldest extant abstruse theological fresh and simple fair and accurate simple, girlish particularly thrilling admirable and exhaustive extremely instructive breezy little single coherent graphic clear and careful open and natural invisible but potent last, unfinished almost bald exceedingly amusing non-biblical somewhat diffuse less veracious gigantic and formidable wonderfully vivid free and innocent clear and impressive plain, business-like brief dramatic exquisitely ludicrous own exciting sweet pastoral important and curious absolutely faithful wonderfully dramatic preliterate clear and vigorous plain, straightforward rich and racy fictitious relatively primitive vigorous and skilful apparently artless complete and reliable simple, pathetic full original strange eventful fairly coherent eloquent and pathetic mere dramatic reasonably coherent short and plain already rich continental german interesting contemporary brief and imperfect reasonably full simple, faithful interesting and convincing brief but clear coherent and consistent successful long somewhat incoherent concise deeply interesting priestly explicit sexual sufficiently full general historic already brilliant vivid and realistic delightfully easy calm and impartial faithful and conscientious interesting and exciting hitherto unpublished more condensed vague and general admirably clear own concrete own lucid ordinary secular obscure italian grave and majestic plain, unaffected extremely improbable accurate and impartial strict chronological long and complete deceptively simple merely historical relatively straightforward little interesting sincere and simple simple primitive highly amusing long uneven otherwise fair highly erotic less prosaic simple and interesting sad and pitiful quaint and picturesque more cryptic racy little odd and awkward back strong brief historical little introductory nice dramatic simple, unpretentious little artless quasi-historical historically accurate also historical decidedly interesting coherent epical more circumstantial richer and fuller autobiographical thrilling more succinct dramatic and picturesque interesting and thrilling bare, bald more dispassionate plain and unadorned quite commonplace historical lean and powerful earliest babylonian merely imaginary reliable historical entirely correct own amusing purely historic long personal graphic and interesting quaint and simple mere cold charmingly naive clear, simple simple and straightforward more momentous autobiographic perfectly true purely mythical mere dry mysterious and romantic semi-historical agreeable and instructive brief introductory pure lyric best and fullest more thrilling much excellent synoptical truthful deliberately ambiguous swift, powerful more diffuse equally positive whole subsequent brief but interesting much curious simple and pleasing short but comprehensive readable french official rather solemn mere popular

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Words to Describe narrative

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "narrative" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "narrative" are: otherwise bald and unconvincing, slightly toneless, bald and unconvincing, coherent and readable, and correct consensual. There are 995 other words to describe narrative listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe narrative 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, "narrative" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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