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Words to Describe old man
Below is a list of describing words for old man. 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 old man:
delicately frail sarcastic and talented intelligent and venerable wondrously evil upright stiff handsome and venerable dourly handsome bald and fat proud and feeble still militant bloated and gouty blind and depraved ordinarily unmoved benevolent and gallant sickly perverse unbelievably unkempt misguided but noble rigid and fanatical fat but healthy-looking insignificant and grizzled gentle and lighthearted wicked and disagreeable terribly gaunt savage and enlightened worldly cold profligate and illiterate decrepit and infirm boorish and decrepit decrepit and careworn sad and poverty-stricken powdered and courteous lonely worthless irritable and quick-tempered patriarchally respectable stiff and grizzled extremely horrid malignant and vicious stern and pale crazed and half-witted suddenly scornful covetous and stingy intrepid and brave clever and genial feeble and apprehensive self-indulgent and presumptuous desolate and grim rugged and grizzled wealthy and cheerful conscientious and rigorous cynical and quick-tempered morose and eccentric bulky and weary proud and weak respectable and much-respected straight and singular withered and feeble simple and talkative intrepid and bold rather hot-tempered admirable and good lonely hardworking stiff and arthritic deliciously dirty courtly charming malicious and tyrannical hesitant and pale grim and crabbed garrulous and good-hearted pathetically feeble eternally black-clad frail and withered fussy and feeble thin and grey venomously puritanical endlessly scornful incalculable and dangerous exceedingly decrepit thoroughly pickled specially wise incomparable and amiable deluded but grand tottering and decrepit exasperated and inexorable affable and lovable serene and strong bald and thin vastly busy impatient and testy gentle and bald decrepit and solitary cultured and good-natured soft and savage eagerly obliging decrepit but happy meekly inquiring ruggedly faithful feeble but sensuous violent and pragmatical gray and tremulous vehement but whimsical gray-haired and hatchet-faced spirited but tottering estimable but morose dauntless and deluded sick and selfish little and grave desolate and childless silent and unpleasant silent and insignificant astute and prying decidedly puffy gregarious and inquisitive worthless and despicable remorsefully remorseless rankly selfish dreadfully drunken simple and willing helpless but defiant communicative and happy ruggedly genial decrepit and dirty queer but intelligent thick and red-faced red-faced and pompous tiresome and fatuous seemingly garrulous intrepid and noble proud and opinionated toothless and filthy bronzed and grizzled vindictive and portentous irritable and querulous blind and gentle great and hypochondriacal languid and worn-out somewhat opinionated strikingly curious timorous and exact unhappy but fleshy naked and decrepit harmless and lazy decrepit and gray-haired heavy and infirm unknowing and innocent unpleasantly jocular benighted and decrepit helpless and venerable obstructive and vain fierce and impracticable angry and savage rustic and litigious queer and dirty dictatorial or dogmatic arbitrary and crotchety indolent and good pedantic and irritable grateful but eccentric unattractive and commonplace phenomenally shrewd ungracious and unaccommodating lean and hawk-faced wealthy and stupid blind but divine gallant and civil crotchety and irritable forceful and confident simple and well-intentioned perhaps loquacious amazingly straightforward keen but plain weak and meek tricky and greedy vastly offensive querulous and suspicious cynical and indomitable querulous and dull dull and poor courteous and heartless sometimes foolish already winded courteous and delightful utterly sensible gray and bald tottering and feeble wise and unaffected exceedingly hairy lofty and confident good and tolerant rigorous and exacting dirty and unshaven excellent and venerable white-haired and bearded white-haired but tough-looking taller and thinner already pained inventively dirty powerful but dyspeptic peculiarly uninteresting feeble and unpredictable frighteningly different beastly tyrannical frail and innocent surprisingly vigorous lecherous but rich vain and stupid frail and sick withered and white-bearded humble and useless stubborn and pompous rich and doddering inflexible and unresponsive feeble and senile certainly senile shockingly deformed rather crotchety eccentric and outspoken tenacious and tough cautious and stubborn dogmatic and narrow-minded nasty and withered intensely rude gently loving intolerably windy valuable and wise naked and gnarled distinctly lunatic spectacularly drunken pleasantly gregarious gaunt but wiry lean and foolish venerable and grave worthy and cheerful eager and imperious sensible and witty sorrowful and weak professionally bland tedious and oppressive deformed and lame illiterate and humble harmless and pious cautious and disagreeable false and theatrical prudent and parsimonious wise and positive unkempt and shrewd good and well-behaved unhappy and sordid wretchedly decrepit white-haired and premature wretched and childless wise and unerring vigorous and astute feeble and tedious horrible and offensive solitary and decrepit venerable and good hitherto inexorable singular and contradictory kindly brave warlike and intrepid shifty, ever-changing tolerably well-behaved essentially lovable thoroughly common apparently disreputable dear and queer venerable and zealous bilious and bald bitter and eccentric querulous and discontented obviously decrepit merry and talkative mild and noble colossal and beautiful stern and wary quaint and brave hasty and eloquent kindly cheery eccentric but benevolent hard and stark extremely talkative gnarled and brown exceedingly talkative friendly intelligent venerable and shrewd childish and decrepit offensive and foolish idealistic and lovable grey-haired and bearded kindly modest dull and bibulous intellectual but childlike feeble and decrepit tranquil and healthy blind and ragged stark and gruff thin and frail nearly bald particularly fervent cunning and ferocious feeble and infirm foolish or wicked dirty and unkempt supremely stupid tall and spare thoroughly dangerous delightful and curious singularly tough brave but feeble nasty and persistent meek and venerable poor and bad enormously bloated weak and covetous hideous and malignant glorious and majestic warm-hearted and honest dreadfully selfish exceedingly gruff almost boorish charming and venerable venerable and much-respected eccentric and violent vexatious and frivolous foolish and contemptible yon hard weak and childless amiable and erudite thin and sinewy gentle but high-spirited genial and wise dry and humorous infirm and childless rather hairy remarkably peculiar wise and perceptive supremely indifferent venerable and noble generous and worthy timid and nondescript sprightly white-haired nice and intelligent silly officious apparently timid frail and brittle seemingly unemotional obviously influential squat and agile somewhat wrinkled cruel and scheming venerable and benevolent brave and trustworthy unpleasantly mysterious casual and business-like helpless and penniless good-hearted and generous partriarchal short and chunky weak and fond ordinarily silent sick and ragged small but venerable exceedingly superstitious decidedly eccentric crooked and cruel weak and decrepit spare and elegant infirm and feeble worthy and agreeable worthy or venerable indiscreet and impertinent white-bearded stiff and proper white-haired unusually sensible foolish and stupid doddering pale and slender partially deaf unhappy and innocent wealthy and avaricious delightful and amiable almost tottering ragged and untidy wealthy and devout dear and estimable helpless and infirm tyrannical and capricious uneasy and unhappy venerable and faithful pale and thin cheerful and hearty serenely happy fine-featured still poor infirm beautiful and venerable truly filthy preternaturally clean gray-haired and gray-bearded somewhat crotchety grey and bald remarkable and eccentric ruggedly attractive rather nutty wild and incomprehensible venerable and mild humane and compassionate grim and sorrowful crafty, clever once stern yon blind now devout weak and infirm astute and crafty fine and venerable devout and grateful savage and morose moody and fitful crotchety almost senile hard and angry amiable and respectable weak and poor faintly disapproving excellent and good now temperate dreary and solitary wise and honorable vain and proud seemingly frail deeply depressed nobly proportioned slightly foolish burly redheaded incredibly ignorant reckless and evil ancient and withered prematurely senile wrinkled and leathery distressed and helpless honest and sturdy grand and venerable apparently gentle ever hospitable rather fine-looking rich and charitable dark but handsome venerable and respectable sick and decrepit beer-guzzling gnomelike hugely fat mild and venerable vicious and ignorant proud and stern genial and hearty seemingly mild poor and infirm yon wretched somewhat dogmatic decrepit grand-looking gaunt and haggard venerable rather dim vain and pompous terribly tall terribly severe stern and hard fine and honorable ignorant and passionate poor and homeless extremely feeble still vigorous toothless charming and talented pious and wealthy simple and loyal blind and lame weak and tottering poor and unhappy brave and sensible sick and feeble dry and quiet nettlesome grey-haired venerable and beautiful nearly blind hawk-faced bedridden supposedly benevolent empty and peaceful good and venerable comparatively helpless unhappy and miserable gentle and genial rather deaf proud and unyielding uncommonly tall tall and large noble and venerable good and dear seemingly helpless garrulous childless silver-bearded mild and peaceful fine-looking cruel and vicious somewhat crabbed perfectly horrid particularly terrible strange and suspicious jealous, possessive dry and cold physically weak adventure-loving crabby shrewd and sensible usually cheerful grizzled helpless and useless rather simple-minded good and amiable half-crazy potentially terminal dream-ridden horribly rude proud and high amiable and happy tough and wiry venerable and pious worthy and industrious singularly intelligent respectable and trustworthy gray-bearded rather quaint worthy and excellent almost blind thoroughly disreputable good and respectable poor and desolate silver-haired somewhat fatuous stout and brave remarkably good-looking amiable and benevolent physically frail rather shaky honest and faithful feeble senile gouty gray-haired worthy and honest utterly desolate good and gifted usually keen grave and venerable fine and rare thoroughly sensible punchy industrious and honest wise and good now harmless unusually attractive curious and inquisitive wise and simple uncommonly sharp good crabbed withered absolutely absurd hatchet-faced terribly thin almost gaunt extremely wise awfully queer grave and stern rather indolent once solitary frail tall and thin now desolate strong and energetic tottering wrinkled almost heroic iron-willed intensely active loyal and gallant yon poor somewhat obstinate arthritic dried-up cranky incredibly agile poor and solitary hard and selfish obstinate and perverse painfully thin honest and virtuous healthy and active stern and terrible querulous photogenic wonderfully gifted dreadfully wicked perfectly hideous bitter and cruel staunch and faithful gentle and courteous almost mad quick-tempered poor skinny pious and benevolent poor and honest truly happy strong and bitter stern and inflexible wise highly meritorious testy noble and virtuous ramrod-straight weak and feeble deaf paunchy previously invisible cancer-ridden slightly distant scrupulously neat peaceable and industrious now calm usually violent singularly handsome intelligent and prosperous bearded 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vigorous funny weatherbeaten tall and graceful whitehaired best and kindest solid and substantial frowzy loquacious crafty grand and noble unhappy cadaverous self-willed dour unaccommodating opinionated close-mouthed perfectly harmless brave stingy puckish seedy selfish good-natured harmless befogged misanthropical groggy beautiful and picturesque terror-stricken rather violent sweet-faced stocky deep-eyed unarmed canny ghostly white hearty grim amiable desolate genial tiresome benignant demented truly wonderful unflappable mild-mannered wretched evil-minded self-assured somewhat mysterious inquisitive addled healthy and vigorous sad and solemn respectable drunken speechless robust shabby affable defenseless severe-looking weary parsimonious stubborn impotent horrid barrel-chested disreputable true and original imperious dictatorial handsome mustachioed rich and famous poor but honest courteous noble and beautiful miserable peaceable shaky simple, honest obese fond beetle-browed rather 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dreadful winded puffed-up sweet and gentle irresolute useless unfortunate sensible pious wise and gentle deluded consumptive spare fierce tough-looking uninformed evil
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Words to Describe old man
As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "old man" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "old man" are: delicately frail, sarcastic and talented, intelligent and venerable, wondrously evil, and upright stiff. There are 995 other words to describe old man listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe old man 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, "old man" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.
Note also that if there aren't many old man 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 old man?
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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