Describing Wordsfor Origin

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Here are some adjectives for origin: artificial, extraterrestrial, hebraic or similar, possible vocal, apparent intelligent, earth-historical, low and plebeian, secret and unscientific, sometime shameful, odd and sometime shameful, evidently crystalline, apparent italian, real but not traceable, modest irish, natural, aesthetic, possibly germanic, separate but similar, valid nonsupernatural, foreign and even barbarous, servile and humiliating, obscure and servile, genuine ethnic, obvious planetary, immediate pantomimic, probable gestural, supernatural or even divine, ultimate nomadic, recent and scientific, elective and popular, extracolonial, subsequent and comparatively recent. You can get the definitions of these origin adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to origin (and find more here).

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Words to Describe origin

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

artificial, extraterrestrial hebraic or similar possible vocal apparent intelligent earth-historical low and plebeian secret and unscientific sometime shameful odd and sometime shameful evidently crystalline apparent italian real but not traceable modest irish natural, aesthetic possibly germanic separate but similar valid nonsupernatural foreign and even barbarous servile and humiliating obscure and servile genuine ethnic obvious planetary immediate pantomimic
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probable gestural supernatural or even divine ultimate nomadic recent and scientific elective and popular extracolonial subsequent and comparatively recent kindred, common pure santal remote and purely pagan south-continental local and fairly recent probable totemic natural or purely human interjectional or imitative partly teutonic atavistic and pathological exclusively pecuniary lamentably low and doubtful world--geologically recent unmistakably organic sinister and disastrous dragon--theological suspiciously british religious romantic astute and mercenary hispanic high, religious possible psychosomatic aboriginal or aztec nonimperial more, mysterious water--magical constitutional and mechanical astrological and solar noble or romantic distinct and abnormal hardy swedish osseous or synovial bigerminal free and criminal troubled historical sacerdotal but popular --traditional equally primeval remote but common divine and not human similar freshwater mechanical and derivative organic and freshwater probably non-aryan unquestioned celtic fantastic classical foreign and prosaic recent and definitely historical northern and celtic celtic or other foreign and oriental foreign, obscure uncertain or accidental sudden and collective independent empirical ours--natural modern and chemical prosaic but probable supernatural or natural yellow racial admittedly human unmistakably ancient sextupedal remote and somewhat classical single or peculiar double and illegitimate remote or deep extra-limital partial volcanic purely volcanic common legendary same germanic aerial or aquatic actual apostolic mostly spanish lofty and mysterious possible volcanic polish or latvian possible eastern clear, individual middle-eastern or asiatic probable babylonian discernible national evident igneous decidedly non-european french or even european distinct and independant otherwise distinct and independant dual or plural essential and spontaneous ignoble, nameless indigenous and spontaneous modern miraculous manifestly nervous celtic or gothic dim african composite teutonic working-class and middle-class white and asian wretched and rudimentary natural and independent unmistakable dutch social and casuistical coral or volcanic patriarchal or military recent and missionary immediate volcanic probably oriental japanese or indonesian entirely asiatic unmistakable chinese remote and classic direct buddhistical distinctly congenital congenital or hysterical chief or exclusive tactile or purely olfactory purely olfactory probable indigenous naturalistic or evolutionary poor or unknown unmistakable moorish local or sectarian distinct and altogether different social and martial perhaps pathological physiological or perhaps pathological traumatic or infectious pathological and fatal unmistakable celtic far-away common ancient or apostolical pleasure--social relatively definable strictly digital partial mythological bourgeois and not proletarian originally savage obviously human and industrial sexual and proletarian definitely jewish extravagant, singular genuinely moorish barbaric and grecian likely foreign sole and proud imaginary apostolic natural and not supernatural remote servile common babylonian carolingian and german recent alien extraordinarily antique fortuitous or accidental medieval or post-medieval original or secondary humble and british common and chief aztec and older probable aqueous double reptilian strictly northern entirely nervous northern or barbarous moorish, oriental distinctly phoenician doubtful botanical common mycelial originally eastern scriptural and divine spiritually divine or supernatural less indigenous probable phoenician oriental and religious willful and comparatively free ordinarily remote probable chinese mystical african purely barbarous probable structural strictly volcanic proximately mechanical definite aetherial rhenish or french obscure but unquestionable eminently popular and plebeian popular and plebeian bottomless, unfathomable anonymous and popular decidedly bourgeois obvious prehistoric negative, diabolical slightly recent egyptian or asiatic probable african dim democratic probable ornamental -comparatively recent imply korean partly royal but irregular partly royal royal but irregular common disruptive apparently aquatic purely cannibal natural or independent branchial or respiratory exclusively danish remote trifling wondrous, cloistral absurd jewish children--pathological profoundly hereditary treacherous hebraic heroic or royal twofold and far-off perhaps mysterious purest mughal recent and suspicious quite recent and suspicious directly foreign purely egoistical dependent and arbitrary moderately remote wholly extra-judicial probably african purely organismal evidently masculine altogether plebeian ecclesiastical or seigneurial unknown or ignoble older and unknown mysterious, mystical unknown but ancient medieval african micro-organismal ionic but colonial recent, common undisputed aqueous undoubtedly asiatic particular, foreign ancient and pagan celtic or danish late and alien diluvial or glacial same ionic prehistoric oriental probably asiatic iranian and asiatic purely illiterate totemic or naturalistic speak--physiological satisfactory teutonic indigenous and german identical or diverse promiscuous racial celtic and mythic unquestionably aqueous truly igneous recent subaerial mainly central ultimately common modern and somewhat uncertain asiatic or tartar endoblastemal elfin and subterranean two-fold historical late supernatural plenary divine common ethnical humble or provincial unmistakably pagan same trans-atlantic impure ancestral divinely paternal ultimate babylonian profoundly bourgeois spanish or oriental further simultaneous exclusively endogenous atmospheric or spontaneous puerperal or non-puerperal common glacial nobly fabled undoubtedly moorish common or distinct purely spinal or bulbo-spinal pre-druidical rural or native undoubtedly mexican sadly modern seemingly recent distinctly biblical consequently impure distinctly javanese traditional druidical logical, religious inorganic or chemical essentially clerical burmese or chinese narrower fleshy thinner fleshy wider fleshy precloistral adventitious or mechanical uncertain etymological native, asiatic empirical nor aesthetical divine and scriptural thy boorish local or endemical publication--incidental jutish or danish distinct egyptian mysteriously remote alien or modern mental, mortal worth and most ancient universal ethnic singular and even prosaic unquestionably egyptian illegitimate and feudal ancient and divine primitive, divine pure and not hybrid prehistoric or unknown french and classical purely freshwater possibly technological common architectural ethnic or national eastern or northeastern collective, social purely miraculous humble civil lofty, divine geographical or ethnical completely divine ecclesiastical and feudal obscure and dubious common ideal strange or unnatural mechanical, natural pagan and superstitious german noble unmistakably meteoric comparable canadian non-animal immediate german spiritual and unseen logical and legal northwest european same impure _cultural positively divine french or canadian pure germanic volcanic or igneous high classic remote common clearly intelligent possible infectious clearly extraterrestrial seemingly idiosyncratic likely subtle german and even italian imply local obviously plebeian indisputably intelligent distinctive supernatural nonsensically impossible vastly faraway undetermined european obscure numerical lithuanian or teutonic extraterrestrial and extratemporal inexact mythological extraterrrestrial and extratemporal extraterrrestrial protozoan, vertebrate and mammalian unknown, planetary mimetic and cultural geological nor planetary probable cultural demonstrably intelligent subversively feminist alpha regular unambiguously alien afghan-pakistan approximate afghan-pakistan davidical otherwise distinct decidedly plebeian german or norwegian separate and interesting recent and petty ultra-phenomenal thoroughly political popular and native savage and illusory native or racial sufficiently illustrious probably similar or identical french or feudal secular and parliamentary old and dubious entirely mythological manifestly humble general teutonic supposedly german mechanico-chemical humble and unpleasant divine and mythical volcanic or coral sacrificial or sacramental gallant and well-born common tribal possible babylonian generally northern animal or demoniacal probable volcanic spiritually divine traditional warlike irrational and incongruous obviously native uncertain or unknown low plebeian remote asiatic siberian tartar different embryological syringeal true figurative atmospheric and optical aqueous or sedimentary pure and hybrid low and repulsive evident volcanic political but religious purely burmese indigenous or foreign teutonic and gothic historico-mythological bi-parental purely danish poorer social patrician or plebeian actual communal aqueous and volcanic equally recent morally edifying consequent divine spontaneous or equivocal distant common unquestionably rude igneous or aqueous white, animal distinctively alien comparative modern direct and ultimate german or other fundamentally divine kindred and common exclusively mundane chinese and philippine least problematical selfish, envious heterogeneous racial absolute apostolic possible oriental synoical internal solar specially empirical largely subliminal same germinal heathen and human oriental or heathen venerable and mysterious ours�natural exclusively sacred parallel and apparent spanish and jewish normal or pathological decidedly infectious whole climatic uncertain and suspicious quite doubtful common and mysterious imaginary and real probable noble independent ethnical possible monkish similar bilateral finnish or tartar genuine tartar thicker fleshy somewhat classical attacked--trivial unquestionably common non-celestial doubtless inferior natural and indigenous independent and diabolical modern subaerial strictly germanic sedimentary and organic alien irish sufficiently ancient and illustrious mechanical and sedimentary volcanic or metamorphic probably subsequent obscure, anonymous reptilian or fishy universally igneous not-empirical pure, not-empirical common protoplasmic premeditated, reflective utterly ignoble partially native presumably hybrid hybrid or presumably hybrid common post-glacial unquestionably divine igneous ancient and unknown common racial german or dutch purely pecuniary comparatively recent sufficiently humble german or celtic natural or human nonterrestrial historically necessary deepest natural protozoal definitely historical absolutely oriental obscure and imperfect extremely recent dutch or german gradual and natural mythical divine common traditional pagan and barbaric early evolutionary un-spiritual native traditional chinese racial fearfully low unmistakably animal however humble remote and roundabout central or peripheral independent divine sole culpable metaphysical and transcendental direct oriental divine and biblical obviously historic purely asiatic extra-intellectual late volcanic curiously humble practically modern modern and local primitive radical west-german terrible plain thoroughly native exclusive popular sacred and patriotic proctodaeal avowed literary apparently individual unquestionably ancient early astrological barbaric african decidedly mechanical egyptian or phoenician celestial and pure purely byzantine thy twofold remote british absolutely ultimate human and heathen evidently german spanish moorish spinal or bulbo-spinal purely spinal special and supernatural haphazard and desultory certainly late remote or recent quite subsequent recent common volcanic common and simultaneous such recent purely pagan legislative or political aqueous or igneous native teutonic same productive uncertain and various special and divine distinctly italian solar or stellar other ethnic same teutonic probable common late theological purely jewish european or asiatic national or ethnic actual physiological purest classic hasty and makeshift asian or african terribly remote recent igneous bizarre common preternormal possible celtic unmistakable spanish belgian and spanish exclusively divine norwegian or swedish purely electric asiatic or egyptian particularly humble conventual and monastic official or quasi-official definitely different supernatural evil possibly noble laryngotracheal historical or evolutionary human or supernatural distinctly oriental purely climatic chinese or tartar purely physical and chemical thy genuine simplest common technical or mechanical figurative or metaphorical remote french wholly native libyan military pure european distinct ethnical lamentably low same legendary purely thermal indigenous egyptian probably common glacial and fluvio-glacial spontaneous and inevitable direct apostolic possibly german african or european supernatural or divine apparently foreign non-puerperal same astrological artistic and technical geometrical or mechanical peripheral or central distinctively celtic earlier common same imitative tolerably ancient true babylonian pure and legitimate essentially teutonic obviously oriental undoubtedly volcanic doubtless low naive western partly german chemico-mechanical celtic or german pure african rather recent comparatively humble natural or spontaneous truly african purely african egyptian or syrian pure celtic sub-continental non-empirical _supernatural unmistakably british far-off heathen common historical divine or supernatural comparatively late extra\-terrestrial distinctly alien fiery southern common ultimate purely germanic historical and logical unknown chinese dark and enigmatical rational and intellectual equally royal british and norwegian human and industrial particular european strictly primitive south asian diverse and independent phoenician or egyptian miscellaneous social direct spanish humble and unassuming primogenial particularly recent _pathological entirely separate and independent unmistakably foreign whole legendary pure tartar comparative recent unchanging and eternal simple and sturdy rational and legitimate sincere emotional cardiac and renal occasional spontaneous maternal or paternal bulbo-spinal similarly vague conscious and definite same racial nonsupernatural interesting possible public and avowed own servile quite recent apparently different supernatural and divine truly military imitative mysterious and bloody common generic true ethnic vertebrate and mammalian unknown magical unknown ethnic subaerial decidedly italian rather humble less antique older northern other or lower probably foreign essential intellectual obscure or unknown similar superstitious ultimate and real remote historical quite vulgar common mythical less diverse actual western absolutely foreign perhaps bloody thoroughly heathen non-western recent geologic pure oriental lagoonal syrian and jewish fluvio-glacial solid bourgeois strictly popular german or teutonic partly white wholly european religious or magical infinitely nobler strictly puritanical independent geological purely igneous subaerial volcanic best middle-class common causal distant and various quite local similar divine equally barbaric same miraculous same celtic common savage native or foreign non-aryan celtic or teutonic sedimentary african or asiatic true causal comparatively modern human or inhuman psychal purely mineral purely inorganic purely teutonic non-genital indigenous african similar deep modern and european same ethnological equally humble strictly contemporaneous _botanical mid-ventral exclusively ecclesiastical dangal endemical obscure and barbarous mythical or legendary exclusively human primitive japanese altogether foreign old or recent decidedly low divine high celestial purely spanish gestural more estimable teutonic pure german estrial probable cometary supposedly separate readily apparent vastly dissimilar strange and inhuman presently unknown unknown supernatural essentially warlike distinctly popular simple spontaneous spanish medi�val distinctly sexual mediaeval or modern immediate popular chemical or electrical ancient and world-wide materially different post-medieval mysterious and suspicious same etymological non-oriental eminently popular extra-universal recent egyptian same asiatic earlier celtic ethiopian and egyptian deeply humiliating ultimate evolutionary unexplained and inexplicable spontaneous popular directly religious asiatic or european extra-social purely mexican purely oriental extra mundane ancient and sovereign later geographical quite secondary pure irish more provincial noble intellectual quite obscure different racial celtic british or german older and nobler quite humble possible foreign purely chinese asiatic old romanesque obvious personal less philosophic similar volcanic solitary and independent immediate common common parental quite superficial swedish or norwegian official austrian extremely late embryonal essentially independent same dual recent historic low and contemptible less righteous patrician and plebeian uncertain less foreign distant and mysterious canadian french central asiatic extraterrestrial distinct celtic spanish mediaeval buddhistical genuine native non-indian relatively late absolutely primitive non-japanese spanish and moorish extremely various distinctly foreign purely supernatural ancient or recent late western deep organic common biological organismal common teutonic extra-peritoneal somewhat plebeian orthodox chinese distinctively literary probable ultimate involutional apostolic thy godlike endodermal romantic and tragic quite modern supernatural definite human extratemporal pure norwegian ancient and native natural and accidental genuine, unadulterated notable historical jewish and italian highly composite french local purely divine solar and terrestrial earlier jewish same geological precise historical purely mediaeval suba�rial same traditional thy natal individual or social still recent germanic black african natural stellar non-eternal obvious national possible imperial

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Words to Describe origin

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "origin" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "origin" are: artificial, extraterrestrial, hebraic or similar, possible vocal, apparent intelligent, and earth-historical. There are 995 other words to describe origin listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe origin 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, "origin" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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.

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