Describing Wordsfor Passivity

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Here are some adjectives for passivity: glum, heartbreaking, own receptive, utter, contemptible, occasionally absolute, speechless and numb, unnatural and mischievous, equally unnatural and mischievous, desperately exciting, curious eastern, deterministic existential, ingrained despairing, persistent and amiable, lazy, inactive, soft persuasive, strange, watchful, dreadful, hopeless, possibly pure, quiet dreamy, cool, scientific, mere inert, former easy, equally unnatural, own innermost, voluptuous female, same impersonal, premature sexual, never mere, dewy-eyed, greater apparent, sudden, inexplicable. You can get the definitions of these passivity adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to passivity (and find more here).

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Words to Describe passivity

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

glum, heartbreaking own receptive utter, contemptible occasionally absolute speechless and numb unnatural and mischievous equally unnatural and mischievous desperately exciting curious eastern deterministic existential ingrained despairing persistent and amiable lazy, inactive soft persuasive strange, watchful dreadful, hopeless possibly pure quiet dreamy cool, scientific mere inert former easy equally unnatural own innermost voluptuous female
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same impersonal premature sexual never mere dewy-eyed greater apparent sudden, inexplicable more constitutional self-assured sheep-like certain dull strange physical certain psychic same dumb hard dry sheer animal receptive perfectly rational true oriental same soft persuasive existential more graceful heartbreaking care-free glum insipid social and economic utter sun-warmed numb well-trained demeaning dreamy almost childish unimpeachable absolute childlike expressionless relative inert unchangeable stony intentional one-sided limp innermost seeming inactive stupefying total rapt apparent environmental ruinous sickening speechless complete meek contemplative feigned jaded intriguing bland feeble inanimate calm helpless imperturbable decorous sheer unyielding unwelcome innate benevolent mental rigid prudent astute amiable unarmed scornful appalling easy tranquil plaintive lifelong momentary hopeless sexual intolerable essential rigorous impersonal surprising cultural irresponsible dumb strange contemptible senile inexplicable courageous unnatural simultaneous inherent sensual painful boring stern watchful mere noiseless suicidal hideous joyful austere godlike blank sterile gloomy expectant solemn vacant constitutional dull mute grim mischievous wise voluntary queer physical superficial revolutionary animal soft oriental troubled feminine unaccountable indifferent stolid mindless timid despairing unaccustomed sympathetic astonishing blind exciting extreme pure sad curious aesthetic singular feverish sullen perfect economic odd sudden excessive cool quiet inevitable serene strict lazy dreadful excellent heroic silent profound happy wealthy eastern cold uncommon remarkable solar foolish terrible unconscious honest permanent mechanical external rational female nervous usual active social protective psychic subsequent desperate deepest outer graceful intellectual negative sleepy mild habitual miserable unusual childish polite monstrous present persistent tremendous eternal rich reasonable religious chinese endless peculiar mutual entire sweet stupid former tough simple ultimate characteristic dry scientific unexpected intelligent natural splendid german necessary false certain french long general male true beautiful noble dead fine whole dark

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Words to Describe passivity

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "passivity" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "passivity" are: glum, heartbreaking, own receptive, utter, contemptible, occasionally absolute, and speechless and numb. There are 270 other words to describe passivity listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe passivity 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, "passivity" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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