Describing Wordsfor People

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Here are some adjectives for people: marxist-dominated, heedless and unnecessary, fickle other, selfish or foolish, often monotonous or painful, serious alternative, most sane, solemnly deliberate, cheap many, smart, skilled, obedient and thoughtful, literate, obedient and thoughtful, unregistered unemployed, unicameral general, sophisticated knowledgeable, serious, wise, thin and very agile, just like-minded, immediately annoying, indifferent or selfish, naive and humble, discreet and most polite, curiously naive and humble, oppressed and suspicious, cruelly oppressed and suspicious, paltry and tiresome, generally persistent, false and perverse, unicameral national, truly intelligent or magical. You can get the definitions of these people adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to people (and find more here).

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Words to Describe people

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

marxist-dominated heedless and unnecessary fickle other selfish or foolish often monotonous or painful serious alternative most sane solemnly deliberate cheap many smart, skilled obedient and thoughtful literate, obedient and thoughtful unregistered unemployed unicameral general sophisticated knowledgeable serious, wise thin and very agile just like-minded immediately annoying indifferent or selfish naive and humble discreet and most polite curiously naive and humble
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oppressed and suspicious cruelly oppressed and suspicious paltry and tiresome generally persistent false and perverse unicameral national truly intelligent or magical especially nonmagical strong and responsible unobtrusive but very ancient cool, contemplative stupid energetic lewd and idle gracious, unassuming african, indigenous fundamentally good-hearted smart or creative fluffy, blue-eyed subtly formidable crafty evil temperamental real gay serious composite and cosmopolitan rather uncertain and elusive frantic half-clad uncertain and elusive belated and anxious commonplace and inexperienced night-mostly middle-aged night-mostly middle-aged and old civilized and patriotic ignorant grown-up weak and highly nervous simple, agricultural free colored stolidly respectable good, vicious courageous, nobler wealthy and effeminate commonly gifted crazy net notmal nice notmal middle-aged, slim strange, intrusive probably convincing mere daytime remote, many stupid ethnic inconvenient poor sure ordinary franciscan literary long-suffering, good naturally good-hearted and intelligent selfish and contentious heretofore colored foreign seafaring insignificant and helpless well-bred, generous malicious, vindictive ordinary, uneducated clean-shaven, silent specialized and distinctive buxom and cheerful primarily poor bustling and genial interesting but queer gnarled, dried-up quite law-abiding relatively ethical alive and individual sane and well-adjusted irritable important slight and agile irritable and pessimistic distant, self-contained gloomy, irritable and pessimistic token sane savage other innocent and hospitable good and commonplace spotlessly pure and innocent extinct mythical sufficiently crooked heartless and essentially vulgar able but poor poorer and simpler inordinately selfish essentially merry perverse or refractory wholesome, every-day mainly theological and political hungarian democratic naturally diplomatic thorough worthy frail, youngish ferocious or warlike never harmful or destructive loving unlovable never harmful one-inch high enormously selfish similarly amoral single, well-known free and victorious impartial but prestigious subtle unethical feckless, trivial wonderful, admirable mildly objectionable own, innocent amiable and complacent foolish deranged noble, ducal rather selfless proud or haughty tiresome and unattractive essentially common well-dressed, stylish handsome or otherwise captivating equally inconsistent and despicable good or loyal inconsistent and despicable unhappily impracticable immortal young continually absent psychic, other truly evil or indifferent quiet miserable strong and stupid terrible, lawless nice, optimistic wealthy, unhappy girlishly freckled warlike bygone quietly formidable decent and helpless loving and most lovable prosaic and respectable lean, genial distant, magical normal proportioned most despicable abysmally foolish entire polluted virtuous or innocent literary etherial bankrupt or other previously rational evil-minded and seditious casual, tough-minded superstitious or highly imaginative hillbilly weird decent and confidential well-meaning generous self-sufficient, successful homeless or old silent, sallow disturbing civilized discreet, grave unusually soft and sensitive thoroughly depraved and vicious men�tally unstable sure primitive gay and polite franker and simpler military and powerful innumerable and warlike plain and sovereign bright and warm-hearted dirty, revolting wealthy and well-bred waspish, discontented temperate, industrious white, prosperous free, enterprising meek, like-minded intolerant, fanatical nice, stylish quickwitted spanish intellectual and industrious homogeneous and martial plain self-governing well-dressed, clear-eyed joyful, many bully weaker stupid bovine unicameral completely self-assured sure cheerful exciting, fantastic tough and desperate reasonable and open-minded clever or unscrupulous supposedly neutral and independent necessarily nice chaste and delightful necessarily nice or polite totally spotless sexually uptight swarthy, dried-up panicky, ordinary sleekly prosperous childless single conscientious and mature naturally maritime genuine crazy nervous and respectable intelligent but trusting boring other inept, unproductive formidable and incalculable courteous gentle rare hot-tempered crafty and unjust sometimes awkward and obvious eleventh wealthiest young and uneducated smartest and most able heartless and uncaring uncommonly strong and compact stilted, contorted odd ignorant seriously futile squalid and withered civilized, long-settled generous and impartial often well-connected restless and absurd knowledgeable and often well-connected creative and athletic outlandish aboriginal certainly ordinary crafty and most direct cruel and inventive credible, well-informed perhaps grown-up funny plump fairly mountainous estimable and excellent amiable pre-historic studiously calm and cultured unsentimental and cynical angry and self-interested apparently lucid french poor free, independent and unbound jocund and energetic independent and unbound reluctant and almost rebellious always interesting and agreeable new and sometimes queer still watchful and alert old and hitherto faithful festival new intelligent or magical powerfully talented picturesque colored enlightened, civilized entirely urban seemingly sane completely loyal and talented surpassingly decent sunny, helpless interesting and companionable enough theatrical regrettably exotic foolish, hardy alien, peculiar numerous and mischievous english-speaking irish automatic push-button terrible but most fascinating mature and elegant singularly fussy stupid, depressed strikingly open habitually reclusive nervous and gentle unethical rich tolerably conscientious panicked and desperate appropriate free certainly inhospitable mad or senseless therefore decent unrecognizable other trivial, empty strangely private absolutely desperate and incapable stout, well-cared-for fierce and brutish superfluous and tiresome powerful, senior extremely amenable irrepressibly enthusiastic peculiar, wonderful generous and few pious virtuous many gullible simple separate noisy, belligerent idiot or insane polite, civil perfectly unsympathetic notoriously brave mysterious and unscrupulous still hot and ready steady, excellent balanced or logical thoughtless, gay gentle and amorous unreasonably cheerful least helpless uncomfortable anti-social younger, fiercer incredibly disinterested stark and disapproving silent, civil well-regulated nomadic old-fashioned or singular smaller woodland deformed and tattered courteous, cruel and ancient unexpected and judicious poor but brilliant infinitely sallow civilized, domestic complex official enterprising maritime dusky, diminutive foolhardy or evil poor or indigent simple, evil furiously romantic slender and particular unknown devout vivid impressive composite international willing other illiterate and indifferent happy, gnomelike exalted and aristocratic ordinary, uncomplicated serious, submissive likely interesting rebellious perverse hypocritical, grown-up lavishly hospitable excessively obese superstitious, common extremely popular and prosperous stupid and mindless gifted noble steady and old-fashioned weary other rude and migratory pastoral and vagrant purely pastoral and vagrant superior and worthier formerly hostile and antagonistic nondescript tribal shameless and tyrannical essentially sensitive and receptive essentially sensitive foolish, unscrupulous idiot & other outdoor rustic proud and once wealthy narrow and self-righteous brisk and beautiful remarkable bearded enjoyably human curious poor nevertheless crazy delightful, conventional essentially unpolitical benighted gaelic nominally sovereign pious and ignorant peaceable and hard-working strong and equitable cooler and abler lazy and impartial trifling and unknown ignorant literary horrid, wonderful lazy and delicate black, pathetic frivolous and versatile sanctified, peculiar abnormally modest warmhearted and lovable naturally inconsistent naturally inconsistent and enthusiastic impatient and ardent supremely hospitable nasty pious most cruelly oppressed many evil-minded powerful and cynical angry, thirsty capable and strong quiet, exemplary extremely uncivil frivolous, idle foolish, inexperienced free and brave odious and loathsome thy solicitous personally loathsome important, powerful unscrupulous and personally loathsome surgically normal marvelous, creative decent normal ignorant but smart deliberately stinging large and somewhat clumsy docile, cooperative brilliant, unfocused certainly nicer sane clean materialistic and aggressive stringy, brown nasty, materialistic and aggressive disheveled and untidy possibly fierce and warlike valuable or beloved possibly fierce keenly scientific real and likable astoundingly difficult radically crazy abrupt, red-faced other unfocused charming, rollicking sensible and devout sharp, unemotional bright but surprisingly naive shabby and impudent eminent, eminent gloomy, depressed odd-looking reddish bravest or most desperate surely unconscious hopelessly ineligible brave, noble and generous distressing old intelligent and wisest ever able-bodied simple-mindedly violent useful, miraculous quite rough and loyal natural, unaffected and gifted golden perfect miserable, downcast crazy, deluded well-behaved, serious abnormally healthy and energetic playful, cheerful patriotic or self-respecting strictly superior personally hollow or empty medium-sized blond personally hollow spotlessly pure however decent and honest terribly paranoid genuinely ambitious acute well-educated defenseless and vulnerable annoying and unnecessary congenitally rich incredibly contemptible away fastidious real canting great or influential ordinarily courageous hardworking poor serious-minded and muscular wealthy or famous youngish and sarcastic partly immune eager and useless numerous well-equipped shallow and improvident idiosyncratic individual illusive old fine, lazy uncongenial and superfluous oddly artistic quite uncongenial and superfluous strong and knowledgeable nice attentive warlike and prolific vain or vulgar fiercer and harder tortuous and indirect nearly autonomous fat and freckled somewhat xenophobic impatient and impulsive cheerfully voluble comparatively proper and virtuous worthy but little comparatively proper violent and moody worthy, industrious and curious good, sick amusing and facetious paltry, hypocritical vast and still muscular always suspicious and hostile poorest creditable diseased, desperate concrete young humiliating decent giddy or thoughtless polite and warlike indeed enterprising quietly hardworking respectable and indeed enterprising heartless, powerful above-mentioned blind joyless silent refined, polite older self-sufficient commonly studious hundred-odd, dazed and disorganized fruitlessly abject extremely ignorant and stupid particularly unimportant twenty-fifth, several familiar indifferent younger, few dark and pedantic stout suburban indivisible and divine thin, elemental great, indivisible and divine fortunate and average whimsical, perverse enough sick silent and severe many six-foot muddy, disgruntled somber and humorless indomitable, nomadic civilized and dominant early civilized and dominant maritime, commercial uneducated and unpolished strange warlike viable, separate completely unchallenged noisy well-dressed gracious, well-to-do more-or-less innocent away ordinary expansive and creative cruel and demented hairy aboriginal middle-aged, businesslike grave and proud other nonoptimal remarkably law-abiding hard-working and honorable sophisticated and admirable dazzling, sensitive unconscious bicameral dreadfully--several elegant and gorgeous vicious and unfortunate lively chatty drearily practical prominent and amusing prosperous childless troublesome poor manifestly commonplace people--criminal bad people--criminal whole doltish virtually speechless extraordinary or curious carrion lean urban, refined fundamentally rationalistic middling and common common-sense and commonplace curacao--national stalwart and quarrelsome refined and warm-hearted ambitious, discontented tolerably modest rightly pleasing intelligent and freedom-loving comparatively intelligent and freedom-loving perfectly sane and competent agricultural and warlike inferior and even wicked ambitious common astonishingly loquacious delightful other dirty other young and very bright-eyed simple barbarous frequently cunning sentimental common brave and oppressed famous and well-born irresponsible and dishonest eminently imaginative savage but ingenious curious and indifferent extensive, few superstitious and bigoted common or poor warlike and enlightened seemingly thoughtless beardless and short-lived generally beardless generally beardless and short-lived affable and doubtful estimable and remarkable disheartening young candid and very intelligent sober and parsimonious dullest and most selfish many half-dressed practical and industrious self-respecting free virtuous and laborious free, spirited poor ravenous odd or extraordinary seriously gay thoughtful and genuine easily serious queer nomadic deformed, ignorant law-abiding, mighty highly grammatical wretched, odious revolutionary common fatly prosperous luxurious quiet chiefly well-to-do mostly creative charming and disinterested rough and impudent miserably deluded industrious, happy now superficial moral, commercial sensual, luxurious imperatively noticeable foreign and kindred unmistakably loyal inflated and vain already inflated and vain alert and responsible independent and deeply religious utterly free vague modern vulgar, uneducated small, many feeble and foolish quite stable also fewer and fewer presumably human hard and unsentimental otherwise captivating unfortunate, miserable more disparate black and oriental useless or vulgar ignorant and illiberal many hairless mostly uninhabitable open-minded and cultured alarming uniformed evil or indifferent stolid or unimaginative sensible and responsible perfectly honest and upstanding exciting, mysterious gusty, generous singularly wise and witty culturally aware basically noisy foremost seafaring amoral, cynical prosperous, carefree wisest and most wonderful other well-set elegant psychic interim and few sincere and elemental lovable, normal rather insupportable crazy and crazy elegant and rather insupportable normal naked absent-minded and inconsistent wicked and greedy expressively sympathetic hollow, sour indistinct, middle-aged other gram inconvenient, unpleasant vital, quicksilver strait-laced and virtuous mythical and dead enthusiastic and alive clearly complex intelligent, enthusiastic and alive merely sane astute, supple flat-headed dark-skinned great but invisible good-hearted but shortsighted funniest, sweetest violent, frightening thoughtless good-natured reclusive and solitary inexperienced and artless con ordinary civil able-bodied interesting, busy nominally sane altruistic and loyal interesting, likable deeply altruistic and loyal broader but not taller deeply altruistic gouty, disagreeable bloodthirsty, brutal solitary, sober physically plain blond earthy older, wealthier sleazy blonde greedy and power-hungry terrible heartless solemn and superficial annoying, useless determinedly respectable and commonplace older and foreign flattering important well-educated and very courteous pompous preposterous invisible attractive consistent and conservative innately conservative poetical and optimistic powerfully important needy middle-class solitary and poetic poor and practical aberrationally brave stolid, stern and joyless invalid or delicate stern and joyless odd, pitiful evil-minded, selfish stout amiable peruvian young feebly imaginative essentially thrifty evil or ignorant estimable and unfortunate ignorant or inexperienced often exacting wondrously innocent often exacting and querulous accordingly unshakable and full unhappy common accordingly unshakable happy indoor owne gracious past homeless spiritually skeptical hard-working and respectable genuinely brilliant astonishing ordinary ordinary, proper interstellarly newsworthy reasonable and realistic honest but passionate insolent, unworthy callously curious gaunt stern smart and well-to-do more coolheaded far darker and more somewhat wide-awake own clannish noble and most ingenious constantly shredded altogether deformed harsh and war-like insignificant and altogether deformed sophisticated and technologically superior nearest suspicious irreversibly different agreeable girlish frivolous and distasteful excellent and most agreeable powerful brutal conspicuously profane evil and obnoxious garrulous and cheery cheerful, expansive turbulent, vexatious extraordinarily dead handiest and most helpful civilized or barbarous unfit and improper often unpredictable and hard plain vivacious enough ruthless plump brownish sweet and warmhearted ordinary but not disagreeable fifty-odd innocent suspicious or unknown selfish, traitorous destitute poor enigmatic, private restless or careless persistent and sometimes sarcastic noble and well-educated seemingly intelligent and rational mild, specious impoverished black useful, industrious ago simple-minded unbiased older notoriously ornamental undoubtedly competent merely middle-class dull and illiterate positive, adaptable somewhat dull and illiterate naturally exquisite imperishable true rough timid sane and sincere brilliant, self-sufficient verie lewd virile new attentive, agreeable most mad terrible, eccentric actual indigenous whole, solemn pseudointellectual animal reasonable or respectable respectable or timorous jovial, fat apparently good-natured and hospitable disgustingly well-regulated infinitely lucky original or quaint way-real crazy mild, reasonable and obliging short-lived hairy despicable and detestable steady, family-oriented eccentric, peculiar pious charitable industrious and curious intelligent well-to-do acceptable and deserving practical, many particularly modest commonplace rich juvenile, handsome sympathetic and habitually good-humored particularly truthful habitually good-humored deplorably sordid comfortable but not wealthy capable large literal, brutal bumptious colored un-vocal consistently unjust harquhal promising beauteous or virtuous powerful, fewer religious and very emotional smartest and most conscientious idiot, insane bald helpless wide-awake, shrewd rabidly paranoid defiant, unafraid modern sane young and indiscreet happy, cordial remorseful young simple unprepared loyal, worthy hard rich fourth poor inherently unreliable fussy but well-meaning honorable and pious irresponsible coloured older coloured particularly rakish and shabby remarkable respectable devout and most hospitable darn other worthy and domestic helpful and easygoing elegant and diplomatic nicest, helpful and easygoing sensitive, conscientious corrupt, vicious finite spiritual free and poor particularly haughty and exclusive savage but brave fine and athletic sober hard-working grave and severe-looking enterprising, vigorous stately autocratic honest and intellectual serious or well-informed charitable prudent modest civil turbulent and military fickle and unfaithful quite impeccable insignificant and paltry shallow and inexperienced special and unforgettable rural colored unreasonable crazy good, fugitive obliging, willing and attentive thy destitute heroic and powerful perfectly obedient and industrious domestic and capable peaceable, innocent stingy, avaricious humane, sociable well-read and delightful french-speaking colored prodigiously well-read and delightful idle, blood-thirsty prodigiously well-read center-liberal delightful and affable gay airy ample, perspiring good, civilized cheerful and impetuous vulgar or ignorant active painstaking unreasonably sick irritable or violent second-rate, solitary amiable or high-minded interesting and gallant proud and sedentary industrious and harmless flaccid, weak generous brazilian crass, crabbed intelligent, respectable and influential

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Words to Describe people

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "people" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "people" are: marxist-dominated, heedless and unnecessary, fickle other, selfish or foolish, and often monotonous or painful. There are 995 other words to describe people listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe people 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, "people" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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