Describing Wordsfor Performance

examples: nose,  winter,  blue eyes,  woman

Here are some adjectives for performance: strong macroeconomic, poor disgusting, inconsistent economic, balanced and professional, deft and diligent, sluggish economic, rhetoric--probably best, compelling specific, smooth and sociable, hideous and abject, senseless and dramatic, superior logistical, slick competent, present comical, little virtuoso, one-sixth better, wildly inflammatory, actual ballistic, successful continuous, disagreeable or disgusting, deliberate musical, hasty and frail, casual, multiple, stolid, mechanical, tough, unrelenting, nervous and inept, optimum possible, perpetual dramatic, smart and fascinating, good matinee. You can get the definitions of these performance adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to performance (and find more here).

Sort By Usage Frequency

Click words for definitions.

Words to Describe performance

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

strong macroeconomic poor disgusting inconsistent economic balanced and professional deft and diligent sluggish economic rhetoric--probably best compelling specific smooth and sociable hideous and abject senseless and dramatic superior logistical slick competent present comical little virtuoso one-sixth better wildly inflammatory actual ballistic successful continuous disagreeable or disgusting deliberate musical hasty and frail casual, multiple stolid, mechanical tough, unrelenting nervous and inept
describing words continue after advertisement
optimum possible perpetual dramatic smart and fascinating good matinee insipid and tedious nimble and spirited splendidly nimble splendidly nimble and spirited strictly instinctive null and further slightly undiplomatic noble or gracious miserably irresponsible highest effective unique and nearly incredible punctual and cheerful due, punctual and cheerful pathetic and humiliating vivacious and skillful respectable muscular to-morrow twentieth to-morrow thirtieth robust macroeconomic remarkable alliterative rare scant positively refreshing auxiliary vicarious violent and impertinent rather electrifying frankly unethical lusty, spirited <def>actual regular and faithful public digital somewhat satisfactory imperative sexual robably best mediocre undergraduate haunting, strange grotesque and vile inexpressibly grotesque and vile already dismaying grand, unique good, ribald last gala regular or monotonous fine and apparently sincere sinister theatrical habitually poor disgusting, disgraceful unusually outrageous final, flawless abjectly pitiable speculative, etymological swiss economic equally consummate therefore unwarrantable animated but bloodless faithful and speedy unusual and troublesome spacious, capable intellectual and even moral charming alfresco same gala musical and not theatrical long tragi-comic curious spectacular mighty and pompous voluntary and normal more conscionable curious and solemn bizarre theatrical felonious one-man particular instinctive admirable and despicable private operatic obviously vain graceful and intelligent astonishingly subtle rollicking comedic instantaneous, improvisational subsequent free-market lackluster academic brilliant and breathless almost implausible unusual gymnastic useful and truthful deft and dangerous usual mediocre already marginal earlier admirable extremely revolting splendidly embarrassing truly award-winning extraordinary athletic senseless, degrading strenuous athletic single acrobatic obviously triumphant remarkably swift and accurate demonstrably superior negative operational better diplomatic astoundingly ungracious borderline maladroit fine, thunderous tactful and observant skilful and punctual great and marvellously successful somewhat irregular and unpredictable vigilant but discreet faithful intellectual undoubtedly clever and attractive lackluster economic feeble, tiresome occasional farcical poverty-stricken and thin extempore melodramatic girlish, amateurish careful, workmanlike conscious, arduous artistic or operatic exceptionally first-rate painful and dusty flimsy spectacular authentic dutch simple, gentle and beautiful nonpartisan and faithful foolhardy and melodramatic constant and faultless adequate and persistent inept and meaningless thoroughly zealous and competent continuous metropolitan intolerable helter-skelter extremely idiotic complimentary and disquieting astonishingly sensitive due or energetic great or very important magnificent tragical silent, rigorous essentially patriotic and necessary essentially patriotic patriotic and necessary finely irish correct and skilful unaffected, healthy strict but silent former equestrian artificial and very difficult truly melodramatic exacting literal symmetrical and noble melodious and sweet secondary typographical absurd and sacrilegious thoroughly chaste meritorious and surprising modern and exciting last and most characteristic commonplace matutinal industrious and watchful abysmally boring similar gala fearless, vigorous and effective exceedingly frivolous imprudent gymnastic inspiring and amazing successful and artistic threefold rich smooth final intolerably pedantic solid macroeconomic particularly spirited and effective rude and somewhat vulgar over-all top subsequent impressive competent and even heroic whole discordant sufficiently indifferent edifying and appropriate interesting, edifying and appropriate habitual preliminary late unrehearsed outward literal spectacular professional regular and meticulous short but extraordinarily clever obviously scientific famous and unpopular now famous and unpopular excessive functional dramatic or operatic singularly clean and elastic scratchy and painful distinctly juvenile silent rigorous respectable operatic much one-sided theatrical matutinal singularly intelligent and able actually affectionate simple and actually affectionate unpretentious, honest competent and felicitous cruelly daring stupendous acrobatic oddest musical unidigital exceptional hymeneal unconventional and amusing startlingly hilarious methodical and imitative conscientious and effective better-than-expected economic entire acrobatic incredibly stupid and vulgar daily dramatic uninspired, stilted stilted or wooden rare, scant preposterously misleading jerky irritating maximum material sadly maimed eminently creditable sensible and conclusive intellectual, refined and capable quadrennial national ordinary cut-price sketchy culinary habitually imperfect simple and perfectly innocent special gala honorable and scrupulous adroit partisan arbitrary and altogether unconstitutional conjectural or haphazard nervy and cool-headed coarse but admirable scrupulous and enthusiastic incredible theatrical commonplace and orthodox uncontrolled, helter-skelter to-morrow seventeenth to-morrow fifteenth to-morrow sixteenth to-morrow tenth unpunctual and irritating entirely perfunctory chaste and highly artistic ragged, hasty shapeless, undigested admirably picturesque typical squeaky best collegiate rarely compelling tibetan theatrical entirely circumspect polite and entirely circumspect due and healthful brilliant and pathetic indefinable and often mystical interesting and civilised merely formal and perfunctory often fearless stern and often fearless brilliant but incorrect conscientious and unselfish last teutonic somewhat difficult and precarious hideous and stupidly monotonous distinctly ladylike faithful and economic rare and creditable awkward but faithful detestable and filthy disgracefully untidy well-intentioned poetical highly intelligent and charming faithful and not superficial easy and not unpleasant probably youthful cheerful energetic inconsequential theatrical choral or operatic orchestral, choral or operatic less orchestral offensive and indiscreet utterly improper and scandalous exact and circumspect delicately solemn distinctly ticklish crudely extravagant primitive and strenuous strange and strategic breathless and incredible successful or satisfactory forthcoming open-air somber and frightful fateful matinee gratuitous unauthorized acoustic or visual pleasant, creditable bulky and futile wonderfully flatulent well-written and judicious remarkable and consistent dreadful, disagreeable lamentably grotesque mawkish and stilted masterly irresistible otherwise trite weird acrobatic last-named athletic possible heroic unexpected and erratic convenient and collective somewhat dramatic and spectacular sad and religious efficient and decorous disposal, musical successful and delicately artistic unspeakably idiotic abrupt, alarming strikingly well-balanced clumsy and unconvincing nominal trial doubly singular judicious and rigorous mystical and convincing faithful and rigorous coarse, lazy severely conscientious impeccable mechanical superstitious and impossible prosaic and everyday steady half-conscious later biographical periodical operatic curious mad unsatisfactory and shallow fine and never-to-be-forgotten fivefold athletic otherwise unsatisfactory simple canine independent and secular highly clever computer-generated audio rare and artistic poor economic absurd, impossible astounding musical entire hypnotic last choral inexpressibly grotesque last scarce cute nineteen-year-old perfectly vivid psephological last theatrical meritorious naval rare roundabout cheerful and faithful due and faithful clumsy or awkward heavy prosaic spiritless, powerless indifferent musical difficult psychic moderate cerebral logical and brilliant trivial literary faithful and honorable recent spectacular perfect theatrical comparatively moral breakeven thy successful truly masterful solidly professional immaculate, thunderous infuriatingly calm near-spiritual rather deceitful surprisingly poignant stunning theatrical strong first-quarter utterly unconvincing british and utterly unconvincing efficient overall similar ballistic sometimes shameful soft but spirited plain acrobatic humane, better superior overall agile, effortless cute, nineteen-year-old magical, musical usual, provocative dazzling financial strange and unconventional extraordinarily off-key shamefully wretched wretched, insignificant wonderfully adroit athletic, high-energy strenuous, virtuoso brilliantly awesome brilliantly awesome and convincing high-profile and successful two-track mental general, flashy unconvincing dramatic constant exemplary finan�cial simply fraudulent utterly maladroit optimum off-road damned disappointing private and uncut otherwise spurious delectable, impudent vivid and historic convincing matinee highly problematical unnaturally well-rounded memorable manic deft and highly original regrettably stilted astounding sexual interminable obscene particularly acrobatic thus-far-abysmal thrillingly realistic communicative linguistic sketchy and unsatisfactory usual, masterful hence higher unique and strangely hypnotic common athletic amazingly authentic spectacularly average already lackluster excruciatingly manipulative naturalistic, impressive deliberate and ominous poor sexual hilarious and amazing remarkably somber such then-current mightily powerful admirable, deft agreeable theatrical quite idiotic thoughtless and meaningless glorious and unforgettable original professional brave and inspiring negligent, careless and superficial exact and successful mere thorough thrillingly dangerous consciously useful decorous and artistic interesting and social admirable and entirely engrossing weak and fanciful queerest artless vigorous, breathless faithful, impartial anonymous literary clever and creditable extraordinarily unequal erototheological complex erototheological satisfactory musical dull theatrical memorably beautiful graceful and tasteful positive and potent racy literary attractive theatrical inspiring musical cheerful and noble highly superfluous admirably successful final theatrical ridiculous and unequal painful and even perilous magnificent orchestral weak agricultural important theatrical usually extraordinary recent matinee infrequent public theatrical matinee silly superficial remarkably deft vaguely splendid ancient acrobatic frequent or regular correct and painstaking valuable and almost indispensable proper and pleasant interesting shakespearean refined and capable dynamic and vital peaceful academical bright gala altogether unconstitutional graceful and decorous latest somersaulting grand matinee despicable and odious capital and classical lengthy and troublesome uncanny, heathenish outward magical least meritorious occasional experimental incredible and infantile consistent and accurate strange freakish best single-handed self-conscious, arduous stupidly monotonous noisy, rackety usual matinee quiet, artistic occasional vocal up-to-date continuous judicious, well-written regimental theatrical first-class orchestral open-air theatrical increasingly calm thrilling, hair-raising graceful and enchanting average operatic degrading little subsequent unlawful imaginative dramatic fine war-time grand gymnastic proper devout brilliant and tasteful dramatic and spectacular primitive theatrical delicately artistic preliminary and tentative general improper entirely fake wholly good-natured sincere and ready ingenious dramatic hollow and hypocritical imperfect juvenile para-theatrical theatrical and para-theatrical optimal military insane and illogical certainly tiresome certainly tiresome and nonsensical dismal clumsy big gala necessarily wide-awake creditable musical _ceratophrys_--vocal ceratophrys--vocal horribly uncanny exact and spiritual already often-repeated highly skilful and intelligent prognostication--only actual further universal grave, decent perfect and strict thorough and faithful long and tragical exceptionally inaccurate symmetrical and effective macroeconomic private theatrical solid economic plainest, simplest thorough and satisfactory impressive economic best and final gay festal nearly incredible strong agricultural instrumental or vocal such foolhardy quite innocuous difficult and wearisome artificial religious comparatively simple and easy strange ritual japanese theatrical also swift little cat-and-mouse illustrious musical enlightened and honest active and affectionate honest and willing apparently impromptu lactational faithful and vigilant non-credit roughly comparable impromptu athletic imperfect and unequal faithful and thorough noble and curious extraordinary poetical curious barbaric french, german or italian admirable special continuous, never-ending faithful and satisfactory same gymnastic faithful and correct piquant and attractive neatest and most elegant meek and uncomplaining astonishing gymnastic rude theatrical powerful, interesting childish and barbarous expressive and sympathetic otherwise wonderful memorable private cold, classical charming and capable remarkable and amusing wonderful woodland exact and disinterested before-school modern spectacular peculiarly popular perilous acrobatic forthcoming dramatic humiliating and distasteful often mystical serious and complex somewhat negligent grandest and most perfect next shakespearean strict and diligent regular and rigid long and fastidious next attractive thoroughly careful skillful and artistic thoroughly disappointing extremely spectacular sensible affectionate outward sacrificial actual sacrificial private preparatory energetic and efficient dull formal singularly unimpressive three-night other tragical thoroughly philosophical late brave proper vocal historical or poetical comic dramatic usual depressing bad past greatest and most perfect virtual and actual simple, lovable dangerous public artificially inflated lofty public poetical or literary best individual grand musical long dramatic unexpected and highly dramatic strange but charming particularly inept merely degraded latest shakespearean animated vocal particularly wrenching final, triumphal dreary german particularly amazing compact high fine, consistent awesome and convincing inconceivably grotesque and ludicrous recent ballistic frequently dismal amazing, unbelievable thoroughly disgraceful typically excellent emotionally complex rather horrendous lovely impromptu single provisional silent and efficient consistently poor optimum operational useful and creditable due and healthy high-class artistic undoubtedly clever graceful, rhythmical careful, successful creditable acrobatic annual dramatic due and regular entirely engrossing mere faithful zealous and competent thoroughly zealous coarse, wretched grotesque and extraordinary idiotic and ridiculous childishly easy other and better-known continual monotonous weirdly absurd singularly clean mysterious extra singularly promising exact and intelligent rather cheeky outward mechanical poor intellectual chief speculative chief single weak and tentative characteristic female quite harmonious exceedingly problematical whole unexpected full and strict private dramatic brilliant, perfect public theatrical utterly improper wonderfully solid next matinee customary public odd, incomprehensible vastly finer wanton and reckless continuous revolutionary approximately perfect incomplete and inadequate tame and stupid calm and intelligent raw technological honest efficient historically memorable scientific, systematic domestic economic scenic or dramatic last vocal absurdly high faithful and diligent strong economic good economic previous private quiet, submissive remarkable aerial ordinary dramatic glorious final remarkable vocal precious scientific rather unconventional simple literary exceedingly hazardous whole impressive clever and plausible probably useful cold and perfunctory small effective least judicious spontaneous and unexpected theatrical or operatic dangerous acrobatic choreographical usually dreary little instrumental admirable and comprehensive feeble literary dramatic and impressive silent and serene strictly consistent extraordinary and unnecessary vocal or instrumental accurate and valuable careless and imperfect self-conscious literary rather sympathetic greater mathematical weak and inconclusive outstanding religious cruelly unjust actual poetical finest and most graceful grand spectacular great gala ragged and untidy scenic and musical careless and slipshod solemn and official finest tragic graceful equestrian singular and solitary futile and useless other gratuitous initial dramatic regular and due almost immaculate sparkling and brilliant free and energetic exceptionally effective whole piteous entire sacrificial tame, commonplace earliest theatrical stupid worthless wholly untrustworthy general fine genuine musical absolutely amazing next gala rather outspoken impressive oratorical utterly obscene childish, rude unbelievably effective otherwise superb maximum physical better recent somewhat jejune old-fashioned theatrical theatrickal better ballistic nearly superhuman absolutely unreal short, impromptu surprisingly subtle central, open-air usually monotonous highly skillful small actual fragmentary and imperfect ambitious musical remarkable and impressive cheerful and serene beautiful and truthful unworthy and degrading mere perfunctory swift, dramatic conscientious and laborious simple and every-day strange and unwarrantable certain guttural last crazed excellent and successful native musical small poetical mostly trivial monstrous and astounding public dramatic economical and efficient peculiar and dangerous formal and perfunctory wholly subjective other acrobatic reverent and rational difficult and exciting altogether serious past financial long instrumental best, mediocre metronomical correct and spirited effective and durable human physical big general otherwise monotonous effective and economical actual public incredibly successful strict and faithful regular dramatic gala matinee most dangerous complete private especially graceful rare and notable calm and business-like spectacular public perfectly senseless professional public honest, skilful altogether proper grand comic spirited and able speedy and full fine and sincere judicious and faithful pleasing and elegant rigid and exact stupid and ridiculous remarkably artistic hideously grotesque weak and faulty highly fantastic own sacrificial strange and glorious mere exterior poor agricultural truly outstanding already legendary sufficiently remarkable increasingly poor sincere and simple brilliant final laborious and systematic just sloppy inconceivably grotesque particularly compelling whole disgusting best sexual curious and accurate mere audible weighty and serious overall economic solid and satisfactory wonderful and inspiring otherwise successful spirited and effective particularly spirited merely perfunctory constant and continual own joint successful dramatic term-end present feeble mere accurate resolute and energetic ingenious literary actual artistic outward ceremonial exact literal solid and brilliant regular and equal heroic and steadfast conscionable virtuous and intelligent fairly difficult small musical tedious and monotonous nearly impending aerial acrobatic successful after-dinner most marvelous whole trivial last dramatic

Popular Searches

disappointmentdiamond ringmoodsconditionlocationlustmarsmardatacheerleaderbusybreathingyoung mansurvivorplasticold personred hairprejudicereptilebubbleambitiouswizardarmsslavetrollsymbolismstairturtlespuppierainstormtreasureabilitycold airtransportlunchcubasupermarketbeautiful soulperfectionstoriesinformationmysteryhallwayhungerskin colorsmellsfriesluxurybaseball fieldteartoy cardark cloudshometownhospital smellcrystalnounnervousnesssad eyesslytherinstarfishtunnelcoalcactuleghorrorsilkyoung boyballetinsectcomedyarticleart decoaestheticamerican dreamaccentbad boyveteranbandgreenerycemeterybrave personcotton candytrophycheekbonespugcourtroomlionessberlintauruembarrassmentavalanchefight scenefunfairconsistencycornamsterdamdark skybrutudark forestophelia

Words to Describe performance

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "performance" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "performance" are: strong macroeconomic, poor disgusting, inconsistent economic, balanced and professional, and deft and diligent. There are 995 other words to describe performance listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe performance 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, "performance" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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.

Please note that Describing Words uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. To learn more, see the privacy policy.

Recent Queries

absdeforestationterminatorbroadsheetsprogrammingbahamamanufacturingsorajautoomistbrutestadmurresidenceimaginovaprocurementpatronizersbuckmastpersonablessedestvoiculescumushinbuderusnoncandidatespillionairegenderfluidargumentivekneejointedoverchargesexoneratingmellifluousuncountablevaledictionargumentizeexhaustionfbinepalicroissantbunionsnixonakudimsiaaprobitydragontalkativescanzukjoggershumiliationssourmsefarukhcartonsbunyodkorhumpbureaucratismassessingsynergyumanzorthuvakudipolyspermytoothbrushzlochcarterisgreycroftciurlacgoatbutalmapucanonicallytreeplantingknightriderdnmskwierzynawerferthshinkaycasuarinascalcuttateenagerswcpfccodlingtainoceratidaeciliegiololimousinejonathanweekendplayerslessemsaurushemitheacrenelationsmechanistpteridiineaepictoriallykutuzovdelphybudapestgigglingnonlocalitystarsightintemperatecaltabellottafacismopneumotherapyseggeuriusdisappointmentkeemadadagamiereitherjordanovskidaxosbenchmarksarpeirecencybilinguallyallmissionfurnitwettersteingebirgedesperadotimescaleprintabilityfacilitationprofessionalganefoevidentiarygeknipthallbjornssonhaislajoshuaestranomarshlandperigenesispensatoribiocommunicationermesindafustasmalpracticegatomontesturnaroundbaleswarmasterchefhouysmanipularopalescencepaghintedeydifferingsirsenraptsgeuitmumsappreciateastutenesspericlesbrightscomagondjunoshavatediousderidereturcamallanidaeclvoeracerbeepidermisgameoholicgroomsmenmatafleurgustawshrineprozacmicriphonecactusdispositiononychectomydiddewismoonsheemuggedpulseflashforwardspolyparyresemblanceoisterstaximyrkrseranganlesinneresheimkeramamanagernationalpuppydayblouseclohdpunalurwpganxiousperogativeionospherebarcorannigerianweddingsmahathalacrossosomataceaesemlikipipeclay