Describing Words
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Here are some adjectives for person. You can get the definitions of these adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to person (and find more here).
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Words to Describe person
Below is a list of describing words for person. 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 person:
selfish or foolish solemnly deliberate sophisticated knowledgeable thin and very agile immediately annoying naive and humble curiously naive and humble truly intelligent or magical strong and responsible cool, contemplative fundamentally good-hearted fluffy, blue-eyed crafty evil gay serious rather uncertain and elusive uncertain and elusive stolidly respectable courageous, nobler commonly gifted insignificant and helpless malicious, vindictive clean-shaven, silent buxom and cheerful bustling and genial gnarled, dried-up relatively ethical sane and well-adjusted slight and agile distant, self-contained token sane innocent and hospitable spotlessly pure and innocent sufficiently crooked able but poor inordinately selfish perverse or refractory naturally diplomatic frail, youngish never harmful or destructive never harmful enormously selfish single, well-known impartial but prestigious feckless, trivial mildly objectionable amiable and complacent noble, ducal proud or haughty essentially common handsome or otherwise captivating good or loyal continually absent truly evil or indifferent strong and stupid nice, optimistic girlishly freckled quietly formidable loving and most lovable lean, genial normal proportioned abysmally foolish virtuous or innocent bankrupt or other evil-minded and seditious superstitious or highly imaginative decent and confidential self-sufficient, successful silent, sallow discreet, grave thoroughly depraved and vicious completely self-assured exciting, fantastic reasonable and open-minded supposedly neutral and independent chaste and delightful totally spotless swarthy, dried-up sleekly prosperous conscientious and mature genuine crazy intelligent but trusting inept, unproductive courteous gentle crafty and unjust eleventh wealthiest smartest and most able uncommonly strong and compact odd ignorant squalid and withered generous and impartial restless and absurd intelligent or magical picturesque colored seemingly sane surpassingly decent interesting and companionable regrettably exotic alien, peculiar english-speaking irish terrible but most fascinating singularly fussy strikingly open nervous and gentle tolerably conscientious appropriate free mad or senseless unrecognizable other strangely private stout, well-cared-for superfluous and tiresome extremely amenable peculiar, wonderful pious virtuous simple separate idiot or insane perfectly unsympathetic mysterious and unscrupulous steady, excellent thoughtless, gay unreasonably cheerful uncomfortable anti-social incredibly disinterested silent, civil old-fashioned or singular deformed and tattered unexpected and judicious infinitely sallow complex official dusky, diminutive poor or indigent furiously romantic unknown devout composite international illiterate and indifferent exalted and aristocratic serious, submissive rebellious perverse powerful and cynical capable and strong extremely uncivil foolish, inexperienced odious and loathsome personally loathsome unscrupulous and personally loathsome marvelous, creative ignorant but smart large and somewhat clumsy brilliant, unfocused sane clean stringy, brown disheveled and untidy valuable or beloved keenly scientific astoundingly difficult abrupt, red-faced charming, rollicking sharp, unemotional shabby and impudent gloomy, depressed bravest or most desperate hopelessly ineligible distressing old ever able-bodied useful, miraculous natural, unaffected and gifted miserable, downcast well-behaved, serious playful, cheerful strictly superior medium-sized blond spotlessly pure terribly paranoid acute well-educated annoying and unnecessary incredibly contemptible real canting ordinarily courageous serious-minded and muscular youngish and sarcastic eager and useless shallow and improvident illusive old uncongenial and superfluous quite uncongenial and superfluous nice attentive vain or vulgar tortuous and indirect fat and freckled impatient and impulsive comparatively proper and virtuous comparatively proper worthy, industrious and curious amusing and facetious vast and still muscular poorest creditable concrete young giddy or thoughtless indeed enterprising respectable and indeed enterprising above-mentioned blind refined, polite commonly studious fruitlessly abject particularly unimportant familiar indifferent dark and pedantic indivisible and divine great, indivisible and divine whimsical, perverse silent and severe utterly free quite stable presumably human otherwise captivating open-minded and cultured evil or indifferent sensible and responsible exciting, mysterious singularly wise and witty basically noisy amoral, cynical wisest and most wonderful elegant psychic sincere and elemental rather insupportable elegant and rather insupportable absent-minded and inconsistent expressively sympathetic indistinct, middle-aged inconvenient, unpleasant strait-laced and virtuous enthusiastic and alive intelligent, enthusiastic and alive astute, supple great but invisible funniest, sweetest thoughtless good-natured inexperienced and artless civil able-bodied nominally sane interesting, likable broader but not taller gouty, disagreeable solitary, sober blond earthy sleazy blonde terrible heartless annoying, useless older and foreign well-educated and very courteous invisible attractive innately conservative powerfully important solitary and poetic aberrationally brave invalid or delicate odd, pitiful stout amiable feebly imaginative evil or ignorant ignorant or inexperienced wondrously innocent accordingly unshakable and full accordingly unshakable owne gracious spiritually skeptical genuinely brilliant ordinary, proper reasonable and realistic insolent, unworthy gaunt stern more coolheaded somewhat wide-awake noble and most ingenious altogether deformed insignificant and altogether deformed nearest suspicious agreeable girlish excellent and most agreeable conspicuously profane garrulous and cheery turbulent, vexatious handiest and most helpful unfit and improper plain vivacious plump brownish ordinary but not disagreeable suspicious or unknown destitute poor restless or careless noble and well-educated mild, specious useful, industrious unbiased older undoubtedly competent dull and illiterate somewhat dull and illiterate imperishable true sane and sincere verie lewd attentive, agreeable terrible, eccentric whole, solemn reasonable or respectable jovial, fat disgustingly well-regulated original or quaint mild, reasonable and obliging despicable and detestable eccentric, peculiar industrious and curious acceptable and deserving particularly modest juvenile, handsome particularly truthful deplorably sordid capable large bumptious colored consistently unjust beauteous or virtuous religious and very emotional idiot, insane wide-awake, shrewd defiant, unafraid young and indiscreet remorseful young loyal, worthy fourth poor fussy but well-meaning irresponsible coloured particularly rakish and shabby devout and most hospitable worthy and domestic elegant and diplomatic sensitive, conscientious finite spiritual particularly haughty and exclusive fine and athletic grave and severe-looking stately autocratic serious or well-informed modest civil fickle and unfaithful insignificant and paltry special and unforgettable unreasonable crazy obliging, willing and attentive heroic and powerful domestic and capable stingy, avaricious well-read and delightful prodigiously well-read and delightful prodigiously well-read delightful and affable ample, perspiring cheerful and impetuous active painstaking irritable or violent amiable or high-minded proud and sedentary flaccid, weak crass, crabbed righteous and competent fat grotesque methodical, neat largely selfless somewhat formidable and terrifying outwardly imperturbable unemotional, unsentimental doubtless respectable useful, indefatigable mysterious and eminent equally mysterious and eminent magnificent white-haired often voluble trustworthy, conscientious nervous and easily subjugated average, usual supremely suspicious obvious and stupid rather obvious and stupid disastrously truthful mild-mannered and eminently suitable sheepish, red-faced mute and splendid silent and supercilious obscure but conscientious disturbingly important intelligent, extraordinary acute and sensible strong and very simple extraordinarily swarthy nice, simple-minded tall and extremely graceful exceedingly self-reliant slender unconcerned ex-tremely low ambitious and worthy extremely small and boyish most cold-blooded extraordinarily humane a--m--really dangerous energetic and somewhat violent alert and courteous singularly repellent plain and rather tasteless successful and attractive extraordinarily wicked unclean or covetous bold and outrageous entirely fatal bolder, shameless important, rich fake underage evil, stupid and miserable angular and planar graciously gifted biggest stupid complex, baffling awkward, unattractive clever and honest immensely eminent resourceful, loving normally selfish dimply blonde supremely righteous ultimately righteous thorough small philadelphia-area boastful and incompetent wretchedly boastful and incompetent wretchedly boastful timid and insignificant constantly sad and gloomy constantly sad boyish, common famous sick stable, substantial previously reasonable sweet and seemingly superficial variable young slow and unprofitable poor but exemplary desperately poor but exemplary slippery and changeable extremely foreign everyday pragmatic objectionable and unpleasant intelligent and joyful honest and very respectable inefficient and disreputable insufferably complacent and unsympathetic insufferably complacent complacent and unsympathetic deaf or demented greedy, odious disquietingly youthful orphan young elder big senior big execptionally pacific vaguely sane good-looking, forceful terrifyingly practical musically sophisticated tallest chinese deeply creepy shrewdest and most vicious curious and very private literate, pleasant mild, watchful masterful, genial singularly discourteous professionally whiskered naturally unreasonable dreadfully sulky ladylike elegant vulgar, offensive charmingly reasonable hopelessly disappointing real shallow dim and frumpy sober and pragmatic terribly sober and pragmatic terribly sober wide-eyed homeless lithe dark-skinned relatively bizarre habitually aggressive exclusive and immaculate dark-haired, demure eccentric and somewhat ominous extremely uncomplicated awfully terrible frugal, thrifty confident and intelligent busiest motionless amazingly sane young and altogether inexperienced quite abstracted remote and quite abstracted grown-up and independent coldly decorous cylindrical clerical latter-day, civilised cynical artistic idle and flimsy rather idle and flimsy tremendously compact and busy tremendously compact curiously contemptible and useless curiously contemptible cynical, malicious graver little weak, annoying analytical and nervous quaintly natural rotund, cautious poor or sick gigantic and florid illiterate untrained cold-blooded and thoughtful somewhat gross and vulgar unflaggingly industrious supernaturally amorous exceptional, dramatic healthy magnetic pragmatical and vain propitious old civil and well-bred unusually unfortunate half-crazy sentimental last-named venerable modest and estimable well-informed and active wicked and disaffected remarkably tall and slender sympathetic and gentle phlogistical syllogistical, phlogistical talkative, important lavish and magnanimous cruel, misanthropical disagreeable and antique common, senseless majestic little curiously well-informed sedate and domestic different and highly important seemingly well-informed malicious, evil-minded indifferent and unscrupulous courageous, sincere sincere and decent eminently ordinary terribly greedy seal, such athletic but uncouth honorable and highly respectable careless or malignant suitable and estimable judicially competent morose and thrifty nicest merriest far-off mythical crotchety, fantastic clear-headed, true and faithful sacred or beloved twice wealthy respectable and twice wealthy youthful and interesting twice unfortunate vacant and solitary everlasting glorious common politic contentious turbulent untrustworthy, tricky exceedingly reticent monstrous impudent tactful and popular husky good-looking previously unthinking grand, unromantic polite, pleasing and plausible all-round dependable strange noble enterprising, knowledgeable good-natured agreeable steady amiable native or coloured timid academic truly orthodox and apostolical useless, insignificant merely mythological ladylike, pleasant hospitable, agreeable indigent and worthless physical or legal well-defined divine silent, cadaverous appreciative, peremptory legally clean weak and soft-headed fine and rather terrifying absolutely loving strange and unmarried modest, worthy and handsome portly overdressed often suspicious and unhappy thoroughly dogmatical insultingly magnanimous prosperous private clever or agreeable frail, guilty idiot or fatuous studious but easy-going average non-mechanical maliciously obtuse solemn, sleepy sanguine and energetic calm, ladylike refined and extraordinary equally snow-white educational young dense and obtuse seventh and free excitingly agreeable curiously philanthropic and eccentric curiously philanthropic practically clever ladylike, quiet inefficient, well-meaning completely thoroughbred harsh quarrelsome complex, official official mediatorial official, mediatorial worthless, pitiful decayed professional rigidly careless captious and cynical responsible and enlightened humane, discreet peculiar but excellent adaptable, sociable common unimaginative unknown and singularly unfortunate next guileless dishonest, careless impulsive and charming seemingly dismal deliberately selfish tawdry and detestable magnificent, tawdry and detestable self-conscious or bashful strange and unrelated utterly unimaginative and prosaic unimaginative and prosaic hungry or unsuccessful bravest and most cheerful new and opulent human, jovial odiously cheerful diseased or polluted cadaverous, middle-aged unassuming and obliging massive and imperturbable serious, awkward valiantly honest silent and totally unimpressive detestably wicked musically illiterate socially independent extremely sweet and agreeable cunning intriguing brilliant and hypochondriacal meritorious or successful charitable or interested vigorous, pugnacious sensitive or alert exceptionally odious honorable and serviceable truly pious and intelligent spineless, unpleasant furtive oriental extraordinary or incomparable judicious or agreeable wicked or worthless lazy, lumpish quite secular commonplace handsome ungrateful or deceitful deserving and honest perfectly well-regulated precise and perfectly well-regulated practically excellent nervous or spasmodical serious and divine grave, serious and divine extraordinarily ignorant small but very shrewd weakest and most diminutive restless, intrepid arrogant, formal ambitious or proud sanguine or hot-tempered ignorant, empty painful, diligent sociable and expansive natural and fittest single and comparatively unknown former charitable splendid and cultured rather splendid and cultured strange, fascinating and wicked romantic but equivocal strongest and most rugged inquisitive or prying diminutive or deformed gullible or soft funny, humorous unsteady, volatile clever or artful soft or stupid stupid or obtuse indolent, inactive credulous, gullible troublesome or inquisitive waspish, diminutive sordidly domestic wonderfully graphic and instructive ambitious, restless and intriguing particularly high-minded abjectly simple aggressive, revolutionary wealthy and appreciative blind or careless essentially genuine decent, amiable impressively haughty dangerous pestilent particularly dishonest injurious or disreputable exceedingly commonplace and dull entirely modest dubious and intrusive imaginative and susceptible weak but ambitious idle or curiously intrusive curiously intrusive stylish and plump well-educated charming strikingly vain malicious and strikingly vain unsatisfactory and disappointing dear proper young or unarmed particular, individual somewhat nicer busy middle-aged commonplace and mechanical strange and sumptuous rude or violent ordinarily brave surprisingly persuasive exceedingly courteous and pleasant wholly sober particularly unkempt gangly blond still neat and tidy straight-line direct compact, precise able and highly intelligent greatly privileged safest, strongest unaffected and gifted free and rightful absolutely untrustworthy incurably indolent collective, male insufficiently patriotic modest and well-mannered sexually desirable eminent and great dictatorial young vile or vulgar venerable and discreet powerful uneducated amazingly impudent careless private sober and credible less irrepressible reliable and reputable serious, literal utterly unprofitable guilty and unworthy independently mobile last able-bodied somewhat privileged careless or thoughtless sober grave particularly vindictive sober discreet tough, cynical footloose religious pleasant, human intelligent mature smart, wonderful somewhat pushy attractive, gentle wealthiest nonexistent charismatic and overwhelming occasional homeless moral, temperate precious, essential oddest and most amazing thoughtful, delightful foolish, rigid enormously smart curiously naive energetic and quarrelsome imaginary silver-haired sick and disagreeable ancient, sick and disagreeable gracious and valiant developmentally disadvantaged goddamned fascinating important and very busy tediously predictable dramatic, dynamic old or handicapped normal self-destructive disagreeable and unsocial separate, real competent and sometimes smart gaunt crazy simple intelligent reliable, truthful simple, muscular common, decent pedantically careful completely unconventional entirely unfit profoundly innocent kindest, wisest archetypal cool possibly vulnerable comparably knowledgeable good-looking, nice basically dominant hypothetical further mysterious thirteenth damned dependable tall, pink and purple vigorous, brisk easy, adaptable rather far-out acutely depressed visionary and morbid visually alarming solemnly respectable brashest, liveliest gentle and genuinely good conspicuously evil confident, optimistic detestable, impudent consistently unlucky or unfortunate consistently unlucky open and exceedingly frank essentially likable quiet and likable unsocially obese extraordinary alien unsartorially elegant combative lower-class decidedly unregal repeatedly offensive abso\-lutely ordinary evil and perfidious damn boring next smartest all-time stupidest dead famous obsessively honest timid, publicity-shy exceedingly quick and powerful exceptionally social incapable, ignorant unsocial, dissatisfied approachable and adaptable hesitant, restless smart older well-intentioned but ignorant awkward and impossible improbable and unsuspected last literate seemingly unworthy peaceful, nonviolent exceedingly singular nervous and neurotic potentially alive more, pleasant violent and detestable sincere, compassionate regular, down-to-earth totally ineffectual more likable physically brave tall, exuberant sour, rigid coarse illiterate ladylike and superior less phony `deliciously feminine calm, well-adjusted discreet intelligent extraordinarily indiscreet strong-willed, confident young and mentally alert young, secular slender, shortsighted self-assured and articulate incredibly high-minded suitable other truly noncommercial perfectly dreary rude, thoughtless proportioned small small and rather unsavory endearing, benevolent meticulous and careful enormously sentimental utterly alive energetic and subtle angular, flighty slightly obnoxious but necessary shamelessly talkative useless normal basically healthy sneaky and revolting laid-back, fun-loving emotionally fascinating reasonably nonsuicidal reasonably agile highly polite and civilized larger famous totally dishonest delightfully youthful legion imperial properly obedient pink-cheeked, sandy-haired entirely unselfish decent and unassuming modest, decent and unassuming talented, morbid important, brilliant observant and suspicious ordinary and uncreative singularly helpless rarely instructive rarely instructive and agreeable dense, secretive reasonable, respectable sensitively honest slender, catlike well-adjusted, religious well-known, recognizable national missing utter lonesome jealous, pathetic overly charismatic crazy delusional singular, incredible rational and inquisitive unhappy homeless somewhat nervous and hypochondriacal professionally well-informed narrow, imitative itinerant commercial sane english-speaking parochially important domestic and harmless a--er--particularly cheerful and genial a--er--particularly cheerful average noisy thoughtful middle-aged sensible, refined enigmatical young crafty or covetous abundant and florid disgustingly brutal humble and unimportant dear, discreet particularly conscientious insignificant and secondary good-natured but essentially selfish extraordinary nameless pious short single drunk
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Words to Describe person
As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "person" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "person" are: selfish or foolish, solemnly deliberate, sophisticated knowledgeable, thin and very agile, and immediately annoying. There are 994 other words to describe person listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe person 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, "person" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.
Note also that if there aren't many person 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 person?
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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