Describing Wordsfor Poetry

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Here are some adjectives for poetry: damned maritime, rich and very physical, chinese lyric, religious lyric, net recent, quaint and native, salacious erotic, medieval turkish, romantic narrative, didactic or ethical, middle-class didactic, pathetic and impassioned, doric lyric, spanish lyric, preferred lyric, purple but cloudy, sympathetic devotional, harmonious and sublime, perfect and very poisonous, strict pastoral, sensuous and somewhat morbid, facetious and burlesque, simple and sentimental, unpublished gaelic, french lyric, naive and sentimental, elfin classic, sometimes elizabethan, mute melodious, classical and artificial. You can get the definitions of these poetry adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to poetry (and find more here).

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Words to Describe poetry

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

damned maritime rich and very physical chinese lyric religious lyric net recent quaint and native salacious erotic medieval turkish romantic narrative didactic or ethical middle-class didactic pathetic and impassioned doric lyric spanish lyric preferred lyric purple but cloudy sympathetic devotional harmonious and sublime perfect and very poisonous strict pastoral sensuous and somewhat morbid facetious and burlesque simple and sentimental
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unpublished gaelic french lyric naive and sentimental elfin classic sometimes elizabethan mute melodious classical and artificial progressive universal spurious and uneven lyric and pastoral impressive but unhealthy poetry--real respectable sacred iambic and lyric courtly lyric first-class heroic victorian lyrical reflective or lyric bad or common italian narrative magnificent republican regular and pretentious patriotic lyrical impressive and genuine sometimes remote and difficult fresh, primeval just laotian satirical and elegiac old banal ideal dramatic pastoral and local popular warlike equally grand and ornamental especially lyric own and dramatic vigorous or vital moderns--classical and romantic moderns--classical bold and awful bucolic and erotic genuine three-dimensional anonymous bad elegant and primal frequently delightful usually stilted and boring french narrative concrete fractal bad, obscure noble hebraic lyric, didactic intuitive, irrepressible much fugitive originally direct and personal originally direct genuinely nationalist mediaeval and popular didactic and panegyrical moral, didactic and panegyrical same orphic personal formal elegiac or amorous intensely personal and direct real elegiac chiefly subjective or lyrical chiefly subjective short, pastoral lyrical and subjective correct, eloquent pedantic vulgar ancient or national amatory and emotional beautiful anonymous rude unconscious formal lyric doric and choral later sicilian idyllic and didactic didactic or philosophic other or softer also lyrical aloud french heroic and satirical finest chivalrous purely incidental and negative amatory or convivial abundant elegiac choicest humorous fiercely sensuous noblest lyric especial lyrical weak and aristocratic contemporaneous belgian unconditional, romantic appropriately popular artificial and exotic satirical and other pleasant unconscious traditional gaelic wild, feline provencal lyric choral lyric proven�al lyric preferred sacred hysterically bad lean and disturbing gupernal still antique but much still antique apocalyptic, mad crazy, bad etruscan erotic erotic etruscan languorous phonic single-sentence dutch flat grotesque, situational consistently pathetic erotic or pastoral occasional excellent satiric and didactic enchanting romantic introspective, analytical national didactic essentially national and difficult hence heroic perhaps baronial little implicit german minor imaginative pastoral reflective lyric hence amorous especially bucolic uninspired sacred british lyric secular or pagan secular romantic oriental amorous real, primitive aside didactic sweetest external chiefly religious and devotional tangible lyrical didactic and devotional indigenous lyric already present and potent genuine but unassuming high-sounding and material oldest communal original and very ancient highly romantic and impassioned consistently ethereal elegiac pastoral unconsciously lyrical pathetic or imaginative superb and sombre burlesque and facetious bohemian popular teutonic popular lyrical sacred beautiful but indecisive therefore dramatic verbal and sensuous improvisatory and enigmatical good solemn degenerate contemporary lyrical and idyllic real, lyrical and idyllic satirical and sublime feverish and exuberant moorish popular muddy metaphysical real and rarest joyous, lyric boundless, pure pastoral and descriptive heroic pastoral sure, modern jocose italian french essential facile and unimportant middling french sentimental or descriptive purely sentimental or descriptive unhappy, serious sweetest and most absolute indifferent material local legendary pleasing original deep, unwritten genuine and impressive rural or pastoral descriptive sacred characteristic and real darkly austere and practical darkly austere sensitive lyric mythic or ritual peculiar, gloomy anonymous, popular distinctively australian eleventh but little sublime or exquisite amatory and panegyrical essentially metaphysical and romantic sublimely powerful aloud german often trivial and sentimental pleasing and effeminate aloud high heroic or sentimental choicest lyric modern idyllic frankly lyrical fiery, unconventional fragrant elusive pleasing burlesque intense and fresh elizabethan jacobean sublime lyric elegiac and didactic devotional or patriotic rugged and expressive extraordinarily keen and accurate amorous and passionate undying lyrical old elegiac harmonious, elegant descriptive and satirical didactic, descriptive and satirical entire chivalrous polish dramatic scrupulous, passionate classical quantitative serious and allegorical miscellaneous and popular frail but graceful fair occasional indeed french bad reflective heroic and profound terrestrial and almost human so-called sentimental lyrical popular little but religious probably little but religious popular, secular purely popular and indigenous prettiest egyptian newborn didactic unpublished british indigenous lyrical symbolical philosophical formal erotic clear and inborn carelessly free splendid lyric finer ancient political and satiric such and lyrical religious lyrical average lyrical lower reflective noble reflective permanent, great amatory and lyric chaste, transparent popular secular especially amatory lyric and especially amatory ready-made or artificial imperishable lyric extant popular purely natural and indigenous good or even bearable pastoral and didactic popular epical elegiac and pastoral little but pure lyrical and sacred german and northern moral and lyrical sure comic turgid and chaotic romantic nor classic rugged and martial peculiar chivalrous unaffected and elemental often archaic and obscure sad, extravagant elegiac, iambic and lyric rhythmic sacred profane lyrical harmonious, sonorous exclusively erotic rich, popular dramatic and elegiac lyrical, dramatic and elegiac lyrical or contemplative pastoral and comic naturalistic and extremely bad whole, french older lyrical popular unwritten german idyllic meditative or reflective fantastic, emotional excellent secondary sometimes remote |only medieval florid effeminate selected descriptive lyrical and erotic basically rhetorical and persuasive basically rhetorical ceaseless, eternal especially didactic lyric and especially didactic brahmanical artificial consummately easy and plain consummately easy didactic, lyrical and elegiac cheerful, breezy rude and beautiful latent and unknown ready-made operatic prodigal and sumptuous grandly solemn and exquisite richest and most substantial humorous german fragile and exotic biblical and homespun oldest and classical truant and irregular whereof modern ancient iambic dramatic or didactic devotional gaelic radiant or spiritual pathetic and descriptive richest mere average, essential far utter formal and romantic didactic or satiric own elegiac uneven and slipshod curiously uneven and slipshod worse, prosaic religious and lyrical monotonous lyric descriptive but irrelevant lyric subjective provence--provencal mostly choral and historic iambic and elegiac entirely lyric entirely lyric and didactic idyllic and erotic pastoral and satirical sacred and popular rustic and popular provence--proven�al scurrilous, obscene satirical or ribald lyric secular lyric provencal and italian lyrical and elegiac courtly romantic usually stilted whole, minor modern lyric wild solemn earliest pastoral boldest lyric devotional and sacred mere late italian patriotic secular jewish much durable moribund or extinct sacred and sacrificial fresh brilliant simplest german sacred or domestic descriptive and sentimental rich and admirable early didactic pastoral or idyllic oldest lyric common liturgical democratic and natural personal lyric low or familiar french erotic provençal lyric courtly medieval elegiac and iambic perfect lyrical german lyric empty and sonorous proven�al and italian lyric and religious reflective and descriptive would-be tragic lyric, dramatic contemplative and religious early popular classical northern pretentious, solemn and insincere solemn and insincere bad, class-conscious customary pre-coital bad impromptu wonderful, mature forgettable lyric rude, unpolished spanish legendary wonderful vigorous high-tech electric secular lyrical offensively obscene german baroque anonymous, invasive politically inspiring fairly literary excellent speculative damn concrete interesting, edgy state-of-the-art fantastical agreeable mock flat, unmusical ‘‘lyrical purest masculine good digestible less much fine but irrelevant italy proven�al italy provencal popular allegorical serious or amusing subjective elegiac literary lyric simple lyric humorous lyrical extremely vile heartfelt religious meditative and contemplative classic pagan older communal real humorous short, excellent own amatory fine fugitive descriptive and fanciful delicate and simple extraordinarily eloquent lofty and grand polish popular always chaste and elegant aristocratically exclusive spirited, graceful more gaelic modern gaelic colossal naked graceful, erotic thrilling and exalted pretentious, premeditated finer dramatic refined and harmonious always elegant and chaste prove�al provecal exquisite mediaeval allegorical erotic finest sufi danish, swedish and dutch earlier lyric strenuous natural devout and sublime spirited and elegant tame religious much, true proven�al popular provencal popular lyrical and descriptive later alliterative classical pastoral old-fashioned pastoral great, unspoken correspondingly realistic _provencal lyric and didactic modern descriptive much eighteenth-century jewish medieval emotional german fine erotic purely sacrificial deeply subjective truly teutonic polish lyric simple, intimate early alliterative wild, unwritten truly national and popular surely genuine lyric and romantic elegiac french purely serious courtly medi�val courtly mediaeval german and proven�al german and provencal practically german genuine and sublime regular lyrical mystico-sensual irregular wild earliest teutonic informal and popular much burlesque exalted dramatic indigenous popular much lyric wholly inimitable probably little descriptive and didactic impressionistic lyric true and melodic medi�val and popular popular and indigenous extant old considerable true modern mystical native heroic descriptive and elegiac high or true higher reflective best reflective generalized proven�al semi-historical, semi-mythical generalized provencal naive and natural italian didactic proven�al, italian and german provencal, italian and german never sweeter or more second-rate eighteenth-century romantic or gothic legendary and sacred melodious lyrical later comic older alliterative lyric and satiric vital lyric dramatic and bucolic reflective and didactic german and provençal genuine and impassioned distinctive new higher italian older sacred free, naive appropriate sacred medi�val heroic mediaeval heroic political and amatory restless and aspiring dominant universal familiar and recognizable japanese classical highest romantic curiously limited homely pastoral dim, unconscious keen and remote delicate and ardent narrative, lyric and dramatic anthropomorphic religious sentimental and naive inane patriotic thy simplest occasional didactic solemn, inspiring generally patriotic or fraternal chiefly reflective and descriptive chiefly reflective mystic new emotional and lyric reflective and dramatic sentimental sacred nowadays lyrical musical, sonorous stern, somber modern patriotic non-satirical rather every-day mostly choral --satirical genuinely provencal genuinely proven�al meditative, speculative lyric and amatory better minor lyrical and dramatic especially dramatic best lyrical german heroic popular lyric incomparably fine spanish popular early indigenous italian lyrical finnish national mere descriptive dark feverish best pastoral foreign pastoral such didactic true idyllic dramatic and lyric thoroughly secular lyric and tragic grim and tragic plaintive and melodious genuinely fine lyrical elegiac damn cheap new proven�al new provencal excellent lyric ever genuine didactic and elegiac finest romantic good sacred earliest lyric romantic and impassioned high lyric terrible and impressive sentimental pastoral ironical or satirical sentimental and passionate again primitive spanish lyrical exquisite passionate strong, pithy wild, indigenous older heroic artificial, pastoral sweet and limpid higher heroic ordinary didactic simple and deep blinding and dazzling wholly miraculous vigorous and passionate deep, unintelligible moral and didactic french, german or italian forth grand dramatic and imitative lyric and idyllic modern pastoral lighter lyric french devotional much, beautiful older northern good and abiding dutch popular rumanian popular best occasional german and true contemporary lyric mere lyrical popular and mythological religious popular popular erotic fine mature showy oriental classic or modern german sacred modern martial sheer, wonderful early elegiac tragic historical lyrical and epical german alliterative national lyric perhaps truer best secondary deepest and most passionate still quaint easy and plain real, dyed-in-the-wool solemn and exquisite grandly solemn much stupid grand and pathetic wild, imaginative pure descriptive heroic national recent minor cheap rural soft penetrating striking lyrical didactic italian romantic genuine modern purely lyrical french romantic naive, simple serious and moral national heroic net indian ancient lyric religious and communal so-called communal noble lyric wonderful lyric much legendary lyric and dramatic italian lyric concrete and material higher dramatic modern lyrical low physical new romantic moral and devotional old alliterative dead, true classic celtic seventeenth-century religious vaguely illicit cold, volcanic exquisitely lyrical poignant and vivid passionate and lyrical rather well-received possible, weird special weird conventional metrical modern or post-modern bleak visual long, fabulous original and classic obscure and bizarre gay middle-aged lilting lyrical recent fashionable anonymous popular artistic and natural new classic exquisite and penetrating true and impressive true humorous hard and naked magnificent lyric italian popular grandest lyric pastoral and romantic subsequent romantic much pathetic satirical and burlesque pleasing pastoral dramatic or other new provençal popular ecclesiastical good fugitive simple and magnificent strictly separate solemn and impassioned consciously artistic _proven�al essentially metaphysical subtle, refined finest heroic poisonous french such babylonian already lofty best, descriptive so-called humorous stern and vigorous french lyrical modern subjective serious and impassioned old descriptive national and original own metrical rather turgid sweeter and deeper modern conjugal fine chivalrous harsh and grim natural and indigenous impassioned and imaginative dissertational popular and literary austrian political delicate amatory often archaic beautiful and captivating trivial and ephemeral expressive musical nevertheless genuine much classic true old-world old lyrical deeply tragic sweet, artless older and grander generally patriotic subjective lyric large elementary later lyric danish dramatic previous and contemporary lyric and allegoric german mediaeval german medieval exquisite lyric chiefly religious much exquisite dramatic and heroic beautiful descriptive teutonic heroic merely attractive devotional and moral pure, truthful vaguely disquieting grandest and richest minor elizabethan more colonial older popular vague, cloudy exquisite sacred least excellent elizabethan dramatic purely delightful greater lyric lyric and elegiac popular and artistic local and ephemeral indeed genuine nationalistic political contemporary celtic italian dramatic vivid popular much immortal lyrical and other subsequent italian much fragmentary elizabethan romantic fine meditative serious or sentimental elegiac and lyric truest and holiest much sorry utter fine later artificial stern and desolate frankly pagan much elizabethan perfect lyric partial and limited especially romantic lofty and profound wild sylvan beautiful religious true gaelic never sweeter continental german regular conventional genuinely religious ancient popular irish religious national popular quite meaningless modern norwegian singularly vile good, recent also exquisite >oriental early romantic british romantic romantic and victorian terse and energetic interesting and magnificent noble, uplifting early armenian also appropriate merely high miraculously beautiful lewd and obscene japanese and western graceful and attractive always chaste somewhat pedestrian naive and genuine german lyrical vigorous and realistic teutonic alliterative older teutonic mythological or heroic beautiful mystic non-lyrical gay and amorous weird, grotesque french seventeenth-century syrian and jewish naive natural mediæval french early lyrical popular heroic formal and artificial best ethical concrete and tangible noble ideal irish native general pastoral primitive popular medieval or modern philosophical or political so-called pastoral tragic and lyric simple beautiful musical irish much beautiful genuine and original excellent popular especially german purely popular italian pastoral modern sentimental ancient pastoral primitive pastoral often original pastoral whole appalling vile political nobly beautiful early lyric good norwegian romantic and heroic wonderfully vigorous mediæval german modern romantic deep and pathetic romantic mediaeval much minor horrible french delicate and fantastic solemn, gloomy amazingly bad highest tragic modern classic jewish and german bright and serene often disappointing ultra-sentimental lighter french earlier heroic religious and didactic elizabethan and early jacobean general romantic much ideal early sacred true spontaneous much chinese finest lyrical sweet artless old lyric descriptive sweet girlish alliterative german medi�val

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Words to Describe poetry

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "poetry" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "poetry" are: damned maritime, rich and very physical, chinese lyric, religious lyric, and net recent. There are 995 other words to describe poetry listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe poetry 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, "poetry" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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