Describing Wordsfor Portrait

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Here are some adjectives for portrait: strong two-tone, ambitious unfinished, vast simple, formal monochrome, utterly convincing and human, convincing and human, faithful and horrible, emotional and sparkling, critical and personal, thrice flattering, severely unflattering, rough but entirely recognizable, fractional, impressionistic, sober and yet genial, stunning and gruesome, good candid, big full-length, hilarious and harrowing, foreign fancy, full-length, life-size, fine authentic, simply contemplative, clear-eyed but sympathetic, secret characteristic, definitive human, sional floor-to-ceiling, bleak and unflattering, wonderfully baroque, tri-dimensional animated, faulty and amateurish. You can get the definitions of these portrait adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to portrait (and find more here).

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Words to Describe portrait

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

strong two-tone ambitious unfinished vast simple formal monochrome utterly convincing and human convincing and human faithful and horrible emotional and sparkling critical and personal thrice flattering severely unflattering rough but entirely recognizable fractional, impressionistic sober and yet genial stunning and gruesome good candid big full-length hilarious and harrowing foreign fancy full-length, life-size fine authentic
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simply contemplative clear-eyed but sympathetic secret characteristic definitive human sional floor-to-ceiling bleak and unflattering wonderfully baroque tri-dimensional animated faulty and amateurish fierce and forbidding-looking highly interesting and excellent first-rate but flattering charmingly spirited magnificent but somewhat appalling exquisite and life-like genuine and very characteristic dreary but true brilliant, realistic brief but extremely sympathetic ideal heathen graphic full-length quite admirable and interesting full-size and full-length splendidly realistic good and massive flattering typical humorous and striking rich psychological full-length life-size entirely recognizable fine full-length small full-length classic unfinished discreetly blank willfully depressing almost trite unfinished double huge somber admittedly abstract halfway flattering lifelike full-size fan-tional large, pastel life-like or convincing incredibly atmospheric remarkably vivid and suggestive correct composite scriptural and popular carefully stippled complete pen-and-ink terrifyingly truthful ideal or allegorical tiresome and lifeless rather tiresome and lifeless striking or successful tolerably rich and vivid masterly unfinished grim contemporary fine life-size misleading and inadequate perhaps fine and delicate venerable, pale physiological and pictorial fascinating unsigned best full-length pitiable ashen remarkably villainous lifelike and extraordinarily attractive religiously harmonious life-size, full-length bitter but truthful fine pastel impressive and authentic desirable and genuine poetical female famous pastel odious and almost incredible subtle and striking excellent life-size unsympathetic but memorable composite spiritual tiny full-length photographic historical customary complimentary pitiful insignificant modern and shocking lively ideal impartial and unadorned reminiscent rough new or juvenile flattering and stainless youthful unpublished amazingly vivid and powerful authentic moral famous nude naively enthusiastic intimate and naively enthusiastic thoroughly lifelike curious and tolerably accurate authentic life-size beautiful, full-length microscopic transparent undeniably vigorous undeniably vigorous and alive finely virile virile and striking colored historical famous and oldest competent, artistic life-like, faithful never musical ugly photographic vivid, satirical fair full-length virtuously colored unexceptionably decorous oval pastel facetious but wholly imaginary mental, never-to-be-forgotten full-length pen-and-ink rather heavy and stiff stiff but rather impressive curiously insipid acceptable and endurable three-quarter life-size unconsciously faithful noble, full-length old, full-length respectable full-length accurate and lifelike singularly striking and effective original life-like handsome pastel capital full-length sympathetic, vivid and true pitifully accurate small and unsatisfactory striking full-length abstract or miniature noble life-size astonishing triple unscrupulous but admirably artistic undisputed separate full-length unfinished rude full-length ludicrous counterfeit beastly so-called perfect full-length small, full-length individual and faithful powerful and strongly coloured lifelike and picturesque reportedly authentic veracious full-length complete full-length large imperious splendid full-length full-length vividly animated impressive psychological horribly life-like perfect and realistic magnificent equestrian tempting and seductive nearly full-length almost archetypal graphic and life-like good full-length vivid fancy famous satiric ancient extant fine and charming terrible and inaccurate fine miniature quietly lyrical snappy psychological strange but accurate large surrealist dimensional floor-to-ceiling grim statistical official sepia characteristic and life-like last ideal darn chinese unfinished full-length complete monochrome mist-like top previously serious colored institutional ethereal blond unusually lifelike crudely elegant sympathetic, fascinating heartachingly beautiful priceless ancestral lurid four-color astonishingly compassionate serene last affectionate and wonderfully readable beautifully fragile large, pagan savagely human evocative and poetically intense poetically intense bleak and fiercely intelligent realistic domestic scary and unforgettable supremely realistic gigantic life-size similarly sympathetic similarly dim vivid and insightful exquisite, full-length exquisite and well-known thoughtful and successful brilliant and truthful delicate and expressive marvelously complete and consistent magnificent full-length mannered fashionable mysterious and highly interesting exquisite full-length conscientiously innocent and domestic conscientiously innocent shrewd and shrewish superb life-size original miniature honest, every-day fascinating and memorable plain, vain regular descriptive finest actual dim, stiff excessively miniature exactly truthful charming full-length hard, unflattering magnificently virile human and humorous tolerably lifelike somber and savage big pastel early ideal complete and worthy large and ominous last frivolous faithful mental wholly mendacious beautiful full-length rather left-handed —_national historically realistic striking and distinct unsigned charcoal definite and genuine almost full-length equally haunting good pastel life-size and lifelike striking and lifelike handsome full-length ancient darkling pleasantly powerful and characteristic tame and unamusing striking unfinished large full-length fair historical faithful and spirited pleasing historical robust and cheerful surprisingly ordinary large equestrian ghastly glaring alarmingly realistic little tibetan small and bad little full-length thoroughly life-like remarkably faithful exquisite pen-and-ink splendidly characteristic nice pastel pleasing and singular original pastel superficially attractive gilt life-size perfectly faithful natural and spirited best finnish fairly expressive splendid individual natural, life-like able and truthful queerest imaginable marvellously lifelike perfectly life-like almost precise original and splendid certain invaluable truly intimate utterly convincing quite unflattering deeply misleading colossal full-length large flattering almost indiscreet dark somber absolutely revolting quite recognizable brilliantly textured wonderfully readable bleak, violent own full-length vividly lifelike exceedingly flattering small pen-and-ink old and authentic lifeless and empty single unnoticed purely fancy large, full-length piquant and interesting perhaps fine innocent and domestic fair sad dear, dim precious and genuine cold classic pale exquisite fine austere funny coloured dim flat best equestrian romantic or heroic admirably artistic large, colored quite faithful generous contemporary pleasantly powerful modern miniature dainty miniature life-size striking and vivid philosophical and psychological faithful historical equally exact small miniature sincere and truthful interesting and admirable neat, fine best composite small photographic undoubtedly authentic fine contemporary spirited and faithful small wretched dual or triple quaint, archaic memorable historical particularly flattering interesting and excellent superb italian vivid and fascinating semi-satirical charming girlish fine graceful great equestrian amazingly vivid sufficiently vivid quite fair massive, familiar almost life-size reasonably sympathetic vivid, intimate rather stiff and awkward sharp, colorful shadowy, graceful superb and magnificent original and accurate wholly unauthentic fine equestrian correct and true fancy german heavy and stiff impressive female still inadequate vivid and true vivid, brilliant best rustic graceful and gallant swift, striking fine and careful slight and vague last authentic tolerably faithful somewhat appalling remarkably vivid tiny oval large collective remarkably truthful quiet and effective well-known and admirable exquisitely sympathetic more common-sense complete poetical certain little-known absolutely delightful old, unfinished fairly sympathetic oldest authentic circular golden admirable and interesting complete miniature life-like perfectly convincing vast coloured intense, intimate reasonably realistic fine characteristic marvelously complete beautiful historical rather foppish somewhat unflattering tiny miniature oldest and most authentic rapid rectilinear extremely sympathetic simple and striking excellent photographic beautiful miniature equestrian curious and powerful gay youthful _clerical excellent contemporary strange, quaint old sombre strongly coloured small tasteful large bad striking and pathetic natural and delightful more adorable noble and striking early prophetic own miniature fine original little miniature pen-and-ink lifelike perfect three-dimensional fine historic equally charming pleasing and characteristic easiest and most natural beautiful and faithful nice heavy renaissance-style excellent psychological complete financial perfect and flawless ever clearer fiercely intelligent fair, girlish complete and striking equally unmistakable highly laudatory striking and effective little doubtful earliest dutch fair female extremely poetical splendid antique extreme fine large and exquisite unflattering complex inner simply wonderful stark black-and-white gloriously colored accurate and beautiful highly realistic big double short verbal nasty, dark bold, fierce wonderfully vivid tolerably rich little unfinished peculiarly hideous wonderfully realistic best and most attractive absolutely faithful grand spiritual substantially correct gentle, graceful accurate and faithful original and authentic animated and interesting rather unflattering genuine, original rather flattering true, original great papal fresh and healthy cubist usual historical stern, unsmiling altogether astonishing own insubstantial final and largest careful historical fine oval black and sullen new and fine more life-like gaudily colored rich and vivid splendid modern unknown french late eighteenth-century striking historical broad gilt mighty natural large and striking extremely unfavorable exquisite miniature quite admirable two-tone dark and troubling old-fashioned formal small original more unified almost enthusiastic powerful and characteristic small oval large antique stippled own official fine mellow equally admirable best and most recent least beautiful fine and striking thoroughly convincing mere fancy vivid and powerful best-preserved sad and sorrowful exact historical heavy-framed absolutely authentic certain original more perishable hitherto unpublished beautiful, sad grand and terrible singularly striking exquisitely refined dark gothic photographic fairly conventional magnificent little full-page extraordinarily attractive large original authentic stern, dark =royal stiff and awkward vivid and convincing large and curious precise physical national whole historical pale old huge hot pastel best psychological seemingly peaceful small, precise equally imaginary stiff, hard rather well-known finest modern less favorable rather fascinating own fancy fine female physical or moral huge colored singularly vivid rather critical flattering more circumstantial _national earliest authentic rubicund great blue-green truly historical equally enormous fine critical lifesize thoroughly characteristic miniature lithographic purely imaginary vivid and realistic uncommon fine strong, bold rather theatrical rather striking much excellent great decorative singularly interesting large colored eighteenth-century french singular old deeply pathetic tolerably successful also practised hand-sized wonderfully ingenious single dramatic large photographic beautiful and artistic allegoric old, fat more flattering highly favorable _original beautiful modern better or worse rather hasty monochrome otherwise fine complete and consistent fine free less convincing full-size bold and striking impressionistic important young aristocratic young highly attractive striking physical frescoed little oval --local important and significant unfinished large formal fullscale exceedingly able centenary own boyish composite rather doubtful wholly imaginary posthumous lovely female true and honest full and true private, secret rare and interesting more faithful eight-by-ten uncommon good less artistic highly curious three-quarter mural faithful large additional perfectly charming vivid little extremely handsome more gratifying more revolting wonderfully clever grand historical nearly extinct many egyptian tolerably fair somewhat superficial forbidding-looking rather tiresome wonderfully fine tempting little oval small colored fine modern great gloomy somewhat archaic highly coloured striking tolerably accurate scathing new old fairly accurate last formal more truthful new historical complete spiritual truthful british national typical modern more youthful other, older full and fair singularly fine own essential charcoal fessional more amiable fine small lumbering old strikingly handsome good, big rather dusty greatest literary beautiful and simple unamusing inaccurate perfectly fair unauthentic other dutch one-dimensional sufficiently accurate _royal same characteristic fancy sepia more expansive recognizable vivid rather gruesome less partial dingy old accurate complimentary fine military solomonic more characteristic admirable great dutch little coloured large gilt rather impressive contemporary more striking coloured satirical satiric own handsome best professional extant real moral commemorative beautiful italian realistic nice clear beautiful and striking own brilliant well-known french stylized rizal unpublished unfavorable good clear perfectly correct early literary convincing insightful more convincing round-eyed fine and delicate nude strong and vigorous early nineteenth-century ideal interesting historical devilish good big new single good more true remarkably handsome more favorable last and best three-dimensional four-color carved archetypal reasonably accurate amateurish own famous psychological eminent french computer-assisted imaginary exact historical ancestral black-draped remarkably interesting floor-to-ceiling nearly similar stiff old exquisitely beautiful post-mortem old victorian few native much-discussed graphic such vivid charming little charming best-known veracious closeted moral and physical fine satisfactory particularly fine more delightful fashionable more exact fine, clear magnificent old sweet and beautiful spirited extremely rare full-sized beardless clear-eyed old original in-depth own dear rather rough piquant highly interesting unexceptional smart new indubitable literal evocative ungenial war-time well-known unusually fine more vivid particularly interesting inexact well-managed invulnerable little french thoroughbred excellent overdrawn interesting more sympathetic smoke-stained more heroic best french endurable burlesque exquisite thy dear rather fine warm human sympathetic other contemporary characteristic original schematic pleasing vivacious unsigned benignant more professional beautiful harrowing best-looking inimitable magnificent fractional curious old brilliant little equally strong early french great mental photogenic famous shrewish more charming sweeter truer intimate odd little laudatory ironical twentieth-century same large great historic lackadaisical stunning rather remarkable verbal canadian sketchy grim old rather stiff harsher more horrible youthful own national next-to-last enamelled still worse critical early happiest more pleasing pale brown talented young rectilinear naturalistic dyspeptic animated extremely interesting votive triple last-named splendid own beautiful baroque innumerable other favorable surrealist candid little-known unsympathetic seventeenth-century fanciful fascinating bitchy five-minute gloomy old haunting contemplative old german overblown true formal handy infant one-sided perfect several major unforgettable more distinct perishable superb attractive moral and social mental brightly colored impartial much larger expressive humorous untrue rather heavy extremely valuable panoramic more refined truest earliest wonderful

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Words to Describe portrait

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "portrait" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "portrait" are: strong two-tone, ambitious unfinished, vast simple, formal monochrome, and utterly convincing and human. There are 995 other words to describe portrait listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe portrait 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, "portrait" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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