Describing Wordsfor Pretenders

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Here are some adjectives for pretenders: penniless but haughty, ignorant unsettled, canting and false, popular napoleonic, fanatical or dishonest, slighted, several, ignorant, false, arrogant and hardy, impious and presumptuous, coarse and unintellectual, vain insignificant, boastful and impudent, heartless and hollow, unlikely imperial, inept stygian, unknown or untested, covert and crafty, popular aspiring, loudest or most solemn, obscure and probably spurious, shallow and despicable, austere and hollow, obstinate modern, latest fugitive, merely short-lived, precocious and leafy, well-meaning and well-paid, silly puffed-up, half-educated, unskilled, insulting, plausible. You can get the definitions of these pretenders adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to pretenders (and find more here).

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Words to Describe pretenders

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

penniless but haughty ignorant unsettled canting and false popular napoleonic fanatical or dishonest slighted, several ignorant, false arrogant and hardy impious and presumptuous coarse and unintellectual vain insignificant boastful and impudent heartless and hollow unlikely imperial inept stygian unknown or untested covert and crafty popular aspiring loudest or most solemn obscure and probably spurious shallow and despicable austere and hollow obstinate modern latest fugitive
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merely short-lived precocious and leafy well-meaning and well-paid silly puffed-up half-educated, unskilled insulting, plausible false and interested ignorant and unlicensed superficial and insignificant boastful or false unlicensed and ignorant ridiculous, vulgar presently plausible feeble or diseased egregious and pernicious few senile apparently impudent sleek and crafty precise, unnatural false, flashy such bloated mere self-indulgent wearisome, social absurd superficial bold and hasty black-haired, false fiery, indefatigable unscrupulous, hypocritical superficial or narrow ignorant and impudent wretched and ragged false and impudent usual celtic puffed-up young perhaps ambitious still successful therefore possible impudent irish unfortunate european vulgar commonplace transparent old poor bankrupt ignorant and corrupt probably spurious mere penniless many illegitimate totally mad mere spectacular lookalike many ephemeral poor mendicant several rival noble and eminent mere empirical ignorant and stupid french philosophical few shady legitimate or illegitimate such impudent many ignorant vain and ridiculous vain and shallow more unwelcome less impossible ignorant and fanatical few noisy much worthier other ignorant such ignorant many spurious such arrogant piddling little great moorish drunken young especially strong brave and able few scientific other superficial many unsuccessful romantic young tential many current mere ignorant many worthless small literary short human chinese imperial various italian mere official more judicious certain grim foolish young many vain such proud many false other injurious elder and younger unintellectual few royal social and literary collaborative certain modern loud-voiced many scientific boastful more zealous unpretentious penniless ignorant old royal and imperial poor foolish self-deluded impudent many political everal ignorant many modern seditious such false other modern mere ordinary dishonest many previous self-seeking many powerful hypocritical half-educated rival canting slighted extremely clever certain ancient tall, lanky overdressed puffed-up mendicant illiterate such poor still fresh more scientific illegitimate untested snobbish gay young well-paid pert fugitive false napoleonic unsettled presumptuous equivocal impious pseudo brazen messianic handsome young eligible bombastic dullest empirical insolent meaner stygian self-indulgent grammatical unlawful unwary other new blasphemous audacious superficial worthier unlicensed unqualified jumped-up idiotic ambitious such little meanest shallow ethiopian moorish unskilled rightful fraudulent unwelcome egregious forlorn arrogant portuguese sociological pedantic loudest collateral great religious romanian bankrupt afghan insulting unsuccessful artful paltry last-named elder many other plausible spurious heraldic sacrilegious youngest pompous bigoted heartless unworthy adventurous assorted deluded scientific misbegotten senile median vile celtic legitimate fanatical lewd mere profane flashy infidel frivolous heretical well-meaning judicious insipid precocious republican discontented tiresome austere ridiculous worthless brawny plebeian possible hybrid obnoxious ephemeral shoddy tyrannical notorious absurd danish hollow avowed incompetent counterfeit aspiring powerless short-lived formidable despicable more serious abject papal antagonistic haughty one-time flippant numerous diseased turbulent many such wretched pernicious black-haired bloated tumultuous babylonian unhappy crafty juvenile futile literary theological covert eventual palpable numerous other flattering spanish corrupt lethal preposterous leafy contemptible blank unknown idle willing shameless merest vulgar vain norwegian imperial lawful full-blown detestable unsuspecting ignoble various unscrupulous impoverished hardy youthful injurious unlucky french zealous swollen unfortunate lanky philosophic amorous shady modern medical obscure foreign insignificant theoretical wearisome outrageous confident highest ruddy rebellious spectacular royal jewish empty exotic dazed social interested desirable younger inflexible sleek mischievous conscious foul female skilful weak commonplace brilliant telltale several other turkish indefatigable dreadful closest doubtful troublesome civilized gauche suburban admirable fourth poor democratic embarrassing miserable foolish philosophical ecclesiastical subsequent noisy african respective hasty skillful goddam solemn poor old unnatural microscopic religious unconscious second grand current barren grim clever innumerable poor little honorable precise bold remarkable well-known lowest older worthy contemporary strongest dangerous different loud serious able wealthy fashionable dull pious harmless drunken coarse sundry mad egyptian amazing filthy feeble so-called recent impossible slippery aforesaid present stupid previous european romantic sole gothic hereditary illegal irish lesser proud myriad perpetual military late active equal red domestic raw subtle would-be busy mighty intellectual modest ragged native brave sad japanese singular sorry pitiful further individual chief political more and more similar dead universal eminent mysterious chinese successful latest cheap fresh gigantic official italian merry potential greatest petty ultimate gentle german al fiery graceful strange terrible local strong british low former ancient ordinary actual narrow next public pink fair favorite glorious powerful certain rich natural vast most least major famous best true noble huge tall black fine white dear human single less more

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Words to Describe pretenders

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "pretenders" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "pretenders" are: penniless but haughty, ignorant unsettled, canting and false, popular napoleonic, and fanatical or dishonest. There are 554 other words to describe pretenders listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe pretenders 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, "pretenders" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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