Describing Wordsfor Prose

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Here are some adjectives for prose: supple periodic, exquisitely lyrical and expressive, terse and convincing, penetrating journalistic, often significant, abrupt, rhapsodical, dull historic, rather rhythmical, impassioned rhythmical, usually unadorned and straightforward, usually unadorned, beautiful, facile, reasonably interesting, prudent, watchful, own gushy, probable gray, crisply witty, lyrical and expressive, exquisitely lyrical, easy and sparkling, up-to-date and popular, whole, plain, contemporary plain, beautiful or sparkling, new literal, scarcely legitimate, imaginative and didactic, circumlocutional poetic, later colloquial, singularly imperishable. You can get the definitions of these prose adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to prose (and find more here).

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Words to Describe prose

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

supple periodic exquisitely lyrical and expressive terse and convincing penetrating journalistic often significant abrupt, rhapsodical dull historic rather rhythmical impassioned rhythmical usually unadorned and straightforward usually unadorned beautiful, facile reasonably interesting prudent, watchful own gushy probable gray crisply witty lyrical and expressive exquisitely lyrical easy and sparkling up-to-date and popular whole, plain contemporary plain beautiful or sparkling
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new literal scarcely legitimate imaginative and didactic circumlocutional poetic later colloquial singularly imperishable lucid and observant now foremost miserable masculine archaic, sonorous admirably pithy exactly purple formal, meaningless slick, hard-hitting informal, comfortable original and lyrical lighter elizabethan mere lumbering attractive and good absolutely unredeemed spontaneous and straightforward lastly artistic ornamental and artistic emotional or ecstatic rhythmical poetical emotional rhythmical rhythmical emotional melodious and amusing common available lucid and exquisite german rhythmic strong, simple and nervous singularly robust and masculine brief inimitable plain and most loyal sensible and scientific abstruse technical careful multidimensional expressive and evocative playful, sardonic elegant, witty exhilaratingly efficient archaic jacobean dramatic but utterly realistic remarkably colorful and inventive tersely judgmental bloodless bureaucratic lucid, grammatical hysterical purple solid, serviceable lucid, passionate disturbing, evocative precise, clear awkward, redundant incisive and vigorous natural eloquent remarkably simple and direct stately rhythmical clear eloquent pathetic descriptive arid scientific fanciful, ornate and devotional clumsy parliamentary energetic and impressive strong, energetic and impressive worthiest religious proportioned lucid plain unpictorial virile and luminous eighteenth-century conversational hymnal, pre-classical often stormy and contentious turgid or fanciful mildly spirited locally interesting massive and sinewy bald unblushing admirably pithy and trenchant alliterative rhythmical delightfully wise and witty lame languid perfectly correct and intelligent dreary and immediate crisp and nervous flat, unimaginative finest impassioned plain and flippant excellent and deservedly popular dense, literal rhythmical, alliterative readable easy singularly beautiful and musical preparatory german litheral simple and easy-going delightful, suggestive and inspiring lame, languid immaculate and moderately good essentially plain capital descriptive plain but sparkling noble sinewy correct but featureless barely metrical metrical and barely metrical scathing french humble and perishable shameful every-day prosaic and much undecorated, musical stately descriptive pure, attractive commendably easy sonorous, coloured otherwise unpoetical spirited, fluent crisp and lucid ornate or revolutionary metrical but rhythmic rhythmical alliterative artificial alliterative everyday conversational rich and redundant racy ironic medieval dutch bald and somewhat blasphemous deliberately poetic impassioned pyramidal exalted and esoteric instantly intelligible good or even passable harmonious poetic unsettled elizabethan sweet and voluble would-be archaic beloved poetic terse, vigorous and simple luminous german heavy and pale historical, oratorical and philosophical smooth literary dreadfully didactic sometimes antithetical and obscure sometimes antithetical deliberately uninspired luminously visual stiff and stodgy hungarian literary less insincere smooth journalistic uncouth and incorrect masterful and delightful bombastic and primeval feeble sloppy calm, realistic vivacious, robust musical, exalted simplest and yet grandest ebullient undulating plain unmusical pure modern truly prosaic stereotyped, garrulous or inexact garrulous or inexact graphic, vigorous wordy and inverted brutal belligerent descriptive and highly impassioned exceedingly witty and vigorous final french terribly stilted modern impassioned clear, accessible plain grave serious french emotional or impassioned rhythmical and unrhythmical naturally rhythmic impassioned alliterative able unrhythmical simple and emotional emotional or beautiful uncouth and shapeless simple and nervous solid continuous ordinary journalistic horrible and fantastic critical and miscellaneous junior french peaceful limpid appropriately purple often sloppy ordinary english-language almost journalistic obligatory purple spare, vivid utterly realistic vivid and colorful stultifying bureaucratic clear, nimble florid, overwrought clear, supple florid, sentimental sonorous and exquisitely balanced endless hyperbolic spare, evocative heady purple archaic and beautiful descriptive, lurid vigorously direct emotionally immediate careful, rational often dreary and difficult crisp, lean barbarously simple lucid and seductive dry, academic hardly deathless beautiful and logical carefully antiseptic singularly unscientific richly clotted solemn splendid terse, functional sloppy and barely intelligible usual stilted hyper-brutal less evocative lean, hard-boiled aggressively amateurish vigorous, bittersweet artistic and literate often-experimental serviceable victorian occasionally goofy intriguing, state-of-the-art splendiferously resounding resonant elizabethan masterly elizabethan vivid experimental emphatic and subtle distinct and increasingly fine affectionate and very readable economical, graceful straightforward, muscular plain luminous customary stripped-down simple and uncluttered moody and eloquent pungent, moody and eloquent accessible, terse but musical lusty purple deathless, original literate and complex unusually intelligent and precise tight, eloquent precise and evocative unusually precise and evocative unusual and colorful wistfully beautiful confusing and poor tentative, bland cute pretentious continuous and more-or-less coherent more-or-less coherent exotic decadent dark, melodic radically idiosyncratic exactly transparent rhythmically different formal and rhythmically different wry, deadpan poetic and often humorous precise, evocative experimental or highly difficult direct, serviceable terse, idiomatic flexible, energetic natural, eloquent prosal purely armenian ornate and devotional dull or florid paltry commercial happy everyday pithy and trenchant latest georgian noblest and most eloquent elegant correct often metrical delightfully wise bald and pitiless correct and intelligent deliberately celtic barest colloquial typical contemporary purely impassioned harmonious, regular ugly smoky _early french clear and most beautiful correct and interesting intensely musical excellent serious plain pedestrian above-mentioned exquisite other rhythmical introductory french best bustling clear and technical current rhetorical unequal but remarkable imaginative and idiomatic hard hopeless graceful, suggestive irregular rhythmical mystic or symbolic sober and weighty almost pedestrian remarkable didactic fine danish historical italian current portuguese young naive oratorical and philosophical resonant poetic biblical or similar simple eloquent gifted didactic harmonious and imaginative elegant and serviceable earliest continuous brilliant picturesque normal literary historical or didactic poetical and descriptive staid and temperate pompous and turgid merely rhythmical fine familiar plain, unmetaphorical witty and vigorous vigorous or eloquent rhythmic and virile unrhythmical pedestrial own overwrought spare, clean fine and solid superb oratorical singularly robust long and poetic remarkably colorful gay artificial stately rhythmic straightforward descriptive such uninspired comparatively squalid literal italian less rhythmical suggestive and inspiring merely rhythmic rather mannered graceful and accurate entire miscellaneous actually fine grave but enthusiastic graceful and supple present voluminous curious and bitter nervous and picturesque late and inferior still sorrier sometimes cloudy heavy technical strong, idiomatic perfect solid obscure but gorgeous generally rhetorical own limpid eminent and copious mighty and majestic more unbridled direct descriptive technically adept confident, rhythmic stylish, elegant bitter witty rather precious beautifully solid difficult and turgid lovely lyrical clear, effective often feverish wonderful breezy terse but musical frankly sentimental lavish victorian intelligent and precise sometimes convoluted unusually precise deceptively straightforward feverish purple vivid, fast-paced utterly contemporary elegantly complex new and serviceable unified, progressive ordinary proper always poetical sparkling french purest historical powerful, clear eloquent and gracious beautiful material semi-scriptural somewhat blasphemous original philosophic faintly archaic direct and lucid barbarous french grey and sober bold and delicate less puerile robust and masculine nervous and sonorous iyrical simple, rhythmic much eighteenth-century various introductory nearer modern modern rhythmical net modern heavy, pompous classic french much undeniable almost lyric remarkable descriptive graceful, simple less readable unpictorial informal musical modern and familiar often stormy delightful italian scientifically exact romantic french plain humble quaint historic poetic and philosophical merely romantic angry purple quite spare emotional and poetic sturdy and durable plain official scholarly german expositional more deathless simple and vivid picturesque and vigorous bold imaginative pseudo-poetical mere harmonious dull and insipid philosophico-theological various polemical such mellifluous pure idiomatic french seventeenth-century vigorous and simple long norwegian clever satirical longest and greatest short and pathetic weak and shallow flat colorless singular poetic highly impassioned plain and honest simple and elegant certain juvenile solid professional semi-fictional heavy religious strange poetic less veracious sublime and solemn earlier elizabethan facile and brilliant mighty plain great controversial scholarly french modern danish vigorous german often charming rhythmical modern swedish splendid political often jagged often dreary clear and dramatic smooth and confident intensely rich dense, dry important separate graceful and poetical noble and expressive less archaic political and satirical cold professional easy german regular classic unmetaphorical exceedingly witty sober, solid dry technical comparatively sober clear, flexible vigorous religious pure poetical simple, brief pure and graceful terse and vivid vivid and imaginative preferred plain much instructive various shorter stop-motion strikingly elegant dreary and difficult original faulty increasingly fine sardonically humorous sharp, vigorous dead, dull quaint poetical old javanese traditional literary numerous clever pure and vigorous more unqualified illustrative and explanatory simple, smooth delicate and fanciful plain, dull unmetrical original and suggestive plain dull high heroic earliest native truly notable original gaelic chaste and classic such bald several weird french romantic clear, rational thick, turgid much manifest plain and indisputable plain historic late mediaeval artistic literary hard, terrible simple and concise easily understandable vivid and convincing easy pleasant minor religious single french more breathless much furious elaborately formal especially true earliest great little disagreeable medieval religious greatest poetic own spirited simple popular equally graceful quaint elizabethan almost icy dull hard plain and humble extremely fascinating philosophical and metaphysical noble political plain historical standard literary low german last pagan straightforward, honest few creative short, spare just sloppy clear, unambiguous sharp and incisive prominent black truly imaginative great and eloquent strong and confident pure and lucid somewhat feminine typically modern vivid and graphic good, straightforward late fifteenth-century strong, sensible overly ornate good poetic accurate and scientific less poetical much exquisite solid and heavy single tremendous simple historical strongly emotional ciceronian easy-to-read critical and philosophical simple and strong rhythmic fine elizabethan dear french poor, common fresh and charming wild and free poor humble plain, hard much golden critical and biographical plain and unadorned rich and harmonious same rhythmic such dynamic strictly literary difficult and critical terse and vigorous perfect modern best and most characteristic good masculine later medieval excellent critical splendid literary such realistic fine poetical gushy such purple sometimes obscure grim, hard classical french pure french earliest french serious historical remarkably simple tremendous long heavy victorian pre-classical extraordinarily vivid many brief plain, sensible thoroughly charming weak and ineffective excellent short best french one-act impassioned kafkaesque perfect french philosophic and scientific easy, informal simple, elegant highly difficult stiff, hard pleasant and amusing mere dull south german best old rich and picturesque famous chinese great ponderous often humorous jejune more remunerative later french usual fine plain honest old gaelic simple, graceful usual smooth much noble ordinary french poetic alliterative ordinary german more pedestrian pure italian readable rhapsodical deathless fine french exquisitely balanced plain unadorned strong, lean tolerably full long critical plain natural elizabethan and jacobean late french regular french same plain elegiac brisk, no-nonsense pallid white pleasant and easy literal elizabethan much emotional several delightful rather florid descriptive highly poetic modern french clear, straightforward wholly original best current early french apologetical equally attractive equally remarkable equally charming few well-known barely intelligible modern literary sinhalese evocative poetical lean, muscular turgid natural and simple usual warm little plain new short idiomatic flattest new artistic best modern perfectly easy lyrical beautiful and charming expository less standard quite personal nihilistic good, plain few notable several striking imaginative plain, simple same transparent good german best spanish few miscellaneous deservedly popular single original miscellaneous more ecstatic publishable french historical astonishingly beautiful delicately balanced other original simply bad didactic great emotional impressionistic non-fiction such detestable provocative highly perfumed great imaginative lucid singularly beautiful stilted more readable modern spanish good clear hymnal such poetic plain semiliterate rich and splendid much excellent less remarkable more dreary more virile metric mellifluous purely historical most good much hard french graphic best german sorrier beautiful and romantic somewhat antiquated much good coarse and common just bad vague and indefinite colloquial untraditional rhapsodic direct and simple simple but effective terse readily accessible hard-hitting plain practical more nervous unleavened own vivid contrapuntal best italian important literary polemic somewhat romantic spanish or portuguese many better plain, common metrical declamatory rhetorical original french controversial platitudinous little good many original gassy highly individual almost tragic sober unusually intelligent miltonic thoroughly bad oratorical plainest perfectly correct florid jacobean new italian idiosyncratic next little rather dry last grand other chief clear and concise french or italian defamatory plain and simple short and simple plainer eighteenth-century such numerous simple and natural melodious unredeemed quite ordinary grave and serious great french declarative own poor moralistic eloquent lyric --several bombastic own characteristic deceptively simple journalistic plain-spoken good, honest polemical several eminent dullest often mere cloistral more deliberate realistic judgmental early italian deadpan nearly perfect italian concise nineteenth-century fairly complete great canadian more contemporary seventeenth-century more wretched antithetical harmonious autobiographical prosy limpid explanatory trenchant modern italian purely imaginative early colonial more flexible arthurian more sober more imaginative humorous emotional overblown gaelic rather bad comparatively modern truly terrible own superior unpoetical scintillating salable bengali exploratory good honest thirteenth-century more lofty sonorous stripped-down more accessible good french many excellent literary remunerative such artistic multidimensional more realistic inexact several excellent stodgy clunky inventive straightforward overwrought sinewy pedestrian witty unheroic hyperbolic undecorated expressive previously unknown much political almost perfect other beautiful bureaucratic incredibly complex purple naturalistic uninspired work-a-day classical trite richly coloured statesmanlike imperishable perishable moral and political unaffected

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Words to Describe prose

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "prose" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "prose" are: supple periodic, exquisitely lyrical and expressive, terse and convincing, penetrating journalistic, and often significant. There are 995 other words to describe prose listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe prose 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, "prose" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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