Describing Wordsfor Respite

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Here are some adjectives for respite: intermittent but welcome, servile and precarious, brief pitiful, short and arbitrary, precarious and disgraceful, quick, welcome, brief lethargic, stubborn, righteous, enjoyable and protracted, short and doubtful, short and anxious, smooth brief, customary late-day, tedious but welcome, little sultry, brief and enjoyable, brief but grateful, short and fickle, hardly hoped-for, brief and dangerous, brief and doubtful, brief after-dinner, brief and unreal, accidental and momentary, small and agreeable, short solemn, brief and feverish, short and precarious, certain welcome, short and uneasy. You can get the definitions of these respite adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to respite (and find more here).

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Words to Describe respite

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

intermittent but welcome servile and precarious brief pitiful short and arbitrary precarious and disgraceful quick, welcome brief lethargic stubborn, righteous enjoyable and protracted short and doubtful short and anxious smooth brief customary late-day tedious but welcome little sultry brief and enjoyable brief but grateful short and fickle hardly hoped-for brief and dangerous brief and doubtful brief after-dinner brief and unreal accidental and momentary small and agreeable
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short solemn brief and feverish short and precarious certain welcome short and uneasy --economical brief and beautiful brief, brief sweet and peaceful short, sad brief eleventh-hour two-weeks short and sad slow easy momentary short, sweet usual short brief mental temporary welcome somewhat short other brief occasional brief all-too-brief more brief usual happy late-day much-needed comparatively long little peaceful short seven-year wholly unexpected such brief ten-day five-day extremely valuable precarious briefest longer such further untrustworthy fifty-year subjective two-year such perfect short-lived unexpected cheery further accidental two-hour rare and precious dreamless transitory crucial enjoyable unrecognized servile grateful intermittent hoped-for partial idyllic merciful little further lethargic ten-minute fleeting transient giddy arbitrary trifling disgraceful visual inadequate unforeseen pleasant little salutary doubtful slight providential little real five-year closer schal ironic slightest much more speedy blissful delicious inexplicable comparative indolent hazy lawful occasional after-dinner light-hearted longed-for peaceful sultry lengthy fickle agreeable eventual smallest complacent undisputed precious sufficient delightful long nice little involuntary pitiful overnight shorter necessary priceless gracious periodic protracted invaluable scant minimal anxious unaccustomed miraculous reasonable relative far less macabre decent merest righteous feverish shady valuable rare shortest happy sudden sweet unreal uneasy secular cool prospective sheer profound little more moderate glad remarkable sad annual interminable miserable wholesome present consequent primeval least perfect quick quiet thorough stubborn possible thrilling interstellar considerable sole wondrous mere emotional critical futile mutual tedious pious fresh limited mental painful fortunate permanent uncomfortable proper capital important effective definite solemn artificial earliest unusual dangerous fatal grim liquid eternal gentle professional essential physical next poor historical less genuine safe dull visible entire recent natural complete clear beloved final foolish chief divine usual immediate similar easy slender curious fair current beautiful charming false soft nearest common splendid certain strange due dark single pure full true small

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Words to Describe respite

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "respite" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "respite" are: intermittent but welcome, servile and precarious, brief pitiful, short and arbitrary, and precarious and disgraceful. There are 271 other words to describe respite listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe respite 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, "respite" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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