Describing Wordsfor Skin

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Here are some adjectives for skin: lush, tawny, smooth facial, loose, wrinkled, grubby, sweaty, white pallid, translucent immature, rich tanned, anaemically pale, dangerously pale, green rubbery, sure smooth, lightly corrugated, hairless, leathery, fleshy segmented, frigid extra, dark tanned, old larval, almost chalk-white, tart purple, previously brown, green warty, flawless fair, typically golden, usually bilious, fresh translucent, tanned human, bare and scabrous, delicately bronzed, red, reptilian, carefree, indolent. You can get the definitions of these skin adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to skin (and find more here).

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Words to Describe skin

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

lush, tawny smooth facial loose, wrinkled grubby, sweaty white pallid translucent immature rich tanned anaemically pale dangerously pale green rubbery sure smooth lightly corrugated hairless, leathery fleshy segmented frigid extra dark tanned old larval almost chalk-white tart purple previously brown green warty flawless fair typically golden usually bilious fresh translucent tanned human bare and scabrous delicately bronzed red, reptilian carefree, indolent unnaturally chalky
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sensitive, pink sexily smooth thick, inedible colorless olive shockingly pale and smooth still pale and perfect tanned, flawless olive dark cool, unbroken taut scarlet metallic, brassy wrinkled golden thick and magical marvelously smooth stylish tropical silken olive silly wet slick, silken pure tight beardless, dark upstanding ragged indestructible and curiously sensitive newly bronzed porous dark whitened silky darkly wrinkled sanguine, clear leathery, yellowish dry, rugged clear tanned already tanned thin earthy clear olive hairless bright-green heavy leathery fair, brownish wrinkled, callous perforated facial still red and inflamed wrinkled loose dark asian dark baggy unblemished and radiant lightly perspiring metallic, multicolored bare abdominal creamy and freckled still creamy and freckled still creamy thin iron-crystal iron-crystal wrinkled greenish corval cool preternatural powdery wrinkled white and highly reflective translucent preternatural thin, tart wrinkled sallow characteristic pale wonderful, smooth bizarrely naked disgusting pale clean and subtle rough and corrugated nice tough uncommonly wet wrinkled, tawny rough corrugated fabulously fair smooth olive thicker translucent naturally brown still soft and translucent flawless olive shockingly pale clear, tanned tanned, smooth clear, olive glorious tawny smooth, pallid scarred tanned wise, tawny new and puffy vibrantly warm hollow, bare loose yellowish freckled, sun-browned slick muddy relatively pale still pale and bloodless once olive tremendously sticky and abrasive tremendously sticky rubbery reptilian dark-gray hairless tanned and smooth puffy wrinkled deeply tanned and leathered taut outer reflective outer cadaverous, gray soft freckled supple, hard still ashen and gray still ashen gloriously male scrumptious tanned wrinkled rocky inexplicably empty naturally sallow unlined and smooth tanned and flawless lightly tanned and flawless red, scintillating wrinkled, repulsive wet leathery smoothest brown vulnerably fragile fat and wrinkled basically pale translucent, thin unique pale sallow clear brown and tanned long, grey and whitish inevitably freckled fair and inevitably freckled fresh brunette crooked, tight stiff inflexible tanned, unwrinkled indeed discontinuous thin and indeed discontinuous fair snowy nice swarthy puffy, yellowish rosy, fevered now smooth and velvety sallow, bloodless tanned fresh immaculate, silken tempting russet pale nordic hairless, naked pale, unblemished own tanned smooth tanned hairless, pale petal soft taut, smooth delicately smooth leathery tan creamy freckled clear but dark several chronic tough and leathery normally pale dark sepia leathery yellow delicate and sweet-smelling enviably clear iridescent translucent dusty, clammy pale leathery malleable metal colored, leathery favorite animal simply smooth bare blue-black featureless tan naturally golden tanned, dark otherwise sallow dull, taut warm, water-filled gray pockmarked typical fair reasonably pink glassy, colorful hot-vital thick bumpy wrinkled, yellow soon pink yellow, freckled abnormally soft abnormally soft and pliant colored but leathery brightly colored but leathery apply synthetic blue-black, leathery gray-black, wrinkled exquisite olive clear, bronzed translucent, whitish smooth, freckled gray, warty unblemished, ruddy ruddy and rough pearly gray and translucent whole, unblemished wet, flaccid clean, unstained deathly dry marvelously smooth and supple rasping sensitive healthy, flawless already cold and clammy somehow smoother and lighter somehow smoother heretofore smooth olive, smooth gunmetal black leathery, pockmarked dry, taut normally swarthy feel�real ostrich feel-real ostrich newer, darker exquisite, translucent taut, golden bare, tawny bluish, sleek tan your smooth pale-blue cold and waxen hairless yellow fine, sallow sensitive and hairless creamy and pampered deeply convoluted specially bleached otherwise hairless uncommonly pale tight, virginal sallow white severely ulcerated rasping red leathery orange little but glossy dappled outer tantalizingly bare perennially pale unhealthy, yellow leathery animal swart yellow exquisitely tactile brown, crispy pricey, cosmetic tough, smooth furry, itchy smooth coppery faintly dusky exceedingly tough and tight tough and tight bare, bluish creamy flawless pleasant silken transparent and sensitive perfectly white and transparent hairy, green and black moist, supple dingy and unwholesome feeble, clammy ragged and honeycombed still fair and smooth peculiarly rough peculiar olive bronzed fair naturally swarthy and yellow soggy, sun-tanned imperfect native tan, greasy clear bronzed thin unwholesome unequally thick and thin unequally thick frightfully brown frightfully brown and dry gray, silken sleek, dusky abnormally rough and thick abnormally rough intact outer fair and sunburnt leathery aromatic external, loose unquestionably invulnerable bronzed, tough darker and almost black outer coloured outer dull still white and delicate slightly olive permanently tanned pale, flawless dry itchy hairless gray smooth, untouched golden naked loose, fleshy dark pockmarked clear ectodermal almost pink tanned smooth thin, resistant same wood-grained tanned, leathery oiled naked taut, pink raw bluish hot and lumpy hard, furrowed healthily tanned green corrugated lightly tanned pink new scarred, filthy extraordinarily white rough calloused quite wrinkled thick ruddy smooth, tanned deeply tanned leathery brown dark, olive naturally dark tanned olive, flawless hairless green bald emerald glossy reptilian already fair tough mammoth agonizingly delicate greyly olive glossily tanned palely pink lusciously dark baked, greasy clear and beardless sensitive slick sensitive silky bare, unshaven delicate dappled still smooth and soft whitened, shiny creamy irish remarkably pale and creamy healthy, taut fashionably fair wrinkled outer fashionably translucent artificially translucent clean tanned smooth, tawny smooth bronzed relatively darker smooth and velvety hairy bloodstained supple, smooth naturally tanned old and leathery queer pink smooth pea-green smoother top smooth, undisturbed little and bare normally hot newly featureless shockingly orange suddenly pallid tanned leathery florid dutch rough and sunburnt orange, leathery obviously reptilian fragile translucent rubbery bluish pebbly frontal hot, ruddy wonderful olive thick, unsuspected smooth bloodied outstandingly thick golden tanned incredible soft dusky tan rough and warty flaky, dry scented dark taut yellow taut, sun-browned hard, charred luscious, smooth sweaty, hairy expensive fragile taut inguinal taut, grey warm, flawless fine-grained, flawless rigid, leathery fair, fine-grained fragile loose preferred smoother scarred, dead otherwise bluish milky pale such rubbery milky girlish dark hispanic brown hairless rough pockmarked dark hairless clammy, pale velvety supple flawless brown tawny italian taut, bronzed hard, tawny sweet, sweaty tawny masculine dead pallid tanned animal cadaverously white ancient, leathered tan, healthy uniformly smooth and pale thin and sensitive cursedly fair gray warty smooth, sensitive exclusively pink pleasantly brown golden masculine sleek, sweaty rough, puffy pale fatty much saltier dark, unblemished tan and crystal naked rosy tight, tattered reptilian blue deceptively clumsy heavily leathered ghostly fair old tanned salty human hair-growing scrotal byronically pale peerless, milky ruddy, outdoor healthy, new shrunken, lifeless buttery tan glorious, flawless sleek, perfumed new, irresistible perfectly re-created perfect glow-in-the-dark bearded facial uniformly tanned loose, warty ceathral rubbery ammoniac red and beige vascular intensive dirty but intact aboriginal, sub-human tough, bluish fair, translucent own grilled slimy mucosal bluish-crystal shiny, bluish-crystal smooth and creamy wrinkly green natural dark-brown super sensitive tough-looking leathery preferred pale curiously hairless delicate, smooth moist gritty tall, olive slim, creamy shabby animal soft and still cold unwholesome green unlined tan baked outer bare taut leathery gray-black taut, tempting ragged but soft hot clammy been—only smooth grey and whitish tanned, golden preternaturally pale luscious, creamy flawless, fresh greasy, translucent unblemished, smooth hairless, soft slimy, bumpy ultra pale tanned and deeply wrinkled thy sun-browned warm but somewhat unsavory glossy coal-black coarse and lean single inflated pearly fair exquisitely fine-grained healthy sun-tanned rather pale and colorless greenish bare thy tensile sallow dutch usually dark and rosy clear, tawny colorless pale rosy, brown whatsoever colored tense bronzed loose bluish admirable velvety decrepit, senile delicate and exceedingly sensitive corrugated, granular considerably fairer brown and opaque fine-grained, delicate beautiful, new and healthy simply smooth or wrinkled bronzed yellow alternately red and yellow fleshy, prominent opaque, pimpled smooth and almost naked wonderful unblemished healthy and porous coarse, opaque warm and swarthy dark healthy fair, sun-burned still fine and delicate shiny consumptive incomparable creamy simple tanned remarkable clear bluish, waxen quite red and raw strangely whitish curiously dried-up usually dry and harsh sensitive true charmingly sun-browned colorless, flawless dusky algerian obstinate and otherwise intractable wonderful creamy yellow, striped insignificant, mere slimy, detestable marvelously delicate and white true elastic sallow and bilious glossy, flaming scorched, florid leathery, warty beautiful healthy-looking well-known sallow superfluous inner pale and yet sallow naked, sensitive naked and sensitive vulnerable, leathery smooth, uninjured fat and rough clean irish inner or muscular comparatively soft and vascular light-colored and delicate usually moist and soapy feathered loose swarthy, shiny seldom clean dingy, muddy exquisitely white and fine dark-brown, smooth rough and smoke-stained transversely furrowed white, disagreeable wonderfully fair and clear sallow bloodless thick and rugged thin but very hairy central overlying rather cool and dry ruddy olive rather thick and tough dull wrinkled healthy, sun-browned clear velvety sometimes smooth and glossy extremely short and sleek mere furry old pupal brilliant fair frightfully sallow coarse and furrowed thick, pliant complementary florid cool and clammy clear and ruddy pale and leathery delicately sanguine supple and fresh now brown and hard weak or impoverished dirty, tense habitually dry pallid loose pallid and cold loose, furry sallow, unwashed withered sallow thin and rather sallow black-haired, brown decomposed, societal oblong, thin clear, fine-grained unusually colorless translucent olive orientally white originally supple smooth and tawny thick, callous inordinately wrinkled pale, dyspeptic baked, wrinkled feebly elastic healthily clear coarse and black tougher and thicker white and almost transparent clear sunburnt ever vigorous loose, mellow fresh, sunburnt superfluous ancient oiled olive smooth, dried-up sunburnt coppery whole sunburnt bloodless, dried-up naked lilac warty red fibrous true fair and even white perspiring swarthy yellow and brownish soft, invalid withered but rosy swarthy southern waxen, pale dry, pallid colored outer outer brownish palely bronzed and smooth palely bronzed tough and shaven brittle and harder clammy, perspiring clear and pale yellow and furrowed bloated unhealthy dusky fair flawed and yellowish rather tough but thin smooth and deliciously fine withered outer smooth and slightly olive usually dark or dirty naked scarlet porous tubercular greasy naked still soft and white bloodless and livid smooth rose-petal lastly seal nevertheless rough and hard nevertheless rough hot and extremely dry enormously swollen and inflamed tense and clammy tanned seal hairy seal sensitive, naked entirely unmodified striped, black and white natural slimy rough scabrous wrinkled whitish exquisitely white and soft literally outer slightly sun-burned dazzlingly fair and fresh knotty or shiny wrinkled, knotty or shiny moist external clear, swarthy withered and rather sallow fair and vermilion vellum or stout white and singularly clear passive external naked and black florid lumpy bare whitish dry inflated singularly fair and smooth unwashed olive yellow and puffed-up delicate, olive narrow lilac apparently brittle fine and wrinkled unmistakably fair withered, furrowed usually clear and brilliant clear, scanty shiny and tight tight and clammy juvenile and pure wrinkled tough incredibly smooth and white glossy and striped rough, scabrous smooth pale enough bare smooth, tan undoubtedly human same olive original yellow smooth seamless tanned brown flawless white smooth tawny wrinkled, pink fairly nimble brown smooth almost olive pure, candid smooth unblemished smooth, unblemished soft, perfect golden, tawny dark leathery short and pale wrinkled human chalky yellow densely wrinkled pallid grey tough greenish dreadful loose clear, pallid neat conical rather sallow smooth and youthful cool, naked delicate, clear darkly tanned wrinkled leathery wonderfully white naturally fair gray, wrinkled already pale terribly sensitive and dry brown, bloody magnificent, perfect almost slimy enough fair darkly bronzed pink, healthy wrinkled and weary painful itchy sleek bare shiny, hairless rough bronzed hard, armored naturally olive transparent, soft smooth, healthy slick, perfect just superficial resilient metal normally dusky black pockmarked creamy, flawless luscious tawny dark and velvety brown, black or yellow youthful olive rough, golden rich, shiny various, subtle flawless tan new, unmarked fresh, tight loose and wrinkled clear, creamy pallidly dusky warty blue unblemished olive delicate, mobile great smoke-stained loathsome pink oiled leathery warm tanned lightly bronzed unprotected true fair, pink neat, sweet yellow, greasy clear sun-browned brown warty soft or rough common ulcerative fat or loose harsh and hot yellow or outer velvety, tawny heavily tanned brown, leathery warty gray smooth, dusky reasonably white fair, freckled smooth, pale leathery gray much bare human dermal soft, unblemished creamy brown tattered, withered lovely tanned small, beardless wrinkly brown flawless, creamy smoothly tanned sensitive white healthy golden flawless dark smooth, unmarked harsh blue-green clear, supple smooth smooth clean tan black and smooth sallow brown thin, mere sallow, shrunken fair transparent singularly transparent reddish, dark thick, naked fresh creamy suddenly pale soft thy smooth, bronzed pale smooth olive brown clear, pink unusually fair almost translucent rubbery gray pale, creamy dark, coppery moist organic odd silvery magnificent olive clear creamy pale flawless smooth, moist dark but brilliant clear, pale last larval vulnerable human pale olive hairless, white slightly sallow soft facial tough, tasteless pale, pockmarked famous invisible surprisingly dark supple golden good prime velvety white thin leathery unnaturally pale faintly warm ancient wrinkled pale naked pale hairless smooth lustrous smooth, golden soft tanned smooth, brown wet bare earthy brown thy tawny dazzlingly fair smooth and soft clear, smooth unwashed human pale clear warm, smooth dark olive pale, fair olive surprisingly soft bare, freckled still smooth and perfect ceal fair relatively bare dark, leathery pebbly yellowish now smooth and unblemished creamy dark pink healthy much pink bluish squamous shredded bare disgustingly hideous characteristic pallid leathery, taut loose clammy bare oiled invariably pale thin ceramic once flawless tough, wrinkled fat and leathery bare scorched natural, warty scrupulously clear suddenly clammy and cold smooth reptilian pale, perfect soapy human me’al bizarrely tanned dark unblemished tough artificial body—normal ordinary body—normal gray, flaky subtly colored plump, clear apart sensitive normally brown with�with�pearly white smooth and hairless greasy, warty

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Words to Describe skin

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "skin" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "skin" are: lush, tawny, smooth facial, loose, wrinkled, grubby, sweaty, and white pallid. There are 995 other words to describe skin listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe skin 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, "skin" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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