Describing Wordsfor Style

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Here are some adjectives for style: satisfactorily high-rolling, severe minimalist, old inflated, candid and familiar, graceful and piquant, elliptical conversational, flat but colorful, gracious and antique, african aristocratic, curious jewelled, well-known, fresh and easy, new, loose, alone dissident, antique byzantine, usual tasteless, well-known charming, peculiar fluent, good ambassadorial, crisp managerial, disturbingly military, utilitarian architectural, solemn or poetical, quaint, metaphorical, slick and mystic, somewhat funnier, peculiarly ecclesiastical, direct, graphic, artistic and humane, raw, unpolished, customary antique. You can get the definitions of these style adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to style (and find more here).

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Words to Describe style

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

satisfactorily high-rolling severe minimalist old inflated candid and familiar graceful and piquant elliptical conversational flat but colorful gracious and antique african aristocratic curious jewelled well-known, fresh and easy new, loose alone dissident antique byzantine usual tasteless well-known charming peculiar fluent good ambassadorial crisp managerial disturbingly military utilitarian architectural solemn or poetical quaint, metaphorical slick and mystic somewhat funnier
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peculiarly ecclesiastical direct, graphic artistic and humane raw, unpolished customary antique pure rhetorical neat but childish semi-atheistical demoniac terse conversational comfortable and unadorned uncompromisingly comfortable and unadorned uncompromisingly comfortable brisk and prosaic sometimes slipshod commonplacely artificial jaunty and commonplacely artificial bald and journalistic somewhat bald and journalistic distractingly modern silent barefooted chatty, endearing singularly pure and pleasing archaic byzantine simple, vivacious bold but astute artificial continental lordly cognizant simple and picturesque graceful australian oblique, elliptical evasive, secretive lavish, elegant free, indirect peculiar and rather fantastic grand and flamboyant high intricate best savage snazzy substantial strict somber earthy, compelling legendarily informal strict oriental domestic, conciliatory robust, powerful and vigorous vigorous and resonant sober classical singularly terse happiest and most spirited fervently pious majestic and appropriate loosely discursive stout persistent slender persistent simple armorial classical victorian old-fashioned mortal vaguely western naturalistic, realistic almost civilian oddly precise and polite simple but not squalid radiantly explanatory straight and civil slight, persuasive shy and ponderous gross and stringent concise grand daringly avant-garde quaint declamatory new-feudal majestic, unaffected sometimes informal intimate and sometimes informal old-fashioned journalistic smooth, sympathetic choicest and most advantageous bruising, physical florid, easy work-a-day dramatic solemn or sublime abusive scurrilous old-world and ponderous sentimental, revolutionary easy characteristic sweet and genuinely national mad and vain economical, practical pictorial, exuberant early ogival usual patriarchal latest and neatest stiff curt inimitably easy peculiar light-hearted extra-colloquial cloudy and canting late, decadent current architectural peculiar self-deprecating true managerial safer architectural prolific sexual brutally modern french monumental groggy and half-witted wonderful high-spirited sentimental, feudal true melodramatic unexpectedly figurative best pedestrian extra ducal compellingly authentic similar parliamentary formal and oratorical renewal, medieval unique and haunting nervous and colloquial conventional cartesian modern and airy bold and ornate octagonal victorian rigidly aseptic preferred stuffy admirably functional highly antithetical rude and untidy perfcial portentous stilted strong animated entangled, hyper-metaphorical hyper-metaphorical quaint and burlesque lucid literary bloody and vigorous equally bloody and vigorous popular, inartificial solemn or antiquated true bucolic mystical and dramatic lucid, incisive elegant and ready shrill monotone rich classical bad and ragged turgid and declamatory uniformly miltonic balanced and miltonic pungent, vehement true music-hall always pure and correct pungent and familiar easy ciceronian abominably rococo usually stern and tyrannical melodious and fascinating quite simple and unadorned broad and austere expensive and mechanical romanesque and moorish loose, jaunty human, sincere unpretentious and interesting singularly lucid and attractive gaudy flaming always pure and easy fresh and easy usual hyperbolical festive, rustic subtle and caustic characteristically concise rural gothic graphic and attractive facetious, descriptive well-known quaint brisk, virile french materialistic usually felicitous affluent and vivid easy vigorous rugged, conversational true baltic virile and convincing luminous and trenchant colloquial and epigrammatic magnificent and hospitable simple but vivid high sublime bold, figurative pleasantly colloquial admirably clear and racy first-rate workmanlike straightforward, methodical promiscuous southern lighter childish customary critical neat but somewhat cold quietly exquisite flippant, jocose good and lucid own juridical easy australian loose and smooth characteristically glaring cool and thorough sombre, archaic high and unfettered gothic or flamboyant later gothic or flamboyant romantico-lackadaisical certainly snobbish good-looking but certainly snobbish highly supercilious pure, hardy flexible and literary excessively quick excessively quick and rapid copious and ornamental correct and agreeable less periphrastic luxurious and florid native hebraic florid military frivolous, extraordinary peculiar gothic sweet, irish classic capitalist bold, forceful eloquent british truly magisterial inflated and bombastic decorative gothic intimate and expansive warm and sumptuous heavy, rigid cheerlessly functional grand and violent serious, formal same diffuse ghastly mid-twentieth-century intense, gung-ho compelling, visionary respectable, deductive spanish or spanish-revival stilted and poetic plain and ancient overwrought, alliterative zulu-biblical painfully conscious and ornamental conscious and ornamental delicate, religious straightforward, literate predominantly oratorical colloquial, folksy flat-footed, painstaking shakespearean grand confusedly ornate tall architectural modern or old tropical colonial leisurely critical local, modest fancy enamelled big and booming forceful conversational shoulder-to-shoulder, continental pitiless, analytical old dazzling archaic and very ornate unmatched and inimitable dry and prosy somewhat dry and prosy highest melodramatic false submissive refined reverential typical outgoing adventurous, penalty-free unsuitably casual fascinatingly eclectic old, sloppy archaic and chaotic low airy casual and unassuming peculiar gaunt offensive hard balanced, comprehensive flippant, cheeky especially macabre etruscan revival incorrect and nerveless grand seventeenth-century elegant, lucid vague or bad useless bombastic florid and awkward weird, medieval terse, brilliant perfectly fresh and unaffected school-magisterial rude obsolete oratorial and historical corrupt effeminate peculiarly negligent rough scenic pleasing but plain racy modern diffuse and inflated imaginative and vigorous highly imaginative and vigorous modern, revolutionary provokingly every-day gay metaphysical current fifteenth-century readable and graphic exceedingly readable and graphic sordid and solitary jewelled or ornamental singularly easy and sympathetic unbalanced and barbaric intricate, obscure perfect and eloquent clean-cut french rapid moorish direct, civic more, hard and artificial antiquated and uncouth fluent and exalted elliptical and obscure wonderfully simple and direct due fifteenth-century characteristically piquant gothic, baronial irrelevant and somewhat mystical easy, fascinating sometimes jocular bald forensic rude but pathetic decidedly archaic superior and elegant sickly enthusiastic highly ornamental and effective plain and pleasing smooth good lofty and agreeable social, commercial elegant but unobtrusive liberal but temperate oratorical, regular and correct tangled, knotty terse and peculiar sombre, romanesque peculiarly clerical distinctive and haunting peculiar and not pleasing doric or corinthian ordinary splendid knightly-feudal lively simple vicious and captious modern perky lofty and promiscuous national original vulgarly presumptuous and familiar vulgarly presumptuous presumptuous and familiar primeval british sometimes harsh and abrupt broad anecdotal jaunty, unconventional ornate or complex unadorned and classical bavarian lapidary every-day, work-a-day eminently graphic eminently graphic and classical precise, curial true ogival new or national incoming ogival complex and hybrid florid grotesque nascent ogival sumptuous secular zapotec or aztec antique and severely simple temperate, home-bred clear and sometimes eloquent graphic and bright still irregular and careless limpid and beautiful easy, liberal false decorative artificial and even boyish peculiar pristine grave ornate subtle and ornate quaint and very oriental terse, chaste particularly interesting and typical grand, doric plainer doric readable, lucid rough and immature stilted and obscure easy devout true ciceronian disgraceful and disreputable jejune scholastic clumsy and unpolished somewhat clumsy and unpolished undisputably original lively controversial superb lusty stilted, conventional fluent and sensational secular, effeminate realistic operatic strictly old-time usual constructive solemn and grandiloquent absurdly solemn and grandiloquent hard classic pure and illuminating simplest, poorest monarchy--elective--royal aztec monarchy--elective--royal sober, persuasive antique and difficult flat and tedious fresh and skilful surprisingly fresh and skilful single and classical professedly popular professedly popular and familiar unnecessarily clumsy poetic, impassioned easy correct pleasant platonic usual and aristocratic chinese metaphorical chinese figurative usual rhapsodical mysterious and enigmatical loud and contentious thrice forked wholly persistent graphic and careful peculiarly pleasing and graphic pleasant unpretentious simple and very attractive smooth confectionary plain and trite ecstatically joyful peculiar and defective miserable and puerile nervous, lucid pedantically antique gross and almost blasphemous modest, efficient airy, superficial airy, flippant supremely poetical thunderous, inconsequential curious and somewhat picturesque smoothest, easiest charming, impeccable singularly eloquent and fascinating grandly superior admirably condensed and clear frankly naturalistic curiously explicit especially byzantine oftentimes pompous vivid and friendly irish inflated western ancient or sublime superior, suspicious pure, plain gothic and composite serious northern monumental and realistic broad and ideal undeniably middle-class true pantomimic geometrical and natural pretentious egyptian simple penurious humble servile vulgar and antiquated emphatic, declamatory popular and animated facile eighteenth-century natural and fluent original and elegant brief and trenchant pompous and inflated usual volcanic clean architectural precise and polite haughty and absolute angry, sarcastic proper and public usual rococo rigid classic simple, solitary quaint, racy usual gossipy serious and portentous pleasing and graphic exalted and splendid masterly literary heavy declamatory fresh and simple simple lyric thoroughly australian pleasant and lucid elegant poetical modest human striking and artistic modish spanish best machiavellian often bloated hot architectural neo-oriental morbid, fleshy decentralized, experimental supple, stripped-down easy, pleasing and readable characteristic sparse cloyingly outdated cool, journalistic aggressive, adversarial fine baroque cool maternal odd, intricate human conversational short but feminine plain, random german monumental basically clean basically clean and sharp classical tragic high lilliputian informal and diffuse perpetually vigilant georgian or early federal inimitable stalinist splendid dictatorial typical, unassuming true eighteenth-century expensive and handsome damned baroque inimitable hush-hush unfamiliar artistic ornate rococo classic eighteenth-century fashionable, well-cared-for thick archaic short, no-nonsense attractive wavy italian ironic classical norwegian remarkable, iconoclastic cool and rather baroque loose shag crisp, simple low-key high remarkably clear and vivid exuberant celtic classical romanesque gaunt and grandiose absolute trendiest neat, preppy less formalized proper japanese possible idiosyncratic neo-industrial -ing baroque severe domed belligerently righteous simple, uncluttered unique triangular unique culinary silvery and unorthodox ornate and obviously civilian simple, down-to-earth redundant and durable multiply redundant and durable hypnotically persuasive flip, sultry self-consciously casual stately soviet standardized planetary smart, businesslike vaguely polish federal or neoclassical floridly baroque primitive, vigorous fashionably cynical simple, dramatic increasingly pragmatic severe neoclassical strong, blocky intricate right-hand sheer unpredictable patently hilarious uncommon and rather ripe unique left-handed old, pre-imperial intense, dark and distinctive different visionary graceful and visionary dreamy, graceful and visionary unique realistic colorful, surrealistic mature artistic sexy graphic strikingly surreal linear abstract uncluttered, distinct playfully grotesque pontifical, ponderous speculative, mischievous terse, abbreviated blandly polite great novelistic short, utilitarian mature and natural eastern hyperbolical fluent and flexible graceful literary pernicious literary concise, formal elegant, classic un-general venomous and violent stilted, antithetical easy and profuse antique chaste true phoenician obscure or bad hyperbolical and acrobatic logical and thoroughly chinese gentler memorial boldest, largest patriarchal semi-feudal old-fashioned and unpolished outrageously rhetorical graphic abrupt compact and weighty frugal and direct simple, frugal and direct extra elegant gay and conversational simple, sensuous and passionate crisp and unemotional solid pedestrian unformed and somewhat stilted chaste and easy animated and persuasive plain, appropriate offensive and irreverent formal, geometrical artificially rural gaudy and ornate gracefully-ornamental vigorous and first-rate closely-packed artificial direct and undecorated peculiar and highly artificial uncouth ancient exceedingly chaste and pleasing different and vastly better cheapest native zealous and vehement urban journalistic savage and stormy vehement and gorgeous singularly cold and prosaic vehement and mystic large and healthful sketchy and idyllic vigorous and vaulting flat and throaty fine liberal old or solemn concise spirited familiar and low inflated or ambitious colloquial or familiar familiar and burlesque terse or concise self-confident fashionable frothy, flippant animated and graceful concise, sonorous musically expressive terse, condensed possible, vivid confident declamatory graceful, personal wild and vehemently expressive conversational and discursive grandiose, spanish sumptuous and rococo rather bombastic and theatrical bombastic and theatrical formal and unrealistic mannered, artificial fantastic moorish grand but mannered neat or elegant enigmatical and pretentious lucid parabolical dreary, half-drunk useless, horizontal careless, blasphemous naturally harsh and ungrateful terse, florid meaningless rococo free classic old topiary classical and imperial stinging humorous lofty and vehement tawdry and decadent rabbinical allegorical extravagant burlesque baked, turkish altogether characteristic florid and vulgar hideous and antiquated peculiar insolent artificial and obscure precious, artificial and obscure speculative and popular mildly speculative and popular singularly captivating bold and logical peculiar and fascinating precise and ornamental flamboyant elizabethan pleasing elizabethan sentimental but vicious utterly unliterary rhetorical and florid heavy and tawdry convincingly masculine last and most impressionistic july present clear plausible graceful and readable suave and lucid ludicrous and satyrical thunderous declamatory defiant iconoclastic mock-oratorical next or lofty chopped, jerky tricky or artificial vigorous and appealing clear, vigorous and appealing flawless, ornate simple, sparkling shrewd, seductive frequently elliptical realistically characteristic always clear and logical police-official purest doric broken-down classic poetic and graceful effusive, sentimental severely monastic extraordinarily grandiloquent somewhat bald and severe remarkably effective and picturesque ecstatic and transcendental straightforward and pleasing austere and unimaginative big and subtle clear static present declamatory conventional and classical solemn or poetic imitative and idiomatic old-fashioned, impressionistic absurd, trivial old, outgoing characteristic stern already old-fashioned vulgarly fine declamatory and vehement familiar, popular coarse, buxom indescribably coarse indescribably coarse and hardy piquant, anecdotical literary classic merry and liberal vigorous and pleasant elegiac sentimental sentimental elegiac matchless descriptive tasteful and tempting lowest decorative acceptable mythological entirely unusual and foreign certainly dull certainly dull and commonplace middling showy pungent and agreeable pure georgian irregular, italian early tragic and satiric generally comic and satiric generally comic safely best paltry, burlesque true rabbinical juvenile and dry fluent elegant diplomatically tortuous bombastic descriptive professional ready breathless, chatty elegant and even luxurious condensed and exact rococo-sentimental exclusively romantic abrupt, elliptical usual serial eager, uncertain peculiarly gorgeous racy and unconventional strangely declamatory careless, familiar genuine wagnerian sensuous italian somewhat wild and singular tedious discursive metrical and general corrupt dramatic cohesive and lucid orthodox nautical inimitably bright and cheery unhealthy and barbarous perfectly simple and unaffected tawdry and fanciful pleasing sympathetic unaffected and easy ornate and antithetical clean, graphic latest civilized plain maritime mellow and artistic foreign, dutch discursive or descriptive coarse and showy lucid, graphic brilliant and exhilarating heedless and almost frantic tactful, humorous and gracious humorous and gracious familiarly vigorous habitual pleasing buttery, conventional grand pagan strange metaphorical anomalous but emphatic practical vertical broad, discursive obscure and trivial original and facetious usual romanesque occasional inflated unqualified, unmodified graceful and limpid pleasantly clear and luminous characteristic, noisy georgian academic own flighty coarse, showy own spiritless later virtuoso chaste rural airy and picturesque uncomfortable, jerky unique, noble warm, illuminating fragmentary and jerky stiff, turgid arbitrary and non-productive realistic or natural lucid and outspoken sickly ciceronian nervous, straightforward metaphorical, allegorical compacted, pungent exhaustive and drastic sinewy, platonic succinct and rapid such onconsequential singularly pure and lucid artistic and modern balanced and noble perfectly balanced and noble uncertain, immature modern, unnatural spacious and dramatic modern or irregular slightly incomprehensible lofty and slightly incomprehensible diffuse and turgid florid and declamatory graphic and pungent stern and tyrannical terse, bold usually bold and brilliant ornate and rather fantastic riotous rococo expressive, pure pompous and oratorical heavy and barbaric quiet, offhand complex, unusual flattering and idiotic weird and poetic masculine, brilliant epigrammatic, vigorous florid, tawdry peculiarly rich and handsome peculiarly powerful and voluptuous powerful and voluptuous sumptuously luxurious laborious, semiofficial stiff geometric indigenous geometric french stiff spurious classical continental flamboyant usual trenchant clear and often eloquent rather plain and severe non-illegal formal etruscan old-fashioned tasteless masterly oratorical easy, limpid purely blonde peculiar judicious florid or austere chaste, expressive free, picturesque clear-cut literary faultless and beautiful would-be italian fanciful and rustic old florid realistic vocal concise lapidary lucid, icy inflated and tawdry substantial excellent jaunty, uncertain easy, readable violently injudicial speedy and elegant genuine intricate orthodox barbary stiff, rhetorical independent and highly commendable absolute and standard gothic, barbaric medieval cathedral abundantly luxurious

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Words to Describe style

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "style" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "style" are: satisfactorily high-rolling, severe minimalist, old inflated, candid and familiar, and graceful and piquant. There are 995 other words to describe style listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe style 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, "style" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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