Describing Wordsfor Sustenance

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Here are some adjectives for sustenance: miserable sour, thin ambrosial, ethereal and imaginative, continual abundant, frank, liquid, supply basic, much occupational, just survival, such unfit, sufficient or wholesome, certain alcoholic, frugal and scanty, coarse and scanty, uncertain and uncomfortable, ample and satisfying, vague thin, delicate and appetizing, balanced human, more alcoholic, usually abundant, diverse intellectual, chief animal, much mineral, suitable and sufficient, true and sole, sole intellectual, such unpalatable, natural and wholesome, forth sufficient, own nomadic. You can get the definitions of these sustenance adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to sustenance (and find more here).

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Words to Describe sustenance

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

miserable sour thin ambrosial ethereal and imaginative continual abundant frank, liquid supply basic much occupational just survival such unfit sufficient or wholesome certain alcoholic frugal and scanty coarse and scanty uncertain and uncomfortable ample and satisfying vague thin delicate and appetizing balanced human more alcoholic usually abundant diverse intellectual chief animal much mineral suitable and sufficient
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true and sole sole intellectual such unpalatable natural and wholesome forth sufficient own nomadic lacteal good and abundant own frugal same meager less precarious more nutritious much spiritual quite limited genuine mental psychic and physical comparatively pure much material digestible own necessary home-grown physical and magical hardly sufficient good, true chief intellectual real spiritual such delectable scanty almost necessary worth more comparatively easy more solid highest spiritual more wholesome spiritual truly spiritual such material more adequate precarious totally inadequate best and noblest such slight daily more satisfying meager such simple much-needed emotional and physical true spiritual sufficient barest more conventional frugal direct or indirect quite sufficient inedible little other physical and spiritual unfit insufficient unearned ambrosial healthful maternal heartiest ample sole palatable nutritious bare material wholesome more generous loathsome necessary such special fit liquid little human more substantial own mental formative alcoholic unpalatable moral and mental chief adequate abundant own immediate proper plentiful polluted incorruptible appetizing such other mental solid physical leathery hard-won hygienic human continual principal ethereal survival more subtle occupational scant minimum intellectual emotional own small redundant satisfying unfailing natural miraculous day-to-day comfortable more refined angelic tional wretched vital honorable bitter perpetual mental and physical owne sour further healthy longtime celestial old-world imaginative basic one-way main inexhaustible microscopic unsatisfactory temporal congenial coarse short-lived moral organic compulsory improper frequent immaterial milky pernicious gleeful nomadic poorest such little elemental economic minimal decent psychic mutual copious indirect substantial appropriate joyous easy mineral magical independent suitable richer common raw sorry fitting intangible papal corporal animal imperfect divine visible immediate due conventional noblest indispensable unnatural slightest generous sweet mere delectable moderate ordinary legitimate reluctant hardy supernatural uncomfortable universal moist frank seductive lighter whole uncertain sinful strange constant least habitual chemical normal greasy true promising obvious fantastic present external consistent cheap inadequate bloody requisite inner partial humble reasonable miserable artistic full useful exterior slight scarlet glad limited rich ready corporate considerable foul simple entire usual fresh pale poor refined social exclusive quick equal reliable effective fiery subtle bland bad finer literary possible less special temporary preferred eternal powerful weak permanent professional essential additional current favorite free pure direct standard potential best sick imaginary primary precious specific individual happy sure nearby peculiar artificial delicate quiet internal good worst final red actual past narrow similar greatest excellent rude general wet thin remarkable faint separate dry native strong clear enormous private fair regular

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Words to Describe sustenance

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "sustenance" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "sustenance" are: miserable sour, thin ambrosial, ethereal and imaginative, continual abundant, and frank, liquid. There are 346 other words to describe sustenance listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe sustenance 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, "sustenance" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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