Describing Wordsfor Symbolism

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Here are some adjectives for symbolism: building--ecclesiastical, vague psychological, certain wasteful, mystic and repulsive, rich astronomical, incredibly complex and subtle, profound subconscious, worse, sentimental, peculiar and obscene, tribal or religious, predominantly chemical, functional or only material, intimate primitive, other, scientific, much graceful and significant, subtle and piquant, fancy, rough, obvious medical, vast pictorial, universally peaceful, conceivable finite, unique, vital, active and reprehensible, curious and impulsive, important erotic, whole, erotic, sad and rather gloomy, pure, sexual, commonest sexual, far-fetched, enigmatical. You can get the definitions of these symbolism adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to symbolism (and find more here).

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Words to Describe symbolism

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

building--ecclesiastical vague psychological certain wasteful mystic and repulsive rich astronomical incredibly complex and subtle profound subconscious worse, sentimental peculiar and obscene tribal or religious predominantly chemical functional or only material intimate primitive other, scientific much graceful and significant subtle and piquant fancy, rough obvious medical vast pictorial universally peaceful conceivable finite unique, vital active and reprehensible
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curious and impulsive important erotic whole, erotic sad and rather gloomy pure, sexual commonest sexual far-fetched, enigmatical reticent and effective pictorial religious graceful dreamy pompous and pagan religious and esoteric unfettered fancy impossible, bold indifferently appropriate continuous indefinable quaint and elusive ironic smug primitive or alien heraldic and ecclesiastical unaffected but fine perfect imaginable silent and malignant much grotesque newer religious actually functional material and functional esthetic and scientific scientific and mystical gruesomely overwrought illusory, mere common alchemical whole geometrical stark, solemn apt, facile meaningful and magnificent much freudian abstract freudian fantastic and esoteric unconscious linguistic truly linguistic appealing and eloquent similar erotic coarse or awkward precise and explicit just modern exquisite tragic sad gloomy weird and monstrous pagan and modern graceful and significant medi�val and historical mediaeval and historical fruitless and empty coarse but expressive recondite and narrow perhaps profound freudian ready-made curious and secret certain seeming mystical or religious deep and glorious appropriate mathematical much unobtrusive cold and commonplace ecclesiastical and architectural rich and poetic usually quaint ready and common _monumental direct pictorial subtle erotic archaic and awkward often archaic much fascinating religious and mythical profound and reverential mythical and religious often gross instinctive and universal distinct and appropriate exquisite sexual quite transparent obvious freudian <p>�traditional religious or royal vivid natural certain vulgar happy domestic conventional and arbitrary rich imaginative numerical and geometrical great, exalted familiar sexual perfect mathematical simple and adequate new and clearer peculiarly fitting refined and complex morally acceptable simple and expressive left-hand and right-hand stark physical almost ironic ethical or political strange, mystic purely phonetic highly tragic ever bolder universal natural sexual and religious much spontaneous simple algebraic equally awful much graceful truly deep imaginative and poetic quick, apprehensive metaphysical or philosophical racial and individual rich ceremonial solar and stellar certain cheap somewhat cursory dark, portentous divine and universal beautiful and significant primitive native essential religious profound and far-reaching profound and beautiful modern theological romantic and tragic obvious and natural such erotic similar human natural religious such mystical own monumental _poetical deep and beautiful sane and reasonable erotic strange mathematical almost convincing beautiful and expressive oldest egyptian extraordinarily rich possible racial vast and subtle complex and subtle medi�val religious such pagan freudian somewhat barren catch-all immediately apparent vast spiritual vague, dreamy highly necessary certain unconscious somewhat childish ancient native certain constant important chemical deep and rich old mythological old academic other emotional mediaeval religious almost primeval equally powerful _animal almost visible hermetic whole religious purely ideal deep and true least such pure spiritual certain superficial such sublime ancient religious incredibly complex rare and delicate astrological certain rude religious much religious strong religious new and difficult refined and delicate levitical much such less conscious special religious deeply religious same or similar less distinct sufi merely intellectual such private great poetic rather gloomy same terrible same religious mystic alchemical more religious own specific once beautiful highly imaginative numeral less picturesque mythological feel-good algebraic deep old almost religious cross-cultural wagnerian same subtle functional puerile coincident numerical mythic heraldic certain natural pluralistic cryptic phonetic mathematical sexual archetypical far-fetched less definite unredeemed judeo-christian perhaps less esthetic pagan expressive more exalted urinary cosmical ethical ostentatious much real old egyptian genital cosmological babylonian more rigid such peculiar graphic architectural own pure quasi-religious egyptian less obvious more profound profound linguistic unsolved armorial anthropomorphic literary and artistic scriptural mystical reverential trenchant geometrical esoteric figurative sacrificial wasteful undigested monumental more specific analogous astronomical more characteristic subliminal self-evident poetic pictorial prescient vegetative anarchic unconvincing implicit medi�val biblical overlying more subtle fanciful thaumaturgical mediaeval such awful peruvian ancient egyptian didactic obvious fossilized psychological subtle rather different significant reticent heterosexual imaginative allegorical mythical dynamic tragical tacit complex pregnant intensive half-baked abstruse reprehensible enigmatical animal material materialistic good and bad cognitive fuller immanent sacerdotal evocative abstract subjective primitive platonic arbitrary heavy-handed sacramental prophetic floral grotesque heretical ecclesiastical hackneyed sacred ubiquitous repulsive oriental theological mediæval exalted decorative ancient and modern menacing unintelligible apocalyptic comprehensive simplistic verbal preconceived purely physical historical extravagant leather-bound obscure archaic explanatory age-old imaginable humanitarian apprehensive poetical fitting cathedral unconscious piquant rudimentary optical subconscious pedestrian appealing ritual astral etruscan baptismal perplexing more complete dreamy essential intricate ceremonial gross solar racial unaffected deep-rooted conventional elemental metaphysical spiritual comical ancient natural fantastic aztec germanic overwrought stellar lofty imperishable incidental meaningful sublime fruitless medieval strangest deeper synthetic mexican festive refined more refined dreamlike visible clearest far-reaching electronic recondite elementary native apt enigmatic philosophical medical wondrous bolder finite temporal conscious cursory truer deft intrinsic striking indefinable sheer philosophic clearer universal musical spiral unobtrusive childish pointless seeming malignant twofold visual traditional primeval ready-made tragic immemorial rhetorical outdoor rampant ready inscrutable constructive pompous satanic unmistakable truest explicit glorious hazy aesthetic avowed bizarre romantic vague fiendish coarse terrestrial more serious tribal alien smug appropriate wider obscene second-hand nobler emotional scientific ornate vulgar similar pertinent accidental metaphorical telepathic gothic physiological sentimental chemical haunting discernible agreeable crazy concrete potent impulsive definite identical political rich embarrassing majestic domestic gorgeous lyrical scenic deep erratic thoughtless primal realistic moral deepest sophisticated chinese inspiring mute gruesome picturesque cosmic rude illusory unnatural mysterious inherent vital vivid gloomy lurid uncouth acceptable triple convincing external barren primary beautiful asiatic consistent memorial overt jewish chaste superfluous precise solemn baffling shady funeral elusive weird pure lucid playful effective widespread theoretical peculiar serene celtic dramatic quaint delicate graceful intellectual extensive artistic devious gracious blatant sane secular transparent academic cunning double spectacular specific instinctive divine habitual spontaneous ironic higher senseless eloquent artificial left-hand antique deliberate molecular arcane stony theatrical grim portentous admirable metallic heathen fascinating comparative sour right-hand inner secret eccentric commonplace peaceful familiar customary personal superficial confusing rigid fancy demonic parallel richest airy curious awkward rigorous secondary dire feminine ominous suggestive modern genial 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Words to Describe symbolism

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "symbolism" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "symbolism" are: building--ecclesiastical, vague psychological, certain wasteful, mystic and repulsive, and rich astronomical. There are 851 other words to describe symbolism listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe symbolism 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, "symbolism" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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