Describing Wordsfor Things

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Here are some adjectives for things: humorous, tragic, sometimes paltry, unhappy, far-off, away childish, hasty and regrettable, utter perverse, strangest and most unique, unhappy far-off, simple many, wonderful and heartening, awful, vile, important simple, disturbing uncomfortable, cruel and utterly unexplainable, slippery shapeless, old pigeon-holed, vile, savage, few hundred-odd, furtive wild, mildly precious, halfway interesting, stupid, bashing, ornery mechanical, separatist and sacred, other dressy, stalwart noble, huge animate, queer sentient, spectral and dreamy, graceful, inspiring. You can get the definitions of these things adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to things (and find more here).

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Words to Describe things

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

humorous, tragic sometimes paltry unhappy, far-off away childish hasty and regrettable utter perverse strangest and most unique unhappy far-off simple many wonderful and heartening awful, vile important simple disturbing uncomfortable cruel and utterly unexplainable slippery shapeless old pigeon-holed vile, savage few hundred-odd furtive wild mildly precious halfway interesting stupid, bashing ornery mechanical separatist and sacred
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other dressy stalwart noble huge animate queer sentient spectral and dreamy graceful, inspiring disturbing, haunting startling and historic bitter or scandalous dead and inorganic forth wondrous odd and luxurious translucent, iridescent limp and limp lesser unclean stupid, idiot possibly blasphemous strange and possibly blasphemous green voiceless curly fossil ponderous and substantial stupid, top-heavy hateful and grim however peaceful foolish but agreeable curious and contrary splendidly revolting easy and impossible mad, unbearable therefore animate not-mortal stupidly loyal wretchedly expensive childish and useless slightly dainty idle shallow fitting and excellent brave sublunary truly new and great aeviternal monstrous and artificial wanton, savage and cynical offensive and callously insensitive few animate dead or mechanical obstinate, reliable polite but infuriating countless horrid repellent, headless dizzy and colossal inner historical bipedal greenish terrible, distressing biologically impractical nasty, risky small or important other birdlike purple leggy delightful and most reasonable nastily portentous cumbersome stupid big syrupy wildest and brilliant however rosy wretched eminent unsaid many voluntarily subordinate incredible, such great steel-reinforced sumptuously unpleasant unmentionably horrible unlikely wrong loveliest and prettiest murky and secret unnatural and sophomoric also drinkable odd and intriguing rarely self-contained glad unnoticed bad, confusing sturdy, everyday mysterious scented funny or fascinating secondhand, worn-out spectral and terrible loathsome and ill-disposed shapeless elemental fancy curious terrible, dishonorable soft, squirmy various last slimy horrible neat rotten horrible untrue local, trivial hard and even inhumane ungracious or discourteous finer, beautiful little and familiar bad tawdry useless and beautiful brilliant, true vain and mighty little slick incredible and infamous delightful, frivolous preferred smashing superficially unreasonable or impossible superficially unreasonable bad wrong smaller savage utterly unexplainable nicest and most curious quietly scary unaccountable unnatural amazing, miraculous clever, stupid stupid irritating charitable and judicious nice martial evil, misshapen hungry, evil splendid or heroic celestial good braying stupid odd and unrelated foolhardy and very dangerous orange fruity stupid, unpleasant magical and amusing mythical and semimythical slimy, fecal absurd, lighthearted indeed vain fragile, misshapen yellow papery scratchy green age-old, bygone exceedingly gruesome queer animate shocking elder stray mechanical tiny, hungry nasty, weird and magical weird and magical small abnormal powerful noisy generally non-academic nasty slimy choicest and fat wicked, good and evil disgraceful and discourteous clever and irresponsible hardy, sweet devilish, awful truest and most substantial fancy terrible negative wise chaste, certain beautiful untrue grand and strong just promising important nautical fat saggy unexpected and unheard-of aside childish insanely exciting delightfully rotten unspeakably atrocious inhuman, unchristian ridiculous, loony highly unclerical european withdrawal bold, memorable ugly ringed damned disgusting frantically afraid marvelous unknown mighty, handsome imaginary impossible odd and rather important many sillier divinely ordinary foolish and brutish evil damned vague and even happy exaggerate--actually eatable brown, old and shiny shapeless, dark and shadowy unknown, hideous fearfully nameless fairly insulting nameless slimy anymore horrible imaginable and many bovine sweet depraved and filthy slender, unreliable least, jagged indisputably frightening north stable more not-mortal else clean blue, subtle wet, hideous shrunken withered trivial and inane tragic and wonderful harsh and strong certain paranormal unimportant and fragmentary honorable or decent tiny despicable ordinary horrible scarce and other strange and highly inventive strange and disruptive handsome, serious marvelously exciting dreadful scientific acutely beautiful grave or beautiful unforgettable and still attainable inaudible personal painful and grim witty, ingratiating mystical better best good-natured temporal good miserably hideous several unexplainable room--immortal utter hard external and constant suggestive and penetrating dirty delectable happy stupid great nor great eatable or drinkable unquestioned and unalterable expectant wee secret, charming vain, terrestrial puerile, secret strong and indiscreet shameful and dishonest troublesome, poor bright elegant common ladylike reasonable and possible beloved finite largely graceful handsome and priceless easier, desirable nearly possible wise and nearly possible impious and false spare, unworthy different, other uncomplicated human sorrowfully true real long-lived idle, childish many unkind horrendously alien calm and many meaningless foolish kinda fragile small, frightening tiny constant completely selfish and evil cruel and sarcastic certain unbelievable other blobby headless, gnarled kindly trivial nasty and inconvenient unpleasant and heathen plain and urgent odd and absurd manifest and material unique and indescribable excellent and ethical monstrous and prehistoric simply inanimate neat curious sensible and corporeal saw-essential simple and allowable probably cool obvious and petty rather obvious and petty fairly unflattering devotional and heterogeneous fragile and fancy splendid and variegated interesting and enchanting secret or distant last naive unessential maternal simplest everyday enormously thick and heavy also other and better wonderful and unbelievable fragile, irreplaceable bad magical horrible, impossible silent, misshapen uncomfortable, miserable subtle exciting away unimportant strange irrelevant little aborted frankly disagreeable silly wonderful desperate and nonsensical benign and eternal damn sloppy terribly inventive impious and dreadful loathsome, unnatural damn senseless interval innumerable vile, disgraceful many and too expensive tempting and desirable unfair and foolish material, spatial stupendously significant fine and quietly expensive wicked infidel much and very many ineffective and unfortunate startling and aggressive decent fine merry immediate modest disagreeable long feral splendid, stinging terrible vile easy sullen casual and sublunary distinct, good little and apparently trifling ungovernable, artistic agreeable, many merry bloated poetic and uncommon vile sensible least, inanimate similar straightforward capital, other tangible good hateful and annoying different or incompatible widely different or incompatible savage and cynical edifying and delightful respectfully compassionate distinctly recent artificial, such queer, ridiculous handsome, liberal pallid sodden horrible talkative inexpressible bitter adventurous and illegal strange, astonishing and wonderful mystical, supernatural stupid grave showy, boastful young and such beautiful, enjoyable seveereal far-off and celestial dark and unhealthy many unwise many impossible such outmoded deeply momentous thy graven however black callously insensitive deliberately foolish hulking, hairy pale undersea shadowy pale misshapen, hairy plain evil uncomfortable and unpleasant just cultural fairly resilient darkest, meanest animate inanimate astonishing and wonderful material artificial increasingly foolish sickly little overhead, such stupid or evil abstract, mental trifling, simple intriguing and alarming big fearsome thin despicable dusty, hollow errant microscopic well-regulated, happy twentieth-century flat pale scrawny unusual and unconventional queer, huge better, grander nasty pointy sure various fossil, several uncharged, tiny short feather-like nice other glorious and humane rich irrevocable gross and frivolous significant and precious barbaric and secretive strange, barbaric and secretive charmingly unexpected and capricious charmingly unexpected unexpected and capricious easily difficult new, wondrous shameful sexual vely remarkable harmless leaden stubby, bloated bravest and most foolish nasty, bothersome awful, fantastic unidentified nasty lyrical, unsubstantial nameless, unseen horrid curved no-good damned undeniably horrible unidentifiable but undeniably horrible many innovative imponderable, immense odd feathery bad, external worldly sensible fantastic, wonderful horrid withered seemingly dumb basically untried and unsound basically untried top scary unspeakable, vile suddenly unique suddenly unique and precious dangerous or foolish insane, excruciating splendid and divine odd and obsolete nighttime and evil unhappy, boring cute silvery fragile such old or diseased suitable, poor unsuitable, poor fragile, watery pleasurable other drink--special down fine--several fine--several wonderful and unknowable other hand-made other and blacker profound and astonishing alien and incredible incredibly life-like vague, irrelevant foul, bloated busy wild high-flying fanciful clean and spicy regular, safe wild and witchy delectable and scrumptious small, wondrous simple and immense pompous and playful improbable and ridiculous just handy occasionally handy unnamed green good or not evil sometimes worrisome pink, reptilian furry and probably horrible >nautical hideous, important impossible and unspeakable strange and frequently puzzling beautiful useless funny, selective sluggish and mindless inanimate but familiar middling horrible various unscheduled metal, beautiful many more-pressing stunningly idiotic three-dimensional, real flush such abnormal, primordial optional medical gaudy, obvious sublinguistical logical disciplinary fantastic, flimsy enormous self-assertive incoherent, contradictory nasty unstable amazing, ineffable japanese many other and worthless little and frivolous meanest, mightiest childish, aimless unhealthy, old-fashioned paltry, common rigorously separate however rough little, hateful well withered absurd, many grave and exquisite horrid furry impersonal, innocent common and dead joyous free stiff tailor-made passionate indiscreet refined or remote comparatively refined or remote enough worse pitifully unbearable alien, little indeed sacred fancy wrong existent and non-existent worse, strange prettiest and most irreplaceable imperfect wooden liberally good and necessary liberally good mischievous and oppressive grassy, slimy inconsequential, timid many slimy curious and beauteous fancy foolish impossible or impracticable useless, nonsensical now cosmopolitan incorruptible and unchangeable wonderful and seemingly dangerous worthless many odd or fierce choicest green worth-while, real splendid worth-while veal and such commonest and meanest long-lived good incoherent and mysterious nameless hideous finite and transitory harmful red mysterious and uncommon sic senseless disastrous, unattainable material or external deserving dear merely proper foolish and even suicidal dainty visible unpractical and useless grand or desirable frightful straight-backed young solemn common, concrete trifling but pleasant uncommon and improbable rare and characteristic little, uninteresting preferred, other hollow many stable and substantial little and trivial dull and immoral speculative and national far-reaching and influentially naughty influentially naughty new naughty foolish and superfluous fewer foolish boring mindless hollow, unbelievable coaxing and unanswerable quite other and different harmless but unsatisfactory petty and beautiful fabled many big, world-wide absurd, grotesque and cruel heartless, hideous childish, heartless and infamous childish and impossible secondarily precious numerous stupid smudged lighter little or familiar apparently little or familiar respectively great and little sundry harsh tangible, immovable fine immediate interesting and constructive remarkably striking and suggestive spectacular, unexpected startling, exotic obvious big-city strange and unsubstantial rudely caustic daring hard forth momentous mechanical, formal bold, incomprehensible sad, frightful far compelling worsted and sensible trivial and unrelated fragmentary precious corruptible and perishable victorious, other kindred childish petty and deceptive whimsical and agreeable needlessly bitter loathsome, secret beautiful, weak eternal and brave ornamental or symbolic simply creatural comparatively contemptible and trivial comparatively contemptible fatally different other and fatally different animate and inert disapproving cheap picturesque and extravagant vague, startling brahminical good precious and potential new or most unfit smart and tidy however smart and tidy however smart ridiculous enchanting obvious and mundane foolish or pernicious impossible and indigestible concrete, beloved alien, inexorable coarse and horrible ominous, disagreeable nameless and incredible trifling unimportant trivial common harsh and malignant dreadful artificial horrid inexpensive other and terribly important clumsy but loving rather clumsy but loving mute and lifeless humorous or striking lowest and most trivial impersonal and beautiful mobile and extraordinary angry high-backed hideous or inappropriate quaint and sumptuous irrational many futile transient modern smaller odd and pompous solid and ordinary far finer and better eternal and non-eternal stranger sometimes amazing hateful or jealous huge malevolent romantic and wonderful sordid and commonplace plain and precious certain inanimate many foolish big, enormous forth evil bloody and lifeless small and small bizarre, inexplicable first-hand, such countless precious other insensitive vague foggy huge and important unrecognizable charred great and blasphemous loud and exciting present and sensible thy molten solemn and stupid small, definite common or worthless amorous sweet heavy mysterious useful or agreeable many wonderful modern and familiar least hairy calm, poor seemingly evil genuinely strange fairly different so-called impossible dangerously exciting whimsical and extravagant truer and wiser many obliging dreadful, shocking thicker and warmer many every-day winsome wee powerful strange welcome and unwelcome many strange admirable and desirable unsound little nagging other myriad furtive certain--ah--personal colored blocky obvious and spectacular definitely odd supremely dull other frightening vastly troublesome unconscionable, outrageous unfamiliar, exotic wondrous and sad more wondrous and sad simple tasteless terribly nautical politely unspeakable lousy, terrible intricate and useful unreasoning and selfish old, certain heart-rendingly painful interesting sharp dreadful socialist deliberately inconsequential smaller hard clever stair-step enough impossible enough confusing mighty and supersensual wholesome and common little offbeat unkind and untrue nice, hackneyed terribly improper snowy, hard unpleasantly intangible terrible vicious frivolous external slight, airy awfully uninteresting awful and delectable little stylistic simple cutthroat terrible uncanny frail and uncomfortable pernicious, destructive deadliest and most beautiful faint furtive disgusting, dark bad, negative stupid and demeaning unnecessary and nonsensical petty and precious grim and magical beautifully shiny never brazen small, messy just material childish, desperate quiet, long-term wriggly wet thick, homogenous unnamed and painfully wonderful swingy popular dreadfully heretical plainer and poorer gratifying, pleasant jocose and facetious inanimate and senseless old and shiny gnarled, pitiful dark, unimaginable elementary, simple fairly unpopular profoundly unfair fairly gruesome few unflattering nameless wondrous contrary and remote unclean and fearful red, messy murky, fraught wild mystical underhanded and dishonest scary wild ago bad plain beautiful short, sticklike certainly evil incomprehensible but miraculous pungent aquatic military, nice normally one-of-a-kind strange statistical beautiful, red and blue harsh, draconian stairs--ornamental long, sharp and pointy obnoxious and repulsive fantastic and magical necessary, painful pond--several uncanny, gray witty irritating fair and horrible personal, subjective esoteric nonsensical iridescent and dull disgraceful and decadent individual unconnected ter�angreal and other interesting but innocent frightful and shocking vital, beautiful peculiar spongy bad, frightening perhaps wonderful still edgy and chaotic still edgy unorthodox or even evil exotic and rare bizarre and nasty wretched dried-up gray and awful important, useful stupid, dreadful disturbing and revolting unpleasant, disturbing and revolting fugitive small too�highly illegal startling and impassioned secret and sensitive fearful and unreasonable frenzied big profoundly curious frightful and uncanny kinda tricky gorgeous fantastical innumerable wondrous appropriately laudatory singular, terrible intimate and very sweet gentle and cleanly little dubious and unpleasant such farfetched dreadfully unsettling against—physical jeweled and alien loud unneeded ugly useful fine far-away lofty, beautiful and daring best and most painful initially frightening and disturbing initially frightening delicate and silken undeniable, persistent acute such tiny, interesting nice, other fitting various easier and greater great venerable senselessly wonderful simple, organic wretched, flimsy particular ordinary many not-real many and fair red and hideous curious and sometimes worrisome generally smashing rare squeaky clumsy, threadbare perfectly spiffing awfuly clever absurd, inconsequential equally inconsequential interesting, nasty preferred nice wonderful and wicked small, incredible magnificent, unprecedented dense, inert disparate and dazzling queer and frightful pale and wretched terribly illogical hectic and chaotic mundane, common queer wonderful dreadful nameless green, stationary old tedious away boyish remarkably ominous fresh impossible appropriate, flattering alarming and senseless unexpectedly conclusive bright and decorative innumerable quasi-spiritual movingly beautiful headlong stupid purely egotistical and materialistic egotistical and materialistic confusing commonplace still attainable tensely daring collectively meaningless possible and splendid keen intimate dear magical transitory symptomatic extraordinary and quite important exceptional, conclusive selfish, sincere particular, brave vulgar and showy dull and immediate triumphant solemn irrelevant exterior swift effectual

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Words to Describe things

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "things" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "things" are: humorous, tragic, sometimes paltry, unhappy, far-off, away childish, and hasty and regrettable. There are 994 other words to describe things listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe things 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, "things" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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