Describing Wordsfor Work

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Here are some adjectives for work: electronic, largely unskilled, defective, tedious hard, self-denial and hard, unnecessary servile, other audiovisual, tedious, exacting, capital preliminary, downright hard, hardest, dirtiest, troublesome and awkward, excessively fancy, slovenly foreign, dirtiest and hardest, wooden filigree, incessant hard, persistent hard, slow and tough, latest choral, simple and tedious, feverish and happy, mercifully swift and horrible, finest and nicest, charming and most illustrious, brilliant, tireless, unremitting hard, finer modern, dainty pen-and-ink, much uphill. You can get the definitions of these work adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to work (and find more here).

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Words to Describe work

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

electronic largely unskilled defective tedious hard self-denial and hard unnecessary servile other audiovisual tedious, exacting capital preliminary downright hard hardest, dirtiest troublesome and awkward excessively fancy slovenly foreign dirtiest and hardest wooden filigree incessant hard persistent hard slow and tough latest choral simple and tedious feverish and happy mercifully swift and horrible finest and nicest charming and most illustrious
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brilliant, tireless unremitting hard finer modern dainty pen-and-ink much uphill rewarding hard heavy ecological difficult and baffling blithe and busy large and well-illustrated much hard honest hard good and sometimes superb mysterious, wry long, arduous and dangerous old and past just tedious slow, disheartening faithful, hard simplest and heaviest sincere and surest notable and very brilliant hard or daring cheap and dishonest rather dizzy actual dirty weary, uphill further dirty later restorative such provost-marshal special corporal disproportionately arduous previous diligent basically undercover miscellaneous and ephemeral routine literary open filigree sensible and instructive graphic or sculptural pictorial, graphic or sculptural hard and continuous effective interactive routine clerical dramatic or musical bitchy hard genuine hard basic, day-to-day additional or recent self-denial, diligent marginally reputable genteel charitable choicest weird dirty and hateful fancy decorative initial dirty best telegraphic immature and feverish endless fancy progressive and valuable necessary but unpopular somewhat uphill descriptive and practical rich miniature ornamental filigree ill-fitting, insincere dangerous and necessary sheer hard medicanical hard and constant dire hard little altruistic work--real brilliant realistic indeed hard highly skilled and delicate intense, unforgiving imperial dirty constant hard decidedly annoying excellent investigative noble and much-needed such uphill dangerous and valiant unbearably hot and unpleasant grandest allegorical dangerous, furtive simply exquisite all-consuming and heroic also useful and good hard administrative amazing contemporary worthy and righteous tedious, common superb and world-renowned principal and mighty priceless divine slow and obscure ecclesiastical metal unceasing hard methods--practical microscopical methods--practical last premeditated decayed but well-known rather decayed but well-known considerable preparatory daily missionary own grandest preparatory convincing rough but majestic shockingly blasphemous devilish uphill journalistic and humorous exciting and incessant simplest, hardest extensive net associate intellectual expressive and noblest slaughter--hospital --institutional mean--social arduous, unceasing vast, unobvious ill and past abject cutthroat considerable hard extensive dental grotesque and humble real missionary artistic metal moderate muscular productive mundane filthy, real-world irksome or unwelcome lengthy experimental slight corrective finest unfinished hard, fascinating physical hard full-time and steady covert wet hard and risky corrective dental truly deathless prefectorial and diocesan iconographical and technological difficult, painstaking last, impassioned cleaner, hard unneeded and additional tedious, painstaking delicate ambassadorial extensive cosmetic rough, incessant finest tactile fringe-legal indeed amusing mighty thirsty non-stop, frantic feminine fancy intense, cerebral unique or special nearly mandatory routine dirty amusing and aristocratical hard and awkward unpleasant and servile trivial, unpleasant and servile surrogate mum sole prophetic hands-on dirty reclusive social frustrating and perhaps futile seminal non-fiction hard, well-paid obligatory manorial final prep do--local effective strenuous poetic and deeply philosophical hard and repetitive fastest and most interesting monotonous, tedious later anatomical dirty and perilous great, indoor choicest and most complete italy independent rude, unskilled heaviest and dirtiest useful and most interesting more incumbent original, first-hand obscure and almost incomprehensible standard and indispensable literary, scientific or artistic futile, diplomatic cold, incongruous precious, excellent good, divine comprehensive and most scientific byzantine filigree hardest and most laborious valuable and laborious ambitious and deeply interesting poor, thankless hasty hard restless, desultory laborious synoptical arduous and sometimes dangerous peculiarly responsible and delicate resolute, efficient necessary and practicable dramatico-musical hard, bloody hard manual steady hard simply hard cheap dental main hard external muscular expensive dental scarcely dangerous especially difficult or dangerous usual outstanding always creative daily useful always risky vigorous and zealous damned missionary own dirty hard outdoor individual much menial bloody hard arbitrarily selective heavy manual substantial restorative reasonably tedious outdoor hard painstaking soviet long painstaking careful, exacting slow, obsessive fast-track experimental difficult telepathic adequate preparatory hardest and finest extremely finicky vital and enlightened evidently dreary modern climatological brave and risky wonderful dirty cut-rate dental preliminary dirty ghostly unsubstantial devilish close-in ridiculous, exquisite main bread-and-butter day-to-day hard carefully unspectacular modern gaudy silently ferocious mischievous or detestable anonymous dark-green outrageous hard preliminary investigative hardly cheery extravagant, hyperbolic senseless hard congenial but regular unflagging missionary dusty, elemental mostly unremarkable maddeningly painstaking after-hours clandestine impressive mere hard, thirsty better damn time-consuming and unrewarding dirty and inevitable physical, time-consuming quiet, satisfying usually second-story painstaking and exacting sleeplessly continuous eminently tricky serious prep tireless behind-the-scenes midlevel administrative better goddam grueling, dangerous necessary dirty hard literary ceaseless hard indeed highest grand and indeed highest effete, past preliminary tedious zionist cultural dreary, pedantic intellectual and most individual timely educational second-rate and first-rate private secretarial slow creative epoch-making critical straight clairvoyant unspeakably hard and unpleasant indigenous original hard, unsheltered supplementary apocryphal unnamed evangelical startling anonymous hasty decorative constructive economic suggestive posthumous circuitous and oppressive thorough hard much preventive rough and menial immor-t-al neat and valuable meritorious and well-prepared brilliant but underpaid stronger original fitful literary late serial masterful and convincing equally masterful and convincing wretched nasty historical creative short spurious steady pastoral immediately remunerative greatest biographical symmetrical musical distinct orchestral romantic and serious dramatic and classical powerful but unequal fresh, interesting comprehensive, encyclopedic painstaking preliminary always thankless servile and often mechanical useful but subordinate imperishable paved italian romanesque coarse or common probably fifteenth-century grave and necessary occasionally metal difficult and most arduous industrious and rather critical contemporaneous medieval gracious and useful ornamental lead intensely irksome easy, healthful stilted heroic hardest, meanest and dirtiest necessary or important miscellaneous fancy comprehensive and popular own cirripedial highly vivid hardest and most menial hard and useless peaceful, unimportant architectural sheet-metal capital humorous later collective steady or quiet honest or useful literary and most popular popularly pleasing always third-rate snappy signal rough amateurish hard, constructive dreadfully uphill incessant and hard engrossing professional great or royal quiet but most effective wicked, inflammatory effective, efficient and courageous intricate filigree independent theoretical great incomplete enny hard best-known original obedient and hearty practical, unfinancial grim frontal highly interesting and ingenious forward missionary allowable and meritorious dramatic, musical or artistic visible, finite honest effective rapid but systematic preliminary specific elementary manual precious theological folly good and evil folly good clerical administrative strously dry decent constructive horrid weary excellent eternal constant sleepless dangerous and immense systematic and apparently routine usually clear and accurate hard sedentary strenuous, humble insignificant and unfinished deal stiffer often faithful hardly dramatic vulgarly effective squalid, meaningless necessary exact hard and almost unremitting brilliant and very original ritual and secret worthy and abiding stupid missionary viciously clever dirty or low french filigree solid bold healthful, heartening economic and parliamentary splendidly copious risky, arduous artificially dreary and monotonous artificially dreary previous handy bitter and wearisome thereof bitter and wearisome thereof bitter agricultural botanical past effective affirmative or constructive root-canal hard uphill hard, physical faithful and righteous sure suitable busy, serious ordinary underwater slow and hard also noisy psychologically profound new and degenerate voluminous and uneven initial heavy slow, tiresome hard and intelligent exceedingly valuable and interesting glorious hard solid gothic broadest and strongest all-round, all-night hard physical finest biographical best-known religious delicate fancy truer and finer regular, steady hard, conscientious hard and tedious dramatic or dramatico-musical much imaginary plain hard hard, dirty awfully hard noblest and most heartfelt actual organizational tedious, hard nervous, tedious nasty, slipshod sometimes superb usual unrelenting hard, different artistic missionary agonizing, intense preventative dental useful and even startling much impossible periodic interior-decorating quite short and modern impractical and such frantic behind-the-scenes obviously partisan moral dirty purple abstract sloppy clerical wrought-iron fancy fresh dental incredible dental troublesome and hard difficult preparatory repetitive, unskilled delicate and essential credible abstract miserable dental actual investigative hard and sometimes dangerous familiar, repetitive risky and too much hard, messy unrelenting hard real undersea recent and very interesting dangerous dirty minimum routine manual or clerical major dental tiny, meticulous rational and most excellent academic preparatory usually faint and vague hard and slow hasty and hardy steady, well-paying possible prep solid investigative cripplingly hard elegant and specious classic and original original and classic exceedingly toilsome and dangerous suddenly boring and unimportant hard, disgusting tedious, routine penny-pinching political unorthodox and highly illegal stupid extra previous passional distasteful hard seldom lucrative easiest or safest high-tech import-export mildly rationalistic beneficial practical southern, male easiest metal truly finer primitively simple and graceful hard and very exacting certainly viable voluntary surgical disagreeable routine much messy ordinary technological leisurely preliminary ragged dental minor vascular clerical or journalistic always uphill cold and soft hard, unremitting secretarial and statistical social and parochial careful but heroic actual, inevitable recent and unfinished useful academic good and insightful publicly unrecognized pal, nice much freelance meticulous, nerve-racking monotonous hard healthiest, prettiest steady literary self-sacrificing and thankless conscientious, careful curious anonymous more bald zealous hard vast and increasingly urgent troublesome mechanical laborious and valuable gymnastic and athletic real post-graduate superb and monumental sylvan, topiary dry agricultural constructive and successful imaginative and pleasurable purely imaginative and pleasurable heavy and unpleasant heavy exhaustive vigorous, hard rather uphill continuous missionary unending, unselfish flawless and faulty tedious and prosaic unobtrusive hard parochial routine professedly comedic quite sleepy and past sleepy and past charming and legitimate chief and inimitable graceful but not valuable hard, incessant mechanical technical technico-musical purely technico-musical intolerably hard rarer medical major doctrinal scholastic and exegetical intensive preparatory special dirty strenuous uphill popular but striking purely medical and surgical standard anatomical pre-eminent doctrinal initial and original dreary, tiresome dilapidated architectural complete and most important valuable and erudite serious, missionary hard but joyous elegant and superb careful and enthusiastic stout and exceedingly dull broadside and broadside permanent, profitable sensitive and visually stunning colossal religious short splendid responsible but lofty glorious historic finer complete heavy fancy necessary instrumental intelligent and often heroic bad or negligent meanest and dirtiest simpler histological devilish dry hasty and desultory universally thirsty good but mighty comprehensive descriptive finest redemptive bulky and laborious unpolished and negligent wise preparatory preliminary or supplementary efficient preparatory difficult but hopeful brave cheap vital compelling pretentious and meretricious hopeful and easy severe hard hasty and terrible hot and distasteful fibrous net competitive good important and noblest general unskilled revival and better positive, striking great diocesan deceptive and blasphemous medical literary extraordinarily comprehensive early secretarial serpentine, short splendid botanical generally crisp and full generally crisp difficult but also noble difficult and great practical wrought-iron indirect, theoretical hard, uncongenial energetic and victorious thoroughly systematic and energetic great and far-off strangest public finer neolithic hard, continual fearful hard dirty and sloppy genial and generally delightful valuable or instructive real redemptive anatomic, philosophic and historical well-paid male other non-manual heavier muscular cheap profitable rough muscular unquestionably skilled highest and most christ-like much half-hearted passionate unremitting good and therefore meritorious pleasing or attractive desirable elementary thirteen--real strong, valuable historical or pictorial beautiful continental insipid, barren generally realistic or grotesque rough and useful much arduous and useful much hard and disagreeable hard and very useful voluminous and national gigantic supernatural monotonous heavy opportune and very interesting similar arduous uncommon or wonderful lexigraphical futile clerical good and salable skilled or artistic continuous and effectual valuable outdoor subterranean and disgusting enormous and prodigious original diabolical new or great admirable fifteenth-century recent luminous best corresponding mightiest architectural gothic and early italian incredible filigree admirable thirteenth-century invaluable and splendid forthcoming special important and bulky durn hard eminently practical and readable indoor and domestic ancient and superb considerable pagan classsical sober and virile righteous and self-sacrificing thorough, real whole substitutionary practical charitable much underhanded brilliant, sympathetic and authoritative recent, comprehensive priestly mediatorial arduous, unremitting fearfully bitter inimitable metal suitable, fine heavy, arduous subordinate, mediatorial confessedly introductory unheeded but intensely interesting immensely interesting and curious precious, good invariably fair and generous invariably fair equally smooth and melodious somehow irregular bold, excellent probably hospital merely accidental and artificial irish and byzantine early irish and byzantine inclusive standard comprehensive, authoritative standard, time-honored practical and cumbersome nice but hard whole credible least ripe self-denial and rough general microscopic perfect choral exquisite worsted constant agricultural quiet parochial secondary academic attractively humorous difficult or artistic unproductive, unnecessary essential, hard wonderful, unselfish entire redemptive inestimably fine beautiful and quite genuine sumptuous and important latest and monumental confessedly noble difficult and remarkable necessarily private conventionally elegant fresh descriptive apologetical and polemical gradual uphill uninteresting arithmetical byzantine metal purely diagnostic mechanical, uninteresting real, self-sacrificing quiet and subordinate conventional ornamental whimsical, magical simple and entirely satisfactory continuous and exacting historical memorial editorial and free-lance anonymous catechetical earlier statistical precious fair abundant and delightful admirably solid and serious strange futile uninteresting and possibly bulky possibly bulky definitive and major well-written, honest and sincere precarious dirty indeed exhaustive admirable and indeed exhaustive red ornamental unremitting scientific latest and unfinished much postgraduate always wearisome fearsome and truly dangerous purely enthusiastic purely anonymous industrially productive weighty historical noble reticulate neat reticulate singularly able and beautiful pious and artistic immortal legal muscular and literary unfinished and half-forgotten restless scientific monumental unfinished tremendous unfinished standard and conclusive sweetest missionary undoubtedly unaided welcome and possibly permanent solemn prophetic manifest, unmistakable wholesome destructive real and swift mediatorial and perfectly righteous former ill-understood exacting administrative obscure, underground ever-increasing secret merely murderous savage and merely murderous enormously hard and exacting voluminous and heterogeneous monastic and scholastic specially interesting and valuable anonymous sceptical tedious and nauseous proper and miraculous stupendous and miraculous desirable and beneficial plainly life-and-death such observational richest decorative dark, pokey generally rapid-fire difficult and practical interesting and most beautiful rough and necessary strenuous, steadfast ponderous and pompous tricky, dirty impossible and unprofitable low or needless hypocritical, needless common, toilsome extremely full and vivid always painstaking and adequate always painstaking valuable and very fascinating keen voluminous tonsoral necessary and patriotic reliable, practical and valuable hard but not impossible --sculptural entire monumental exacting and continuous cheapest, roughest busy diocesan desperate and eager indeed tough unceasing revival responsible and serious congenial and natural unremitting original philosophical astronomical half-forgotten second-rate stupid and irksome abominable, swift and secret good and soporific feeble and immature exacting outdoor other oceanographical tidal, magnetic and meteorological sudden and arduous wireless and meteorological meteorological, biological and geological 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Words to Describe work

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "work" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "work" are: electronic, largely unskilled, defective, tedious hard, and self-denial and hard. There are 995 other words to describe work listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe work 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, "work" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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