Describing Words
This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org.
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Words to Describe boldness
Below is a list of describing words for boldness. 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 boldness:
- arial condensed
- }arial condensed
- corporate rounded
- unpleasant and rather hostile
- dreadful atheistical
- surprising and perhaps excessive
- corporate condensed
- noble and respectful
- grand, indomitable
- impertinent and uncompromising
- striking and judicious
- own, inspiring
- wise and unblushing
- hard, hare-brained
- richest inventive
- seeming timid
- amazing but not unparalleled
- remarkable and highly unexpected
- aristocratic, insolent
- rather bloodshot
- certain ostentatious
- same preemptive
- stern and undaunted
- much felicitous
- cool and sudden
- considerable harmonic
- top and beautiful
- cunning and most undaunted
- easy and frank
- femininely delicate
- certain shakespearian
- irresponsible and criminal
- clean, artistic
- pure foolish
- creative free
- impetuous and heroic
- frank childlike
- certain inquisitive
- perhaps imprudent
- intrepid social
- such defiant
- almost foolhardy
- much careless
- seemingly extravagant
- rather vacuous
- perhaps unexpected
- new gay
- almost impetuous
- certain rakish
- sudden wonderful
- daring and defiant
- grim, rugged
- own uncommon
- rather presumptuous
- almost frightful
- certain virtuous
- such undaunted
- highly unexpected
- sudden amazing
- same predatory
- certain amiable
- certain piquant
- rather hostile
- brave and innocent
- same intrepid
- certain smart
- own towering
- almost blasphemous
- perhaps excessive
- often sheer
- altogether unprecedented
- such insufferable
- haughty aristocratic
- own indomitable
- free and cheerful
- own imprudent
- such unscrupulous
- rather tremulous
- own unspeakable
- certain imaginative
- such hungry
- own amazing
- own eloquent
- inartificial
- such rugged
- certain appealing
- more angular
- such presumptuous
- such steadfast
- almost reckless
- such adventurous
- new, sweet
- innocent and ignorant
- such hardy
- certain exceptional
- such unheard-of
- less abundant
- such brazen
- certain unmistakable
- fine free
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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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