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 composer
Below is a list of describing words for composer. 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 composer:
- sentimental sicilian
- ightly mad
- condescending, consummate
- obscure, third-rate
- virtuoso, great
- polish musical
- qualitatively poor
- prolific but qualitatively poor
- emphatically unclassical
- romantic and emphatically unclassical
- italian musical
- graceful austrian
- young but excellent
- feminine, receptive
- vile polish
- universally fashionable
- serious operatic
- unknown and very humble
- best-known norwegian
- sensitive, fiery
- late norwegian
- realistic belgian
- often grotesque and uncouth
- elegant, sensitive
- dramatic and fertile
- original, dramatic and fertile
- simple instrumental
- byronic and fantastical
- original, eloquent and expressive
- artistically satisfactory
- important and artistically satisfactory
- industrious or studious
- sturdy bavarian
- fertile operatic
- virtuoso and well-known
- poor, unrecognized
- revolutionary atonal
- youthful and unknown
- competent rhetorical
- french symphonic
- clever operatic
- low and indecent
- immensely prolific
- french musical
- remarkable contemporary
- norwegian musical
- belgian musical
- great old-time
- german musical
- clever baroque
- interstellarly famous
- obscure rumanian
- daring experimental
- famous baroque
- insane but very wealthy
- long famed
- incredibly prolific
- high-minded and capable
- greatest instrumental
- prolific and very popular
- seventeenth-century musical
- austrian musical
- classical or modern
- regular operatic
- successful italian
- eminent musical
- gifted and well-trained
- foremost operatic
- genuine ecclesiastical
- modest, self-respecting
- young and quite unknown
- eccentric musical
- influential native
- well-known norwegian
- little-known african
- french operatic
- illustrious musical
- romantic or classical
- pleasing french
- eloquent and expressive
- ready and good
- talented musical
- able and meritorious
- gifted musical
- temporarily fashionable
- well-known swedish
- ingenious and laborious
- purely orchestral
- enormously productive
- melodious italian
- successful operatic
- remarkable british
- nineteenth-century italian
- poor musical
- talented and promising
- intensely subjective
- italian operatic
- irish musical
- earlier classical
- well-known musical
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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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