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 damasks
Below is a list of describing words for damasks. 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 damasks:
- fine counterfeit
- blue or silver-gray
- giddy flowered
- crimson, blue or silver-gray
- blue, chinese
- old-fashioned pea-green
- pea-green and white
- finest and pure
- italian brocaded
- thin unlined
- voluminous drab
- sturdy, old-fashioned
- smaller, simple
- fine, brocaded
- crystal and red
- crimson and striped
- ould yellow
- mellow crimson
- tense red
- beautiful, genuine
- flowered crimson
- richest and most artistic
- indolent white
- great funereal
- bleached or unbleached
- gorgeous stiff
- costly crimson
- fine, spotless
- fine, double
- gloomy green
- back yellow
- coarse but spotless
- brown fine
- rich magenta
- shabby crimson
- much double
- fine and snowy
- substantial plain
- richest crimson
- frightfully expensive
- rich crimson
- different single
- beautiful flowered
- grey moire
- thick and rich
- voluminous golden
- old crimson
- best yellow
- black flowered
- tawdry red
- most elegant
- much blue
- extraordinary rich
- hot crimson
- wonderful heavy
- capacious crimson
- pale, silvery
- crimson worsted
- antique red
- heavy, red
- heavy, antique
- bleached and unbleached
- old worsted
- heavy crimson
- heavy, green
- old pale
- magnificent crimson
- dusky yellow
- ample green
- hideous green
- richest and finest
- finest white
- marvelous blue
- famous yellow
- so-called double
- plain golden
- black and colored
- splendid crimson
- heavy red
- crimson
- great dirty
- splendid yellow
- new and admirable
- yellow flowered
- rich orange
- red woolen
- frayed green
- ragged green
- yellow and crimson
- beautiful crimson
- heavy yellow
- beautiful silken
- flowered
- old red
- yellow and scarlet
- fine double
- fair, white
- green striped
- pleated white
- traditional white
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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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