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 models
Below is a list of describing words for models. 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 models:
- speculative mathematical
- four-dimensional topological
- beautifully simplified
- damned mathematical
- fundamental symbolic
- fascinating and most dangerous
- distressingly primitive
- physio-mathematical
- nude teenage
- anonymous two-door
- lovely two-foot
- large, outdated
- light-duty hospital
- gigantic anatomical
- newer physical
- industrial, bare-bones
- enthralled older
- sharply conical or pyramidal
- smaller low-end
- beige rotary
- extra experimental
- directional, remote-control
- fabulous original
- top-of-the-line, military
- animated astronomical
- off-the-shelf civilian
- staid older
- popular, off-the-shelf
- sunny basic
- eighteen-year-old blond
- multicolored male
- enormous belt-driven
- new, hot-shot
- effective original
- accurate three-dimensional
- fragmentary neural
- large general-purpose
- cruelly hot and heavy
- utterly powerful
- latest christmas-tree
- human democratic
- old obsolescent
- small double-bladed
- mechanized astronomical
- lightweight civilian
- portable deluxe
- chaotic inflationary
- traditional initial
- last sustainable
- ideally pure
- ideally pure and immaculate
- ancient thespian
- ancient and strictly conventional
- usual eighteenth-century
- solid full-bodied
- stable structural
- tiny flat-bottomed
- old and conventional
- minimum viable
- gorgeous nude
- old handheld
- attractive malaysian
- dark, late
- top-flight, experimental
- basic darwinian
- somehow second-class
- huge, jeweled
- cosmological, mathematical
- antique terrestrial
- better societal
- warmer, rougher
- slim, slinky
- older vintage
- handsome, anonymous
- crazy experimental
- little life-size
- computerized somatic
- geolocational
- italian male
- dynamic analytical
- ancient and very real
- classic single-shot
- new inflationary
- ugly hemispheric
- meaningful conceptual
- somehow shabby
- fast experimental
- earlier predictive
- shabby and obsolete
- other predictive
- rather shabby and obsolete
- older and obsolete
- soviet collective
- various and faultless
- white faceless
- vaguely classic
- discreet compact
- permanent and classic
- nude prospective
- prosy, frigid
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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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