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 presentment
Below is a list of describing words for presentment. 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 presentment:
- sudden, definite
- own counterfeit
- older, romantic
- particularly full and lucid
- lucid and terse
- many-sided, inconsistent
- simple and comparatively human
- splendid and martial
- pleasing ecstatic
- sadly perfect
- ordinary corporeal
- strange counterfeit
- bold counterfeit
- equally clear and simple
- unconditioned sensuous
- outward geographic
- perfectly clear and coherent
- characteristic and individualized
- strikingly characteristic and individualized
- extraordinary baronial
- blatant and wretched
- original and awfully real
- crisp scintillating
- charming reflective
- flat, conventional
- largest and most vivid
- distantly satirical
- envious counterfeit
- vigorous and tragic
- gilded counterfeit
- wonderfully natural and sympathetic
- strikingly real and vivid
- strikingly real
- singularly lucid and striking
- shabby counterfeit
- artistic counterfeit
- beautiful counterfeit
- ample and direct
- definite and coloured
- sacrilegious counterfeit
- weak or hostile
- fullest celtic
- full and singularly vivid
- actual and obvious
- older feminine
- popular and poetical
- solemn theatrical
- striking lifelike
- comparatively human
- professedly artificial
- lovely physical
- concrete, visible
- fitting musical
- pale and unconvincing
- philosophic or psychological
- dull artistic
- lucid and striking
- adequate fictional
- poor counterfeit
- literal and plain
- simple corporeal
- unpleasant counterfeit
- pleasant counterfeit
- versatile and warmer
- unusually exhaustive
- artistic epical
- vivid definite
- complete and charming
- taxidermal
- absolutely veracious
- perennially delightful
- natural and sympathetic
- full and lucid
- proper scenic
- fair and judicial
- quite comical
- little counterfeit
- vivid pictorial
- startlingly faithful
- particularly full
- speeritual
- vivid and life-like
- rough mechanical
- counterfeit
- perfect and ideal
- extraordinarily effective
- earliest notable
- mere graceful
- concrete, specific
- broad and bold
- scrupulously faithful
- new and significant
- wonderfully life-like
- audible or visible
- wonderfully natural
- strong and sympathetic
- own authoritative
- vivid and faithful
- amazingly vivid
- strikingly characteristic
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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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