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 slides
Below is a list of describing words for slides. 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 slides:
- plump ribbed
- promising other
- glassy, uncontrollable
- many catastrophic
- thin current
- elegant slick
- loveliest slippery
- brief, bumpy
- slimy, dark
- icy thin
- full easy
- slow, spidery
- long, lightning-like
- triple lever-action
- last featureless
- early rotary
- never-ending helical
- colored or uncolored
- long, pious
- swift, breathless
- circular aeronautical
- ridiculous or comic
- self-conscious deliberate
- supposedly sterile
- graceful chromatic
- final and most superb
- smooth, insecure
- cool microscopic
- slow, painless
- blue concave
- dreadful, sickening
- slow, sugary
- suitable natural
- steady, quick
- wet oatmeal
- smooth electric
- swift dangerous
- obviously comfortable
- midtown arterial
- ably strange
- ordinary microscopic
- impregnable metal
- long and glassy
- sheer flat
- tingly downward
- slow, ignominious
- unlikely slow-motion
- livid, naked
- sheer, livid
- unstoppable downward
- fan�tastically expensive
- lovely slippery
- lazy, oblique
- giddy exhilarating
- concurrent but unrelated
- downward economic
- cold, frictionless
- sickening smooth
- hot, insidious
- unborn harpy
- long, frenetic
- rapid and well-documented
- rapid and nasty
- wet material
- rhythmic, rasping
- somato-typical opposite
- messy downward
- beautiful lone
- steep and glassy
- extra and detachable
- new slippery
- primitive linear
- potent liquid
- ~microscopical
- invisible animal
- yellow, red and blue
- long helical
- capital long
- spiral tubular
- stupid turquoise
- small liquid
- obscure inner
- steep treacherous
- glorious possible
- terrible unending
- least colored
- gradual, inevitable
- fitting small
- slow, teasing
- good startling
- pungent liquid
- separate adjustable
- small and cold
- battery-powered circular
- long, inexorable
- dizzying downward
- wildest and roughest
- slow minor
- portable dark
- irreducible minimum
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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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