Describing Wordsfor Yew

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Here are some adjectives for yew: double-fatal, black and funeral, yon black and funeral, upright irish, delightful misshapen, thick and squat, slight low, high dense, old, tall, dark sombre, almost prostrate, ancient picturesque, finest spanish, black, solemn, always pleasing, goodly green, wide, flat-topped, mighty peculiar, dark, solitary, yon black, famous great, enormous hollow, small irish, several enormous, dark spanish, sombre old, old solitary, huge ancient, little thick, gnarled black. You can get the definitions of these yew adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to yew (and find more here).

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Words to Describe yew

Below is a list of describing words for yew. 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 yew:

double-fatal black and funeral yon black and funeral upright irish delightful misshapen thick and squat slight low high dense old, tall dark sombre almost prostrate ancient picturesque finest spanish black, solemn always pleasing goodly green wide, flat-topped mighty peculiar dark, solitary yon black famous great enormous hollow small irish several enormous dark spanish sombre old old solitary huge ancient little thick gnarled black good black spanish or italian
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massive, ancient large conical century-old long shady huge hollow remarkable old tall dark great solemn short, stiff shaven close-knit finest old good stout coeval ragged old gnarled old great dark dark old large circular good solid six-foot dismal sepulchral baneful great thick baleful gnarled fetid hefty rich old tall black good strong cavernous funeral seasoned seventh viscous spanish huge black pyramidal fine old tall western rampant tougher wind-swept forceful prostrate big old noble old weighty same dark irish venerable stout old rueful sinewy sacred ninth dark sombre withered pliant long, dark dense solemn poisonous verdant own peculiar thick black flat-topped grand old stubborn dark green little red solitary bushy european immemorial mournful doleful stout own particular lusty misshapen tough ancient gaunt interstellar knotted shady darker fateful conical prim circular ornamental flexible softer primeval bedraggled red magnificent funereal gigantic age-old ragged fat big black historic dear little famous ripe golden enormous squat olive hollow gloomy valuable flaming tangled incongruous hardy hateful troubled high solid dusky sinful crooked stark pleasing italian fine mystic sorry canadian low remarkable green bitter widespread noble triangular short stiff common shadowy lone crimson sticky mature harmless picturesque twin sad long dutch foremost splendid female miniature chinese unique damn lofty quaint nearer heavy immense peculiar formal finest best japanese fatal monstrous single towering thin powerful yellow slender wondrous convenient favorite particular huge rough old-fashioned well-known massive oldest nearest deep dusty outer mighty expensive weird strong vast angry occasional strange terrible usual cold wild old distant hot less wide broad beautiful perfect dead ordinary white

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Words to Describe yew

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "yew" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "yew" are: double-fatal, black and funeral, yon black and funeral, upright irish, and delightful misshapen. There are 249 other words to describe yew listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe yew suits your needs.

If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, "yew" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many yew adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is yew?

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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