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 alphabet
Below is a list of describing words for alphabet. 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 alphabet:
- sane, determinate
- international manual
- invaluable and simple
- phoenician consonantal
- original hieroglyphical
- modern ethiopian
- royal rhythmical
- pictorial political
- misleading and unlucky
- japanese phonetic
- new and strictly phonetic
- sufficient and consistent
- simple, recognizable
- enormous dumb
- longer mystic
- spanish manual
- french manual
- barbaric mediaeval
- scientific phonetic
- independent phoenician
- spanish rabbinical
- whole ionic
- manual or manual
- universal lingual
- mysterious but ever charming
- angular gothic
- ancient phonetic
- gothic or older
- simpler phoenician
- italian complimentary
- common wretched
- literal musical
- diacritical gigantic
- short and handy
- earliest phoenician
- fine mammoth
- egyptian symbolical
- general phonetic
- beautiful pictorial
- crude natural
- similar gigantic
- international phonetic
- alien or fictive
- suitable phonetic
- unique, unfamiliar
- chinese phonetic
- phonetic sequential
- nervous, mindless
- dilapidated five-story
- exotic and obscene
- later common
- peculiar phonetic
- eccentric oriental
- old tagal
- so-called phoenician
- egyptian symbolic
- gothic uncial
- old libyan
- coldly conventional
- ordinary ionic
- strange but well-known
- initially consonantal
- true phonetic
- strictly phonetic
- beautiful but barren
- phonetic
- standard phonetic
- same high-tech
- new ethiopian
- own phonetic
- whole crooked
- regular phonetic
- deaf and dumb
- incomprehensibly ancient
- easier spanish
- same phoenician
- early ionic
- full old
- same primordial
- ancient libyan
- relatively complete
- difficult and confusing
- phoenician
- later grecian
- irish gaelic
- ancient, magical
- limited feminine
- graceful and fanciful
- ancient and terrible
- odd, angular
- consonantal
- ever charming
- manual
- new and simple
- real turkish
- earlier gothic
- wild and peculiar
- deaf mute
- large, bold
- four-letter
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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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