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 ape
Below is a list of describing words for ape. 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 ape:
- malignant and cunning
- large barbary
- filthy but sacred
- great, hairless
- blasphemous bloody
- hypocritical, hairless
- hairless, black
- doubly scary
- male hairless
- specialized african
- human hairy
- fat, lecherous
- arrogant, primieval
- gigantic, forlorn
- interesting anthropoidal
- certainly speechless
- unknown but certainly speechless
- talkative and religious
- cunning larger
- octopal
- painful, wretched
- bigger bloody
- rare, elusive
- weak hairless
- damnably wise
- naked carnivorous
- wretched misanthropical
- omnipresent and unabashed
- pitiful, ridiculous
- damned armenian
- vain imitative
- impotent, lecherous
- wondrous and well-nigh human
- well-nigh human
- striped nocturnal
- insane idiotic
- bloody, huge
- remarkable and intelligent
- primieval
- african great
- great lax
- thine, poor
- dismally unpromising
- stupid hungarian
- monstrous pink
- juvenile or fetal
- curious red-haired
- psychopathic naked
- silly hairless
- fierce medium-sized
- impudent barbary
- diminutive and withered
- frightful immodest
- little disgusting
- hairless white
- fierce and hideous
- plain dumb
- helpless naked
- monstrous grey
- stalwart, muscular
- soulless, senseless
- dead naked
- naked, savage
- anthropoidal
- great, fine
- little white-haired
- great arboreal
- strange, intelligent
- small, versatile
- big white-bearded
- mechanical old
- playful young
- famous ancestral
- philosophic little
- daft bloody
- not-quite-natural
- huge muscle-bound
- big hairless
- well-known female
- bilious old
- cross-eyed old
- mighty white
- physically degenerate
- careworn little
- fierce and brutal
- black and hideous
- malicious old
- few hybrid
- redheaded irish
- lazy great
- rare great
- big african
- ugly female
- thy pampered
- oldest and wisest
- barbary
- fat, sluggish
- big, vicious
- small blue-black
- great, angry
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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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