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 apron
Below is a list of describing words for apron. 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 apron:
- greasy striped
- immaculate bleached
- smooth conic
- ostentatiously clean
- still snow-white
- grimy calico
- peculiarly hideous and unnecessary
- white, greasy
- red federal
- wide, homespun
- familiar ragged
- poor coarse
- snow-white flaxen
- motherly white
- large dubious
- wide calico
- well-worn, humble
- huge, spotless
- calico, long-sleeved
- comprehensive brown
- pacific white
- calico and tidy
- bright, telltale
- business-like white
- ridiculous short
- grimy matutinal
- ample and somewhat dirty
- large roundabout
- horizontal endless
- braver white
- hideous and unnecessary
- calico and white
- frilly see-through
- sinister yellowish
- dirty coarse
- wide lumpy
- gay and brilliantly clean
- serviceable yellow
- knee-length striped
- striped protective
- orange-and-blue striped
- dirtiest goddamned
- familiar blood-stained
- smudged and filthy
- large foul
- ancient and somber
- necessary white
- stiff, spotless
- big over-all
- splendid water-proof
- housewifely blue
- short flowered
- big calico
- tidy, black
- white, domestic
- shiny, wooden
- cunning short
- rolled-up calico
- tiny braided
- white belgian
- coarse bleached
- now shredded
- altogether immaculate
- indispensable white
- stout serviceable
- alluring green
- comical blue
- large water-proof
- sloppy green
- brilliantly clean
- abnormally tough
- usual clean
- triangular concrete
- clean coloured
- large serviceable
- big dark-blue
- spotless white
- thin striped
- plainest white
- singularly dirty
- competent white
- ragged woolen
- main concrete
- dusty concrete
- continuous concrete
- frilly blue
- striped homespun
- huge fresh
- purple calico
- great khaki
- full-length red
- now dirty
- top, white
- white, blood-stained
- braided white
- jaunty white
- peculiarly hideous
- frilly white
- coarse dirty
- red, blue
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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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