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 article
Below is a list of describing words for article. 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 article:
- tough, unsatisfactory
- unsigned three-page
- good inferior
- ferociously seditious
- fair, salable
- highly contraband
- long and most laudatory
- last or secret
- descriptive special
- peculiarly transatlantic
- finely descriptive
- strictly pure and wholesome
- useful and sometimes elegant
- real, home-grown
- single journal
- neutral special
- single indiwidual
- well-written anonymous
- anxiously statistical
- indignantly sarcastic
- sad but still respectable
- witty and insolent
- heavily technical
- trenchant and tragic
- wonderfully simple and suggestive
- remarkably scarce
- best smashing
- essential and chief
- commercially reliable
- second-hand best
- ideal or exclusive
- main undefined
- elastic and very flexible
- second front-page
- enthusiastic and lengthy
- partly appreciative
- occasionally precious
- curious and well-informed
- concise, terse and useful
- terse and useful
- italian definite
- spanish definite
- curious or antique
- despicable but indispensable
- furious and ridiculous
- fantastic special
- frankly internationalist
- lengthy and very able
- especial and capital
- eydentical
- genuine, marketable
- sensational, exclusive and lengthy
- exclusive and lengthy
- awfully bothersome
- dearer or inferior
- highly succulent and nutritious
- admirable and concise
- clever and well-written
- single but most important
- candid and graceful
- smaller and prettier
- strictly genuine
- real lethal
- good salable
- dry, boring
- overdue journal
- stunningly dishonest
- unusually insightful
- favorable, uncontroversial
- financial financial
- beautiful and most fragile
- great or essential
- new nor curious
- ludicrously abusive
- breezy editorial
- rococo old
- unintentionally despairing
- particularly funny or spirited
- funny or spirited
- next unread
- principal exchangeable
- delicate and desirable
- well-written serious
- so-called definite
- beautifully sensational
- _supply definite
- original all-round
- particularly pleasant and convenient
- venomous and odious
- ornamental and impressive
- exceedingly nutritious and valuable
- exceedingly indigestible
- common and most excellent
- prime fancy
- original twelfth
- sixteenth fundamental
- valuable and beneficial
- amazing delicate
- useful, handsome and valuable
- useful and cosmopolitan
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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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