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 artist
Below is a list of describing words for artist. 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 artist:
- top martial
- unknown but sublimely gifted
- mad surrealist
- genuine and superb
- well-known alien
- prime genial
- one-time con
- perpetually creative
- implicit or exclusive
- anxious impatient
- poor disinterested
- good weird
- excellent and philosophic
- intimately religious
- admirable humorous
- obscure and honest
- imaginative youthful
- needy dutch
- wealthy blind
- prolific interior
- old con
- gifted con
- two-bit con
- competent but not outstanding
- grand and simple-minded
- wild unconventional
- sublimely gifted
- famous choreographical
- great unsigned
- prime, genial
- enormously diligent
- shy and enormously diligent
- rare or eminent
- western decorative
- ill-fated swiss
- brilliant and highly original
- drunken famous
- generally unpretentious
- graceful and generally unpretentious
- talented con
- great improvident
- quiet, compliant
- actual athenian
- noiseless, laborious
- sensitive and petulant
- unscientific and unmathematical
- hence mightiest
- typical and hence mightiest
- young and astonishingly clever
- false sensational
- divine tragic
- vigorous and business-like
- mature and successful
- respectable, modest
- bearded but youthful
- great and unsuspecting
- remarkable norwegian
- unknown indian
- truly great and sincere
- obscure and meritorious
- artificial and heartless
- average comic
- talented german
- clever and tasteful
- famous bavarian
- successful con
- eclectic martial
- versatile british
- greatest graphic
- skillful cosmic
- old high-wire
- fine survival
- criminal and con
- human martial
- vastly eccentric
- important but vastly eccentric
- human culinary
- incredibly optimistic
- notorious con
- mad, gargantuan
- brazen con
- popular retrieval
- latest retrieval
- long-time martial
- influential and successful
- versatile freelance
- highly ceptual
- prolific and facile
- completely self-taught
- full-time commercial
- mystical, fessional
- prolific and extremely talented
- prolific black-and-white
- jour-commercial
- underemployed graphic
- self-styled visceral
- temperamental graphic
- tolerably modern
- skilled metrical
- real and industrious
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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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