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 bait
Below is a list of describing words for bait. 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 bait:
- virtually hospital
- alluring german
- luscious, nude
- alluring but offensive
- conspicuous and tempting
- false sweet
- traditional virgin
- scientific liquid
- alluring and destructive
- artfully conservative
- rude nondescript
- favorite and succulent
- delightful but deliberate
- splendid obvious
- deceitful and crafty
- longer feasible
- scarily effective
- certainly tempting
- forth attractive
- usually exciting
- immoral and sensual
- enough immoral and sensual
- attractive and effective
- alluring and attractive
- rusting, unused
- sufficiently tempting
- enough immoral
- possible celestial
- next fancy
- mere conversational
- rarely fine
- soft, tough
- tempting
- conver\-sational
- always sweet
- biggest, juiciest
- delightful and mysterious
- such tempting
- helpless, vulnerable
- strictly fresh
- fresh, bloody
- attractive human
- artificial or natural
- gator
- thy cunning
- gross and palpable
- more seductive
- heavily leaded
- difficult and unpleasant
- less appetizing
- small, silvery
- other outlandish
- black leathery
- tough fibrous
- more willing
- perfectly sure
- cayal
- little substantial
- unconscious little
- other tempting
- british admiral
- artful little
- own pious
- more tempting
- wonderful good
- more appetizing
- alluring
- perfectly satisfactory
- such attractive
- best general
- such poor
- clean, white
- juiciest
- such capital
- other artificial
- more blatant
- squirmy
- almost irresistible
- such coarse
- good tough
- once popular
- same golden
- mom-and-pop
- finest possible
- surest
- other organic
- attractive
- huge golden
- preferable
- irresistible
- mighty poor
- taffy
- natural or artificial
- also excellent
- more proper
- appetizing
- unheeded
- inescapable
- fallacious
- expendable
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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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