Describing Wordsfor Black

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Here are some adjectives for black: cold, glorious, untrained and unknown, strong and very gifted, loud, thin, quite pale and haggard, brown lusty, principal rumanian, poor courageous, observant benedictine, above-mentioned, extraordinary, notorious, anti-union, second filial, big gallant, certain runaway, loud or old, real militant, plain bluish, stable virtual, feisty new, once-proud and arrogant, militant and most secret, bitter but brilliant, famous and absolutely legendary, satirical and often humorous, odds-on favorite, peculiar and occasionally useful, sacred and most secret, hostile or angry, top grafted, semi-criminal, shiftless. You can get the definitions of these black adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to black (and find more here).

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Words to Describe black

Below is a list of describing words for black. 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 black:

cold, glorious untrained and unknown strong and very gifted loud, thin quite pale and haggard brown lusty principal rumanian poor courageous observant benedictine above-mentioned, extraordinary notorious, anti-union second filial big gallant certain runaway loud or old real militant plain bluish stable virtual feisty new once-proud and arrogant militant and most secret bitter but brilliant famous and absolutely legendary satirical and often humorous
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odds-on favorite peculiar and occasionally useful sacred and most secret hostile or angry top grafted semi-criminal, shiftless glossy bluish modern and literal rich bituminous electro-chemical, egyptian big orchestral brown rusty temporary virtual clever and old best dangerous brave but helpless terrible and relentless vigorous middle-aged warm, straight most generous many mammoth quite pale hard stiff wal, old wide and stormy scandalous little tall, fierce chaotic neutral long defunct soft french famous sacred poor runaway famous chief nice, snug most notorious fine full-grown tiny old good dirty great heraldic familiar modern old wise warlike and turbulent tall and thin smaller, weaker thin short opposite lower old disabled semi-criminal next major honest, intelligent invisible but powerful powerful little easy and simple new and alien original ancient little and little good tough good-natured old tall, white-haired mysterious little compact little old cold late admiral best italian great chief beautiful black less frequent new and better old canadian new official tall, lanky more militant thin old once-proud more strange much further electro-chemical small local great big fine young thine own big old gloomy old own old many beautiful long straight quaint little untrained famous old more reasonable wicked old haggard more ancient moral and spiritual whole damned little old wal more distant good little more valuable good old several other much better loud above-mentioned nice little own little satirical militant poor old tall notorious same old hostile warlike much more cold new easy bitter smaller honest brave terrible clever invisible sacred wide strong moral nice modern peculiar warm famous little

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Words to Describe black

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "black" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "black" are: cold, glorious, untrained and unknown, strong and very gifted, loud, thin, and quite pale and haggard. There are 155 other words to describe black listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe black suits your needs.

If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, "black" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many black adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is black?

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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