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 blend
Below is a list of describing words for blend. 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 blend:
- amazingly vibrant
- queer proud
- good colombian
- rich and evocative
- fairly flexible
- hideous unknown
- smoothly elegant
- unusually deft
- peculiar but comfortable
- intense, compelling
- impassioned, frantic
- curiously theatrical
- addictively lethal
- never-to-be-forgotten hospital
- scarcely happy
- difficult, heroic
- exquisite nasal
- dramatic and sometimes terrible
- big vocal
- poignant, unexpected
- supersensational
- grey and lilac
- excellent and justly famous
- traditional satiric
- special and abominable
- blandly handsome
- mellow, tempting
- despicable, ingenious
- composite human
- regular but harmonious
- wonderfully intriguing
- smoky, bittersweet
- provocatively innocent
- insane, arrogant
- good and surprisingly interesting
- pleasant but tranquilizing
- true, modern-day
- rare and skillful
- nice masculine
- surely unique
- wryly eclectic
- cheap colombian
- nondescript racial
- imaginative but scientifically unsound
- curious and highly personal
- dandy sartorial
- exact visceral
- genuine and highly satisfying
- strange and seemingly contradictory
- bleak and unrelenting
- quaintly harsh
- good temperamental
- handsome republican
- blond bland
- familiar and not unpleasant
- astonishingly picturesque
- peculiar cunning
- own, unique
- true and stable
- curious emotional
- potent turkish
- incredibly mysterious
- rare but intoxicating
- ecclesiastical and domestic
- charming fantastic
- peculiar muffled
- typically celtic
- incredibly subtle
- foul, poisonous
- faintly perfumed
- deliberate stylistic
- strong colombian
- harsh turkish
- large colombian
- rich cajun
- strange and degrading
- personal and peculiar
- full, fine
- beautiful, creamy
- rich, indefinable
- usual liturgical
- fine colombian
- scientifically unsound
- surprisingly complex
- such ripe
- strange northern
- strange and wistful
- decent italian
- same fairy
- own lyric
- extraordinarily happy
- sweet, heady
- rough and smooth
- singularly unique
- same incongruous
- georgian and victorian
- hot fragrant
- quaint, beautiful
- lowest-priced
- properly proportioned
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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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