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 book
Below is a list of describing words for book. 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 book:
- ridiculous nonsensical
- amusing, original
- sympathetic and wholesome
- exceedingly rare and curious
- crimson fairy
- japanese dumpy
- large, leatherbound
- second glad
- brown fairy
- fine and readable
- totally remarkable
- archaic visual
- yellow fairy
- red fairy
- demoniac sixth
- unique, splendid
- proverbial open
- heavy and handsome
- lilac fairy
- wholly remarkable
- simply appalling and irresistible
- manual or blue
- great cryptographic
- pornographic comic
- glorious and weighty
- small and deeply boring
- lawless bloody
- retail cheap
- long and frightfully stiff
- perfectly sober and serious
- parliamentary blue
- olive fairy
- unassuming and invaluable
- wholesomely disturbing
- good but unmethodical
- bawdy, lewd
- mighty lewd
- french signal
- amazing horrid
- completely exclusive
- slim, well-worn
- dismayingly heavy
- grubby, rumpled
- illiterate comic
- marvelously simple-minded
- marvelously simple-minded and glib
- substantial, instructive
- delightful and really first-rate
- culpable and dangerous
- blue & white
- curious, curious
- rolled-up comic
- international antiquarian
- four-color comic
- desirable foreign
- hieroglyphical prophetic
- acute and singular
- monthly cumulative
- purely temporary and unconnected
- witty, instructive
- breezy, delightful
- reliable and readable
- scarce and very dear
- superficial but pretty french
- excellent and short
- exceedingly interesting and readable
- thoroughly readable
- philosophical commonplace
- red, leather-bound
- new stiff-backed
- spanish signal
- crumpled comic
- dry and inadequate
- powerfully pernicious
- supremely interesting and wholesome
- clear, practical and suggestive
- thoroughly wholesome and attractive
- delightfully fresh and original
- amiable but imperfect
- lean and dreary
- instructive but awfully dull
- practical, well-illustrated
- capital and instructive
- wholly fictional and imaginative
- second cheerful
- curious and exceedingly frank
- remote civic
- slender leather-bound
- epoch-making little
- small but very thick
- pink fairy
- green fairy
- huge leather-bound
- small leather-bound
- blue fairy
- little navy-blue
- leather-bound old
- dusty leather-bound
- unself-critical
- extraordinarily unself-critical
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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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