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 branch
Below is a list of describing words for branch. 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 branch:
- assembly judicial
- _judicial
- sacred and youthful
- soviet judicial
- paraperoneal
- soon judicial
- approximate judicial
- black, thorny
- fresh, slender
- indefinitely judicial
- active mystical
- weak, green
- fourth-dimensional molecular
- d--special
- hural judicial
- bicameral judicial
- tentative olive
- frequently judicial
- unfilled judicial
- unreal and often vulgar
- easiest and most interesting
- stout lateral
- proverbial olive
- last and younger
- important and unpopular
- eldest and principal
- short limber
- unknown judicial
- thereafter judicial
- sturdy and sympathetic
- own thinner
- green olive
- smaller, overhead
- small, limber
- lowest sturdy
- particular nameless
- german olive
- broader and rougher
- upright elastic
- divergent primitive
- psychic and potential
- vacant judicial
- unconfirmed judicial
- unopposed judicial
- proper intercostal
- remarkable anterior
- minor and doubtful
- deep peroneal
- judicial
- abrupt reversal
- single stylized
- irish special
- collateral or remote
- youngest true
- radiant olive
- idiot medical
- highest comfortable
- major olive
- north main
- bogus special
- promising missionary
- straighter, narrower
- extreme lofty
- edifying and interesting
- oldest and most excellent
- fifth anterior
- dry or weak
- outstandingly loyal
- friendly leafy
- short ninth
- lax and snobbish
- independent specific
- lofty horizontal
- obscure and somewhat rude
- renewal judicial
- least withered
- now judicial
- knotty, horizontal
- irish or agrarian
- slender and withered
- slender and prostrate
- short fertile
- degenerate lateral
- superficial peroneal
- small, forked
- green and pliant
- elder and richer
- entire consular
- dry olive
- singularly heavy
- seemingly defective
- perfectly wide
- huge, rotten
- lowest forked
- local, autonomous
- disheveled orange
- powerful and esoteric
- sinister, self-governing
- nearest feathery
- leafy vertical
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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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