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 bride
Below is a list of describing words for bride. 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 bride:
- charming aztec
- mournful mournful
- unworthy, demented
- small and sultry
- dear and hard-won
- fair and august
- hideous bushy
- fair, blissful
- royal and virgin
- thine, rare
- unwilling, silent
- timid youthful
- young auroral
- blonde and buxom
- thoroughly generic
- ill-fated mexican
- happy trusting
- fair and most wretched
- mystic and wondrous
- imperious, headstrong
- sweet auspicious
- brightest and most beauteous
- pure and holy virgin
- highly technical and efficient
- technical and efficient
- dear, virgin
- false unkind
- lusciously beautiful
- suitable royal
- bright and beauteous
- gay vain
- obviously tense
- happy, bright-looking
- new, beloved
- nervous royal
- potential royal
- rich and nubile
- next skeletal
- young and somewhat fastidious
- fair and mystical
- pale and most unhappy
- snow-white, spotless
- youngest or prettiest
- fugitive and yet eternal
- unwilling irish
- beautiful but reluctant
- young and dazzling
- lustful and venomous
- gentler, fairer
- young and lovely spanish
- freckled, half-grown
- large and very smart
- cheerfully incompetent
- happy or willing
- impetuous and thoughtless
- rich and most desirable
- shameless and contemptuous
- less recalcitrant
- far-off and long-awaited
- never-to-be-forgotten lofty
- majestic regal
- brown brown
- wealthy and even aristocratic
- loveliest and most happy
- inexperienced, seventeen-year-old
- timid and repentant
- happiest canadian
- correspondingly youthful
- weak reluctant
- wretched and perhaps unwilling
- somewhat passable
- jolly brown
- seemingly unwilling
- thy homesick
- beautiful seventeen-year-old
- sweet and dainty
- unfortunate imperial
- younger and wealthier
- plump new
- curiously apathetic
- talented, loving
- blushingly modest
- timid foreign
- largely unclothed
- dry-eyed and eager
- better royal
- similarly suitable
- radiant, joyful
- suddenly elusive
- semiannual month-long
- fatally jealous
- traditional delicate
- good nondenominational
- suitably nervous
- entirely eligible
- lovely possible
- prostrate, unmarried
- unconscious soon-to-be
- sickly mail-order
- oriental mail-order
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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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