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 brown eyes
Below is a list of describing words for brown eyes. 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 brown eyes:
- expressive and large
- extremely huge
- sweet and luminous
- normally inquisitive
- extremely weary
- sunken and penetrating
- gray and wide
- wonderfully excessive
- unsettlingly deep
- sweetly intense
- uncommonly liquid
- large and tragic
- own and huge
- crazily fascinating
- little and careful
- soft and wise
- faintly cruel
- exceedingly direct
- tan and clear
- reticent but unafraid
- also lustrous
- soft but fearless
- wondrously lustrous
- large and expressive
- coldly inquiring
- just sparkling
- shrewd but amiable
- also unafraid
- large and sad
- soulfully deep
- de\-ceptively soft
- stubble and muddy
- sad and pale
- strikingly hazel
- beautifully deep
- her--mostly dark
- noticeably gentle
- slightly red-rimmed
- sleepy but affectionate
- kindly soft
- curiously opaque
- bright and restless
- wonderfully gentle
- also mischievous
- softly bright
- clear and clever
- normally soft
- astonishingly sweet
- falsely sympathetic
- stern and dark
- flat-oval
- short and large
- violently angry
- large and trusting
- now hard-edged
- startlingly wide
- normally wide
- small but alert
- utterly destructive
- somewhat gentle
- large and eloquent
- sensitive and beautiful
- big and wonderful
- clear and frank
- peculiarly luminous
- delightfully sweet
- surprisingly dark
- clear and fearless
- deep-set
- rather liquid
- oddly exotic
- incongruously soft
- large and clear
- wonderfully expressive
- lovely gentle
- unnaturally brilliant
- usually soft
- slightly muddy
- disturbingly human
- fine and warm
- formerly bright
- large and lustrous
- small and bright
- also quiet
- normally mild
- deceptively mild
- deceptively soft
- deceptively warm
- falsely innocent
- singularly intelligent
- rather ferocious
- quite fascinating
- tear-filled
- soulful
- slightly mournful
- small and deep-set
- unexpectedly deep
- improbably huge
- melancholy dark
- fiercely intelligent
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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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