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 hair
Below is a list of describing words for brown hair. 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 hair:
- scorched and tangled
- curly mousy
- mendously thick
- primly smooth
- unruly wavy
- russet or dark
- adorably coiffed
- severely coiffed
- back well-cared-for
- typically dark
- washed-out and limp
- stylishly messy
- wonderfully unchanged
- curly dark
- slightly sun-bleached
- normally wavy
- militarily short
- usually untidy
- short-cut but wavy
- unruly short
- expensively dark
- curiously braided
- neatly clubbed
- curly reddish
- unruly dark
- dark and wavy
- back thick
- already straight
- deliberately messy
- thick and smooth
- wavy
- enough shaggy
- fat and deep
- otherwise thick
- scraggly dark
- suspiciously thick
- mousy
- naturally wavy
- already rumpled
- usually dingy
- unruly golden
- slightly wavy
- slightly disheveled
- smooth and bright
- curly short
- usually radiant
- once dark
- usually straight
- normally dark
- neatly coiffed
- tan and dark
- black or dark
- abundant and rich
- short-cut
- curly long
- top and long
- once lustrous
- coiffed
- rather longish
- stringy
- slightly shaggy
- rather unkempt
- elegantly coiffed
- slightly coarse
- otherwise unremarkable
- otherwise warm
- waist-length
- rather shaggy
- reddish
- longish
- flyaway
- back long
- pony-tailed
- lovely bright
- tremendously thick
- naturally dark
- silky
- dark
- brown or dark
- lustrous
- rather fair
- bushy
- glossy
- floppy
- once rich
- rather dark
- shaggy
- sandy
- sweat-soaked
- exceedingly short
- mercifully short
- lovely golden
- short and thick
- fluffy
- straight
- soft
- sun-bleached
- rather coarse
- wispy
- unkempt
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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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