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 bugs
Below is a list of describing words for bugs. 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 bugs:
- darned gret
- new, redundant
- black, stocky
- odd opportunistic
- vast warty
- always more and smaller
- entirely common and ordinary
- large, nameless
- nasty, alien
- bloated blond
- myriad african
- ghastly local
- ordinary, audio
- avian and nocturnal
- troublesome red
- sodden blind
- damned huge
- small, aquatic
- biggest juiciest
- juicy, striped
- occasional fragmented
- demented lucky
- large and very conspicuous
- smelly slimy
- beautiful horrible
- uncounted smaller
- huge, tripodal
- moist, tiny
- damned creepy
- huge moth-like
- furry meal
- red cochineal
- miserable, squashy
- largest and most venomous
- climber--social
- civilized big
- greenish young
- unfaithful vestal
- much cochineal
- countless bleached
- itty-bitty little
- stinging, poisonous
- less decentralized
- ephemeral black
- long-established and well-prepared
- vain and impudent
- carry-in
- political big
- bad local
- entirely common
- hungry alien
- interesting but faintly repulsive
- utterly revolting
- tiny, localized
- also electronic
- brisk yellow
- literally mechanical
- feverish exotic
- intrusive, alien
- huge, squashed
- japanese smart
- tangled and rasping
- audio and optical
- top super
- audio-optical
- well-fed but currently invisible
- bloated and horrible
- swollen, multicolored
- disgusting, hairy
- repulsive exotic
- original, pre-war
- speedy white
- damned odd-looking
- monstrous, mutant
- squashed green
- smart audio
- explosively strong
- damn stinging
- interesting but disgusting
- little biomechanical
- scary tropical
- hospital super
- kosher little
- big psychotic
- dazed, sleek
- weird unidentifiable
- unfamiliar and horrifying
- dirty and downright rude
- large and charming
- delicious shiny
- new teal
- vile ole
- curious and rather ridiculous
- funereal old
- little atheist
- fashionable big
- particularly inconvenient
- more and smaller
- implacable alien
- great harmless
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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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