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 bulk
Below is a list of describing words for bulk. 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 bulk:
- swollen, ruddy
- weary, green
- vast two-mile
- vast, unstable
- blasphemously stupendous
- helpless, endless
- gracious perfumed
- inert warm
- big, snowy
- invitingly solid
- familiar iridescent
- massive, unstoppable
- mountainous white
- huge, implacable
- ponderous, dazzling
- vast and implausible
- huge, gray-black
- warm and hairy
- thick, welcome
- usual and proportionate
- double original
- burly blue
- slightly blacker
- massively pear-shaped
- older, victorian
- huge, unspeakable
- false silvery
- domed byzantine
- vast, astonishing
- naked, scabrous
- enormous uneducated
- somewhat planetary
- vast and convincing
- huge corporeal
- familiar old-fashioned
- orange jovian
- monstrous, indescribable
- immense squat
- black massive
- great skeletal
- squat solid
- massive shadowy
- formal main
- lesser overall
- rotundly swollen
- swollen, imperturbable
- enormous terrifying
- unimaginative contemporary
- dark lopsided
- large, asymmetric
- vague, lean
- grey scrawny
- vague incomplete
- rather uncooperative
- hulking, iron-clad
- mountainous, inexorable
- enormous somnolent
- warm hairy
- shadowy brown
- black, walled
- misshapen huge
- awesomely ethereal
- pale animal
- welcome uneven
- green, craggy
- hospital, dark
- huge terrifying
- ponderous and ancient
- dull tubular
- slenderly stupendous
- utter mighty
- red ramshackle
- impenetrable, opalescent
- great and windowless
- awkward but impressive
- monstrous silvery
- huge, harmonious
- enormous and dreary
- uncompromisingly practical and utilitarian
- rude, rectangular
- uncompromisingly practical
- useless and very heavy
- grotesque, hexagonal
- determinate and equal
- immeasurable material
- damned unwieldy
- gross but hard
- magnificent, compelling
- weary, ridiculous
- unwieldy, helpless
- vast, uncertain
- huge and staggering
- terrible, muscular
- hairy, sulky
- vast unrecognized
- motionless great
- great or very large
- queer misshapen
- huge uneducated
- stupid, abstract
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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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