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 case
Below is a list of describing words for case. 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 case:
- ritual single
- secondhand brief
- corny wooden
- dull stainless
- natty burial
- lucrative single
- entertainingly serious
- obvious glandular
- curious exceptional
- new and unobserved
- other and exceptional
- gruesome local
- woefully acute
- acute, fatal
- stubborn, bad
- lightest and most evident
- somber wooden
- genuine peculiar
- australian pharmaceutical
- clear-cut and indisputable
- usual hypothetical
- unadorned leather-bound
- strange and possibly mythical
- notorious sex-change
- modish lower
- good, itchy
- brown overnight
- important but puzzling
- ancient modal
- complete or extreme
- major hacking
- general oblique
- heavy brief
- damn mental
- thoroughly special
- chromed medical
- beautiful but stony
- empty brief
- still intact and unbroken
- big brief
- real virulent
- businesslike brief
- flat leather-bound
- parallel natural
- partially analogous
- memorable criminal
- singular and convincing
- notorious and tragic
- metallic burial
- large brief
- valuable, different
- stubborn and still interesting
- heinous and miserable
- complex and psychological
- delicate, complex and psychological
- evil and perilous
- hopeless psychiatric
- elegant rectangular
- algebraic general
- secret and desperate
- major intercultural
- remotely convincing
- oversized brief
- stronger adverse
- conspicuous and most appalling
- sufficiently plain and easy
- extreme chronic
- ideal and extreme
- perhaps earliest
- singular pathological
- japanese immigrant
- famous and still mysterious
- plain miniature
- special or accidental
- striking and analogous
- regular undeniable
- easy-going rheumatic
- kongal
- obvious and undisputed
- particularly manifest
- perfectly well-developed
- striking similar
- devilish knotty
- faintly analogous
- similar and still finer
- clear and ordinary
- equally deplorable and monstrous
- new manual
- old and difficult
- other preschool
- nondescript metal
- small overnight
- hillbilly mental
- different but equally unprecedented
- neat, clear-cut
- quite hollow
- limp and worn-out
- unanswerably strong
- unusually premature
- famous and similar
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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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