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 cedar
Below is a list of describing words for cedar. 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 cedar:
- western red
- white & red
- northern white
- towering spanish
- old-growth red
- fragrant oiled
- cardinal catbird
- fuel--probably dry
- large and absolutely symmetrical
- sturdy, gnarled
- admirable white
- slender alaskan
- seaside hospital
- fresh carved
- feathery brazilian
- sore, proud
- elder, red
- available yellow
- few aromatic
- half-inch white
- lofty, splendid
- southern white
- wet, dilapidated
- down primordial
- solid seasoned
- suave, unpolished
- gilded and enamelled
- real seasoned
- considerable yellow
- southern red
- large rotten
- finely gilded
- australian white
- orange, red
- aromatic red
- much northern
- fragrant, ragged
- scented dry
- cherry and red
- coral, white
- low and elegant
- absolutely symmetrical
- splendid and ancient
- good syrian
- nice, fragrant
- fourth big
- finest grained
- valiant red
- young thrifty
- eastern red
- dismal, tangled
- yon dead
- old brass-bound
- young captive
- charcoal and pungent
- wide, sunken
- tallest and most robust
- native red
- valuable white
- dark and fragrant
- heavy and durable
- feathery young
- white, sweet-smelling
- pungent green
- sacred green
- finely shredded
- lofty towering
- top red
- soft, dead
- dry, fine
- partly charred
- large and fragrant
- fragrant red
- western white
- old charred
- prime old
- common red
- low but broad
- chunky young
- small aromatic
- tall, rugged
- natural rough
- narrow, horizontal
- great fragrant
- beautiful and prosperous
- rather unstable
- green and brown
- usually white
- few crooked
- oldest and finest
- clean, brown
- specially high
- large, bushy
- old tottering
- also red
- gnarled red
- beautifully balanced
- high, massive
- straight young
- past ordinary
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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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