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 chapter
Below is a list of describing words for chapter. 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 chapter:
- brief, sorry
- old-fashioned descriptive
- wonderful tenth
- archaic and unbelievable
- initial or introductory
- marvelous cryptographic
- contribution--box--unpleasantly conspicuous
- famous eleventh
- foremost oriental
- dull and rather abstruse
- intermediate provincial
- brief but charming
- separate and very interesting
- earthy, bittersweet
- declamatory final
- apocalyptic twentieth
- wonderful fifteenth
- threadbare, improbable
- notable and illuminating
- inimitable and oft-quoted
- entire fifteenth
- significant and little-known
- wonderful twelfth
- fragmentary and almost unintelligible
- equally delicate and necessary
- fascinating fourteenth
- instructive thirty-fourth
- thy nineteenth
- unusually dull and uninteresting
- single autobiographical
- also nineteenth
- new and parenthetical
- long and absorbingly interesting
- vivid thirtieth
- truly delectable and happy
- astonishing final
- single repulsive
- sad, bizarre
- masterly blank
- filbert, open
- valiant, bloody
- quiet final
- entire flamboyant
- normal daily
- new, bolder
- exquisite fifteenth
- danish medal
- brief parenthetical
- --fairly prosperous
- almost uninterrupted and unbroken
- new and possibly momentous
- scandal twenty-first
- copious introductory
- imprisonment--removal
- beautiful thirty-eighth
- sensible introductory
- great sixth
- unknown cavalier
- carefully noted
- extraordinary minor
- separate and exhaustive
- short sixth
- wondrous fourteenth
- eventful and thrilling
- scholarly introductory
- remote last
- bad hugh
- new and very instructive
- new and quite unsuspected
- witty and most fascinating
- adorable fifth
- darkest and most repellent
- entire thirtieth
- overland red
- exceedingly discursive and descriptive
- exceedingly discursive
- thirty-sixth general
- long seventh
- interesting and most remarkable
- all-important ninth
- next and grimmest
- flippant but suggestive
- tedious and tautological
- early satiric
- lengthy drawn-out
- exceedingly interesting and curious
- inimitable thirteenth
- almost standardized
- hazel hybrid
- richly diffuse
- new and highly significant
- chiefly financial
- good bibliographical
- indefensibly episodical
- necessarily insufficient
- brief and necessarily insufficient
- memorable sixth
- interesting and hitherto unpublished
- wonderful or exciting
- international corresponding
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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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