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 codger
Below is a list of describing words for codger. 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 codger:
- poetical, old
- closest old
- succinct old
- frail white-haired
- seafaring old
- versatile old
- bony, old
- sassy old
- cute old
- sharp old
- frosty old
- barefooted old
- persistent old
- depressed old
- exasperated old
- old, toothless
- decent old
- forgetful old
- tenacious old
- immortal old
- thoughtful old
- meanest old
- well-meaning old
- polite old
- thirsty old
- marvelous old
- nosy old
- feisty old
- selfish old
- pleasant old
- cagey old
- slippery old
- fuzzy old
- stuffy old
- old and rusty
- serious old
- genial old
- intolerable old
- greedy old
- queer old
- artful old
- hearty old
- crusty old
- whimsical old
- daft old
- lovable old
- grizzled old
- generous old
- sinister old
- fusty old
- cunning old
- rich old
- wealthy old
- stingy old
- funny old
- silent old
- dry old
- cranky old
- dearest old
- sober old
- disagreeable old
- sweet old
- useless old
- venerable old
- clumsy old
- single old
- strong old
- comical little
- rough old
- eccentric old
- solitary old
- vicious old
- gentle old
- stiff old
- stubborn old
- clever old
- innocent old
- simple old
- wary old
- genuine old
- toothless old
- interesting old
- nice old
- withered old
- decrepit old
- other ancient
- gruff old
- pious old
- great little
- harmless old
- glorious old
- foolish old
- other old
- dilapidated old
- feeble old
- horrid old
- strange old
- real old
- stout old
- wrinkled old
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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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