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 comedies
Below is a list of describing words for comedies. 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 comedies:
- italian impromptu
- abominable and sacrilegious
- well-played genteel
- trivial and third-rate
- wretchedly trivial and third-rate
- wretchedly trivial
- good one-reel
- rowdy musical
- happy elizabethan
- musical, musical
- new melodramatic
- broad undiluted
- decadent but amusing
- dauntingly optimistic
- unconscious international
- low or broad
- rustic sentimental
- graceful, vivacious
- wet and musical
- most fantastical
- altogether simpler and more
- off-color satiric
- shakespearean little
- long-running geriatric
- single, abnormal
- good screwball
- vicious but gay
- pure screwball
- gruesome unconscious
- new tragical
- stupid portuguese
- bustling, genteel
- regular genteel
- sensational matrimonial
- german carnival
- serious sentimental
- brilliant farcical
- prettiest musical
- dramatic shakespearian
- modern impromptu
- extravagant one-act
- enchanting pastoral
- dramatic parliamentary
- one-act musical
- rotten musical
- latest musical
- delightful wicked
- stupid musical
- cruelly black
- rapid and frustrating
- totally irreverent
- bygone musical
- famous ongoing
- bawdy, ribald
- moral sentimental
- virtual or notional
- puerile musical
- burlesque and farcical
- italian extemporal
- lighthearted romantic
- farcical french
- modest and mediocre
- few farcical
- refined and rather pathetic
- always long and wordy
- condensed old
- rather miniature
- regular and very pleasing
- rough and unformed
- pleasantly trivial
- newer musical
- nearly famous
- later full-length
- last, matrimonial
- irregular italian
- aside musical
- bold unpolished
- brilliant heavy-weight
- shakespearian little
- poetic low
- satirical and classical
- horribly serious
- extant humanistic
- sad and essentially serious
- frivolous musical
- romantic or fanciful
- coarse but brilliant
- always pure and clear
- brilliant but coarse
- critical, satiric
- material, musical
- satirical idyllic
- ingenious original
- lewd blasphemous
- conventional farcical
- royal farcical
- amusing mammalian
- bourgeois romantic
- third-rate musical
- grim and loving
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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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