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 comedy
Below is a list of describing words for comedy. 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 comedy:
- italian impromptu
- abominable and sacrilegious
- well-played genteel
- trivial and third-rate
- wretchedly trivial and third-rate
- wretchedly trivial
- good one-reel
- happy elizabethan
- musical, musical
- new melodramatic
- broad undiluted
- dauntingly optimistic
- unconscious international
- low or broad
- rustic sentimental
- graceful, vivacious
- most fantastical
- off-color satiric
- long-running geriatric
- good screwball
- 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
- rapid and frustrating
- bygone musical
- bawdy, ribald
- virtual or notional
- burlesque and farcical
- lighthearted romantic
- modest and mediocre
- refined and rather pathetic
- condensed old
- regular and very pleasing
- pleasantly trivial
- nearly famous
- last, matrimonial
- aside musical
- brilliant heavy-weight
- poetic low
- horribly serious
- sad and essentially serious
- romantic or fanciful
- always pure and clear
- critical, satiric
- satirical idyllic
- lewd blasphemous
- royal farcical
- bourgeois romantic
- third-rate musical
- grim and loving
- general, classical
- extraordinary spanish
- sprightly german
- absurd musical
- sentimental and satiric
- sparkling, vivacious
- human, characteristic
- admirably vivacious
- lightest musical
- long-lived musical
- intrinsically lower
- intrinsically lower and more
- age-old tragic
- bad sentimental
- pithy, pleasant and merry
- disused shakespearean
- well-known and highly successful
- one-act ironic
- serious, successful
- broad and rather edgy
- altogether delightful and brilliant
- richest and most golden
- openly topical
- elegant and sparkling
- sheer profane
- little war-time
- ever young and fresh
- remarkable satiric
- french farcical
- junior musical
- acrobatic, musical
- shapeless and rather dull
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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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