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 crest
Below is a list of describing words for crest. 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 crest:
- cnemial
- posterior metatarsal
- small rudimental
- jagged leafy
- outer cnemial
- long occipital
- bright, inflated
- transverse red
- high, spinal
- inner cnemial
- sagittal
- characteristic sagittal
- low sagittal
- delto-pectoral
- monstrous bony
- enormous nasal
- spectacularly high
- brief, barren
- strong sagittal
- prominent sagittal
- oblique iliac
- lordly male
- well-developed sagittal
- emerald and scarlet
- short brushy
- gilt regimental
- high unstable
- spherical spinal
- recumbent, vertical
- high, uneven
- anterior iliac
- malign and awful
- incoming tidal
- lambdoidal
- coloured plumed
- red transverse
- own simultaneous
- eloquently mobile
- sterile yellow
- malign yellow
- obliquely vertical
- matchless, solitary
- single pallid
- graceful azure
- individual baronial
- haughty official
- exceedingly bedraggled
- slight sagittal
- dear, the--ah--royal
- internal occipital
- huge regimental
- swift towering
- distinct sagittal
- fine coronal
- umber, russet
- majestic inaccessible
- splendidly lofty
- high mid-lateral
- colored dorsal
- prominent osseous
- median sagittal
- posteriorly sagittal
- incumbent crimson
- plain or ultimate
- sharp sagittal
- great sagittal
- usual sagittal
- sharp, spinal
- well-developed lambdoidal
- ceremonial and heraldic
- typical present-day
- bogus modern
- militant grey
- thick heraldic
- large occipital
- thin diagonal
- proud feathered
- late secret
- epicnemial
- iliac
- white and jagged
- posterior iliac
- cural
- white transverse
- ominous, familiar
- snowy, linen-covered
- large sagittal
- average galactic
- windswept grassy
- thin sagittal
- furious reptilian
- jagged vermilion
- infinitely higher and further
- high, frothy
- similarly tapered
- odd, alien
- unidentifiable armorial
- abbreviated gray
- small sagittal
- scalloped dorsal
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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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