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 cries
Below is a list of describing words for cries. 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 cries:
- furious and increasingly frantic
- faint incoherent
- shrill weak
- uplifting despairing
- oddly chopped
- especially inhuman
- huge, tumultuous
- loud but jubilant
- sonorous and short
- little, joyful
- yon universal
- plaintive signal
- harsh, predatory
- emphatic silent
- hopeless animal
- brief despairing
- softly despairing
- continual, mournful
- swift pure
- thick, triumphant
- great and convoluted
- joyous, expectant
- unbroken, agonizing
- passionate despairing
- strong, incessant
- quickly muffled
- unspoken, anguished
- high-pitched and insistent
- thrilling girlish
- weird and high-pitched
- beautiful and lustful
- shrill thirsty
- joyous or doleful
- rough, despairing
- single, heart-rending
- odd and ear-splitting
- new, voiceless
- weak happy
- sad eerie
- plaintive and terrific
- obstinate, maniacal
- soft hooting
- small, terror-filled
- lone, sharp
- distant, feeble
- euphoric, silent
- worse, strident
- low, involuntary
- soft reverent
- shrill and rather agreeable
- pale faraway
- guttural, incoherent
- inevitable frantic
- shrill, hooting
- soft piteous
- distant, raucous
- strange raucous
- triumphant crystal
- spontaneous and horrid
- ever audible
- indistinct shrill
- apprehensive vague
- hungry, wintry
- vague and unceasing
- fierce, aspiring
- loud heart-rending
- plaintive animal
- furious, incoherent
- weird, undulating
- faint glad
- terrifying, high-pitched
- far weird
- single, haunting
- quickly sharp
- tardy repentant
- shrill and barbarous
- musical, mournful
- deplorable and exorbitant
- silent, spiritual
- feeble and bitter
- primal, feral
- glad quick
- demonic and triumphant
- querulous and mournful
- angry, unending
- hideous and angry
- vague synthetic
- hoarse and fierce
- short repetitive
- long braying
- shrill breathless
- faint, pathetic
- sharp grateful
- hoarse and animal-like
- mournful and unmusical
- rapturously breathless
- strange and sonorous
- faintest human
- deep, inherent
- short and simultaneous
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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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