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 crow
Below is a list of describing words for crow. 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 crow:
- yon carrion
- solitary mournful
- old carrion
- ungainly carrion
- greedy carrion
- european carrion
- angry treble
- old gray-black
- incredibly bedraggled
- wild, cocky
- fierce carrion
- gory ole
- african changeable
- long and jubilant
- miserable funeral
- pseudo young
- martial, daring
- drowsy, raucous
- grateful and very long
- disreputable carrion
- shrill but familiar
- mythic creative
- long and very jubilant
- fine carrion
- pious carrion
- rusty, second-hand
- black or carrion
- horrible carrion
- musical, splendid
- blinking tame
- odd dead
- carrion
- bemused white
- little lofty
- short but frequent
- smartest and shrewdest
- large carrion
- black and ominous
- urgent smoky
- unnecessary, unexplained
- highly feathered
- rusty feathered
- magically retractable
- gleeful carrion
- resourceful carrion
- raucous, abortive
- simple-minded and unsuspecting
- shrill and solitary
- filial young
- rousing and resonant
- high, throaty
- charmingly realistic
- previously white
- rumpled, little
- large, thoughtful
- red legged
- plainly involuntary
- sudden and plainly involuntary
- vain female
- coarse, triumphant
- australian gray
- gigantic, misshapen
- shrill, triumphant
- always baked
- bold and familiar
- great carrion
- hoarse, ominous
- watchful carrion
- old tame
- bedraggled black
- funny high-pitched
- damned carrion
- shrill, hoarse
- healthy, high-spirited
- thrifty and intelligent
- shrill, noisy
- loud, exuberant
- black, villainous
- hilarious little
- damned curious
- humongous black
- cruel wild
- black skinny
- white carrion
- black carrion
- sudden honest
- big tibetan
- thin, squeaky
- comely black
- certain malevolent
- loud and defiant
- usually formal
- shrill, clear
- big and black
- white ringed
- scrawny old
- rangy black
- loud cheerful
- dead and bloody
- jolly 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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