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 cups
Below is a list of describing words for cups. 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 cups:
- nubbly ceramic
- exquisite and incredibly valuable
- extra cordial
- broad-based conical
- foul wooden
- physical, believable
- joint, useful
- cheerful but moderate
- half-empty and cold
- automatically steadying
- solemn standard
- jolly bottomless
- quaint classic
- tiny, fragrant
- small but incredibly strong
- delicate, lidless
- mighty vintage
- many antimonial
- piquant and sparkling
- concave hemispherical
- sacred medicinal
- curious bridal
- bitter thy
- new sacramental
- wide rosy
- specific ceramic
- fragile eggshell
- heavy eared
- cheap individual
- larger shiny
- beautiful and extremely delicate
- smooth, ceramic
- hemispherical and cylindrical
- golden loving
- pleasant, capacious
- deep compact
- great tulip-shaped
- subsequent affectional
- transparently delicate
- welcome and excellent
- deep, spherical
- full and smooth
- rough, hemispheric
- rich tangled
- understatedly elegant
- own ceramic
- mature outer
- fragile ancient
- internal water-filled
- diabolical iced
- material, half-empty
- flowered ceramic
- grand, carved
- thin, classy
- homely flowered
- customary nuptial
- symmetrical open
- thirsty thy
- vulgar, fairy
- fat and three-fourths
- massive, deep
- open flattish
- shallow and rather massive
- loose but rather deeper
- deep, thin-walled
- compact thick
- compact and rather deep
- compact shallow
- antimornal
- oval deep
- many antimornal
- deep, compact
- hard inverted
- regular shallow
- coloured fleshy
- flimsy deep
- hemipsherical metal
- neat diminutive
- drunk other
- massive and deep
- afterwards endless
- rather massive and deep
- solemn strange
- compact and deep
- high, coral
- preserdential
- archaic lapidary
- joyous, ineffable
- well warm
- good hemispherical
- inseparable wooden
- thin hemispherical
- welcome and comfortable
- flat certain
- heavy, odious
- sober chinese
- odd and lovely little
- cereal, small
- nightly meal
- tempting but fatal
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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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