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 depth
Below is a list of describing words for depth. 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 depth:
- unexpected, limitless
- such ventral
- initial masculine
- numb, dizzy
- strictly precise
- silent unaccounted
- unfathomable and sublime
- rich and bitter
- variable and often great
- green or such
- good two-foot
- startlingly convincing
- preternattiral
- unmeasurable gray
- vast but unstable
- unfathomable and infinite
- previously vertical
- enormous but unknown
- unknown plebeian
- unusual luminous
- customary severe
- complete, full
- characterizational
- green, unknown
- cold bottomless
- sheer abyssal
- unprecedented psychological
- entire unfathomable
- benthal
- full and requisite
- variable and calculable
- far tenebrous
- far-off terrifying
- average autumnal
- matchless harmonic
- surprisingly shallow
- ponderous austrian
- sure, relative
- shallow or rocky
- pebbly shallow or rocky
- pebbly shallow
- least allowable
- cool blue-black
- general shallow
- tranquil crystal
- proportional average
- certain overlying
- possible workable
- mysterious and abyssmal
- sheer dizzy
- cool and tempting
- lowest, deepest
- clearly extreme
- properly balanced or proportioned
- heavy, least
- lowest economical
- gloomy, indefinite
- finely geometrical
- seemingly considerable
- sad oriental
- apparent optical
- unrivaled devotional
- unconscious or half-conscious
- sheer, horrifying
- gray luminous
- considerable radial
- otherwise available
- consequent superior
- new watery
- clear and crystalline
- unfathomable and mysterious
- infinite soft
- hitherto unattainable
- empty and unreal
- electrical, operational
- anoperational
- clearly unnatural
- simple awesome
- dangerous and potentially lethal
- mysterious, lustrous
- average ten-foot
- obligatory extreme
- apparent perceptual
- green dead
- intersidereal
- arty great
- minimum operative
- ambiguous psychological
- considerable musicological
- unique, unforgettable
- three-dimen-sional
- heartless, miserable
- awful abysmal
- still contemplative
- native speculative
- translucent, ineffable
- greater tragic
- imply extraordinary
- deepest and most horrible
- clear and wonderful
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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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