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 donkey
Below is a list of describing words for donkey. 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 donkey:
- downright lackadaisical
- braying irish
- thoroughly hopeless and useless
- obstinate braying
- faithful but laggard
- precious triple
- blind, wicked
- always resourceful
- ancient but always resourceful
- fat, full-grown
- lame tame
- last braying
- mischievous apocalyptic
- slow and wretched
- much-abused and long-suffering
- bony, grey
- preposterous and awe-inspiring
- well-fed pampered
- incoherent and pompous
- belligerent and pretentious
- well-fed egyptian
- stubborn and braying
- stubborn and reluctant
- amiable and active
- urbane or refined
- indispensable old
- positive grey
- big, cautious
- sulky, stupid
- gray female
- well-mannered old
- itty-bitty white
- normally quiet and unassuming
- suitable grey
- sleek, delicate
- poor, gullible
- monstrously diseased
- thin and shaggy
- particularly stupid and stubborn
- uneducated british
- less serious-minded
- young and obstinate
- new snow-white
- other unripe
- intelligent gray
- second-rate young
- thoroughly hopeless
- broadly laden
- small and very antique
- occasional wakeful
- venerable and decrepit
- diminutive gray
- senseless young
- miserable, lean
- susceptible old
- last-ditch legalistic
- sonorous old
- hypochondriacal young
- squeamish young
- small and wicked
- still fatter
- bony, gray
- hopeless and useless
- last laden
- long-suffering little
- everlasting big
- white syrian
- suddenly alert
- docile little
- real egyptian
- charming grey
- miserable wooden
- great syrian
- meek white
- humble but useful
- peculiarly pleasing
- stupid and stubborn
- particularly polite
- good, husky
- extravagant old
- strong handsome
- quiet, safe
- quite authentic
- equally wild
- braying
- little mutant
- large, sleek
- gorgeous black
- little nimble
- same diminutive
- small and shabby
- insufferable little
- sheer brutal
- famous dead
- particular great
- genuine and original
- stout black
- mindless little
- still alive and able
- morose little
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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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