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 draught
Below is a list of describing words for draught. 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 draught:
- peppery and muddy
- unnecessary nauseous
- faint refreshing
- red lavender
- glorious, satisfying
- strong thorough
- small chloral
- delightful and even intoxicating
- fiery and exciting
- fine thorough
- faint off-shore
- steady but not violent
- nobly wicked
- speedily effective
- long, deep and undisturbed
- small but refreshing
- precious and hard-won
- sweetest deepest
- restful refreshing
- preliminary soporific
- bitters--fatal
- long, heartening
- magical bottled
- deep and heady
- bitter, refreshing
- delicious such
- last potent
- thoroughbred, irish
- continuous, intoxicating
- pungent and rousing
- low and intoxicating
- new, low and intoxicating
- abrupt and disturbing
- single sacramental
- moderate or comparatively slow
- stiff amber
- shapeless rough
- horrible and baleful
- direct, perpendicular
- cool and longed-for
- next copious
- hot intoxicating
- noxious last
- deadly intoxicating
- coolest and most delicious
- fearful thorough
- long and furtive
- long intoxicating
- poisonous, reckless
- wholesome palatable
- loathsome or poisonous
- bright and refreshing
- hot and wholesome
- dry and exhilarating
- abundant and immediate
- common cathartic
- filthy and bitter
- usual stupefying
- stale or worthless
- incomplete, tentative
- smooth and captivating
- stiff sudden
- poisonous and intoxicating
- dangerous but indispensable
- rough or incomplete
- refreshing and delicious
- lusty good
- paltry black
- bad or irregular
- bitter polar
- continual cold
- sparkling and fresh
- cool, satisfying
- long, hearty
- final huge
- dark bittersweet
- lukewarm, muddy
- doubly bitter
- deep, heady
- big gratifying
- stray cold
- volatile and sparkling
- last refreshing
- nauseous common
- savory black
- ample shallow
- long refreshing
- long and delicious
- deliciously cool and refreshing
- hearty, hasty
- dark and maddening
- earlier undated
- pure and fiery
- sweetest, holiest
- cool, copious
- soft intoxicating
- nauseous black
- silent but protracted
- deep eager
- eager, grateful
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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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