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 dreams
Below is a list of describing words for dreams. 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 dreams:
- good-night and pleasant
- lighter, sharper
- monstrous and incomprehensible
- gentle, unrecoverable
- meaningless dull
- realistic and disturbing
- wildest madcap
- never doleful
- vague, odd
- nominal sweet
- persistent recurrent
- endless morphological
- mundane bad
- always frightful
- weirdest wildest
- better wet
- tense and frightening
- brilliantly revelatory
- suitable bad
- especially vivid and fantastic
- inferior bad
- phenomenally horrendous
- misty improbable
- endless and jocose
- passionate moonlit
- beautiful lifelong
- particularly sweet and vivid
- dumb, irrelevant
- wildest wet
- pleasant utopian
- vulgar, erotic
- illogical, fantastical
- countless messianic
- silly incestuous
- angry alcoholic
- vivid and perceptive
- unusually vivid and perceptive
- grotesque and foolish
- fond, ecstatic
- wonderful, false
- warm and hazy
- blissful, wondrous
- interminable bad
- unlucky, such
- more longstanding
- lucid and disturbing
- pleasant but hopeless
- vague grandiose
- vivid and distressing
- decidedly odd and unpleasant
- vivid and singular
- tame luxurious
- large intoxicating
- bold unlawful
- somewhat troublesome and painful
- violent and cloudy
- well-known ancestral
- short, chaotic
- hazy, bitter
- vivid, confusing
- vicious and depressing
- dim, simple-minded
- unusual or vivid
- vague ambitious
- impossibly compelling
- fair and jovial
- evil, demented
- now good-night
- frightful and monotonous
- now good-night and pleasant
- hopelessly extravagant
- good-night, pleasant
- non-hormonal
- maybe wildest
- greatest non-hormonal
- thy illusive
- surprisingly sexual
- good-night and happy
- long, strange and painful
- wild, terrible and fantastic
- frivolous, hopeless
- old insistent
- bizarre, incomprehensible
- well-nigh unattainable
- thin mortal
- undying wonderful
- important, significant
- vain airy
- beautiful, feverish
- visionary free
- fairest youthful
- unattainable young
- distant, fonder
- mournful eastern
- dark disturbing
- strong long-range
- giddily intoxicating
- proper bad
- golden and fantastic
- mystically passionate
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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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