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 dyes
Below is a list of describing words for dyes. 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 dyes:
- french seal
- crimson and opal
- gilt metallic
- ingrained purple
- fluorescent penetrating
- subtle reddish
- liveliest crimson
- russet and emerald
- suitable chymical
- coarsely blended
- bold and coarsely blended
- fugitive yellow
- imperial magenta
- excellent permanent
- amethystine double
- superfluous black
- fugitive red
- black or lighter
- slightly fluorescent
- good, low-priced
- purple petal
- brilliant, iridescent
- purest silken
- savage, scarlet
- valuable scarlet
- lever--chemical
- brilliant and tolerably permanent
- single lever--chemical
- useful yellow
- necessary, synthetic
- blacker, deeper
- principal poisonous
- permanent cochineal
- commercial cold
- red, crimson or purple
- direct and basic
- far different and deeper
- modern direct
- basic orange
- bright, inimitable
- thorough and perfect
- older, direct
- barbarous and indelible
- non-toxic basic
- permanent orange
- fast scarlet
- good and very permanent
- blue and similar
- suitable basic
- fastest and most valuable
- drab liquid
- modern, mineral
- purple or brown
- richest and most durable
- disused or unfamiliar
- red, purple or brown
- chief poisonous
- famous purple
- particular gray
- doubly deep
- simple liquid
- well-known yellow
- important yellow
- makeshift black
- permanent yellow
- pure scarlet
- mildly corrosive
- such world-renowned
- tenacious dark
- cherry and vermilion
- surrogate red
- whole, natural
- water-soluble red
- exquisite, long-lasting
- synthetic tan
- traditional fluorescent
- special, high-intensity
- rich ancestral
- just bacterial
- deepest and most splendid
- good and almost indelible
- fast natural
- sensitive fluorescent
- basic red
- exact green
- yellow natural
- genuine purple
- valuable crimson
- brilliant blue-black
- green and citron
- sweet and peerless
- useful red
- reliable red
- precious scarlet
- permanent blue-black
- durable green
- fugitive blue
- great substantive
- orthodox red
- soluble blue
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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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