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 elves
Below is a list of describing words for elves. 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 elves:
- unfortunate dark
- nutty green
- outrageous dark
- brash dark
- mercenary dark
- long-lived dark
- generous, dark
- lighter dark
- off-balance dark
- wretched, snotty
- opportunistic dark
- agile, hairless
- envious, slanderous
- diminutive, wrinkled
- male dark
- foolish dark
- rogue dark
- unpredictable, dark
- slim, darkhaired
- often scatterbrained
- solemn, silver-haired
- younger dark
- stubborn and mischievous
- prone dark
- worldly dark
- artless woodland
- well-armed and armored
- correct dark
- alert dark
- cunning dark
- lovely silver-haired
- sorry dark
- usually stern and somber
- status-conscious dark
- gruffly sardonic
- unknowing dark
- misguided dark
- oft fairy
- silly dark
- vital dark
- occasional decadent
- calm and responsible
- dull, boorish
- uncommon witty
- wiry, restless
- merciless dark
- lean, sinuous
- dark-haired male
several male
- unknown, white-haired
- tiny, funny
- stubborn and crusty
- rough, suspicious
- fake dark
- uphill, more and more
- largest dark
- stealthy dark
- damnably imperious
- much, dark
- arrogant and condescending
- stern armored
- animated electric
- different, dark
- lithe, ethereal
- handsome silver-haired
- fond presumptuous
- evil dark
- female dark
- protective dark
- innate dark
- demented dark
- alive dark
- closest dark
- typical dark
- true, dark
- unusual dark
- particular dark
- discontented western
- human but mostly dark
- deformed and malevolent
- mangled dark
- tasteless envious
- average dark
- good and not bad
- old and rather plump
- other four-year-old
- malevolent and undoubtedly insane
- airy mischievous
- wretched and most frivolous
- former dapper
- tallest silver-haired
- loyal, cunning
- white-haired, male
- confident dark
- cocky dark
- blithe inventive
- outrageously merry
- weird, capricious
- malicious, waspish
- poor sensible
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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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