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 envelope
Below is a list of describing words for envelope. 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 envelope:
- padded manila
- large manila
- filthy manila
- apparently gaseous
- big manila
- small manila
- thick manila
- lumpy manila
- manila
- larger manila
- glossy, purple
- oblong, grey
- dirty and thin
- fat manila
- tough and healthy
- inner flexible
- fat crumpled
- white, unaddressed
- bulky official
- fat oblong
- spherical gaseous
- warm atmospheric
- unstable, icy
- faint conical
- bulky manila
- brown manila
- grotesque mortal
- manila inter-office
- heavy, official
- double vesicular
- dazzling luminous
- dazzling instrumental
- gaseous atmospheric
- blue, unaddressed
- light-wave
- vivid shocking
- extensive nebular
- heavy manila
- substantial atmospheric
- high-quality white
- thin manila
- edible, high-protein
- flat manila
- stout manila
- thick, unopened
- unmarked manila
- last manila
- premeditated thin
- long, official
- superficial ethereal
- austere and glacial
- massive, vigorous
- long manila
- flat but thick
- unexpected brown
- unaddressed
- inner atmospheric
- crumpled smudged
- brownish waxy
- deeper atmospheric
- weekly brown
- flat fourth
- oversized manila
- thin but perfectly visible
- rumpled manila
- partial protective
- stony outer
- flaming gaseous
- transparent gaseous
- small and somewhat smudged
- wide manila
- crisp manila
- fat, manila
- oblong blue
- long and fat
- tough but transparent
- exceedingly tough but transparent
- bulky, manila
- wretched oblong
- well-known telegraphic
- exceedingly leathery
- gaseous or aqueous
- plain, creamy
- little manila
- large, unaddressed
- fateful brown
- enormous manila
- aetherial elastic
- other aetherial
- phosphorescent airy
- original and larger
- nasty scented
- extensive gaseous
- thin but very resistive
- voluminous paraboloidal
- unexplained yellow
- truer atmospheric
- separate, sensitive
- entire stratospheric
- plain unaddressed
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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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