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 epic
Below is a list of describing words for epic. 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 epic:
- fifth national
- poignant, swashbuckling
- magnificent serial
- glorious primitive
- sentimental, forgettable
- long and very famous
- sacred military
- incredible, unsung
- primitive and literary
- continental animal
- medieval comic
- hitherto matchless
- less exalted and less
- fierce lusty
- suns-historical and legendary
- suns-historical
- medieval heroic
- thoroughly nationalistic
- comic heroic
- titanic, teutonic
- patriarchal, more
- artificial and unfinished
- extant northern
- principal burlesque
- descriptive and patriotic
- complete mythological
- miniature nautical
- mystical or prophetic
- nonexistent comic
- strict heroic
- human and poignant
- immense grotesque
- fascinating and circumstantial
- obsolete satirical
- grand or heroic
- stupendous and noiseless
- long and unfinished
- rude but mighty
- italian descriptive
- realistic carolingian
- scandalous burlesque
- terrible biblical
- worthless so-called
- insincere and literary
- great, unwritten
- allegorical, didactic
- humble, familiar
- national and artistic
- artistic mock
- large and even immense
- marvelous and barbaric
- cold and noble
- professedly mythological
- big biblical
- famous finnish
- humble familiar
- great finnish
- finnish national
- cheap biblical
- low-budget historical
- compellingly original
- awful sci-fi
- sonorous ancestral
- super western
- as-yet unsold
- cheesy literary
- own adversarial
- four-hour biblical
- long ideal
- superior and definitive
- real danish
- vast, sublime
- separate popular
- national teutonic
- rugged national
- heroi-comical
- elizabethan minor
- ethical or satirical
- greater shakespearian
- vast processional
- mighty napoleonic
- independent proven�al
- independent provencal
- exalted and less
- earliest artificial
- anonymous burlesque
- veritable romantic
- ingenious mythological
- ambitious historical
- great inspiring
- greatest irish
- thoroughly pagan
- comic german
- long and ambitious
- magnificent tragic
- humorous mock
- unfinished allegorical
- spirited german
- spanish heroic
- national comic
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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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