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 farce
Below is a list of describing words for farce. 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 farce:
- wonderfully bright and delicious
- corrupt and tragic
- increasingly grim and inexplicable
- stupid, sickening
- tragi-comi-pastoral
- broad and highly successful
- characteristically ludicrous
- grim and inexplicable
- fast-paced french
- biggest diabolical
- original and pleasant
- professionally clever
- impudently bad
- monstrous and hopeless
- huge philological
- sad and meaningless
- vulgar, ignoble
- impudent and scandalous
- monstrous legal
- bitter useless
- stupendous and horrible
- outrageous electoral
- broad or subtle
- modern and ephemeral
- vast, succulent
- rollicking high-spirited
- lyric and erotic
- last operatic
- rather cheap and flimsy
- medieaval french
- mad and comic
- flippant and piquant
- engagingly flippant
- engagingly flippant and piquant
- ostensibly broad
- witty and scandalous
- complete one-act
- stupid and detestable
- amusing carnival
- stupendous, incomprehensible
- inappropriate and highly offensive
- newest and funniest
- extravagant, easy
- comical allegorical
- peaceful, pompous
- cheap and almost comic
- dull, injurious
- meaningless coarse
- unhappy and disgraceful
- obvious, italian
- popular viennese
- unlawful and outrageous
- mirthless, sordid
- delicate and satirical
- bographical
- wretched and egotistic
- customary absurd
- utter scientific
- capricious, whimsical
- increasingly grim
- cynical and sinister
- earliest pure
- great lewd
- trivial french
- violent, black
- depressing, insulting
- inescapable cosmic
- absurd and tragic
- huge and tragic
- stupid and rather vulgar
- brisk and peppery
- free and exuberant
- useless and odious
- artificial german
- suggestive french
- easy enjoyable
- thoughtless, childish
- ridiculous and hideous
- wild and whimsical
- distasteful, tedious
- best indifferent
- tame and insipid
- important and dull
- profane and pointless
- wretched and humiliating
- cheap and flimsy
- simply broad
- thy threadbare
- whole grubby
- extreme popular
- broad poetic
- rather low-class
- innocent gay
- such unedifying
- painful and ridiculous
- one-act
- ole little
- unbelievable black
- intolerable low
- richest and broadest
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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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