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 fireworks
Below is a list of describing words for fireworks. 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 fireworks:
- idle artificial
- instantly magnificent
- last-mentioned beautiful
- totally unregulated
- such scenical
- particularly large and vivid
- vivid colorful
- big but otherwise unimpressive
- deal, real
- glorious relativistic
- rhetorical or epigrammatic
- strongest steady
- chinese artificial
- kind--mental
- triumphant vocal
- sputtering and spectacular
- particularly excellent
- straight, cylin�drical
- awesome statistical
- delightfully noisy
- deep-sea undersea
- spectacular chinese
- enraged mum
- peculiarly startling
- horrible atomic
- celestial
- phantom yellow
- smashing bright
- sudden daytime
- large but virtually harmless
- largest illegal
- spectacular but essentially harmless
- oratorical and pyrotechnical
- weird harmonic
- magnificent artificial
- otherwise unimpressive
- brilliant gay
- few propitious
- suitable and reliable
- also artificial
- scarlet and green
- great continual
- distinctly illegal
- glorious, continuous
- many flashy
- cheap flashy
- distant, continuous
- silent, unending
- spectacular natural
- distant gigantic
- maybe distant
- cylin�drical
- virtually harmless
- real impressive
- many napoleonic
- large and vivid
- romantic and emotional
- bright triangular
- few magical
- brief and discreet
- utterly silent
- mere conversational
- vast slow
- magnificent and wonderful
- national and royal
- hot, heavy
- few premature
- greatest free
- just silent
- great colorful
- full chinese
- other verbal
- little technological
- few domestic
- great sizzling
- totally cool
- sometimes beautiful
- such transient
- huge ceremonial
- rather stunning
- such verbal
- short but impressive
- essentially harmless
- unguided
- damned great
- yellow and orange
- other artificial
- fourth-dimensional
- blue and purple
- such conversational
- extraordinarily fine
- eccentric little
- cold dark
- fantastic little
- scenical
- newer and better
- few chinese
- retinal
- usual native
- particularly large
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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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