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 fowling
Below is a list of describing words for fowling. 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 fowling:
- veal and wild
- domestic maternal
- fearful wild
- quarrelsome bad
- ready wild
- rare and northern
- sundry dainty
- terrifying and impossible
- comparatively tough
- common, contemptible
- hybrid or blue
- large, domestic
- foolish feathered
- monstrous and resplendent
- hardest and most invulnerable
- ragged domestic
- proud and wondrous
- outrageous scarlet
- snow-white, solitary
- veal and invariable
- suitable rapacious
- extinct and even wild
- approval, goggle-eyed
- plain, home-bred
- veal or cold
- conspicuous but evasive
- fawn-colored turkish
- querulous and meditative
- miniature domestic
- conscious, logical
- gray featherless
- other mechanickal
- great, headless
- veal, wild
- charming and harmonious
- poor stringy
- hitherto secretive
- animated middle-aged
- wide-awake and active
- impertinent and irrepressible
- red feathered
- whole grilled
- just stewed
- unsuspecting domestic
- handsome and specious
- latest polish
- flavored wild
- intensely astute and wide-awake
- intensely astute
- astute and wide-awake
- traditional grilled
- poor venomous
- princely domestic
- seventy-six more
- migratory wild
- innumerable wild
- troubled gray
- myriad wild
- scarcely dead
- large or old
- true polish
- numerous wild
- cold spiced
- vast domestic
- bland domestic
- additional gratuitous
- great obscene
- beautiful yellowish
- wildest wild
- plump wild
- perhaps stewed
- fairly plump
- same tame
- foreign wild
- native aquatic
- crisp and fragrant
- middle-aged and very sensible
- extraordinary wild
- pleasing foreign
- self-respecting, conscientious
- common domestic
- lightly fried
- dungal
- whole cold
- common or domestic
- other carrion
- dominant white
- other wild
- cold wild
- countless wild
- succulent cold
- delicious local
- already cool
- strenuous old
- somewhat gory
- unseen wild
- barbarous old
- full-grown wild
- fine full-grown
- finest wild
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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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