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 foxes
Below is a list of describing words for foxes. 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 foxes:
- charming and often annoying
- young frisky
- quick brown
- half-grown red
- crafty but peace-loving
- shly ould
- villainous shifty
- red, stealthy
- bright-eyed, restless
- exceptionally fine and rich
- often annoying
- improbably vegetarian
- poor frisky
- exciting but utterly impossible
- impious and crafty
- absolute red-haired
- old, impious and crafty
- lazy, brown
- crafty coloured
- big comical
- consequently blue
- arrogant and rather sleek
- uninjured black
- sly red
- quite natural and distinct
- interesting sick
- lanky, villainous
- silver-gray and red
- bloodthirsty, cruel
- bad and unscrupulous
- thoroughly bad and unscrupulous
- cunning greedy
- cheeky red
- fine seasonal
- crafty vagrant
- hungry but unsuspecting
- white, blue and black
- ancient radical
- splendid silver-gray
- fleetest and most cunning
- prime red
- seal, gray
- greedy red
- tough and subtle
- big and very yellow
- cunning arctic
- wise victorious
- young arctic
- red or common
- grecian and classical
- black or silver-gray
- hard-pressed little
- nice, cunning
- wormy old
- thick substantial
- prime black
- exceedingly cunning
- male arctic
- sharp arctic
- savage and oversized
- occasional arctic
- small bipedal
- slinky auburn
- false scheming
- well-worn siberian
- „real
- harsh, pungent
- alaskan blue
- unfortunately thin
- white and silver-gray
- foolish, feathered
- indeed cunning
- peerless black
- calmly watchful
- acerbic old
- bengal or blue
- charming silver-haired
- wary cunning
- wily female
- savage, human
- angriest old
- old brushy
- dandy black
- seal and white
- `chaperal
- durable, wild
- full-grown black
- benevolent female
- white or arctic
- other or true
- despicable, cunning
- first-rate black
- seal and black
- warlike and crafty
- old hairless
- more, angelic
- frivolous arctic
- large, ornamental
- five-foot tall
- old cunning
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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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