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 garments
Below is a list of describing words for garments. 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 garments:
- grotesque and ragged
- ready clean
- official outer
- sombre homespun
- essential and perfectly fitting
- ample and warm
- tattered, floor-length
- colorful, loose
- official professional
- such wrinkled
- permanent and sole
- inadequate original
- fantastical silken
- similarly filthy
- stark stylized
- strange fashionable
- squalid european
- warm and bulky
- splendid shaggy
- sole upper
- tangled pastel
- bifurcated crimson
- rich and fictitious
- fond and gaudy
- drab, dusty
- exquisite and rich
- serviceable but quite unremarkable
- grey, ill-fitting
- strange, silky
- thy outworn
- incredibly flawless
- poor and tattered
- inexplicable, barbarous
- comparatively filthy
- shapeless unimportant
- fusty gray
- outer and nether
- effeminately long
- handsome festal
- black nether
- single, threadbare
- unflattering and particular
- sleek, ecclesiastical
- especially unflattering and particular
- serviceable outer
- warm, weatherproof
- ceramic metal
- foundly baggy
- maximum tolerable
- long, outlandish
- grey single
- coarse or dirty
- awkward overall
- short and gaudy
- dark single
- extremely short and gaudy
- quasi-practical
- lightweight, varicolored
- complex but graceful
- well-made but simple
- unreal red
- curiously splotched
- striped outer
- richly thick
- new and absolutely plain
- colored furry
- economical, useful
- inexplicable and barbarous
- blue seamless
- thin showy
- solitary and scanty
- strange and lavish
- soft fawn-colored
- loose, colorful
- wretched tattered
- thine ashen
- garish middle-class
- superfluous outer
- usually well-brushed
- picturesque nether
- worn-out and tattered
- tight nether
- elegant or splendid
- short nether
- feminine outer
- other uppermost
- sombre, shiny
- everyday and indoor
- outer modish
- tattered and lousy
- new, clean and comfortable
- loose, disordered
- quaint and rather old-fashioned
- unspeakably odious
- bedraggled and threadbare
- shapeless, bedraggled and threadbare
- fresh and gorgeous
- suitable outer
- ponderous and beautiful
- coarse plebeian
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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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