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 gentleman
Below is a list of describing words for gentleman. 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 gentleman:
- old worshipful
- fine public-spirited
- theatrical young
- elderly
- sober ancient
- wealthy, violent
- amiable, intelligent
- enthusiastic and hospitable
- sandy, red-faced
- stern white-haired
- high-minded, elegant
- full-blown, mediaeval
- out-and-out young
- handsome true
- merry, middle-aged
- difficult spanish
- poetical young
- political young
- military young
- domestic and regular
- naturally sedentary and little
- naturally sedentary
- fine sober
- well-born, european
- helpless middle-aged
- gallant upstanding
- average mild-mannered
- polite and good-hearted
- wise gallant
- discreet, brave
- sufficient, gallant
- hump-backed young
- pleasing, courteous
- stout and suave
- well-meaning, able
- conspicuous and meditative
- worthy and studious
- handsome twentieth-century
- impressively polite
- elderly foreign
- insolent fine
- rather lean and long-necked
- lean and long-necked
- easygoing, courteous
- blue-eyed, clean-shaven
- good-humored and companionable
- two-nosed
- venerable and most amiable
- common and obscure
- goggle-eyed old
- quiet but somewhat pompous
- simple-minded polish
- even-tempered but mercurial
- usually even-tempered but mercurial
- fine, public-spirited
- truthful, chivalrous
- splendidly proud
- rotund, merry
- sugar-coated mock
- black-clad dark-haired
- calm, open and congenial
- well-bred fine
- stout jewish
- devout and valiant
- complaisant, civil
- slim and cynical
- lean, hard-riding
- rather stout and important
- english-speaking german
- white-haired african
- complex old
- hearty, hygienic
- quiet thrifty
- thin and polite
- aft, old
- consummate older
- smallish, bearded
- unbleached young
- amiable clerical
- certain hot-tempered
- wise and very courteous
- fascinating and charming
- bland, agreeable
- unaffected, fine
- hare-brained ancient
- condescending fine
- agile middle-aged
- proficient social
- complacent clerical
- perfectly brave and chivalrous
- philological german
- socially well-known
- comely venerable
- dapper, red-faced
- neutral british
- pregnant old
- left-handed italian
- middling funny
- well-bred and apologetic
- splendid serpentine
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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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