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 gifts
Below is a list of describing words for gifts. 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 gifts:
- precious congruent
- well-intentioned, innocent
- uncanny, precocious
- precious and magical
- essentially lyrical and meditative
- normal heraldic
- valid and effective
- fluent natural
- dainty and appropriate
- fabulous, unlimited
- untrained, unused
- suitable vulpine
- godlike, generous
- particularly dainty and appropriate
- degrading invaluable
- ominous bridal
- beautiful, nice
- identical and significant
- anonymous and expensive
- natural or preternatural
- divine and priceless
- rarest and most glorious
- last, secret
- back richer
- suitable and intriguing
- profound, merciful
- present or free
- unexpected artistic
- workable literary
- good and perfect
- njal good
- strange, spiked
- frequent and unalienable
- pure and voluntary
- puny and inedible
- traditional extra
- precarious and seemingly capricious
- precious and unparalleled
- small, wholesome
- present and free
- illusive, indefinable
- grand and yet gracious
- singular gigantic
- unexpected royal
- similar exquisite
- perhaps free
- altogether good and perfect
- formerly wonderful
- undesirable and mysterious
- beautiful and bitter
- unscrupulously persuasive
- valuable funeral
- uniform anatomical
- measurable telepathic
- belated bridal
- witty and sensual
- mysterious, erotic
- solid everyday
- great and accidental
- magnificent and numerous
- expensive bridal
- special and undisclosed
- mysterious inborn
- linguistic and military
- great and cryptic
- eminent supernatural
- doubly special
- undeveloped poetical
- awake, best
- showy or splendid
- gift--natural
- enormous charitable
- uncommon and valuable
- choicest and most necessary
- last ignoble
- lavish and incalculable
- free divine
- coal and similar
- great encyclopediacal
- strange, artistic
- sorrowful great
- valuable and sometimes ridiculous
- particular telepathic
- useless or positively dangerous
- personal betrothal
- fabulous material
- appropriately practical
- unreliable or even dangerous
- best and most meaningful
- past, large
- usually useless
- so-called mystical
- curious and usually useless
- excellent and precious
- unpleasant and unkind
- charming metal
- notable, valuable
- personal or likable
- little housewarming
- modest telepathic
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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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