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 glen
Below is a list of describing words for glen. 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 glen:
- gloomy hollow
- dark terrific
- remote uncanny
- rude romantic
- large, once-rich
- rocky and shady
- moist and sweet-smelling
- great awesome
- wide, bowl-shaped
- wild historical
- gloomy, liquid
- deep and impervious
- long and rather shallow
- short and picturesque
- fairy, sunny
- deep and charming
- wooded and often rocky
- new-found watery
- rough and swampy
- rude shadowy
- flashy double-breasted
- wide, well-populated
- deep, delightful
- beautiful, romantic and picturesque
- gloomy, precipitous
- highest wooded
- austere and thrifty
- solitary and dreary
- vast straight
- often rocky
- exceedingly rough and rocky
- fragrant seaside
- green and even bushy
- romantic swiss
- lone romantic
- tortuous and rocky
- rude and silent
- wild bushy
- green, tranquil
- large and well wooded
- harmless ordinary
- thy straight
- shy, dark
- deep, leafy
- yon lone
- tiny, dank
- particular sylvan
- narrow and wooded
- placid, beautiful
- long precipitous
- beautiful and solitary
- dark and awesome
- yon wooded
- snug solitary
- deep wooded
- fine wooded
- wild, narrow
- magnificent wooded
- fine, wild
- deep and wondrous
- otherwise desolate
- deep, bare
- poor and narrow
- bleak, wild
- wild and silent
- rugged and romantic
- lone green
- whole woodland
- deep romantic
- beautiful hazel
- craggy, precipitous
- deep stony
- beautifully romantic
- yon shady
- thy narrow
- romantic and beautiful
- deep and romantic
- green and rocky
- grassy upland
- wooded
- least romantic
- deep ragged
- partly wooded
- straight steep
- little hazel
- little moonlit
- narrow rugged
- dark, romantic
- picturesque wooded
- nice romantic
- rugged and rocky
- once-rich
- lonely wooded
- deep and wooded
- thickly wooded
- secret and magical
- singularly romantic
- wild and narrow
- large transverse
- wildest and most romantic
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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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