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 grand
Below is a list of describing words for grand. 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 grand:
- worshipful national
- largely pictorial
- largely pictorial and approximate
- past senior
- senior provincial
- last former
- nasal, pure
- pompous, high-ceilinged
- awful atrocious
- famed, terrible
- most worshipful
- stalwart hereditary
- respectable senior
- unicameral turkish
- unfortunate perpetual
- junior provincial
- fearfully cruel and corrupt
- worshipful senior
- irregular african
- worshipful german
- past provincial
- unlawful and irregular
- huge, meaty
- dangerous, successive
- usually cool and aloof
- best federal
- least nearby
- old-fashioned patriotic
- smooth true
- perpetual universal
- fifth provincial
- past or past
- clandestine and unlawful
- illegal and irregular
- spurious national
- erstwhile jovial
- exalted immortal
- lawful and regular
- old, former
- full six-year
- fearfully cruel
- deep, airy
- irregular and unlawful
- previous, ill-fated
- leftover and obsolete
- serene and royal
- senior past
- same lithuanian
- powerful cardinal
- noble hereditary
- austere and relentless
- regular and lawful
- stylish and expensive
- respective provincial
- large creamy
- such bogus
- true and regular
- second irish
- taller, younger
- perfect small
- regular and legitimate
- present, past
- excellent and loyal
- former hereditary
- horizontal and perpendicular
- most worthy
- clandestine and irregular
- long and tortuous
- permanent federal
- sorry, general
- royal italian
- double curved
- past national
- enormous modern
- last australian
- younger, taller
- indulgent old
- brilliant female
- fourth best
- cool and aloof
- last, true
- cruel and corrupt
- most eminent
- widest, deepest
- most merciful
- present illustrious
- new and spacious
- small but genuine
- fierce and bloodthirsty
- newer and greater
- good, excellent
- new and noble
- old toothless
- rich and liberal
- wise and energetic
- most excellent
- new, small
- own towering
- more past
- same late
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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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