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 greek
Below is a list of describing words for greek. 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 greek:
- arial narrow
- late extant
- racy idiomatic
- turkish, modern
- smart, subtle
- egyptian and very little
- arial baltic
- airy, ever-skeptical
- ancient, byzantine and modern
- deformed and scurrilous
- typical archaic
- original, liturgical
- ionic corinthian
- proper ancient
- considerable, more
- difficult and intractable
- strong and often continuous
- white and divine
- severe and spiritual
- more unmodified
- haughty or greedy
- depraved new
- egyptian and least
- superior incoming
- gallant, sparkling
- italian, modern
- attentive silent
- cunning, intriguing
- italian and modern
- }arial narrow
- small spicy
- immortal ancient
- magnificent archaic
- infamous ancient
- great antebellum
- invisible and surpassingly beautiful
- valuable and quite genuine
- harsh archaic
- talkative, tasteful
- superficial or even venal
- brawny, slow-moving
- mild and tactful
- original and airy
- perfectly genuine and traditional
- genuine and traditional
- armenian, modern
- bald and impure
- rather bald and impure
- mercurial and vivid
- cultured alexandrine
- great compulsory
- beautiful and well mannered
- difficult ancient
- great non-jewish
- every-day mortal
- portuguese, modern
- modern different
- cool ponderous
- imaginative, volatile
- accurate, ancient
- various uncial
- antique, more
- safe, noble
- coxcombical but not uninteresting
- dead foreign
- young greek--real
- imperishable and unchangeable
- vain presumptuous
- remotest ancient
- italian and medieval
- severely white and plain
- severely white
- naturally religious and contemplative
- oriental and more
- phoenician, ancient
- stodgy, obscure
- quadrennial open-air
- chinese, modern
- rumanian and modern
- spanish, modern
- lithe and bright-eyed
- turkish and modern
- relatively peaceable and industrial
- imperfect old
- shrewd dapper
- shapeless ancient
- greatest and most voluminous
- dutch, german and modern
- sonorous metrical
- indirect old
- naturally quick and versatile
- pictorial, more
- fluent byzantine
- young blue-eyed
- witty and voluminous
- bearded swarthy
- famous and peculiar
- fickle, fawning
- supple, clever
- smallest and steepest
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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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