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 guys
Below is a list of describing words for guys. 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 guys:
- ersatz bad
- pleasant, hardworking
- heavy, redheaded
- terrific and great
- short big-shouldered
- older, flashy
- rich regular
- creepy german
- bright, egotistical
- thin mutant
- civilized, likable
- furry mortal
- supernatural bad
- skinny nervous
- sensational sweet
- wealthy but nice
- proud, formidable
- jewish white
- beefy hairy
- incoming, senior
- smart cagey
- shiftless idle
- all-round tough
- wonderful, fun-loving
- all-around great
- out-and-out adorable
- papal incendiary
- preternatural bad
- easygoing nice
- velvety tough
- genuine nice
- sneaky bad
- inarticulate regular
- female bad
- brightest or most honest
- most muscle-bound
- inner tough
- early smart
- alcoholic white
- stronger, dumber
- good-looking other
- rich high-tech
- slightly sooty
- kinda wise
- original nice
- prematurely haggard
- less stand-up
- powerful and cynical
- couple other
- classic soupy
- corporate bad
- clever immortal
- more bushy-tailed
- handsome bare-armed
- grimy rich
- wild-eyed hairy
- useful big
- crazy, rabid
- all-purpose bad
- baldish little
- usually out-of-town
- nice, conscientious
- huge, mustachioed
- slim, poetic
- homosexual and bisexual
- ungrateful tough
- little gutsy
- classy, breezy
- theoretically funny
- sweaty, sincere
- totally stable
- �totally stable
- old nude
- skinny freckled
- drunk suburban
- major fat
- everyday dead
- prominent or prolific
- all-around popular
- past, big
- hairy tough
- darned cold-blooded
- lucky lucky
- cute british
- logical, balanced
- negligible little
- alien bad
- old green-scaled
- legendary tough
- retrograde old
- automatically bad
- smart, powerful
- honorable bad
- most uptight
- cute dumb
- beefy, sullen
- professional hard
- quiet supportive
- pseudo tough
- young, red-blooded
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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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