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 harmony
Below is a list of describing words for harmony. 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 harmony:
- perfect two-part
- noticeable inner
- strict and wondrous
- ragged drunken
- faint audible
- imitative and sentimental
- intricate but effective
- enchanting and mysterious
- mystic cosmic
- copious and rural
- constant and admirable
- stupefying, tempestuous
- imperfectly perfect
- grand, joyous
- cunningly intricate
- majestic but not obvious
- exquisite and absolute
- glad, responsive
- four-part and three-part
- various and legitimate
- perfect seeming
- artificial moral
- flawless, necessary
- perfect four-part
- least, blissful
- boyish individual
- constantly corresponding
- mysterious and pre-existing
- brighter and social
- grandly poetical
- evidently requisite
- mature and matchless
- tranquil and simple
- bad or thin
- matchless physical
- tranquil mental
- peace--mental and moral
- peace--mental
- free and inevitable
- simultaneously free and inevitable
- four-part harsh
- consummate municipal
- much communal
- sweet and curious
- promising cosmic
- perfect contrapuntal
- stately copernican
- oddly intricate
- beautiful and obvious
- aware, perpetual
- perennial mental
- transitory but satisfactory
- incomprehensibly sweet
- marvelously poetic
- remarkable and unbroken
- ideal, natural
- restful, rhythmic
- sufficient sculptural
- heavy but very interesting
- pale and yet rich
- musical or metrical
- full and concordant
- blissful vital
- rare adventitious
- interfunctional
- sober bourgeois
- agreeable and complete
- fantastic cosmic
- full four-part
- perfect, sweetest
- closest and most mysterious
- clear, classic
- lilac, weak
- orange, rich
- perfect, unquestionable
- sweet and quieter
- bizarre and captivating
- divine and internal
- quaint and very fascinating
- magnificent and profound
- therefore filial and paternal
- grave and colossal
- recurrent and mournful
- perpetually recurrent and mournful
- sonorous downward
- perfect majestic
- buoyant, stentorian
- natural or agreeable
- plaintive and monotonous
- surprising religious
- extreme, true
- material, complete
- unique and intelligible
- short, intellectual and sentimental
- complex and wondrously useful
- thrilling and enthralling
- old modal
- eternal, vast
- fairly contrapuntal
- free and fairly contrapuntal
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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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