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 hedges
Below is a list of describing words for hedges. 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 hedges:
- towering thorny
- somewhat blue and misty
- hard-edged ornamental
- immensely dense
- equally impervious
- deep floral
- high hazel
- high dark-green
- brown, formal
- fantastically geometric
- tall, topiary
- thick grown-up
- trimly correct
- tall, secretive
- deep and exuberant
- thick undeniable
- past unkempt
- high kolqual
- high elder
- thick, formal
- staid stiff
- high, thorny
- rigorously formal
- somewhat blue
- towering, unkempt
- tall red-tipped
- high topiary
- high loose
- high and blinding
- tall, snow-covered
- formidably thorny
- sodden unkempt
- bare withered
- green tempting
- utterly formal
- large husky
- scarlet thorny
- tall, impenetrable
- high bedraggled
- gaunt sombre
- thick and numerous
- thick, well-cut
- thick raspberry
- tall unkempt
- tall tangled
- huge thorny
- everlasting green
- fine herbaceous
- dense, fine
- massive and impenetrable
- low artificial
- tall, shady
- real wide
- high tangled
- brown ragged
- tall, tangled
- shorter, thinner
- such thorny
- dark sweet-smelling
- several shapeless
- many thorny
- lofty and perfect
- low ragged
- kolqual
- nopal
- soon high
- high deep
- purple and brown
- tall and thick
- high ragged
- high thick
- high impenetrable
- high soft
- interpretational
- thick hollow
- high, straight
- now transparent
- tall broad
- tall, dense
- high green
- tall thorny
- neat, well-kept
- high mysterious
- high and thick
- together whole
- several formidable
- thick thorny
- high dense
- tall ragged
- tall leafy
- tangled green
- thick high
- high, thick
- thick, high
- high stiff
- thick, wild
- high-mounted
- tall wild
- tall dense
- vast impenetrable
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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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