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 heels
Below is a list of describing words for heels. 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 heels:
- pleasantly tough
- breakneck high
- red high
- turquoise high
- courtierly red
- murderous high
- sensible low
- pink high
- high cuban
- rascally vulnerable
- wobbly high
- scarlet high
- prettiest high
- crooked french
- smart tall
- spiked high
- sexy high
- small and extremely high
- beloved high
- thin, two-inch
- stylish but impractical
- curved high
- crooked high
- ridiculous high
- old high-speed
- four-inch high
- red spiked
- skinny high
- spiked four-inch
- preferred four-inch
- four-inch italian
- cheap high
- plain, twin
- high french
- distinct responsive
- nonexistent sandal
- absurdly small and pink
- sensible, two-inch
- absurdly small
- usual three-inch
- wide and normal
- sexy spiked
- cuban or military
- sequined high
- french, cuban or military
- dazzling high
- good iron-shod
- silken high
- reversible metallic
- impractical high
- opposite bare
- chunky cuban
- scornful and merciless
- sensible, black
- tottering high
- little iron-shod
- small iron-shod
- high and girlish
- shapely high
- slender french
- tolerably nimble
- enormously high and narrow
- handy irish
- such spiked
- impudently high
- extremely small and high
- higher-than-practical
- febrile young
- dainty high
- yellow leathered
- powdered, red
- deceitful wooden
- black high
- unfamiliar high
- improbably high
- usual vulnerable
- high, jeweled
- brown high
- red, sequined
- excessively high or low
- weak, high
- blue high
- sturdy high
- absurd high
- speedy young
- stupid high
- high spiked
- stray high
- infernal high
- possible fat
- totteringly high
- hind white
- high useless
- fancy orange
- pearl-gray high
- sole, low
- green three-inch
- flat, sensible
- four-inch french
- cruel and delicate
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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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