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 horses
Below is a list of describing words for horses. 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 horses:
- curtal, small
- stiff blind
- big, light-colored
- fiery striped
- traditional skeletal
- untrained, skittish
- frisky, hormonal
- own, grown-up
- tame mundane
- tasty dead
- fierce stygian
- gallant pale
- real, spirited
- small sorrel
- quiet and well-trained
- dark and broody
- well-trained, placid
- wonderfully lean
- hundred-odd gaunt
- untamed wooden
- fear-maddened
- sorry sway-backed
- sedate and predictable
- strange, blue-eyed
- odd shaggy
- lively five-year-old
- ostensibly seven-year-old
- shiny and spirited
- magnificent telepathic
- panic-stricken black
- unusual but familiar
- vicious, beautiful
- colossal unknown
- fatal wooden
- white barbary
- excellent, high-spirited
- formidable, dark
- real, free
- aristocratic high
- long-necked, tall
- intermittently lame
- well-bred lean
- partly laden
- gray or sorrel
- quiet, sleek
- strangely laden
- gawky, oversized
- spavined white
- quiet serviceable
- vicious, diseased and furious
- diseased and furious
- ugly rawboned
- old unkempt
- plumb gentle
- blue-eyed white
- unfriendly telepathic
- stout sorrel
- well-bred active
- black and beauteous
- stout well-bred
- legendary mystic
- worn-out and miserable
- tireless, implacable
- always expensive and rare
- gaunt, terrible
- fiery syrian
- fastest, grandest
- suddenly cooperative
- jacketed vaulting
- crazed, high-strung
- absolute and excellent
- lean, dark-gray
- thin thoroughbred
- old, whitish
- unbridled and unbroken
- thy left-hand
- runaway federal
- active and well-managed
- chunky gray
- worn-out sleepy
- gallant black
- lame and useless
- surly mortal
- few full-size
- morose, old
- swift and hardy
- rawboned black
- quick, well-trained
- right-wing high
- shaggy small
- obviously docile
- swift, wiry
- bald-faced red
- stout plump
- dark dappled
- sleek, nervous
- worse one-man
- worn-out, staggering
- tall dappled
- --lively high-spirited
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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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