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 husband
Below is a list of describing words for husband. 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 husband:
- serene and trusting
- still skeptical
- terribly correct
- noble but most unfortunate
- despicably cruel
- expatriate and blond
- obedient henpecked
- ordinary possible
- fond and youthful
- grim, dear
- _sceptical
- meek and older
- overdressed and supercilious
- somewhat overdressed and supercilious
- lovable but sneaky
- good-looking and talented
- everyday german
- unbearably henpecked
- steady affectionate
- exemplary and successful
- strait-laced and proper
- obscure and nominal
- perfect heavy
- increasingly sedate
- rather blind and absurd
- young, sentimental
- nice stolid
- faithful prudent
- delightful and submissive
- impassioned and weak
- foolish wretched
- thy honorable
- alcoholic and abusive
- admirable and methodical
- complaisant and wealthy
- feckless late
- untested young
- stupid, doddering
- attentive and loving
- least domestic
- now-royal
- dear, frugal
- brand-new husky
- faithful and indulgent
- princely youthful
- own soft-headed
- drunken and lazy
- fussy, plebeian
- crabbed, rheumatic
- presumably jealous
- thoughtful and handy
- truant and unfaithful
- thoughtful and absent-minded
- common-sense middle-aged
- drunken and violent
- perhaps tipsy
- angry and perhaps tipsy
- persistently drunken
- thoughtful or considerate
- obliging and indulgent
- notable and wealthy
- noble wonderful
- calm, vulgar
- absent-minded, studious
- happy unsuspecting
- wealthy and patrician
- acceptable surrogate
- jealous, invisible
- henpecked
- classic unthinking
- skinny shiftless
- annoyingly mundane
- attentive and protective
- pleasant, wishy-washy
- uneducated, easygoing
- tolerable, average
- macho protective
- stupid unfaithful
- long-suffering henpecked
- hypocritical, hypothetical
- coarse and red-faced
- irate and dyspeptic
- open-handed stout
- notoriously faithful
- nominal or legal
- young sensual
- incorrigibly unfaithful
- imperturbable, watchful
- thy estimable
- rich good-looking
- industrious, prudent
- everlastingly miserable
- altogether convenient
- jealous and all-powerful
- blind and senile
- deaf, blind and senile
- *ideal
- weak and whimsical
- fortunate or too unfortunate
- affectionate, obsequious
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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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