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 hymns
Below is a list of describing words for hymns. 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 hymns:
- discordant but deeply reverent
- sometimes devout
- solemn, militant
- symmetric little
- sweetest loudest
- imperial non-denominational
- soon fervent
- ancient, funeral
- beautiful missionary
- immortal missionary
- triumphant missionary
- exquisite baptismal
- magnificent modernist
- discordant and amazing
- glorious and lofty
- precious loud
- carnival, religious
- pathetically optimistic
- pastoral nuptial
- loud celestial
- earlier orphic
- bengali burial
- unaltered congregational
- sweet and far-off
- beautiful revival
- glad, victorious
- glorious, melodious
- mythological and didactic
- funeral, several
- soft, pious
- simple--choral
- dumb and sensuous
- usual indelicate
- doric choral
- mighty, resonant
- exquisite three-part
- good, uplifting
- profound and spirited
- southern revival
- oft mangled
- forth solemn
- distant and solemn
- austrian national
- black demoniac
- devout, pious
- wistful happy
- ancient and terrifying
- last processional
- liturgical or magical
- homely festal
- glad revival
- pathetic penitential
- sacrificial and festal
- clearest, overwhelming
- sacred native
- remarkable and sublime
- savage sacred
- glorious life-long
- mechanical and poetic
- ancient parabolical
- irreverently modern
- old-fashioned, modest
- dark mystical
- magnificently solemn
- horrid, old-fashioned
- gloomy musical
- best and most-used
- solemn, harmonious
- spiritual and aspiring
- low, perpetual
- seventy-two original
- emotional and appealing
- thrilling evangelical
- humblest sympathetic
- time-honored german
- sublime centennial
- various loving
- favorite revival
- more, swedish
- sweet or plaintive
- sacred and most ancient
- powerful and broadly harmonious
- sombre liturgical
- broadly harmonious
- luscious modern
- appropriate, familiar
- astonishing metaphysical
- famous arval
- finest danish
- meaningless national
- grand devotional
- appealing german
- passionately significant
- finest baptismal
- beautiful theistic
- orthodox revival
- best orphic
- sixth native
- mystical medieval
- effective choral
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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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