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 i
Below is a list of describing words for i. 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 i:
- cheerful exterior
- somewhere small and quiet
- somewhere small
- trivial and valueless
- wider awake
- dreadful glad
- kinder sorry
- consummate idiot
- public avowal
- agreeable lunatic
- free disposal
- younger and very strong
- larger sunday-school
- heartless exterior
- however active and sober
- however active
- stupid and weak
- swiftest current
- alive, last
- damn devastating
- slightly saddened and sorry
- rutted and narrow
- modest, fresh and innocent
- nobler token
- sane interval
- stone-blind idiot
- sincerely proud and grateful
- black and swift
- intellectual more
- devilish glad
- precious glad
- sore afraid
- uncommonly helpful and sweet
- uncommonly helpful
- out-and-out sorry
- weak and resentful
- other afraid
- glorious tarnal
- sure sorry
- opal or amber
- successful ritual
- generous and kindly welcome
- long or brief
- stupendous dial
- operatic favorite
- finer good
- wretched meal
- merely anxious and curious
- biggest deal
- darkest dark
- ogrishly stupid
- ogrishly stupid and aggressive
- sour individual
- weird hind
- beautiful but so sharp
- reasonably hungry and thirsty
- reasonably hungry
- useful present
- depressing meal
- clever and fiendish
- nearest, sure
- more, least
- thy uttermost
- silliest idiot
- dreadful faint
- real sorry
- dead and dead
- sophisticated and jaded
- uncommon glad
- funniest individual
- open and vulnerable
- guilty and grateful
- unnatural calm
- endearing yearling
- bloody sorry
- naughty cruel
- nice and watery
- shocking ritual
- proud mock
- good and dark
- sorry and ashamed
- big and sleek
- luminous interior
- lightest ill
- somewhat timid and shy
- deceitful and suspicious
- amorous and sorry
- miserably pale and thin
- miserably pale
- reluctant approval
- alternately exalted
- alternately exalted and depressed
- quickest roll-call
- least sure
- purtiest gal
- same deal
- ill and worse
- vulgar, grateful
- sincere conservative
- female canine
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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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