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 indian
Below is a list of describing words for indian. 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 indian:
- weird acoustic
- brasil british
- jagged geometric
- quaint and showy
- essentially religious and contemplative
- wild or independent
- vellum or wild
- inscrutable, impassive
- wise and bitter
- rich token
- portugal such
- destitute red
- idle or vagrant
- several plaintive
- slender, stolid
- pleasing and unrestrained
- pacific wooden
- beloved self-sacrificing
- straight, impassioned
- gentle alaskan
- cheap and relatively inefficient
- western more
- shrewd but somewhat out-of-date
- morose, bad
- several fabled
- deep-seated real
- largest and only french
- singular but very beautiful
- strapping, six-foot
- many amazonian
- sacred, primitive
- cheap feathered
- hard, ingrained
- mexican, pure
- sticky, sultry
- fine-looking and energetic
- huge four-cylinder
- bloodthirsty and evil-minded
- euphonical old
- bright-eyed, good-natured
- ingenious but wholly illiterate
- exquisite fanciful
- enlightened or respectable
- alive huge
- chief or native
- long and marvelously lean
- beautiful and unusually intelligent
- gigantic and very swarthy
- numerous cultured
- striped gay
- common well-known
- full swampy
- extremely clean and neat
- brave and really noble
- middle-aged witty
- usual upcountry
- silent, apathetic
- indonesian and even aboriginal
- brilliant and somewhat opaque
- brand-new native
- merciful but avaricious
- unsuspecting and docile
- headstrong, intolerant
- less extremist
- rude but magnanimous
- well-known drunken
- gentle, heathen
- mexican and stalwart
- mythical destitute
- old, well-traveled
- brawny, full-grown
- sulky alaskan
- interesting certain
- stoical, indifferent
- half-starved idiotic
- stout and very long
- immense and almost unexplored
- silent, smoky
- equally gaunt and haggard
- ordinary luxurious
- loud and garrulous
- old unprotected
- thin moody
- strikingly handsome and gallant
- purely local and suicidal
- tall but very powerful
- loyal, chivalrous
- dangerous and very clever
- huge and fearless
- common migratory
- good-humored and pretty little
- dark and really handsome
- tall sick
- inevitable legendary
- dyspeptic wooden
- tall fake
- smart, witty and talkative
- weary fat
- truthful, skillful and reliable
- figurative, less
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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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