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 indians
Below is a list of describing words for indians. 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 indians:
- younger english-speaking
- _several strange
- warlike and troublesome
- lithe and naked
- heathen, barbarous
- happily dead or drunk
- japanese, seventeenth-century
- well-known extant
- extinct and extant
- canadian or french
- hostile, untrustworthy
- wild and enraged
- ignorant and unarmed
- equally prudent and humane
- faithful and well-armed
- silent, stolid-looking
- coal & several
- few fractious
- swart andean
- comparatively scanty and prosaic
- british and wild
- wild or heathen
- rebellious or fugitive
- rapacious and hungry
- peaceful and hostile
- gloomy, stony
- sullen, ferocious
- whole, canadian
- naturally filthy and careless
- naturally filthy
- chief and wealthy
- tame or peaceable
- predatory or unsettled
- canadian and therefore hostile
- hostile and very valiant
- industrious and sedentary
- defenseless and unprotected
- south mexican
- hostile and covetous
- straight, black-haired
- fierce, grave
- brown, smoky
- bestial northern
- principal and most intelligent
- extremely cool and circumspect
- savage alaskan
- portuguese and hostile
- miserable, second-rate
- warlike and well-armed
- careless and greedy
- truly filial and sincere
- sleepless, noiseless
- usually small and insignificant
- silent but ever watchful
- hostile and merciless
- gun-carrying peruvian
- silent stoical
- dark-haired tawny
- happily dead
- numerous infidel
- few non-tribal
- french or hostile
- brave and dreadful
- often scanty and uncertain
- naked unencumbered
- unusually simple and undeveloped
- old, few
- rude simple-minded
- chinese, savage
- unusually hungry and troublesome
- hungry and irresponsible
- sturdy and obedient
- prosperous civilised
- dull and stoical
- sturdy bolivian
- haughty and intractable
- insignificant southern
- unnumbered benighted
- few but illiterate
- ignorant, gentle
- young and well proportioned
- few anti-french
- also thoughtful and sad
- prehistoric or even modern
- japanese and even red
- influential, younger
- modern nomadic
- old bilious
- brave, wretched
- poor languid
- fair, several
- hostile and predatory
- happy and pious
- northern wild
- poor over-populated
- clean, peaceful
- energetic peruvian
- savage andean
- grizzled patriarchal
- clear dangerous
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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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