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 inhabitants
Below is a list of describing words for inhabitants. 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 inhabitants:
- delightful, intelligent
- terrible, weird and grotesque
- full-grown ancient
- intelligent and potentially hostile
- european and wealthier
- present circumpolar
- eager, grateful
- oldest white-haired
- clear-eyed and purposeful
- substantial and rational
- more stiff-backed
- smallest intelligent
- nevertheless magical
- lofty and rare
- ethically elastic
- noble and proper
- timid and luxurious
- solemn, listless
- gentle local
- courageous and industrious
- sole stationary
- pre-creational
- former thrifty
- mythical, primal
- last oldest
- grim but superstitious
- amiable oldest
- much-smaller feathered
- perfectly innocent and loyal
- free and perfectly independent
- free taxable
- black, barbarous
- peace-loving and respectable
- principal and influential
- philosophical and musical
- peaceful and liberal
- extremely fierce and warlike
- enlightened and industrious
- free male
- _aboriginal
- human or exotic
- instead barren and cold
- feeble but diligent
- instead barren
- unknown but voracious
- unpredictably eccentric
- distant and very gigantic
- dispiritingly glorious
- general, ancient
- oldest and most infirm
- diseased and destitute
- slow-moving, nebulous
- pastoral and contemplative
- uninitiated or profane
- succulent and vital
- angelic or diabolical
- peaceable and submissive
- innocent and peaceable
- ancient or aboriginal
- corrupt and self-righteous
- already unseen
- harmless or respectable
- valiant and sturdy
- peaceful moorish
- once contemporaneous
- generally aboriginal
- native and continental
- regular feathered
- servile and crafty
- mostly peaceable
- certainly ancient
- individual spanish
- feathered and furry
- drunken and sadistic
- obstinate, arrogant
- well-known and singular
- amiable and highly gifted
- mighty and docile
- singular and formidable
- independent and irrevocable
- brilliant but juvenile
- principal, independent and irrevocable
- last indigenous
- superlative dandy
- poorest and silliest
- immortal, pre-existent
- inconvenient original
- pious and politically free
- prosperous and reasonable
- perpetual sole
- bright-eyed, shy
- least movable
- pardonably suspicious
- worst and most drunken
- native and colored
- respectable, well-informed
- helpless and unhappy
- oldest strongest
- swift-footed, happy
- intelligent non-local
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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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