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 interesting
Below is a list of describing words for interesting. 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 interesting:
- quite general and strong
- contrary public
- eager and unflagging
- indefatigable and feverish
- calm morbid
- big pecuniary
- unhealthily keen
- keen but wary
- profound and breathless
- alone keen
- mutual scientific
- initial fierce
- effusive personal
- minor and purely speculative
- normal humane
- selfish or local
- deepest historical
- extraterrological
- proprietary and active
- historical and civic
- intense and public
- watchful personal
- tense and funereal
- alarmingly keen
- urgent mutual
- less-than-minimal
- high antiquarian
- merely political and temporary
- wild, solemn
- private and regal
- particular prurient
- historic and antiquarian
- intense and unflagging
- incalculable material
- vague, hard
- faintly inquisitive
- domestic personal
- deep and active
- commercial or experimental
- merely artistic or historical
- rational best
- instantaneous and unflagging
- wistful and pathetic
- deep and direct
- foreign moneyed
- scientific and nonpartisan
- keen and continuous
- broadest public
- undisguised and open-mouthed
- paramount or exclusive
- indirect common
- weary, half-reluctant
- slighter public
- exciting unusual
- new but somewhat languid
- intense imperial
- disturbingly high
- strong vicarious
- excessive and unhealthy
- new and curiously speculative
- sporadic and playful
- impersonal, spectacular
- graver and universal
- purely theosophical
- hourly practical
- sympathetic, solicitous
- prodigious and even superstitious
- literary, psychological and dramatic
- inquisitive affectionate
- womanly personal
- comparatively languid
- present and separate
- liveliest and most sorrowful
- exciting and vivid
- curious and philosophic
- intense architectural
- imaginary common
- innocent, sympathetic
- paramount intellectual
- part-quizzical
- intense but somehow distant
- tremendous theoretical
- almost prurient
- bizarre prurient
- vertical visual
- normal morbid
- purely verbal or pictorial
- petulant, bureaucratic
- merely numismatical
- sudden and abiding
- suspiciously humanitarian
- keen and immediate
- dear and domestic
- particular anxious
- morbid, sickish
- obviously covert
- intense colonial
- strong monetary
- new and very odd
- deep and unhealthy
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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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