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 italians
Below is a list of describing words for italians. 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 italians:
- honest but undecided
- equally treacherous and cruel
- well-informed and intellectual
- civilized and artistic
- enlightened and philosophical
- middle-class, well-to-do
- apathetic and superstitious
- rich and polite
- blond and tall
- skilful and profuse
- brave, well-paid
- sundry rebellious
- courteous, refined
- handsome, supple
- dear predatory
- rival and selfish
- several well-informed
- false and beautiful
- courageous, honest
- dark-haired, earthy
- hot-blooded, impetuous
- lazy and dreamy
- hot-blooded patriotic
- patriotic and enthusiastic
- curious and enthusiastic
- small, itinerant
- frivolous and thoughtless
- refined and high-minded
- dark, ardent
- polite, stiff
- bald, fat
- industrious and scientific
- eminent and illustrious
- equally treacherous
- such out-and-out
- gaunt, haggard
- most northern
- devilish handsome
- many incompetent
- dirty, untidy
- stocky, swarthy
- wisest and most patriotic
- numerous and influential
- many democratic
- less susceptible
- airy, fairy
- many enlightened
- innumerable young
- many aristocratic
- certain amiable
- many virtuous
- young and gifted
- modern civilized
- many well-to-do
- poor destitute
- certain benevolent
- other sturdy
- al other
- intelligent and thoughtful
- brawny young
- young literary
- noble and brave
- deep old
- other competent
- short, sturdy
- thoughtless young
- more old-fashioned
- less civilised
- old medieval
- less energetic
- pure golden
- other eminent
- stuffy old
- many mysterious
- other illustrious
- last and best
- such famous
- few modern
- more enterprising
- more eminent
- few native
- precious few
- such young
- best and wisest
- pale little
- brave and noble
- other famous
- ragged little
- many eminent
- northern and southern
- more cautious
- many modern
- more thoughtful
- clever young
- other modern
- sturdy little
- several interesting
- more fortunate
- more particular
- many young
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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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