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 james
Below is a list of describing words for james. 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 james:
- much promise--general
- serious and somewhat pedantic
- powdered georgian
- handsome turn-out
- fearless and ill-fated
- conscientious zeal
- rollicking, headstrong
- belligerent and small
- eighteenth century--general
- frivolous and secular
- proud, miserable
- affirmative truthful
- grave and ubiquitous
- military officer--general
- increasingly jealous and exacting
- drunken, corrupt
- abject and heartless
- indignant general
- suspicious but curious
- weak, ungrateful
- little enchanting
- rickety, garrulous
- unfortunate and ill-advised
- thine, unhappy
- ill-advised and irresolute
- always calm and confident
- small-town car-crash
- counter-intelligence operative
- veritable laid-back
- debonair, sexy
- neal, general
- onerous and ornery
- more fraught
- handsome but rebellious
- timorous and feeble
- talented and genial
- nice, poor
- high-spirited and pugnacious
- always supercilious and overbearing
- always supercilious
- discerning and admirable
- engrossing good
- increasingly jealous
- majestic yellow
- excellent and obsequious
- bitter and bigoted
- many decadent
- unusually grave and silent
- massive and sonorous
- former governor-general
- alive general
- former admiral
- mighty and puissant
- foolish and feeble
- sweet and cunning
- royal captive
- gloomy and morose
- numerous youthful
- nice, helpful
- unfortunate and ambitious
- cold and sore
- savage and implacable
- quaint and witty
- noble generous
- -admiral
- good dutiful
- respectful, deferential
- superior, admiral
- gallant and handsome
- young and chivalrous
- young relative
- strong and brutal
- fearless and uncompromising
- methodical old
- noble and unfortunate
- talented and loyal
- late amiable
- annual international
- excellent meal
- youthful, innocent
- quiet, capable
- plain substantial
- noble and gifted
- old hospitable
- second general
- many witty
- mysterious and enigmatic
- noble and graceful
- unusually grave
- shy and awkward
- grim and dour
- brave major
- young old
- wise and righteous
- cruel and tyrannical
- beautiful, loving
- own affectionate
- always calm
- late cardinal
- gallant general
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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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