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 jane
Below is a list of describing words for jane. 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 jane:
- enthusiastic, romantic
- compliant and altogether enigmatic
- boring poor
- still proud and jealous
- always careful and respectful
- horrid clever
- merry teasing
- coy, modest
- naughty, turbulent
- truer, fairer
- talkative but faithful
- tall and tragical
- restless and faithful
- brunette relative
- amiable, pink-cheeked
- faraway and hateful
- fanciful and delicate
- invisible and elusive
- overhead, startling
- immovable, unobtainable
- truly steadfast and business-like
- tall plain
- fragile, silver-haired
- yellow net
- white, preferred
- total plain
- practical, put-upon
- always cruel and treacherous
- less prehistoric
- bloodless and wan
- still bright-eyed and fresh
- faithful, ignorant
- horrible, dear
- however sweet and self-sacrificing
- next engrossed
- alert and wide-eyed
- specially grim and sharp
- specially grim
- gentle, immaculate
- speechless and motionless
- key, dear
- pious and ingenious
- curious and indefatigable
- proud, high-minded
- sweet, amiable
- truly steadfast
- wonderful and obliging
- mad and naked
- amiable younger
- still bright-eyed
- sweet and self-sacrificing
- particular, little
- beauteous and unfortunate
- ungrateful and capricious
- better and freer
- fiery, impulsive
- more buxom
- now plain
- thoughtful, unselfish
- old, little
- quiet monotone
- fair and witty
- beautiful, majestic
- soft, lovable
- decent interval
- thoughtful, considerate
- handsome and amiable
- however sweet
- horrid, stupid
- good and polite
- real and original
- steady, sensible
- still proud
- always cruel
- simple, good
- young orphan
- always careful
- blinding, dazzling
- quiet, demure
- narrow plain
- mighty sure
- pious and amiable
- old little
- little, blue-eyed
- little crazy
- last, dear
- rosy little
- devout little
- beautiful and clever
- silent, mysterious
- little tiny
- other, poor
- old, wise
- beautiful but unfortunate
- calm, practical
- poor crazy
- wild, wet
- brave, clever
- loving, gentle
- good-natured little
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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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