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 knight
Below is a list of describing words for knight. 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 knight:
- powerful and very honorable
- gentle perfect
- splendid bloodless
- perfect gentle
- elegant, rich
- newest theatrical
- accidental deceased
- brave, competent
- grim, careworn
- angry elfin
- true and courteous
- perfect, gentle
- stout teutonic
- perfect, gallant
- handsome, submissive
- young medieval
- last dissatisfied
- young and foppish
- stout black-bearded
- irresistible and magnanimous
- next discourteous
- fresh unproved
- noble and truest
- fearless and faultless
- dead seeming
- stout and famous
- amorous, venerable
- chaste mediaeval
- brave and doughty
- last chivalrous
- puissant and peaceable
- richly armored
- mysterious turkish
- obviously loyal
- brash and arrogant
- kindest valiant
- good errant
- thine, dark
- vulgar brand-new
- gallant khaki
- true stalwart
- worthy and capacious
- gentle, perfect
- gallant and bravest
- truly puissant
- fiery and daring
- fantastic, chivalrous
- polemical and fanatical
- surpassingly beautiful and brave
- true and doughty
- stern burgundian
- valiant hardy
- fearless danish
- better, high and noble
- noble, childless
- leal true
- courteous and good
- thin, tired
- perfect gracious
- young and courteous
- grave, devout
- noblest and most valiant
- stout hungarian
- renowned and invincible
- full noble
- tottering italian
- vexatious dark
- poor and most unworthy
- gentle and worthy
- next needy
- pugnacious imperial
- eighth, black
- noble cajun
- misbegotten bloody
- young and abundantly healthy
- nobler young
- spare, expendable
- younger but penniless
- gallant moorish
- hardy and famous
- marvellously hardy
- strong and perilous
- impossible, chivalrous
- attractive and youthful
- chivalrous modern
- good and doughty
- full brave
- full dapper
- valiant and most generous
- joyous, triumphant and glorious
- sweet and incomparable
- never errant
- noble primitive
- cold-blooded and suspicious
- false and slothful
- noblest and most courteous
- cadal thy
- liberal and bold
- truly affectionate and faithful
- enraged and discomfited
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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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