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 label
Below is a list of describing words for label. 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 label:
- bright commercial
- counterfeit approval
- york-based major
- shallow physiological
- ignominious and expressive
- good legible
- old adhesive
- false, emotional
- distinctively ornate
- agreeable, captivating
- snake-like spiral
- vague and undistinguished
- attractive but meaningless
- ally honest
- fancy, appetizing
- huge and unblushing
- colored mythological
- colorless, curved
- special and attractive
- wrong descriptive
- genuine funchal
- beguiling orthodox
- bright and multi-colored
- fanciful green
- innocuous dutch
- vague antisocial
- formal psychiatric
- bare unadorned
- instantly transparent
- obscurely dreadful
- topmost secret
- parental advisory
- fiendishly sticky
- occasional inaccurate
- red, yellow or green
- familiar and famous
- solid straight
- particular denominational
- additional plain
- false foreign
- solid colored
- curved solid
- well-known classic
- basic common
- small, homemade
- wildly ornate
- single generic
- new bright-green
- extremely appropriate
- solid arched
- ethnic or geographic
- proud blue
- socially correct
- same dynastic
- conventional verbal
- tiny handwritten
- solid curved
- black adhesive
- particular official
- familiar false
- handmade white
- quite readable
- slightly smudged
- neat gilt
- simple typographical
- cold historical
- own glaring
- cryptozoological
- own handwritten
- common deal
- magnificent coloured
- mauve and white
- simple musical
- small handwritten
- treacherous blue
- less scandalous
- narrow curved
- wide upper
- plain, unassuming
- magnificent political
- pejorative
- hand-written
- certain coarse
- brittle brown
- easy-to-read
- special red
- circular white
- seedy little
- ivory-tower
- narrow, straight
- yellow or green
- garish green
- pink or blue
- new temporary
- familiar yellow
- catch-all
- legible
- same verbal
- big broad
- funchal
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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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