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 latin
Below is a list of describing words for latin. 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 latin:
- cultured and perfect
- exceedingly brief and simple
- vulgar and formal
- bad, illiberal
- strange and somehow frightening
- fluent bad
- clean-cut, classic
- terse and very elegant
- purest ciceronian
- quaint curt
- prim, meager
- resonant monkish
- fair classical
- characteristic and ingenious
- german and corrupt
- formal and colloquial
- literary and colloquial
- ideal, literary
- ambitious rhetorical
- own and only sufficient
- rude and inflexible
- sonorous but unwieldy
- exquisite and fine
- obscure forensic
- grandiloquent low
- popular mediaveal
- hot, logical
- certain colorful
- foolish, irresistible
- classic and antiquarian
- expressive energetic
- flawless medieval
- barbarous decadent
- mostly european or top-of-the-line
- vulgar or popular
- unalloyed every-day
- rough mediocre
- good ciceronian
- glorious large
- corresponding ancient
- abbreviated proverbial
- blind practical
- incomprehensible judicial
- proper and pure
- harsh original
- ecclesiastical and medieval
- colloquial, every-day
- long and very abject
- good monkish
- crabbed monkish
- terse rhythmical
- full-length plain
- variously gifted and interesting
- rural monumental
- pedantic semi-biblical
- african vulgar
- barbarous literal
- strong and ornate
- barbarous but not unattractive
- bad monkish
- bad incorrect
- jocular popular
- literary and vulgar
- vulgar or rustic
- antique vulgar
- vulgar or corrupt
- purest and most charming
- military vulgar
- choicest ciceronian
- versatile second
- impulsive, hot-blooded
- barbarous or bad
- decomposed and reconstructed
- dutch german
- teutonic, classical
- medieval or scholastic
- long, artificial
- copious and facile
- long oft-repeated
- little inapplicable
- quick unintelligible
- precious and eternal
- awkward classical
- fluent and studiously simple
- slipshod but energetic
- curiously slipshod but energetic
- curiously slipshod
- fluent and ornate
- german and sometimes old
- best plebeian
- popular or plebeian
- splendid, sonorous
- barbarous monkish
- comic and burlesque
- fluent and elegant
- merry, wicked
- german or classical
- basically fluent
- fluent and intelligible
- basically fluent and intelligible
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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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