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 latter
Below is a list of describing words for latter. 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 latter:
- approximate thy
- still gross and brutish
- cruelly polite and attentive
- cruelly polite
- blind, vulgar
- also lean and hungry
- due, vulgar
- generally smaller and lighter
- quite correct and faithful
- intensely strong and warlike
- clearly possible
- clearly possible and desirable
- still cheap and abundant
- entirely brown and dead
- rather larger and higher
- frightful and delightful
- always open and ribald
- often tenacious and persistent
- always quiet and peaceful
- usually larger and slenderer
- likewise predatory
- likewise predatory and numerous
- thoroughly corrupt and profligate
- now plump and full
- now plump
- worse thy
- quite bright and effective
- also clear and distinct
- directly affirmative and negative
- unusually slow and soft
- exceedingly quiet and well-behaved
- always honorable and pure
- considerably older and taller
- perfectly obedient and reverential
- disproportionately low and small
- often darker and more
- often darker
- exasperatingly slow and troublesome
- alternately sweet and harmonious
- alternately sweet
- often stiffer and more
- often stiffer
- always ill-timed and inappropriate
- always ill-timed
- later latest
- lawful and open
- plainly greater and more
- plainly greater
- generally treacherous and deceitful
- generally treacherous
- also lean
- often violent and rapid
- obviously subservient and anxious
- obviously subservient
- entirely brown
- also firmer
- also firmer and more
- often fair and frail
- still gross
- often tenacious
- rather quick and proud
- directly affirmative
- slightly smaller and less
- generally larger and less
- nevertheless powerful and original
- extremely pale and nervous
- rather thick and fleshy
- often fierce and virulent
- disproportionately low
- small and thy
- alternately long and short
- small thy
- still cheap
- weak apologetic
- exasperatingly slow
- alternately long
- always honorable
- always bright and cheerful
- nevertheless powerful
- latvian
- often fair
- generally smaller
- usually larger
- good, thy
- thoroughly corrupt
- unusually slow
- intensely strong
- perfectly obedient
- fat female
- always quiet
- exceedingly quiet
- often fierce
- quite correct
- generally larger
- quite bright
- also clear
- considerably older
- usually more
- usually more or less
- extremely pale
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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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