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 leaf
Below is a list of describing words for leaf. 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 leaf:
- greatest holy
- cumulative loose
- broad succulent
- green, rolled-up
- involucral
- withered but familiar
- single fragrant
- brilliant quaint
- veined, metal
- slightly withered but familiar
- resilient and fragrant
- white initial
- palest dead
- transverse terminal
- narrow, ribbed
- antheral
- seductive narcotic
- broad, succulent
- dead, brilliant
- dead withered
- fair, imperial
- final blank
- ugly crumpled
- usually smooth and undivided
- less jagged
- jagged and smaller
- scabrous harsh
- entire unopened
- broad dark-green
- autumnal colored
- unpublished double
- long radical
- _--radical
- short involucral
- longer involucral
- bracteal
- preliminary and last
- wearisome or pitiful
- brown, belated
- hard swollen
- furry silvery
- dark waxen
- large heavy-duty
- bland, yellow
- jagged enormous
- golden and fragile
- harder, thinner
- stubborn brown
- undulating, rubbery
- transparent ruddy
- official printed
- beautiful thorny
- standardized high-grade
- green and pliant
- sufficiently decomposed
- curved olive
- petal and veined
- white and dazzlingly green
- probably introductory
- broad pipal
- green pipal
- solitary rudimentary
- vivid autobiographic
- green, robust
- fifth sweet
- senior lowest
- also purple
- dead or diseased
- ordinarily entire
- perianthial
- simple entire
- precious narcotic
- light-colored, thin
- yon dry
- smoky flavored
- southern long
- comparatively broad and thick
- last and bloody
- blank unnumbered
- incipient loose
- single bronzed
- young, unopened
- veined autumnal
- yellowish new
- flexible loose
- comparatively large and rigid
- dense and almost continuous
- intricately veined
- preliminary blank
- quite green and larger
- second extra
- unnatural and misshapen
- strange imperishable
- narrow, needle-like
- bright-green tiny
- generally repetitive
- properly withered
- row--mostly assorted
- grey pubescent
- intoxicating green
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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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