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 line
Below is a list of describing words for line. 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 line:
- glabello-occipital
- exterior colored
- second collateral
- imaginary straight
- tangent straight
- full resounding
- alliterative long
- curved oblique
- finite straight
- grim, straight
- tame, boring
- long lax
- same straight
- apparent straight
- well-defined royal
- blinding thin
- whitish submarginal
- infinite straight
- inner oval
- direct male
- long and foggy
- wavy purple
- leaky hydraulic
- tight, grim
- sardonic orange
- damned abstract
- discordant and brutal
- central joint
- colorless and colored
- outer oval
- squiggly spiral
- halfway solid
- tight bloodless
- grim horizontal
- clear-cut horizontal
- exact straight
- crooked and eccentric
- straight and very serious
- marginally straight
- straight and obstinate
- invisible metabolic
- same isothermal
- horizontal straight
- rigid scarlet
- far straighter
- equally thick and resolute
- correct evolutionary
- obscenely straight
- bold, monotonous
- spyral
- wavy submarginal
- lofty british
- own goal
- totally intransigent
- thin angry
- single, predictable
- neat, unbroken
- long and enormously high
- sinuous double
- kinda flexible
- solid, defensive
- broad, depressed
- thin bloodied
- particularly large and suspicious
- hexapedal evolutionary
- restrictive geographical
- uppermost horizontal
- unceasing and dazzling
- flat, boundless
- extra vertical
- shifty and unstable
- continuous straight
- solid offensive
- heroic and hackneyed
- ancient pre-existing
- tense, straight
- flawless double
- maddeningly recalcitrant
- thoughtful grim
- inexorable straight
- flat grim
- gallant triple
- right-angled white
- centrifugal and unbalanced
- steep, diagonal
- deadly diagonal
- dark mesial
- inflexible straight
- movable straight
- absolute structural
- upper semicircular
- white dorsolateral
- outer colored
- colored exterior
- broad colorless
- dauntless voluntary
- weekly straight
- white submarginal
- dim and dense
- central and sensible
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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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