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 lineaments
Below is a list of describing words for lineaments. 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 lineaments:
- bare and natural
- coarse herculean
- grave and symmetrical
- still beautiful and sparkling
- rigid and rugged
- simple but very natural
- peculiar and strongly distinctive
- indelible and universal
- delicate and exquisitely symmetrical
- unmistakable but grotesque
- populous ingenious
- classical and intellectual
- regular and delicate
- hard but true
- massive, frightful
- thy exterior
- weak, narrow
- fine and placid
- swarthy angular
- naturally stern
- cheerful and sympathetic
- foul familiar
- full calm
- rough but unmistakable
- harsh bony
- large and unbroken
- straight delicate
- such unyielding
- austere and vigorous
- dark but brilliant
- strongly distinctive
- straight, pure
- haughty patrician
- sweet and classic
- less meditative
- such unchanged
- beautiful and sparkling
- noble, fine
- smooth and gracious
- fair dutch
- clear, strange
- exquisitely symmetrical
- huge rude
- harsh and repulsive
- primary and principal
- unknown and unimaginable
- barristerial
- attractive and artistic
- grotesque and hideous
- hard and inflexible
- soft, uncertain
- finer and softer
- bold and masculine
- thin, sunken
- necessary religious
- human and moral
- hard stiff
- pure, pale
- hard and strenuous
- perfectly recognizable
- pure, delicate
- strong dutch
- harsh and severe
- sharp, stern
- few mortal
- clear and well-defined
- more sorry
- same unmistakable
- such horrific
- altogether human
- scarcely distinguishable
- hard, stiff
- few doubtful
- high sharp
- delicate, subtle
- divinely beautiful
- somewhat harsh
- more mournful
- such characteristic
- rude and uncouth
- beautiful and striking
- stronger and better
- same characteristic
- more repulsive
- once familiar
- more distinctive
- thy mortal
- still beautiful
- thy eternal
- elegant black
- net-like
- own immortal
- more pathetic
- death-like
- more majestic
- few faint
- swarthy
- same divine
- many fair
- expressive
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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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