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 list
Below is a list of describing words for list. 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 list:
- complete free
- biggest sick
- single nationwide
- suitably awful
- extensive and honorable
- royal civil
- penurious civil
- depressingly long
- loud and most enthusiastic
- speclal
- slow and seemingly endless
- babylonian geographical
- foremost theological
- limited traditional
- well-known trilingual
- most unwanted
- endless and ever-growing
- ridiculous official
- boastfully long
- short and random
- absolute contraband
- german contraband
- immense civil
- perfectly inaccurate
- tuff--alphabetical
- limestone--alphabetical
- similar and still larger
- pitifully poor
- long and miscellaneous
- long computer-generated
- steadily shorter
- private inquisitional
- ever-present corporal
- annual civil
- presidential civil
- afairly accurate
- possibly cryptic
- locking, general
- long hateful
- long but superfluous
- fairly long and comprehensive
- astonishing and correct
- gigantic free
- large but undigested
- so-called chronological
- bilingual explanatory
- imperfect and rather haphazard
- long and seductive
- separate descriptive
- selected and descriptive
- little impartial
- complete chronological
- complete and up-to-date
- liquid, clear
- grimy, crumpled
- phabetical
- original top-priority
- seemingly impressive
- exhaustive computerized
- respective civil
- uninhabited, uninhabitable
- regrettably incomplete
- partial and regrettably incomplete
- long and boastful
- long and infamous
- impromptu mental
- inexorable, ever-growing
- pathetically meager
- multitudinous and interesting
- frank fair
- equally long and repulsive
- permanent and handy
- permanent civil
- always august and inspiring
- singular civil
- national, full
- insatiable civil
- complete, alphabetical
- ancient, delicious
- heavy recital
- unbroken and historic
- astonishing and illuminating
- boundless civil
- long and unfamiliar
- outer or false
- biographical and chronological
- impatient sick
- pleasing preliminary
- pompous and voluminous
- complete periodical
- heavier sick
- professedly imperfect
- small provisional
- trilingual parallel
- quick but rather sketchy
- fair but not complete
- amusing and full
- long nor complex
- complete and standard
- brief and therefore imperfect
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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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