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 little girl
Below is a list of describing words for little girl. 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 little girl:
- fairly self-assured
- shy and pale
- unresponsive and sullen
- first-section
- sometimes hoydenish
- vulgarly pert
- forlorn and bedraggled
- shy but pleasant
- remarkably silent
- wonderfully believable
- beautiful and naive
- bold and insensitive
- unwilling and ashamed
- preternaturally thoughtful
- determinately self-willed
- prematurely sophisticated
- conscientious and sympathetic
- untidy and childish
- equally naughty
- decorous and obedient
- somewhat deceitful
- exceedingly mendacious
- rather stolid-looking
- tiresome and ignorant
- particularly roly-poly
- honest but polite
- dolefully mute
- motherly capable
- lovingly obstinate
- lachrymosal
- brighter or prettier
- delightful and natural
- eager and innocent
- normal and delightful
- tidy and thoughtful
- silly naughty
- normally reasonable
- slightly mixed-up
- scarifyingly well-behaved
- heartrendingly vulnerable
- skinny and eager
- winsomely mischievous
- intelligent and prettier
- helpless and sorrowful
- ever bright-eyed
- smudged and dusty
- somewhat dizzy
- healthy and joyous
- singularly thoughtless
- absent-minded and sympathetic
- nice or polite
- thoughtless and merry
- tidy and industrious
- bright or amusing
- nice and polite
- ruddy and robust
- comfortable and fortunate
- poor but good
- insolent and undeveloped
- charming and boyish-looking
- beautiful and promising
- thoroughly wonderful
- gentle and cheerful
- good and studious
- dreadfully naughty
- extremely naughty
- exceptionally timid
- precociously intelligent
- timid and mild
- bedraggled and dirty
- shy and wild
- intelligent and obedient
- sweet and true
- poor and plain
- bold and sturdy
- absolutely naked
- unnaturally solemn
- gorgeous and radiant
- sweetly grave
- extremely sensual
- sharp and precocious
- good and understandable
- particularly slender
- therefore happy
- wise and clear-headed
- brisk and strong
- polite and well-mannered
- pouty-looking
- good and obedient
- unusually reflective
- particularly helpful
- prettiest and smartest
- good and ordinary
- capricious and unreasonable
- exceedingly vain
- splendidly healthy
- wonderfully fortunate
- quite horrid
- perfectly fiendish
- silly ignorant
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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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