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 marble
Below is a list of describing words for marble. 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 marble:
- smooth and variegated
- cool and flawless
- austere, gray
- variegated white
- familiar, snow-white
- smoothest white
- white and variegated
- blue-black veined
- dark multicolored
- serene and victorious
- sometimes rough-hewn
- exquisitely veined
- black, dazzling
- cool artificial
- rose-pink and snow-white
- gilded gray
- unpolished white
- reddish variegated
- serpentine and black
- dark and beautifully variegated
- ordinary pink
- suddenly smooth
- flawless red
- tan, variegated
- glassily smooth
- fleshily pink
- small, black-metal
- browny, seamy
- antique and white
- precious and lustrous
- unpolished grey
- egyptian or ethiopian
- veined white
- veined black
- rare and nameless
- rare, translucent
- hideously clever
- clenched and agonizing
- veined oriental
- elegant variegated
- pure and uncolored
- instantly disappears--several
- unapproachably beautiful
- priceless coloured
- white, pink and green
- antique, white
- smooth grecian
- green swedish
- wide three-story
- bulky colored
- darker italian
- ceremonial pink
- cool perfect
- lower but still grand
- small colonnaded
- splendid unfinished
- similarly dark and desolate
- baroque, black and gilt
- slick fake
- veined, gray
- scorched and sooty
- same, warm
- pink grained
- eggshell or soft
- cold and pallid
- momumental
- pink grey
- finest sienna
- exceptionally well-endowed
- august cold
- red, veined
- coloured or plain
- crystalline variegated
- green and beautifully veined
- granular or saccharoidal
- yellow and striped
- dazzlingly white and fine-grained
- white saccharoidal
- green, white and mauve
- white veined
- veined and black
- precious and variegated
- best sienna
- crystal or translucent
- rare and richly colored
- last bloodless
- variegated, translucent
- yellow sienna
- pure, gray
- veined and coloured
- coarse sugary
- veined or variously colored
- red, black or white
- brilliant sienna
- huge but beautifully proportioned
- highly veined
- black, white and coloured
- variegated unformed
- crystal and rarest
- solid creamy
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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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