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 maturities
Below is a list of describing words for maturities. 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 maturities:
- certain world-weary
- late and perfect
- signal reproductive
- sluggish and commonplace
- buoyant and fruitful
- surprising and relentless
- perilous and unwholesome
- late and sober
- relative sexual
- sensitive and mischievous
- ravenous, final
- moral or cultural
- weary, sophisticated
- sudden remarkable
- sudden precocious
- inevitably gloomy
- abnormal and instantaneous
- mature or past
- perfectly mature or past
- obscene and bizarre
- fresh, alluring
- commonly attractive
- sexual, virile
- astonishing, swift
- mere stout
- calm and precocious
- stronger and nearer
- full-blown paternal
- sedate and benignant
- average, sexual
- premature and unwholesome
- physical and reproductive
- premature and degenerate
- energetic and fruitful
- geopolitical and economic
- nearby, past
- normal, well-balanced
- suitably powerful
- faster sexual
- grim and stony
- wise, dangerous
- obvious relative
- technological and ethical
- sophisticated emotional
- aggressive and beautiful
- awesome full
- consciously cynical
- joyless, useless
- immense and joyful
- capable and worthy
- own autumnal
- fresh calm
- vigorous and supple
- fascinating masculine
- late but splendid
- past sexual
- full and abiding
- technical and ethical
- adequate emotional
- perfectly mature
- melancholy autumnal
- singular and perfect
- apparent superior
- noble, self-reliant
- best marketable
- handsome, white
- racial and social
- strong and broad
- present adequate
- full, adequate
- calm and mellow
- whole handsome
- early sexual
- new and masterful
- calm new
- sweet and ripe
- earlier female
- splendid symmetrical
- mental and financial
- ignorant and stubborn
- social or mental
- infinitely nearer
- precocious intellectual
- obvious sexual
- new, incredible
- odd solemn
- somewhat precocious
- full sexual
- rather indolent
- greater galactic
- pure, lofty
- golden blonde
- such devious
- considerable mental
- dull and torpid
- late physical
- vigorous and useful
- national and spiritual
- earlier sexual
- alert and vigorous
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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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