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 multitude
Below is a list of describing words for multitude. 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 multitude:
- solid mighty
- vast, pathetic
- enraged and drunken
- common and unstable
- variegated and diversified
- wonderfully variegated and diversified
- actually infinite
- prolific and seemingly spontaneous
- innumerable and wonderfully diversified
- vast uneducated
- numerous undisciplined
- vile and promiscuous
- nameless and unaccounted
- brutal and ravenous
- dense, countless
- fearful, tumultuous
- barefooted and brown
- vast uncertain
- ever vulgar and abnormal
- ever vulgar
- transitory diurnal
- proud, majestical
- wonderfully variegated
- fanatical and exasperated
- enthusiastic and vast
- entirely peaceable
- now watchful and silent
- once unsuspected
- wild, misguided
- fierce and contentious
- frantic, drunken
- indigent and lazy
- eager but deluded
- hungry and seditious
- impatient and volatile
- rebellious and arrogant
- philosophical, scientific and literary
- brutal and barbaric
- uneducated and fickle
- drunken and frantic
- reverent attentive
- grateful and thirsty
- ungrateful and unbelieving
- green and soggy
- sympathetic and utterly perplexed
- ther gret
- misty and remote
- largely deaf
- colossal and apparently unnecessary
- silent, active
- lukewarm and venal
- indignant hungry
- busy and enormous
- infinite and fleeting
- powerless, irresponsible
- unorganized and unarmed
- irregular and unarmed
- largest and most covetous
- rich, civilized
- nameless innumerable
- voiceless, noiseless
- skeptical or ignorant
- noisy and ravenous
- frantic and intoxicated
- feathered and silken
- somewhat stern and disdainful
- restless and unthinking
- eager, barbaric
- otherwise sluggish
- ignorant and distressed
- bright and appreciative
- wonderfully bright and appreciative
- accidentally infinite
- crudely democratic
- disarmed and disorganized
- unthinking, vulgar
- raw and unarmed
- ignorant and giddy
- leaderless, aimless
- ignorant and frantic
- disordered and depraved
- anxious and demented
- numerous and obstinate
- deluded tasteless
- heavy and innumerable
- clamorous and often filthy
- simple and almost unorganized
- silent and eagerly expectant
- sullen, unorganized
- apparent countless
- lawless and unthinking
- ignorant, lawless and unthinking
- innumerable unreasoning
- largely ignorant and thoughtless
- vast, credulous
- distant vociferous
- cynical, democratic
- hungry unemployed
- undisciplined, discordant
- whole panic-stricken
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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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