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 murmur
Below is a list of describing words for murmur. 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 murmur:
- ominous, discontented
- mellow resonant
- bare hallucinatory
- less-confrontational
- generally unheeded
- sullen, audible
- low and sorry
- low but incessant
- vast continual
- general indistinct
- angry and continuous
- anguished and faint
- husky, voluble
- strange persistent
- low and feverish
- antfphonal
- newer and uglier
- hollow intermittent
- long and very wonderful
- incessant mournful
- constant, distant
- low meaningless
- fitful, mournful
- haunting, unceasing
- unchanging unceasing
- indistinct guttural
- bitter incessant
- cheerful and indistinguishable
- thin, husky
- low, undefined
- harsh and far-off
- indescribable and universal
- ceaseless faint
- wistful, faint
- deprecatory and uncertain
- rudely melodious
- inarticulate, terrifying
- far-off and drowsy
- faint indistinguishable
- indistinct and low
- low, general
- joyous conversational
- faint and liquid
- persistent loud
- uninteresting soft
- hoarse or guttural
- hollow and pugnacious
- vague, ominous
- low and peaceful
- faint solemn
- dull, hushed
- drowsy, restful
- faint happy
- deep vague
- low and unintelligible
- vast and unceasing
- fresh and regular
- low, indistinguishable
- bitter and sombre
- low and continuous
- full tumultuous
- deep, multitudinous
- slight, well-bred
- sarcastic feminine
- mere deferential
- gentle, toneless
- thunderous, ragged
- deep conciliatory
- deep, conciliatory
- less, dreary
- vague abhorrent
- sibilant, abhorrent
- suitably grateful
- indescribably fine
- mainly appreciative
- metallic, indistinguishable
- unthinkably far-away
- unthink-ably far-away
- hasty, belated
- distant, low-pitched
- distinct, uncontrollable
- loud cardiac
- musical articulate
- faint but perfectly audible
- distant, querulous
- gloomy and spiritual
- indistinct plaintive
- endless, undefined
- muffled insistent
- sensitive uneasy
- vague, sleepy
- general and rather indignant
- distant and very faint
- vaguer multitudinous
- indistinct, continuous
- general and ceaseless
- deep, condensed
- divine, inarticulate
- rapid, inarticulate
- steady far-off
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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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