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 musician
Below is a list of describing words for musician. 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 musician:
- finest and most versatile
- faceless unknown
- technically flawless
- enthusiastic and discerning
- notable polish
- eager and exquisite
- spirited, intellectual
- notoriously nervous and unreasonable
- notoriously nervous
- impoverished itinerant
- strenuously dramatic
- eager but bashful
- individual modern
- competent and friendly young
- rare irish
- finest mortal
- lame regimental
- attractive devotional
- tiny but pleasant
- non-sensational, well-educated
- genuine, enthusiastic
- original and deeply sincere
- full-blown professional
- sublime pictorial
- great but eccentric
- physically frail and delicate
- acceptable and reliable
- original and bitingly expressive
- bitingly expressive
- certain versatile
- competent and well-read
- thoroughly competent and well-read
- gifted, true
- lively itinerant
- brilliant and proficient
- poor but extremely ambitious
- aspiring australian
- great deaf
- last skilled
- once talented
- deftly skilled
- divine sicilian
- talented blind
- well-known, all-round
- mysterious polish
- odd-looking but able
- fecund french
- impassioned, boisterous
- foreign, cosmopolitan
- childlike german
- well-trained and clever
- partially black
- balding, plump
- occasional itinerant
- eminent theoretical
- young and wonderful
- popular male
- unbelievably excellent
- undeniably talented
- notable interpretative
- lonely italian
- proven�al and true
- al and true
- talented and sensitive
- passionate, talented
- formerly lame
- modern, british
- stuck-up, self-absorbed
- eager ardent
- sweet, unseen
- severe, austere
- unknown and ordinary
- talented and famous
- great and marvellously gifted
- remarkable colored
- gifted belgian
- incipient young
- ardent and clever
- fair mechanical
- poor austrian
- profound classical
- rare and cunning
- estimable german
- consummate technical
- poor lazy
- talented and deserving
- long, true
- competent and well-informed
- skilled and sympathetic
- clever and conscientious
- fine, all-round
- poor hump-backed
- unknown german
- beautiful, homeless
- unattractive, brilliant
- passionate and subtle
- admittedly inferior
- nervous or irritable
- late erudite
- enthusiastic belgian
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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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