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 mysteries
Below is a list of describing words for mysteries. 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 mysteries:
- treacherous and infamous
- comfortable, benign
- haunting and adorable
- appalling and unfathomable
- tortuous feline
- infinite savage
- sorrowful and glorious
- pent-up religious
- foremost archaeological
- great and fluent
- crazy insoluble
- divine musical
- rich attractive
- other and most strange
- favorite archeological
- unknown and shameful
- sheer uncanny
- darkest, strangest
- genuinely satisfactory
- perpetual and unfathomable
- dark and pitiable
- chaste and high
- sordid and fatal
- magnificent mock
- grotesque and archaic
- shadowy and menacing
- haunting and alluring
- terrible perplexing
- singular and insoluble
- terrible and golden
- certain sexy
- bizarre and curious
- big perverse
- still perplexing
- solemn psychological
- apparent, scientific
- adorable and ineffable
- petty, pompous
- inscrutable venerable
- shadowy allegoric
- portal, motherless
- jealous professional
- stormy and ominous
- puzzling, overwhelming
- silent, impenetrable
- elusive and ethereal
- thy vexing
- deepest and most impenetrable
- good thrilling
- ultimate cosmic
- unnamed and sweetest
- unexplained military
- invisible and inexplicable
- unknown, deep
- deep and unending
- intolerable and tragic
- eerily featureless
- outworn, childish
- astounding acoustic
- sacred and abiding
- hopelessly unfathomable
- many biologic
- intolerable and terrible
- amazing egyptian
- sublime and impenetrable
- effectually sundry
- universal fatal
- heretofore abstruse
- complete and inexplicable
- away moral and spiritual
- profound or deep
- obscure and impenetrable
- adorable and incomprehensible
- everlasting unrelated
- surprising and overwhelming
- deepest and most awful
- secret and altogether wonderful
- sacred bachanal
- primeval and terrible
- higher stellar
- hitherto inscrutable
- sublime and sacrosanct
- profound and most sacred
- still deeper and fuller
- charming but insoluble
- strange and often fascinating
- intolerable and gigantic
- warm triumphant
- peculiar and not injurious
- spiritual and unfathomable
- certain glossy
- terrifying and wonderful
- few interactive
- ancient and mystic
- deep and possibly eternal
- deep and unexplainable
- formal or classic
- difficult and elegant
- absolutely baffling
- exotic physiological
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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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