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 ness
Below is a list of describing words for ness. 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 ness:
- icy aloof
- merciful forgetful
- leathery dry
- comradely wry
- unaccountable sad
- bare polite
- moral weak
- morbid vivid
- ly shy
- heroic thorough
- characteristic gentle
- senile cheerful
- strange listless
- ly dry
- idyllic peaceful
- strange shrewd
- faint harsh
- total dark
- internal weak
- excessive fond
- distant sad
- high-minded bookish
- scattershot sweet
- daily conscious
- hideous cheerful
- overeager protective
- merciful dark
- oily full
- greatest weak
- sufficient thorough
- male conscious
- dazed bitter
- weighted sad
- incalculable perilous
- hereditary mad
- primary weak
- vulnerable naked
- full aware
- peculiar light-headed
- childish rebellious
- uncompromising frank
- terrifying unnatural
- northern grim
- resolute toothless
- cynical shrewd
- equal smug
- indistinct conscious
- dai´ly dry
- bodily restless
- youthful fresh
- terrifying alien
- early dark
- mock gruff
- comfortable grey
- complementary bold
- windowless dark
- sheer weak
- outer grey
- simple ill
- crystalline pale
- minimum aware
- total mad
- sweet small-town
- stark drab
- artificial sweet
- public useful
- equal positive
- lance-corporal
- much able
- tremendous aggressive
- private dark
- utter alien
- complete dark
- good-natured gentle
- genial expansive
- deadly sick
- enormous sad
- intense bright
- eerie dark
- absolute dark
- comparative cool
- such boorish
- infinite slow
- utter black
- utter dark
- total blank
- such impolite
- great expansive
- usual expressionless
- much unpleasant
- dappled gray
- own devious
- ancient dark
- warm soft
- little bitter
- forgetful
- such cool
- weal
- same restless
- aware
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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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