Describing Wordsfor Noun

examples: nose,  winter,  blue eyes,  woman

Here are some adjectives for noun: adequately insulting, polish portugal, collective or plural, wrong collective, verbal or abstract, collective abstract, original or masculine, verbal or participial, regular participial, kindred abstract, formally well-defined, common or proper, simple principal, complimentary abstract, superb eternal, abstract feminine, additional verbal, distinctive proper, participial, ominous common, literally magisterial, proven�al feminine, provencal feminine, independent abstract, abstract or verbal, single, magical, singular and collective, tolerably concrete, familiar common, proper or common. You can get the definitions of these noun adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to noun (and find more here).

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Words to Describe noun

Below is a list of describing words for noun. 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 noun:

adequately insulting polish portugal collective or plural wrong collective verbal or abstract collective abstract original or masculine verbal or participial regular participial kindred abstract formally well-defined common or proper simple principal complimentary abstract superb eternal abstract feminine additional verbal distinctive proper participial ominous common literally magisterial proven�al feminine provencal feminine independent abstract abstract or verbal
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single, magical singular and collective tolerably concrete familiar common proper or common passive participial strictly verbal abstract common pure verbal appropriate collective inherently plural same collective masculine singular sentential abstract verbal simple female peculiarly australian old abstract plural single specific other substantive fine and ancient brutally clear feminine singular patrial proper and improper brazilian german singular or plural corresponding abstract masculine or feminine other collective dual and plural proper or improper collective new collective appositional verbal less menacing non-classical nepal senegal armenian abstract substantive possessive other singular same primitive masculine mechanized singular adjectival somewhat irregular declarative same individual adverbial masculine and feminine feminine highly personal insulting common proper cognate other common derivative inexact such singular undetermined compatible indisputable bleaker generic explanatory unassisted unaltered indicative cosmological concrete instrumental improper gothic qualitative descriptive corresponding quantitative portugal bleak operative unqualified subsequent specific finnish correct gaelic indefinite magisterial inanimate analogous teutonic doubtful appropriate diminutive kindred passive well-defined emphatic regular commonest impersonal particular theological aristocratic obnoxious nearest french innocuous all-important definite obscene irregular weak noxious independent australian final featureless former single incomplete significant convenient dual adequate bloody german negative straightforward primitive relative delightful imaginary active material menacing poor little daring unlimited principal separate limited plain corporate newest vulgar prominent magical suitable obscure spanish original wrong peculiar complex japanese admirable simple eternal female stout immediate mere universal absolute favorite important pure strong italian personal older individual obvious double chief distinct irish ancient ordinary true fine clear red usual poor present best long

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Words to Describe noun

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "noun" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "noun" are: adequately insulting, polish portugal, collective or plural, wrong collective, and verbal or abstract. There are 216 other words to describe noun listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe noun suits your needs.

If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, "noun" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many noun adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is noun?

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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