Describing Wordsfor Nouns

examples: nose,  winter,  blue eyes,  woman

Here are some adjectives for nouns: adequately insulting, polish portugal, informative and certain, commonly derivative, collective or plural, verbal abstract, feminine abstract, wrong collective, random proper, verbal or abstract, further, primitive, collective abstract, _verbal abstract, common and plural, original or masculine, singular collective, verbal or participial, possessive animate, regular participial, synonymous abstract, kindred abstract, corresponding verbal, formally well-defined, woolly abstract, common or proper, sudden, hostile, simple principal, unhappy collective, complimentary abstract, numerous masculine. You can get the definitions of these nouns adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to nouns (and find more here).

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Words to Describe nouns

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

adequately insulting polish portugal informative and certain commonly derivative collective or plural verbal abstract feminine abstract wrong collective random proper verbal or abstract further, primitive collective abstract _verbal abstract common and plural original or masculine singular collective verbal or participial possessive animate regular participial synonymous abstract kindred abstract corresponding verbal formally well-defined woolly abstract common or proper
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sudden, hostile simple principal unhappy collective complimentary abstract numerous masculine superb eternal strong exact diminutive proper modern weak principally substantive --numeral several possessive verbal or participal abstract feminine inconsistent proper additional verbal distinctive proper participial plural and singular ominous common forthright biblical literally magisterial meaningful and intelligible proven�al feminine supply meaningful and intelligible provencal feminine exotic collective independent abstract short radical abstract or verbal sometimes collective single, magical proper and common singular and collective originally feminine tolerably concrete longer proper chinese proper certain substantive numerous proper masculine plural numerous abstract appropriate collective --participial such participial herein proper collective and common feminine singular common and proper familiar common rare proper proper or common also feminine passive participial strictly verbal abstract common incorporating foreign pure verbal different collective supply meaningful inherently plural same collective so-called proper masculine singular abstract and collective else common arbitrary or conventional many abstract most strong pure abstract sentential various collective abstract verbal usual abstract long, lumbering singular and plural _verbal simple female especially proper peculiarly australian corresponding abstract old abstract feminine proper important proper participal plural single specific many generic other substantive most proper fine and ancient singular or plural brutally clear corresponding french still genuine simply common also abstract patrial few singular proper and improper more hackneyed brazilian german feminine personal masculine or feminine also proper other collective dual and plural also verbal proper or improper just abstract such italian masculine and feminine animate or inanimate more singular strong feminine collective certain masculine --artificial abstract distinctly masculine certain abstract new collective appositional verbal compound less menacing non-classical regular and irregular other abstract weak and strong simple concrete other masculine nepal such collective other complex merely verbal many negative strong masculine derivative senegal many verbal armenian native japanese short, simple most common substantive such abstract possessive other proper more descriptive numeral animate inanimate other singular few appropriate most other same primitive common, everyday masculine feminine such promising mechanized singular adjectival informative synonymous somewhat irregular declarative proper same individual adverbial certain common highly personal insulting common cognate other common indigestible heterogeneous other kindred inexact such singular undetermined unmodified compatible indisputable bleaker generic many foreign explanatory irregular unassisted unaltered numerous other indicative cosmological concrete instrumental other french improper gothic sibilant articulate qualitative astrological descriptive immovable many similar terse hackneyed undefined corresponding quantitative portugal introductory bleak operative unqualified subsequent redundant specific finnish correct gaelic most indefinite defective celtic magisterial analogous teutonic suggestive doubtful impersonal appropriate weak diminutive kindred several other grecian foreign passive indigenous well-defined inflexible french emphatic material regular arbitrary commonest lumbering particular theological japanese african aristocratic respective meaningful obnoxious nearest inverted innocuous all-important definite obscene intelligible everyday noxious longest negative independent australian final featureless former simple biblical many other essential single incomplete additional significant convenient dual great many certain radical adequate bloody german italian straightforward primitive prosaic relative complex delightful imaginary active menacing conventional personal poor little stray fewer pure archaic daring unlimited principal vivid separate hostile good many limited plain corporate newest vulgar prominent similar exact magical key suitable obscure spanish original wrong basic peculiar promising various ordinary innumerable admirable individual eternal female stout immediate distinct mere universal absolute identical favorite important strong further older different genuine natural obvious double chief irish ancient sudden well-known true fine short male clear red usual strange private poor present long best

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Words to Describe nouns

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "nouns" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "nouns" are: adequately insulting, polish portugal, informative and certain, commonly derivative, and collective or plural. There are 396 other words to describe nouns listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe nouns 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, "nouns" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many nouns 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 nouns?

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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