Describing Words
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blue eyes,
woman
Here are some adjectives for novels. You can get the definitions of these adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to novels (and find more here).
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Words to Describe novels
Below is a list of describing words for novels. 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 novels:
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and much-discussed latest swedish improbable, mere last well-worn egyptian historical first-rate facetious well-written and clever domestic and usual uncut french average historical genteel and sentimental professedly fashionable dumb sci-fi macabre posthumous complete unsold satisfying coming-of-age baroque and rich important english-language delightfully baroque otherwise outstanding delightfully baroque and rich unified, compact dense nineteenth-century otherwise complex pastoral or western less well-written newest old openly autobiographical rewarding psychological romantic, swashbuckling politely improper stupid, anachronistic somewhat erotic consciously thematic romantic or highly imaginative purely stand-alone later viennese problem-solving, interactive genteel sentimental bad victorian rotten popular british fashionable penetrating and unusual demonically inventive insipidly sentimental antimarital new bestselling temporarily famous dully readable small sensational modern 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new better, sentimental questionable french strong but morbid foolish and even immoral unread and unknown brilliant and spirited fashionable and interminable modern and historical old-fashioned discursive soberly realistic avowed historical sentimentally erotic colorless and tedious great anarchic scandalous and remarkably able longest good domestic and historical sociable and sarcastic sensational topical bestselling historical first-rate sensational sensational realistic occasional standard greatest and darkest largely autobiographic ever cheap interesting but somewhat discursive greatest and most epoch-making satisfactory and alarming striking, realistic wholly satisfactory and alarming highly comedic minor and later eighteenth-century somewhat heavy and old-fashioned amusing satirical readable wholesome abortive historical extravagant naval last seventeenth-century excellently readable ordinary, romantic scurrilous german greatest realistic regular realistic romantic and ludicrous 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Words to Describe novels
As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "novels" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "novels" are: single serial, symmetrical modern, oddball western, unread but very fashionable, and salient western. There are 987 other words to describe novels listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe novels 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, "novels" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.
Note also that if there aren't many novels 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 novels?
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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