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 number
Below is a list of describing words for number. 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 number:
- _--total
- corporal, serial
- appropriate and handiest
- standard serial
- highest prime
- anonymous offshore
- own serial
- military serial
- high-quality plush
- wrong serial
- overwhelming and confusing
- faceless, dispassionate
- his-surely finite
- genuinely abnormal
- large proportional
- your secret
- theologically significant
- quite peculiar and unusual
- long, hyphenated
- therefore singular
- perfect or cyclical
- greater but unknown
- monstrous and indefensible
- double infinite
- vast but finite
- bulgarian opposite
- unusual and incredible
- international toll-free
- unlikely low
- relatively staggering
- disproportionately fewer
- huge and inconvenient
- unfortunately significant
- indeterminate but substantial
- small but unknown
- incredibly innumerable
- absolute countless
- indefinite further
- indefinite but limited
- long, regimental
- large but variable
- active minor
- undesirable or improper
- equal or lesser
- unique serial
- your serial
- low prime
- elegant prime
- reproductively useless
- larger principal
- phantom opposite
- astonishingly recent
- liberal, easy-going
- presumably comparable
- uncounted but presumably comparable
- finite but astronomically large
- ninth prime
- lowest total
- similarly mystic
- compatible opposite
- maximum conceivable
- abstract, pure
- ultimate prime
- irritatingly high
- scarsely sufficient
- greater or fewer
- human or imperfect
- humbling certain
- fewest relative
- wonderfully sufficient
- fewer proportional
- standard audiovisual
- fewest necessary
- greatest cardinal
- larger floating-point
- large and indeterminate
- large but random
- least random
- finite positive
- dull dullest
- argument--total
- toll-free direct-dial
- dead or non-existent
- possibly greatest
- eleventh highest
- ominous academic
- large but uncertain
- horrendous little
- limited and small
- same serial
- nearest whole
- full harmonic
- high imaginary
- economically unsupportable
- old thrash-metal
- physically limited
- inconveniently attractive
- simple wrong
- genuinely wrong
- uncertain and changeable
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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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