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 old age
Below is a list of describing words for old age. 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 old age:
- clean and withered
- hearty and florid
- immeasurable and prodigious
- implausibly ripe
- bleak and impoverished
- extreme and feeble
- pleasing and indolent
- vigorous and green
- shrunken and squalid
- serene and meditative
- tranquil and noble
- interminable and joyless
- toothless and weatherbeaten
- imminent and ominous
- ripe and peaceful
- ripe and wicked
- ripe and happy
- feeble and flaccid
- needy and poverty-stricken
- rotund and tranquil
- long and green
- cold and forlorn
- extremely ripe
- ripe and natural
- fussy and foolish
- cynical and irreverent
- healthy and devout
- green and robust
- green and hearty
- robust and triumphant
- desolate and crabbed
- cacochymical
- premature and infirm
- gay and robust
- degraded and detestable
- healthful and protracted
- quite extreme
- serene and beloved
- premature and degraded
- premature and childless
- intellectual and joyous
- placid and indifferent
- fearfully painful
- happy and mature
- premature and diseased
- harmless and doddering
- unreasonable and prodigious
- virtuous and vigorous
- blind and sorrowful
- infirm and premature
- ripe and pure
- helpless and burdensome
- premature and decrepit
- preternaturally pious
- narrow and crabbed
- unpleasant and ridiculous
- benignant and virtuous
- healthy and extreme
- extreme and venerable
- ripe and hearty
- squalid and unassisted
- querulous but valiant
- peaceful and bland
- sordid and eccentric
- inevitably decrepit
- infinitely lonesome
- green and agreeable
- green and good
- staid and stale
- late and infirm
- good and green
- happy and green
- squalid and wretched
- fair and green
- problemical
- trifling and frivolous
- calm and ripe
- green and vigorous
- peaceful and serene
- sourly ripe
- premature and hideous
- prosperous and placid
- ripe and healthy
- lean and withered
- hearty and green
- fourth and extreme
- savage and imperious
- serene and productive
- precocious and unhappy
- vague and colorless
- green and comfortable
- benevolent and venerable
- cheerful and respectable
- calm and beauteous
- quiet and honorable
- green and virtuous
- always industrious
- dreadfully premature
- intrepid and patriotic
- emotionally sterile
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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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