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 organism
Below is a list of describing words for organism. 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 organism:
- voraciously hungry
- unconscious single
- complex, electronic
- highest specialized
- mental male
- mental female
- almost anhydrous
- viable, elastic
- higher-grade biological
- benign parasitic
- single, mindless
- rampantly infectious
- economic, industrial
- perfect communistic
- standard average
- uncompromising, dominant
- airborne pathogenic
- homemade alien
- incredibly helpless and delicate
- incredibly helpless
- self-sustaining biological
- diseased social
- sensitive and temporal
- larger metaphorical
- mere biochemical
- biologically divergent
- largely self-sufficient
- gigantic rational
- healthy and elastic
- great psycho-spiritual
- resultant, mobile
- small and therefore unimportant
- self-contained and complete
- sub-microscopical
- perpetually hungry
- marvellously balanced
- obviously miserable
- tiny energetic
- incredibly adaptable
- immune immortal
- intelligent symbiotic
- completely societal
- complex synthetic
- complex and highly adaptable
- uniquely diverse
- helpless and delicate
- rational or relatively rational
- particular lesser
- single, interdependent
- sinister invasive
- material sensuous
- confident, onrushing
- lowliest physical
- ridiculous physical
- highly quaint
- complex and capricious
- precious and terrific
- imperfectly healthy
- hereditarily imperfect
- usually precocious
- nervous and usually precocious
- illustrious, proud
- simple and non-sexual
- impulsive psychophysical
- vigorous, mental
- complete and highly efficient
- executive-editorial
- indivisible political
- aboriginally lower
- eastern social
- querulous, irrational
- permanent ethereal
- microscopic, bacterial
- undiversified mental
- selfish, self-contained
- specialized physical
- intangible, animal-like
- feebly pathogenic
- equivocal and doubtful
- somewhat equivocal and doubtful
- apparently terrestrial
- compact unified
- exclusively capitalist
- subtle visual
- physical and poetic
- mediumistic physical
- vast electro-magnetic
- harmonious electric
- strictly intertidal
- imperfect and nerveless
- malignant parasitic
- tragically moribund
- singular transparent
- special pathogenic
- singular amorphous
- frail southern
- compact, healthful
- delicate and thrilling
- threefold human
- physico-etheric-astral
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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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