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 ornamented
Below is a list of describing words for ornamented. 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 ornamented:
- noncommittal and ostentatious
- single meretricious
- false or unseasonable
- deformed but indispensable
- gaudy and technical
- flexible, circular
- chief and sacred
- gaudy but impressive
- gaudy ritual
- striking and dazzling
- fancy, rich
- promising clerical
- exquisite and peerless
- extravagant moorish
- grotesque graven
- fancy and vague
- redundant and gorgeous
- slightly rococo
- rarest feminine
- desirable, inexpensive
- desirable and inexpensive
- impersonal, common
- quaint funereal
- floral enamelled
- undeniably gothic
- symbolic and architectural
- tasteful and complete
- common byzantine
- conspicuous and appropriate
- heavy gold-and-coral
- sparkling gargantuan
- elegant and very cheap
- agreeable conversational
- unobtrusive, delicate
- last and fittest
- bright but flawless
- plain and fitting
- harmless, modish
- late or adventitious
- favorite terminal
- plain but splendid
- technical, geometric
- rich and entangled
- grotesque and delicate
- marginal or paginal
- peculiar episcopal
- least gorgeous
- useless or ridiculous
- artificial and spectacular
- frivolous and tawdry
- luxurious, heavy
- new and always happy
- beautiful but annoying
- little sculptural
- constructive and symbolic
- peculiar terminal
- quite vulgar and meaningless
- jejune and merely literary
- frequent but consistent
- other remotest
- excess or meretricious
- beauteous and appropriate
- proudest, noblest
- necessary or conventional
- curved, flat
- well-designed typographical
- dubiously legitimate
- magnificent and laborious
- full-blown decorative
- so-called gilt
- beautifully chaste
- useless gilded
- frequent and very effective
- senseless amber
- extraordinary flamboyant
- spare external
- unnecessary and bombastic
- inorganic and inappropriate
- corresponding or similar
- rococo and architectural
- animal or decorative
- better, architectural
- exceedingly quaint and striking
- grotesque or other
- official or symbolical
- triangular or circular
- lone distinctive
- allegoric or prophetic
- decorative or architectural
- systematic, organic
- new and exceedingly beautiful
- obsolete and picturesque
- fleeting phantom
- sufficient bridal
- single turquoise
- thin and meretricious
- less tasteless
- supposedly artistic
- complex and very pleasing
- floral and conventional
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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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