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 poems
Below is a list of describing words for poems. 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 poems:
- singularly original and beautiful
- principal shorter
- heroi-comical
- jubal and other
- neat and brief
- sanctified whole
- incomparable, incomprehensible
- narrative and legendary
- heroical, critical
- minor and briefer
- short elegiac
- remarkable boyish
- flawless and beautiful
- dull, disgusting
- narrative and romantic
- stately metaphysical
- reminiscent religious
- great and stately metaphysical
- brilliant and very perfect
- worst didactic
- pious didactic
- slighter and unfinished
- reminiscent, religious
- otherwise original
- exquisite shorter
- grossly inferior
- finest occasional
- barbaric romantic
- second symphonic
- fourth symphonic
- pastoral, pastoral
- long soulful
- well-written original
- spare, haunting
- unfinished egyptian
- posthumous minor
- sublime and grotesque
- fingal and other
- philosophical didactic
- exquisite metaphysical
- singularly wild and spirited
- brief but instructive
- new symphonic
- own bawdy
- brief and embarrassing
- long narrative
- high-class, intellectooal
- modern didactic
- long didactic
- finest memorial
- same bawdy
- divine and dangerous
- bad byronic
- ambitious and somewhat mystical
- noblest conversational
- capital occasional
- absolute heroical
- noblest commemorative
- dreary and pedantic
- smaller satirical
- moral or historic
- noble and most sublime
- grander heroic
- other narrative
- long and very old
- technically immature
- popular didactic
- brilliant but technically immature
- finest didactic
- extremely blasphemous
- early satirical
- several symphonic
- drowsy frowzy
- shorter famous
- exquisite and singular
- pleasing didactic
- dull heroic
- beloved and other
- singularly wild and beautiful
- didactic and lyrical
- nowhere dismal nor despondent
- descriptive, didactic and lyrical
- nowhere dismal
- historic or romantic
- purely delicious
- longer pastoral
- astonishing rural
- miscellaneous and occasional
- rural and descriptive
- poems--social
- former satiric
- full-grown, first-class
- amatory and other
- magnificent parabolical
- carnival and other
- dull and scandalous
- historical narrative
- pleasant and serious
- best familiar
- symphonic
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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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