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 poppies
Below is a list of describing words for poppies. 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 poppies:
- sticky hybrid
- gorgeously red
- scarlet siberian
- extraordinarily scarlet
- single bright-red
- impassioned scarlet
- hardy oriental
- scarlet annual
- yellow horned
- wild oversize
- wilted scarlet
- purple, white and scarlet
- necessary surreptitious
- scarlet oriental
- always dear and sweet
- visibly abstracted and depressed
- visibly abstracted
- pink, scarlet
- drunk medicinal
- splashy red
- great, scarlet
- vermilion wild
- oriental yellow
- straggly orange
- pale, monstrous
- splashy scarlet
- ideal filigree
- nasty stuck-up
- baneful white
- fifth and silent
- double and gorgeous
- satisfactory annual
- common scarlet
- glutinous, scarlet
- occasional horned
- drunk wild
- wild scarlet
- countless fiery
- monstrous wild
- red fierce
- best clear
- oriental red
- beautiful himalayan
- blue himalayan
- scarlet wild
- strange, waxy
- sure, next
- white single
- successful and beautiful
- double feathery
- daring great
- nice refreshing
- imperial red
- late scarlet
- brilliant mexican
- huge russet
- many scarlet
- prickly
- big scarlet
- always dear
- past thy
- superb pink
- great regal
- great offensive
- wild golden
- filmy pink
- enough black
- lighter colored
- wonderfully coloured
- delicious yellow
- european wild
- wild yellow
- flaming scarlet
- distant past
- venerable and pious
- few scarlet
- little silky
- glorious scarlet
- beautiful but treacherous
- cheerful blue
- sleepy white
- beautiful double
- richest and most productive
- scarlet and crimson
- hairy red
- great scarlet
- tall scarlet
- specially beautiful
- common red
- splendid wild
- red wild
- rather vacuous
- scarlet and white
- great oriental
- small crumpled
- more deceptive
- beastly
- scarlet
- great mexican
- monstrous blue
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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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