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 poster
Below is a list of describing words for poster. 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 poster:
- extremely important and prestigious
- carved interior
- thinnest foreign
- clerical or academical
- customary attentive
- important and prestigious
- major or strategic
- final exalted
- advantageous and well-known
- immodest theatrical
- lucrative but somewhat uncongenial
- senior aristocratic
- subsidary
- watchful and ready
- temporary honorary
- signal, signal
- awfully terrific and frightful
- red memorial
- emperial japanese
- highly important and responsible
- white dial
- highest juridical
- weak and difficult
- usual victorious
- small ministerial
- well-paid hereditary
- electronic last
- favorite rocky
- comparatively dangerous
- weak, rid
- equally well-paid
- thankless and unpromising
- magisterial or military
- royal intercolonial
- upright swivel
- southern and older
- alliterative and appropriate
- miserable clerical
- single diplomatic
- huge, life-size
- miniature goal
- afterwards popular
- spectral last
- violent black-and-white
- long-term provincial
- idiot, tall
- stout five-foot
- small consular
- original no-win
- farthest goal
- nearest goal
- awfully terrific
- responsible and romantic
- forlornly precarious
- well-paid, semi-professional
- important lucrative
- dilapidated and untenable
- large and rather elegant
- tardy and eccentric
- burdensome and exacting
- unnecessary parasitic
- left-hand goal
- crooked corral
- richly amusing
- weak mexican
- infernal italian
- remote inferior
- beautiful, central
- frantic general
- postmaster-general or irish
- convenient and important
- senior assistant-secretary-general
- comfortable well-paid
- honorable and highly lucrative
- formal and responsible
- nervous and evidently anxious
- north-easterly british
- distant but lucrative
- pleasant and fairly well-paid
- german extra
- almost honorary
- influential and responsible
- insecure and unfit
- lucrative and conspicuous
- attractive or promising
- old inanimate
- honorable or important
- easy, well-paid
- lucrative and lucky
- charred, bloodstained
- substantial, durable
- negative terminal
- difficult, delicate and responsible
- unpretentious federal
- decent or habitable
- important vacant
- painful and burdensome
- cheaper open
- separate slower
- dummy sundial
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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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