Describing Words

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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 princess

Below is a list of describing words for princess. 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 princess:

  • beautiful and ever youthful
  • lovable german
  • luscious eligible
  • competent but quiet
  • unfortunate and most intriguing
  • captive irish
  • mundane chinese
  • continually pregnant
  • loveliest and most cruel
  • boorish bavarian
  • bavarian or peruvian
  • angry eldest
  • particularly dull and conscientious
  • hereditary foreign
  • hereditary virgin
  • minor bavarian
  • lovely wealthy
  • impudent, clever
  • high, mighty and virtuous
  • high and most illustrious
  • real indian
  • sweet-faced danish
  • amiable and august
  • always affable and amiable
  • thrice noble and illustrious
  • exalted and worthy
  • severe and devout
  • new and most popular
  • exceedingly bright and gay
  • triumphant prospective
  • evil, beautiful
  • nervy and persuasive
  • truly vain and ungrateful
  • intelligent and strong-willed
  • spanish virgin
  • silent, unimaginative
  • puissant and peerless
  • fairy and fugitive
  • stray oriental
  • youthful and spirited
  • unimportant and impoverished
  • gifted and high-spirited
  • real charming
  • extremely voluptuous
  • fair and girlish
  • little median
  • discreet, wise
  • beautiful, luscious
  • independent and troublesome
  • medieval virgin
  • lonely precious
  • greedy would-be
  • hot-blooded egyptian
  • honorary tribal
  • slightly vain
  • regally proud
  • unfortunate but interesting
  • hitherto unfortunate but interesting
  • dour austrian
  • beautiful but most imperious
  • powerless and impoverished
  • unhappy, faulty
  • far-famed burgundian
  • still proud and witty
  • lovely polish
  • little sumptuous
  • cruel or unhappy
  • travelled and artistic
  • tall and stately royal
  • fairest, finest
  • steady and magnanimous
  • illustrious and most pious
  • suitable full-grown
  • unfortunately famous
  • fair, forlorn
  • giddy french
  • aforesaid elder
  • secret, curious
  • beautiful lithuanian
  • excellent magnanimous
  • harmless foolish
  • lovely captive
  • dear fairy
  • dazzling remote
  • heartless mortal
  • right high and excellent
  • gifted and elegant
  • poor and devout
  • full-fledged japanese
  • angular pale
  • proud, joyous and imperious
  • frivolous continental
  • ardent and warm-hearted
  • virtuous and philanthropic
  • prettiest and most amiable
  • virtuous danish
  • always affable
  • noblest foreign
  • chaste german
  • gracious and world-renowned

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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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