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 prize
Below is a list of describing words for prize. 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 prize:
- gigantic super-colossal
- innocent and glorious
- other vaunted
- enviable high-class
- unprecedented literary
- last or greatest
- juicy, defenseless
- frustratingly imperfect
- hopelessly tempting
- volition--celestial
- acceptable and sufficient
- second mathematical
- fair and feeble
- screamily funny
- judicious, well-written
- overpowering weak
- greatest matrimonial
- incidental but hardly inconsequential
- hardly inconsequential
- brilliant matrimonial
- single, achievable
- rich alluring
- large but empty
- medal, competitive
- inclusive, grand
- costly hybrid
- shy and valuable
- well-known matrimonial
- richest and most available
- paltry spanish
- quinquennial french
- universal and heroic
- iridescent, radiant
- real piscatorial
- dear or precious
- special classical
- uttermost such
- imaginary greater
- medal, special
- memorial chemical
- loveliest matrimonial
- forthwith lawful
- annual photographic
- single but valuable
- fourth capital
- belligerent lawful
- impromptu fourth
- unwontedly sympathetic
- tempting and romantic
- bright and unequalled
- splendid possible
- dangerous tell-tale
- solitary and final
- more longed-for
- temptingly beautiful
- infinitely valuable
- expensive, useless
- fat and lawful
- recent and most glorious
- >quinquennial french
- ingly imperfect
- equally worthwhile
- strange unusable
- free grand
- less invaluable
- certain and substantial
- plump piscatorial
- matrimonial or romantic
- junior oratorical
- super essential
- remarkably unsatisfying
- welcome and useful
- thine undisputed
- fairest sweetest
- bull-necked, sandy-haired
- dreadful fifty-dollar
- small, unimposing
- men--universal
- second-class mathematical
- greatest and most excellent
- substantial matrimonial
- notable rich
- hairy and undesirable
- supercolossal
- rare and accidental
- prestigious literary
- fair and tempting
- new and previously unknown
- safer, easier
- better matrimonial
- fought-for
- easier spanish
- grand astronomical
- great piscatorial
- proud and delightful
- exact high
- booby
- vastly rich
- tryal
- enormously valuable
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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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