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 product
Below is a list of describing words for product. 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 product:
- gross domestic
- gross national
- relentlessly positive
- artistic, expensive
- high-end professional
- trivial industrial
- rubbery beige
- valuable but heavy
- net material
- gross planetary
- effective present
- outstanding native
- redundant ideal
- social aggregate
- aggregate social
- unruly hybrid
- animal or animal
- insignificant total
- durable baked
- special and essential
- artificial, synthetic
- hopeless literary
- phosphorous or other
- unpleasant and scarcely moral
- notable, respectable
- abundant gaseous
- intermediate fermentation
- capitalist aggregate
- singularly distinctive
- spontaneous, miraculous
- primarily useful
- extremely marketable
- impure, unreliable
- net primary
- beautiful pampered
- substantive, useful
- valuable man-made
- well-made local
- whole joint
- moribund and worn-out
- remote psychic
- humble and worthless
- once unfinished
- real, peculiar and genuine
- terminal and peculiar
- transitory intermediate
- copious and common
- singular mineral
- phenomenal or mental
- grim but faithful
- natural, evolutionary
- extensive and most deep-seated
- variously scented and coloured
- variously scented
- morally adequate
- wonderful, evil
- real and native
- same phosphorescent
- specialized robotic
- characteristic technological
- rigid, logical and inescapable
- newest pleasing
- constantly renewable
- identical colonial
- scarcely moral
- older, natural
- magical, new
- mal or animal
- gawky, unworthy
- exact, functional
- final, complex
- completely untried
- revolutionary, new
- last and most mature
- huge inevitable
- exceptional, capricious
- sympathetic, unsophisticated
- profound and necessary
- perfectly rational and intelligible
- merely natural or animal
- interesting and thoroughly delightful
- unique and most important
- native and free
- chief consummate
- sane and characteristic
- partially fried
- genuine mythical
- amorphous and incongruous
- particular delightful
- fraudulent or fictitious
- single and familiar
- beautiful and quite legitimate
- immutable and unchanged
- lean and stoical
- whole exchangeable
- complex pathologic
- secondary and fanciful
- contemporary artificial
- marketable cheap
- fair, nutritious
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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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