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 puddle
Below is a list of describing words for puddle. 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 puddle:
- viscous, inanimate
- gray organic
- obviously geometric
- foul freshwater
- suspiciously symmetrical
- huge disgusting
- stagnant dirty
- particularly sloppy
- old and unhappy
- mad stormy
- wide and muddy
- large filthy
- universal sepia
- muddy cold
- shallow and dangerous
- large, stagnant
- glutinous gray
- occasional stagnant
- huge stagnant
- furry uncouth
- sticky, frothy
- grey, waxen
- small, splashy
- shallow and lopsided
- distant, viscous
- big mucky
- large, chalky
- final waxy
- sticky golden
- huge freshwater
- dirty and filthy
- molten red
- creamy blue
- pink, frothy
- hot, messy
- mucky brown
- red messy
- universal black
- sudden yellow
- dark and shiny
- muddy, brackish
- thick rusty
- altogether hideous
- oily green
- cold rainy
- creamy red
- particularly dank
- soapy little
- small muddy
- slow, dim
- warm sticky
- vast wide
- sour dark
- messy red
- small deep
- dark, sticky
- thick icy
- little, dusty
- big, slimy
- pink, fluffy
- small and stealthy
- big, muddy
- biggest brown
- wet and warm
- liquid-metal
- great horrible
- dark viscous
- small, muddy
- shallow, stagnant
- milky pink
- huge, muddy
- tiny incandescent
- cold, slow
- highly convincing
- small brackish
- mucky little
- radiant pink
- filthy brown
- occasional shallow
- watery gray
- large multicolored
- milky brown
- present disgraceful
- same muddy
- long, crimson
- mere muddy
- oligarchal
- muddy black
- little muddy
- pink and brown
- warm, slick
- greasy red
- horrid red
- apparently clean
- thick metallic
- warm fuzzy
- great muddy
- homogenous
- unusually deep
- slick red
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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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