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 renaissance
Below is a list of describing words for renaissance. 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 renaissance:
- ungoverned and irresponsible
- fierce impossible
- modern and italian
- once modern and italian
- languid, amorous
- so-called carolingian
- vital, joyous
- real eventual
- local and premature
- dissenting and restless
- minor cinematic
- simple, global
- vastly productive
- gothic, italian and french
- sudden and aggressive
- little reactionary
- earliest or byzantine
- central or true
- commonest late
- true and definitive
- delicate late
- profound asiatic
- antique, french
- veritable philosophic
- passionate haunting
- dreary classical
- rich ornate
- political and artistic
- literary and cinematic
- pretentious mystical
- african scientific
- exhilarating economic
- all-purpose scientific
- cultural and perhaps political
- light-hearted, generous
- noble solid
- new and reasonable
- italian late
- exquisite and true
- finest secular
- studious, decorative
- rich enamelled
- gothic and best
- handsome late
- transitional flamboyant
- once modern
- portal, spanish
- various exterior
- so-called celtic
- premature and abortive
- gilded italian
- ornate and splendid
- italian ceramic
- secular italian
- beautiful ornate
- present, french
- dutch classical
- late italian
- veritable literary
- original european
- real cultural
- decadent, elegant
- ornate dutch
- veritable petite
- strong and serene
- present unpretentious
- exquisite classical
- same ornate
- fine late
- simple but picturesque
- national and literary
- social and technical
- least mystical
- plain but noble
- new elizabethan
- modern provençal
- notable musical
- foul and savage
- classical and italian
- so-called aesthetic
- handsome dutch
- obscure and impoverished
- gothic and italian
- brief and bright
- veritable physical
- so-called dramatic
- full french
- noble and harmonious
- eighteenth-century german
- pure italian
- less florid
- genuine literary
- little grotesque
- free french
- spanish literary
- italian high
- modern proven�al
- modern provencal
- central italian
- new humanistic
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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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