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 ribbon
Below is a list of describing words for ribbon. 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 ribbon:
- uninterrupted metal
- sinuous liquid
- broad lilac
- crimson or black
- drab medal
- acutal concrete
- narrowest red
- new cherry
- narrow lavender
- mortal red
- serpentine silvery
- narrow and infirm
- farther emerald
- snake-like, misty
- continuous east-west
- brocaded yellow
- broader pink
- longitudinal, arched
- broad plaid
- favorite light-blue
- golden wind-blown
- wide, ever-changing
- circularly curved
- unbroken continental
- wide milky
- other, timid
- listless white
- newer, blacker
- wide, eight-foot
- rumpled glassy
- broad pretentious
- neat light-blue
- narrow tricolor
- frightful emerald
- white, rectilinear
- flimsy lavender
- sassy blue
- medal and red
- brocaded lilac
- indifferently white
- gray and slender
- yon gray and slender
- pink fancy
- black flamboyant
- stereotyped blue
- unrolled blue
- broad red-white-and-blue
- black and not over-broad
- one-inch blue
- brightest pink
- medal and colored
- durable green
- tremulous magenta
- airy colored
- delicate convoluted
- meal and red
- unnecessary scarlet
- wider green
- green, rumpled
- unofficial key
- broad presidential
- broad austrian
- yon pink
- narrow dull
- frayed pink
- much-coveted red
- broad dark-blue
- unbroken brown
- brocaded pink
- notorious blue
- blue narrow
- narrow unprotected
- narrow scarlet
- rusty, black
- narrow blue
- narrow pink
- slick small
- luminous, electric
- muddy wide
- old inconspicuous
- rose-pink and grey
- grey, straight
- ultimate blue
- nearest luminous
- thin wide
- intricately curved
- narrow silken
- immense, jagged
- single cultured
- thick, constant
- bloodied green
- wide red-and-yellow
- plain, knotted
- pastel plaid
- thinner purple
- single multi-colored
- vellum and red
- bloodied, yellow
- usual scarlet
- vacant 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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