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 romans
Below is a list of describing words for romans. 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 romans:
- recent punitive
- rectangular palatial
- inevitable sumptuous
- soft cross-legged
- gallant ultra
- boring and tedious
- prostrate and captive
- valiant but modest
- vile and indigent
- seasoned and wise
- typical boring
- hateful murderous
- titanic old
- haughty and pampered
- corinthian and less
- thorough, meticulous
- already inflamed and angry
- virtuous and indignant
- serious and inflexible
- provisional western
- superior and self-conscious
- high sensual
- far superior and self-conscious
- invariably steady and dependable
- invariably steady
- tall distant
- proper paved
- noblest and most reluctant
- bitter irish
- classic revolutionary
- highest ancient
- few lumpish
- would-be equitable
- strenuous ambitious
- civilised but degenerate
- mighty and skilful
- ancient temporary
- young and very noble
- wealthy and ancient
- heavy, congested and depraved
- cold, prosaic and austere
- once great and rich
- ecclesiastical and also less
- resolute spanish
- pallid and luxurious
- gifted and fortunate
- strong, classical
- individual wealthy
- moral and invisible
- reckless fiery
- typical conservative
- old two-fisted
- thick and innumerable
- respectable impoverished
- new tripartite
- youngest and boldest
- sufficiently strong and trustworthy
- practical but unscientific
- dusty and rather wearisome
- still strong and virtuous
- well-intentioned and wholly religious
- opulent and voluptuous
- grave and rough
- robust and hardier
- effeminate and diminutive
- cathedral, interesting
- popular and universally well-received
- handsome, pompous
- polite and heroic
- old-fashioned and sober
- sober, zealous
- populous, present-day
- dangerous scheming
- sedate and patrician
- lean, uncouth
- smaller late
- perfect and intelligible
- wise and civil
- heavy uncolored
- practical courageous
- youthful enthusiastic
- graceful long-stemmed
- arrogant but magnanimous
- byzantine and late
- would-be ancient
- sarcastic, middle-class
- conservative and ever discontented
- respectable armenian
- magnificent provincial
- wide, eventful
- wise and icy
- crabbed current
- rough and almost unknown
- sinuous and transcendently ambitious
- crabbed dried-up
- fierce avaricious
- false, profligate
- false, politic
- independent rebellious
- haughty and evil-minded
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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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