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:
- gallant ultra
- prostrate and captive
- vile and indigent
- haughty and pampered
- thorough, meticulous
- already inflamed and angry
- serious and inflexible
- superior and self-conscious
- far superior and self-conscious
- gifted and fortunate
- individual wealthy
- reckless fiery
- old two-fisted
- respectable impoverished
- youngest and boldest
- practical but unscientific
- still strong and virtuous
- opulent and voluptuous
- robust and hardier
- foolish and miserable
- rude and austere
- many lusty
- soft, indecisive
- shrewd and swarthy
- civilized and wealthy
- patriotic ancient
- false, degenerate
- royal, rich
- subtle and scheming
- unimaginative and practical
- innocent and illustrious
- luxurious and refined
- best and gravest
- stupid idiot
- plebeian and patrician
- chief noble
- richer and nobler
- genuine imperial
- spare, tough
- many upper-class
- wealthy and patriotic
- evil and rebellious
- many irreplaceable
- most wealthy
- rich and eminent
- mild and enlightened
- same turbulent
- well-trained and well-armed
- several acceptable
- true conservative
- certain strict
- already inflamed
- politic and warlike
- many colonial
- old conservative
- tough, sinewy
- smaller and darker
- proud and fierce
- old hardy
- wisest and noblest
- wealthy and luxurious
- several youthful
- many cultured
- languid young
- degenerate modern
- best and worthiest
- valiant and noble
- fastidious old
- rich and luxurious
- young ambitious
- prominent young
- other orthodox
- strong practical
- pedantic old
- virtuous old
- other noble
- less courteous
- wealthy and cultured
- famous or infamous
- same horrible
- other illustrious
- certain old-fashioned
- other aristocratic
- famous ancient
- refined and luxurious
- many brave
- many illustrious
- many noble
- noble and virtuous
- great, rich
- ponderous old
- many eloquent
- many devout
- many eminent
- refined and cultured
- ancient heathen
- many wealthy
- other sensible
- other wealthy
- old heroic
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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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