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 ropes
Below is a list of describing words for ropes. 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 ropes:
- tough pliable
- thin and incredibly strong
- city-material
- coarse sisal
- insulting thick
- -ply red
- three-ply red
- fine manila
- real scratchy
- limp dusty
- almost taut
- thin but immensely strong
- strongest and lightest
- simple, knotted
- charcoal and braided
- slight but stout
- grey thorny
- ludicrous, clumsy
- knotted other
- thick green-tinted
- tough sisal
- slender but extremely strong
- slender, coarse
- thick, frayed
- three-inch old
- good manila
- best manila
- well-made half-inch
- fuzzy, brown
- sticky, gummy
- thick, bloodstained
- sturdy knotted
- thin frayed
- tiny, stealthy
- slender, knotted
- taut vertical
- mangled and frayed
- larger, knotted
- knotted and frayed
- lean, fuzzy
- material and lightweight
- fat limp
- slim, coarse
- tragic high
- new sisal
- strong, loose
- past extra
- visible and shaky
- heavy half-inch
- down single
- gigantic and knotted
- rope--several
- animal, short
- extraordinary tight
- old and hastily knotted
- fragile tight
- stout half-inch
- plain wet
- waxy, slippery
- common, smaller
- white monstrous
- usual knotted
- simple and comparatively painless
- stationary endless
- poor frayed
- defective metallic
- scientific tight
- great frayed
- terrible associate
- purple crimson
- handsome manila
- elastic and sticky
- best flexible
- short knotted
- half-inch manila
- taut metal
- dangerously frayed
- soon endless
- vast, knotted
- plain yellowish
- long mid
- coarse flaxen
- lighter and weaker
- now taut
- strong manila
- stout manila
- horizontal, reddish
- taut and very fancy
- slack, dusty
- new one-inch
- sullen, bearded
- tough natural
- fewer but heavier
- tight, sodden
- buoyant synthetic
- usual slimy
- spidery soft
- three-part braided
- innumerable taut
- one-inch manila
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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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