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 sarcasm
Below is a list of describing words for sarcasm. 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 sarcasm:
- bitter and almost malignant
- characteristically gleeful
- savage and almost diabolical
- abrupt, impetuous
- free and witty
- clumsy and ponderous
- sweet, undiluted
- genuine or subtle
- heartless, loathsome
- bitter and everlasting
- vague apparent
- mild but intelligible
- greedy superfluous
- perpetual and brutal
- harsh and clever
- lilting, affectionate
- wry, affectionate
- fancy, bitter
- keenly stinging
- nasty cool
- keen, devastating
- unconscious lofty
- frigid and brittle
- deep and stinging
- disposal but very mild
- burlesque and rough
- placid, unconscious
- bitter, daring
- famous double-edged
- heedless or bitter
- grave but delicate
- felicitous but inexorable
- splendid unconscious
- habitual brutal
- slight but effective
- incomparably bitter
- cynical rasping
- genuine and not unfair
- scandal and open
- sparkling and birdlike
- hasty but terrible
- bitter and scathing
- harmless, mild
- queer and fanciful
- silent, dim
- bitter and profound
- last and bitter
- gently nasty
- characteristic slow
- sufficient inherent
- familiar filial
- mild routine
- fine ponderous
- calloused and haughty
- conscientiously lighthearted
- evident, hostile
- borandis-withdrawal
- dry and unending
- deep and caustic
- thick, teasing
- deeper, nastier
- severe and pungent
- such rasping
- characteristically stinging
- ironical and comic
- cold and sardonic
- pungent and undeserved
- gentle but keen
- elaborately playful
- cheap and cruel
- otherwise pointless
- old mutinous
- witty but not agreeable
- manicurial
- strong and caustic
- rich diplomatic
- bitter, trenchant
- bitter and indignant
- much spirited
- such daunting
- dry and humorous
- fine acute
- sometimes boisterous
- rough and rasping
- savage and unscrupulous
- harsh, offensive
- much truthful
- nasal, high-pitched
- much covert
- shrewd and ready
- just heavy
- awful and unaccustomed
- now regrettable
- utter childish
- bitter and personal
- delicate, unconscious
- curiously effective
- harsh, repulsive
- little latent
- bitter, defiant
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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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