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 scaled
Below is a list of describing words for scaled. 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 scaled:
- upcoming large
- mammoth, venturesome
- three-tonal
- harmonic minor
- vastly grander
- key, major
- bright, diamond-shaped
- richer, broader
- smaller but sufficient
- official aristocratic
- theretofore unheard-of
- complete chromatic
- somewhat grander
- industrially practical
- minimum real-time
- necessarily colossal
- curiously smaller
- exceedingly limited and particular
- broad, thorough
- tiny depressing
- sheer, unprecedented
- open-handed, hospitable
- high, devastating
- truly chromatic
- moderately lavish
- vastly quicker
- grand, sociological
- broad and brutal
- tiny, wretched
- laborious and most comprehensive
- immense, staggering
- superbly lavish
- sheer, horrifying
- whole chromatic
- portentous and alarming
- musical chromatic
- still larger and grander
- standard stratigraphical
- ordinary octave
- dis-social, narrow-minded
- dis-social
- magnificent and most profitable
- overpoweringly enormous
- vaster, grander
- suitably human
- imaginably larger
- spectacularly memorable
- liberal and delightful
- otherwise glossy
- mercifully smaller
- enormous, labor-saving
- least, black
- wide and diffuse
- vastly wider and larger
- candid and forthcoming
- sensitive digital
- unduly smaller
- broader professional
- generous and patriarchal
- fierce chromatic
- simplest, epithelial
- pearly chromatic
- corresponding decimal
- inconceivably magnificent
- large, extensive and scientific
- huge and almost savage
- hemispherical brown
- melodic minor
- obtuse purple
- white acute
- acute thin
- obtuse white
- acute whitish
- thin obtuse
- thin and obtuse
- acute colorless
- usually thinner
- smaller and usually thinner
- lowest proper
- distinct but circular
- mightiest and most gigantic
- inharmonious chromatic
- magnificent and reckless
- thin inferior
- altogether larger
- same miniature
- relative minor
- infinitely grander
- larger astronomical
- limited and particular
- increasingly massive
- remarkably diminutive
- naturally lighter
- stupendous vertical
- less cosmic
- infrared or ultraviolet
- humanly meaningful
- popular but incomplete
- ordinary microscopic
- planetary or galactic
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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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