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 scarf
Below is a list of describing words for scarf. 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 scarf:
- luxurious dazzling
- double, scalloped
- rich, spotless
- airy colorless
- violently red and orange
- astounding purple
- notable red
- large, red and white
- lightly knotted
- coral-colored silken
- crimson algerian
- squalid red
- long and diaphanous
- bloodstained yellow
- filmy net
- red, narrow
- woolen plaid
- scented silken
- silken gray-blue
- wispy silken
- thinner pink
- notable crimson
- jocund lavender
- natty silken
- silken, gray-blue
- bully fresh
- magnificent syrian
- narrow four-in-hand
- bright three-cornered
- white golden
- wet, blue
- grey furry
- beautiful pearl-gray
- drab woolen
- long multicolored
- double woolen
- own, sweat-soaked
- last, unnecessary
- wide floral
- loose decorative
- knotted pale-blue
- sweat-soaked yellow
- dirty, red
- dirty, loose
- big wispy
- flimsy orange
- nice maroon
- ratty great
- sufficiently opaque
- gay, barbaric
- narrow woolen
- slight and transparent
- awful crimson
- pale-blue silken
- discreet brown
- brilliant garish
- drab, dirty
- coloured silken
- thin hazy
- lean and yellow
- white regimental
- green official
- fine knotted
- white, wind-blown
- pink worsted
- peculiar striped
- white, silken
- dirty, bloody
- traditional crimson
- greasy plaid
- hideous japanese
- pink diaphanous
- clean silvery
- colorful silken
- jaunty yellow
- feathery crimson
- lush, golden
- knotted scarlet
- red-and-yellow flowered
- brilliant multicolored
- great silky
- white polka-dotted
- cheap orange
- heavy plaid
- broad, silken
- old woolen
- red woolen
- black transparent
- golden net
- ridiculous orange
- flamboyant yellow
- huge translucent
- thick multicolored
- long worsted
- black, filmy
- carelessly knotted
- colored oriental
- graceful bright
- least superfluous
- egyptian red
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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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