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 scene
Below is a list of describing words for scene. 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 scene:
- ludicrous final
- deplorably common
- hopelessly melodramatic
- domestic and harmonious
- diversified and interesting
- impassioned climactic
- noisy and extensive
- tedious brief
- savage, martial
- welcome but completely unexpected
- luminous and weird
- amusing artificial
- mental historical
- peaceful, nice
- ominous, sublime
- momentary phantom
- earlier traumatic
- italian bucolic
- argentine political
- low-key local
- subtly disquieting
- placid, lush and familiar
- lush and familiar
- monstrous tragi-comic
- refined swiss
- abominable last
- brief, peaceful
- new and not uninteresting
- usual terrestrial
- riotous and desperate
- hazy and terrifying
- busy urban
- usually murky
- picturesque and busy
- enchantingly gay
- beautiful and very unusual
- buoyant, inspiring
- hateful, idiotic
- animated and fantastic
- noisily animated and fantastic
- noisily animated
- mute and expressive
- shockingly unfamiliar
- impressive but barren
- appalling, gay
- not-so-unusual
- desolate, tragic
- last and most tragical
- prettier rural
- wild, memorable
- dire destructive
- last and most astonishing
- busy bitter
- real operatic
- mock mad
- merry and good-hearted
- instantly vital and alive
- tumultuous and sombre
- otherwise soporific
- strange and stupefying
- motley, strange and stupefying
- exciting or interesting
- utterly amusing
- unnatural but utterly amusing
- tragically romantic
- idyllic sylvan
- specific final
- awesome and stupendous
- nondescript mythological
- horridly fascinating
- bad, bleak
- eerie and impossible
- overly bad
- merry and exhilarating
- colorful, strenuous
- awesome, age-old
- clear illusory
- bustling and animated
- astounding and most splendid
- foggy nighttime
- dreary, monochromatic
- bally public
- last and most grievous
- dramatically obligatory
- ever frightful
- interesting and truly exciting
- calm, lone
- degrading and exciting
- brilliant, unreal
- greatest pantomimic
- dreary and tumultuous
- busy, animated
- toilsome but worthless
- natural but quite inexplicable
- preliminary hospital
- troubled and polluted
- indescribable, horrible
- dreadful and degrading
- historic last
- merry populous
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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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