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 scores
Below is a list of describing words for scores. 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 scores:
- inconsiderable old
- double total
- open operatic
- big clothbound
- [musical
- highest gross
- erratic year-to-year
- worst composite
- same sicker
- total and glorious
- rough musical
- excellent or poor
- regrettably naked
- automatic double
- top possible
- gigantically complex
- whereof full
- aggregate possible
- old outstanding
- highest aggregate
- higher composite
- pheno-minal
- previous best
- fairly mediocre
- sixth, raw
- learnedly facile
- witty musical
- tattered musical
- old, imaginary
- later vocal
- >neighbors�several
- strictest patriotic
- impressive second-place
- older vocal
- original three-part
- her--musical
- extremely graceful and charming
- operatic full
- maximum or perfect
- unfinished musical
- brief but laborious
- magnificently inconsistent
- individual australian
- total victorious
- well-written and well-balanced
- highest composite
- best eclectic
- lowest gross
- new and valueless
- melodious and sparkling
- small, trivial
- full orchestral
- shallow, regular
- actual raw
- best total
- initial high
- usual several
- non-dealer
- highest individual
- certain blood-soaked
- seveial
- consistent perfect
- satisfyingly high
- respectful ritual
- turbulent musical
- panicky musical
- big unsettled
- happy and lousy
- inflated physical
- respective eight-foot
- enviably low
- unpredictably different
- beautifully original
- more deeper
- famously high
- biggest and smallest
- planetary low
- operatic and orchestral
- haunting original
- modern full
- dramatic orchestral
- orchestral full
- highest overall
- complete operatic
- minimum, several
- full-blown orchestral
- useless comparative
- minimum several
- absolutely useless and childish
- full vocal
- impressive and noble
- best medal
- original ragged
- operatic or symphonic
- tolerable fresh
- bright individual
- educational and private
- heaviest personal
- brilliant and tuneful
- lowest net
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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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