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 slippers
Below is a list of describing words for slippers. 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 slippers:
- pliable old
- high-heeled scarlet
- soft low-heeled
- yellow moorish
- red turkish
- blue flower-petal
- rococo red
- quilted, blue
- high-heeled spanish
- last, scarlet
- swiss and red
- dainty moorish
- horrible loose
- high-heeled wooden
- little fur-lined
- outlandish scarlet
- silken indoor
- fuzzy black-and-yellow
- squalid green
- propitious white
- tiny fanciful
- restless high-heeled
- high-heeled, fluffy
- flat-footed scarlet
- showy small
- gaudy small
- marvellously uncomfortable
- quaint impossible
- high-heeled brocaded
- ruddy greenish
- dainty thin-soled
- white, high-heeled
- fanciful black
- red ducal
- loose sandal
- wealthy, crimson
- highly appropriate and agreeable
- shiny high-heeled
- high-heeled pink
- elegant but very thin
- enticingly low
- offensively infantile
- tiny turned-up
- turned-up turkish
- flowered, green
- burlesque oriental
- scarlet turkish
- white high-heeled
- now inappropriate
- tawdry, miserable
- pink turkish
- gilt high-heeled
- dainty high-heeled
- dainty, high-heeled
- large baggy
- pink fuzzy
- incredibly dilapidated
- smart yellow
- tiny beardless
- ludicrous fluffy
- dainty, beribboned
- muddy high-heeled
- upturned turkish
- mental hospi\-tal
- naughty red
- vintage pink
- persuasive but obsolete
- well-worn fuzzy
- high, quilted
- absurd but amusing
- high-heeled fairy
- small, gilt
- fuzzy beige
- fancy turkish
- cozy blue
- fuzzy tan
- hand-knit multicolored
- unfamiliar jeweled
- vast padded
- down too-large
- thin high-heeled
- red, high-heeled
- gilt turkish
- tiny, high-heeled
- also ornate
- good colossal
- fascinating orange
- dirty loose
- neat high-heeled
- high-heeled
- soft indoor
- fine jeweled
- equally lavish
- little high-heeled
- little, high-heeled
- slim french
- high-heeled red
- dainty scarlet
- elegant sandal
- pink sequined
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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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