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 soul
Below is a list of describing words for soul. 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 soul:
- vegetative or sensitive
- sweetest, wisest
- well-meaning human
- jealous and too doubtful
- dark-skinned, solemn
- gentle, irresponsible
- ordinary damned
- bouncy, juicy
- immaterial and problematical
- thy impure
- noble sincere
- thankful great
- genuine damned
- tenebrous and passionate
- great, misguided
- suitably damned
- truly damned
- vital male
- easy indulgent
- bloody blatant
- black, wretched
- gifted british
- ardently willing
- immortal and amenable
- reluctant, drowsy
- unclouded and receptive
- exceedingly sorrowful and heavy
- well-meaning, good
- generous naive
- nice, noble
- unfathomable and seemingly wondrous
- selfless and trustworthy
- poor laden
- violent, grief-stricken
- gaudy barbaric
- separate and mystical
- noble, unrecognized
- naturally proud and impatient
- previously trusting
- same residual
- irreducible individual
- wee newborn
- miserable, murderous
- raw and unprotected
- social deep
- sweet and virtuous
- harmonious thy
- perfectly heroic
- dear, hopeful
- good, impracticable
- rich and meditative
- strange maimed
- conservative, narrow-minded
- busy and sensible
- truthful and generous
- charitable and lofty
- strong and inflexible
- solid and well-fortified
- regular and most perfect
- charitable and popular
- immortal rational
- gracious innocent
- single and dearest
- dear practical
- playful and blasphemous
- naked ravenous
- lowliest egyptian
- unnamed and beloved
- receptive childlike
- elusive common
- rebellious and daring
- small and flippant
- immaterial immortal
- individual immortal
- thy pre-existing
- radiant and lofty
- straight, poor
- brisk, light-hearted
- kindest and most pliable
- open, artless
- ingenious, romantic
- unhappy and impotent
- virgin and unhappy
- timorous feminine
- royal poetic
- naked, guilty
- subtle and sentient
- childlike and supremely unselfish
- best and most good-natured
- merry and lovable
- unappreciated and undeveloped
- simple portuguese
- delicate and virgin
- damned egyptian
- good or mortal
- sturdy and typical
- solitary and sceptical
- dim boyish
- ulcerated and pathetic
- unaccountably thoughtful
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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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