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 stamp
Below is a list of describing words for stamp. 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 stamp:
- virtuous and lofty
- highly virtuous and lofty
- true heretical
- indelible clerical
- despicably common
- vague but recognizable
- dingy five-cent
- red waxen
- particularly fine and complete
- special adhesive
- stolid low
- personal, straightforward
- peculiar and one-sided
- republican, socialist
- meek and compassionate
- vigorous and rude
- sudden, vigorous and rude
- disagreeably fresh and sharp
- disagreeably fresh
- sudden flat-footed
- encyclical and impersonal
- curiously military
- profoundly cautious
- colder, fiercer
- peculiar and indelible
- deadly ruthless
- magical time-delay
- green austrian
- red six-cent
- genuine hot-tempered
- sharper legal
- individual, mental
- blackest and fiercest
- stronger asiatic
- indelible national
- certain zonal
- delicate and yet indisputable
- wholly miltonic
- ordinary unreflective
- thoroughly ethical
- original and highly conspicuous
- peculiar necessary
- naturalistic and national
- decidedly naturalistic and national
- aristocratic, intelligent
- arbitrary and presumptuous
- subtler and bolder
- good-hearted, aboriginal
- indelible but invisible
- pink five-cent
- royal and passionate
- genuinely apostolic
- yellow or livid
- double and tremendous
- single obnoxious
- clearest, sharpest
- red commemorative
- indefinite but recognizable
- commonplace, brilliant
- quadrumanal
- visible, indestructible
- unseen but indelible
- unmistakably intellectual
- singularly vulgar and common
- brown five-cent
- fiercely expressive
- indefinite but unmistakable
- familiar legible
- stereotyped ministerial
- ubiquitous adhesive
- peculiar and most revolutionary
- decidedly older
- indescribably common
- crowning religious
- impatient, petulant
- heavy and impatient
- evil, bestial
- new and wholly original
- primeval creative
- blank commemorative
- awkward, flat-footed
- best and most long-lasting
- al drowsy
- distinct hispanic
- one-penny magenta
- ultimate tribal
- fair habilimental
- strikingly individual
- immutable infinite
- strange inimitable
- coarse, rough-hewn
- staid and comfortable
- blank and guilty
- enthusiastic and keen
- decidedly naturalistic
- typical dynamic
- exchangeable international
- uncommunicative italian
- imaginative and impassioned
- uncommonly genial
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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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