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 sugar
Below is a list of describing words for sugar. 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 sugar:
- double refined
- powdered white
- spicy colored
- cupful powdered
- cupful brown
- large, iced
- good moist
- sufficient moist
- meal and brown
- coarse and poisonous
- finest moist
- fine refined
- german raw
- refined raw
- orange sufficient
- chopped powdered
- preferred, brown
- white and powdered
- tart, considerable
- canned powdered
- best brown
- best refined
- flaming bloody
- completely refined
- imperfect and liquid
- raw or moist
- lastly sufficient
- white or raw
- extra powdered
- half-melted brown
- liquid refined
- raw or refined
- much moist
- coarse moist
- french brown
- raw and refined
- also powdered
- powdered
- presumably raw
- enough cuban
- rare raw
- teaspoonful, brown
- fresh powdered
- white centrifugal
- sweet, less
- possible, brown
- coaxing and much
- total refined
- other but indigenous
- refined and raw
- --natal central
- natal central
- refined hard
- lead, fine
- raw or soft
- three-quarter cupful
- alike unjust and impolitic
- tragically expensive
- blue powdered
- large, well-managed
- superfluous, cloying
- otherwise cuban
- however depressed
- red dirty
- motley powdered
- competitive philippine
- much brazilian
- miners--central
- mexican coarse
- second-class white
- present, brown
- cleanest brown
- profitably productive
- raw centrifugal
- theoretical pure
- pure or refined
- common moist
- together brown
- particularly brown
- brown or moist
- perspiring brown
- powdered refined
- enough powdered
- dense crystalline
- little powdered
- enny white
- more powdered
- refined white
- horrendously thick
- often powdered
- inferior brown
- white powdered
- purest refined
- abrupt conical
- cupful
- fine moist
- cornmeal and brown
- fat or refined
- oatmeal and brown
- just spiced
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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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