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 talker
Below is a list of describing words for talker. 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 talker:
- delightful and active
- direct and diligent
- impetuous and eloquent
- fluent and incredibly intelligent
- loudest and crudest
- interesting and felicitous
- ready and sometimes amusing
- eager and fluent
- loud and silly
- unpremeditated agreeable
- also foolish or idle
- brilliant and effusive
- strongest and bitterest
- graceful, interesting
- strong, ambidextrous
- voluminous and imperturbable
- mighty and garrulous
- agreeable and versatile
- emphatic, spontaneous
- slick good
- typical and imaginary
- strong tedious
- humble straight
- incessant and most indiscreet
- eloquent and agreeable
- enthusiastic and effective
- smooth and affable
- vivacious and agreeable
- easy and even brilliant
- great and indeed wonderful
- loose or glib
- professional and renowned
- powerful clever
- overwhelming and somewhat arrogant
- timid and bad
- extraordinarily fluent
- beautiful and discreet
- emphatic and vivacious
- quiet and almost invisible
- australian, splendid
- strange and fluent
- sober deliberate
- tireless and energetic
- good and very amusing
- eager and most sociable
- ordinarily glib
- amusing and fluent
- garrulous or impertinent
- amiable, spirited
- brilliant and ready
- voluble retail
- witty, interesting
- good, persuasive
- ready or abundant
- tolerably candid
- courteous, witty
- glib and efficient
- prodigious and most eloquent
- good and fluent
- past and brilliant
- shallow, incoherent
- inflated, senseless
- splendid single-handed
- glib and rapid
- ready and melodious
- bright, ready and melodious
- ornate and classical
- affable and fluent
- thoughtless and rude
- witty and full
- less glib
- luminous, extravagant
- voluble and animated
- distinctly tiresome
- loud, shallow
- well-informed and epigrammatic
- rapid, fluent
- clear and voluble
- good but not profuse
- frivolous, foreign
- intelligent but not voluble
- noisy, senseless
- empty, noisy
- willing and persistent
- free and expansive
- also foolish
- dangerously indiscreet
- incredibly intelligent
- shy, tremendous
- famous nonstop
- fine and fluent
- brisk, sardonic
- thin but pleasant
- brilliant and copious
- foolish or idle
- admirable all-round
- racy and witty
- instructive and impressive
- sober, deliberate
- fluent and interesting
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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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