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 the devil
Below is a list of describing words for the devil. 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 the devil:
- fat full-sized
- quaint invisible
- impatient, reckless
- generous bloodthirsty
- sour and mutinous
- naked, blood-stained
- proper malignant
- deliberately dreadful
- untoward dumb
- artful, teasing
- debt-laden poor
- finest mad
- flaming, furious
- paltry, trivial
- old, scorched
- fecund little
- counterfeit little
- pestilentially lucky
- light-headed old
- incessantly busy and active
- incessantly busy
- indomitable poor
- foremost poor
- stupid medieval
- hottest eternal
- poor, tiresome
- incurably lazy
- naked, bloodstained
- unscrupulous, unconquerable
- avenging red
- supernaturally animated
- obscene bright-red
- lean untidy
- incarnal
- perverse, jealous
- small or miniature
- murderous red-and-white
- frantic poor
- yon crooked
- youthful and quite harmless
- always desirous and ready
- always desirous
- inefficient and burdensome
- crafty and tempting
- cunning, crafty and tempting
- poor or stupid
- indestructible young
- literally foreign
- protective little
- monstrous mad
- last hypothetical
- infamous undying
- absolute foreign
- round-eyed foreign
- horrific male
- dangerous chinese
- scheming fundamentalist
- actual factual
- extremely scary
- huge and extremely scary
- civil affable
- black heartless
- grotesque teutonic
- cultured, poor
- jolly horned
- fat and jolly horned
- paunchy red
- headstrong stubborn
- successful, truer
- frantic and capricious
- modest, religious
- poor, hot-tempered
- ornery, old
- sure-enough sulky
- sly incarnate
- fiercer little
- young scornful
- sufficiently stupid
- subtle, perverse
- personal and incessantly active
- poor, artless
- cold-blooded, crusty
- incalculable little
- unknown or dirty
- scandalous small
- great heartless
- proud, wanton
- red-faced foreign
- saucy and ambitious
- incarnate white
- dumb, sulky
- exhausted, poor
- stingy hypocritical
- intelligible, tangible
- northern modern
- poor claustrophobic
- bodily tempting
- handsome, elusive
- absent-minded foreign
- beautiful rumanian
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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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