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 masterpiece
Below is a list of describing words for the masterpiece. 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 masterpiece:
- superb, monstrous
- immense pagan
- chief occidental
- genuine weird
- notoriously unfinished
- authentic artistic
- high-pitched, british
- magnificent and effective
- real rhetorical
- stunning gothic
- rough and splendid
- able, compact
- simple and unimpeachable
- single and eccentric
- still eccentric
- remarkable forthcoming
- perfect and matchless
- dreary tragic
- separate constructional
- unequalled and immortal
- magnificently emotional and imaginative
- magnificently emotional
- simple tragic
- comic old
- priceless and timeless
- seminal but hitherto unpublished
- down-home culinary
- pink-coral
- immense, unequalled
- one-man, one-act
- rough, unfocused
- uplifting cinematic
- goddamned sensory
- vast and eccentric
- sacred twentieth-century
- majestic and pathetic
- hasty and faulty
- shameless, merciless
- towering comic
- imperishable literary
- actually unknown
- sensuous oriental
- real pyrotechnic
- harsh and ruthless
- such slow-growing
- important and very difficult
- vigorous historical
- ingenious and inventive
- uncanny and disturbing
- final, crowning
- innocent, sentimental
- miraculous small
- superb and noble
- hitherto unread
- mature and complex
- artistic and architectural
- odd literary
- intricate literary
- indescribably charming
- rich and massive
- poetic and mysterious
- complete and unqualified
- pure eternal
- longer complete
- greatest oratorical
- little absolute
- own culinary
- single literary
- literary or philosophic
- greater psychological
- perfect comic
- delicate psychological
- beautiful artistic
- greatest geographical
- latest dramatic
- stupendous natural
- almost flawless
- famous poetical
- gorgeous pink
- natatorial
- truly creative
- more consummate
- horological
- finest gothic
- little ironical
- great realistic
- “classical
- mellow golden
- own unfinished
- emotional and imaginative
- new optical
- new and untried
- new poetic
- great operatic
- genuine antique
- new chinese
- greatest modern
- greatest literary
- cubist
- great tragic
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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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