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 thumb
Below is a list of describing words for the thumb. 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 thumb:
- unexpectedly bony
- proverbial sore
- old and extremely rough
- inborn green
- yellow, filthy
- free and straight
- surprisingly green
- other goddam
- thick calloused
- large and very dirty
- expressive, eloquent
- distant, clumsy
- casual metal
- talented green
- enigmatic sore
- \-ally fat
- single stumpy
- fond, unconscious
- sensitively sore
- stubby rigid
- tiny alert
- industriously inquiring
- ridiculously dirty
- rather stiff and rheumatic
- moist male
- grimy, calloused
- thy moistened
- tiny useless
- less-developed extra
- authoritarian paternal
- illegal sore
- lone, swollen
- vast spiked
- large and very inflamed
- predictably languid
- cloudy editorial
- sandy pink
- rough, sensuous
- damned sore
- huge green-brown
- excessively long and narrow
- new smudged
- professionally inquiring
- awkward eager
- great immense
- aggressively green
- eerily nimble
- ambitious metaphorical
- powerful and purposeful
- thy right-hand
- wise and disdainful
- weary listless
- extra diminutive
- genuinely conscientious
- significantly active
- misshapen or double
- white terrible
- slightly movable
- elegant big
- calloused and apparently nerveless
- regular green
- gnarled and muscular
- large well-made
- thick, familiar
- lean, delicate
- brown thy
- thy painful
- wet, blue
- wee fat
- thick, scarred
- dirty bloody
- mental green
- suitably casual
- huge, lumpy
- almost central
- exceedingly long and sharp
- unusually green
- young, capable
- broad dirty
- red freckled
- heavy, tanned
- apparently nerveless
- great sooty
- thick and dirty
- little imperfect
- calloused old
- broad and expressive
- calloused
- thin, agile
- smudged partial
- impressive green
- ultimate green
- thin, grubby
- shapeless and dirty
- small rudimentary
- gray dead
- perfumed white
- amazingly green
- long, grimy
- little, skinny
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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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