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 thickness
Below is a list of describing words for thickness. 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 thickness:
- tough bright
- minimum present
- small and scarcely appreciable
- evident enormous
- essential creamy
- greatest or least
- wet and blinding
- single four-inch
- rear, less
- minimum workable
- greater dorsal
- average loose
- super-editorial
- equal or different
- immense and fortress-like
- sulky, foggy
- dense and wavy
- sane and perfect
- extra tiny
- great and nearly equal
- compact and silent
- powdery half-inch
- puzzling, exotic
- icy, dense
- enormous collective
- consequent double
- regular equal
- appreciable extra
- curious sick
- probable vertical
- maximum reasonable
- clammy, tangible
- enormous aggregate
- great or lesser
- probably double or triple
- stuffy, narrow
- peculiar slight
- total average
- considerable vertical
- average vertical
- possible equal
- good, workable
- greater vertical
- vast and unusual
- probably double
- fragrant brown
- same approximate
- hot tight
- proper proportionate
- heavy sensual
- dark, sodden
- scarcely appreciable
- great geologic
- heavy rigid
- total maximum
- almost inpenetrable
- exact proper
- quite uncommon
- actual total
- heavy fleshy
- great but unknown
- certain total
- well-nigh impregnable
- soft double
- somewhat undue
- true relative
- equal total
- away superfluous
- average total
- special wide
- full average
- genuine physical
- full original
- peculiar and striking
- same total
- actical
- average maximum
- wet wild
- whole vertical
- greater relative
- same nasal
- greatest total
- great vertical
- great relative
- comparatively inconsiderable
- usual average
- natural and unavoidable
- proportionate
- least visible
- equal
- same relative
- less equal
- aggregate
- proper and sufficient
- paunchy
- greater or less
- half-inch
- same smooth
- double or triple
- inpenetrable
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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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