Describing Wordsfor Thing

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Here are some adjectives for thing: material artificial, sickly little, winsome wee, most likely, most awful, clean wild, little hateful, infinitely painful, most reasonable, beastly, useful and convenient, most striking, most horrible, unhappy, far-off, mere shapeless, most curious, likely, most terrible, little, fat, most wonderful, manly, most difficult, most important, dead sure, cold, little, other foul, scarcest, most beautiful, most remarkable, next best. You can get the definitions of these thing adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to thing (and find more here).

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Words to Describe thing

Below is a list of describing words for thing. 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 thing:

material artificial sickly little winsome wee most likely most awful clean wild little hateful infinitely painful most reasonable beastly useful and convenient most striking most horrible unhappy, far-off mere shapeless most curious likely most terrible little, fat most wonderful manly most difficult most important dead sure cold, little other foul scarcest most beautiful most remarkable next best tiresome little rather alarming holy whole crazy poor dumb unclean
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stupid old least little worrisome oddest shabby old wee smart little queer little whole damn sweetest cheapest funniest puzzling fiercest poor young hardest tiny little sweet little genteel stupidest cruel braver grandest primeval shameless shapeless funny speckled easiest correct contemptible uncanny biggest greatest simplest wild trifling reasonable amazing latest loveliest fairest queer tenuous strangest damn best evil obvious black and white awful wireless hateful alarming fearsome strange sure impossible important bad impudent strongest second unseen customary ruddy convenient shocking dynamic glorious concrete miserable damned mischievous newest sexy next dumb wrong decent normal dear old essential nameless exquisite horrid surprising lucky wonderful goddam sad fundamental useful foul literary difficult artificial whole astounding reckless monstrous serious silvery single handy dreadful sensible main infernal weird incredible worst mad finest painful poor fearful cheerful human mortal closest dead visible far-off common curious terrible delightful precious grim fourth spiritual wise neat valuable usual sacred bizarre sharp beautiful delicate highest clean remarkable sweet striking separate safe unhappy fat crazy handsome smart certain brown black fine excellent fair cheap strong hard long natural horrible odd bloody soft different dear red heavy possible regular mere cold white little simple

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Words to Describe thing

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "thing" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "thing" are: material artificial, sickly little, winsome wee, most likely, and most awful. There are 210 other words to describe thing listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe thing suits your needs.

If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, "thing" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many thing adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is thing?

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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