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 tie
Below is a list of describing words for tie. 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 tie:
- mysterious and most powerful
- better quick
- regimental striped
- legal or carnal
- feverish, romantic
- black four-in-hand
- weaker geographical
- knotted maroon
- comic pink
- knotted old-fashioned
- blue elastic
- prosperous purple
- flashy striped
- prettier green
- blue four-in-hand
- classical clerical
- _universal and common
- rightfully closer
- wide maroon
- subtle deep
- horrible mauve
- dapper pearl-gray
- quiet maroon
- overly flashy
- harmonious purple
- excessively loose
- racial, political or patriotic
- unbreakable mnemonic
- strict or definite
- startlingly unorthodox
- scoreless
- narrow striped
- narrow four-in-hand
- strong, affectionate
- universal and common
- beige moire
- long-standing informal
- deliberate dynastic
- striped regimental
- extremely hypothetical
- sober striped
- repulsive loud
- distant and threadbare
- slim funereal
- poorly knotted
- positively sober
- snugly knotted
- high, striped
- crisp and conservative
- suave black
- precisely knotted
- meticulously knotted
- unusually ornamental
- conservative narrow
- closest, holiest
- stronger and indelible
- least crumpled
- fond and social
- reluctant orange
- intimate and natural
- weak, nonsensical
- ambitious four-in-hand
- still preferable
- airy and bloodless
- pleasing fraternal
- your khaki
- smartly knotted
- ministerial white
- closer, spiritual
- last kindred
- awfully sacred
- new and most endearing
- red four-in-hand
- outrageous plaid
- strongest and most sacred
- same affectional
- peaceable but very important
- purple four-in-hand
- fluffy, mushy
- mauve or magenta
- grey made-up
- literary white
- semi-clerical white
- decorous dark-blue
- intangible, immaterial
- breathless fairy
- shiny ready-made
- ready-made four-in-hand
- unique and immaterial
- strongest and most agreeable
- skinny italian
- beautiful, constitutional
- dearest and most sincere
- mighty, viewless
- nice made-up
- galling, intolerable
- complex and gentle
- official or organic
- other semi-final
- incredible secret
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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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