Describing Words
This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org.
Click words for definitions.
Words to Describe title
Below is a list of describing words for title. 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 title:
- pretentious collective
- mighty catchy
- aforementioned lofty
- splendid but doubtful
- clear valid
- high-sounding but barren
- huge and somber
- awe-inspiring new
- justly scornful
- sudden and scarlet
- meek and immaterial
- sufficiently resounding
- slightly grandiose
- durable or certain
- momentary or uncertain
- customary ducal
- derivative spanish
- useless, honorary
- high and invidious
- witty and upbeat
- wonderfully witty and upbeat
- deceptive poetical
- rather apt and striking
- individual, endearing
- now luminous and suggestive
- rather glitzy
- exotic and evocative
- supposedly ironic
- nominally unclouded
- neutral royal
- bad alternate
- essentially bogus
- real and peaceful
- tragically suggestive
- sentimental and tragically suggestive
- high-sounding, decorative
- truly sonorous
- truly sonorous and republican
- sonorous and republican
- net
- new and respectful
- least inspirational
- single, nondescript
- least clearer
- new, formal
- prominent patrilineal
- significant and epigrammatic
- simultaneously endearing and self-deprecating
- endearing and self-deprecating
- simultaneously endearing
- doubly vain
- vacant or dormant
- odd incongruous
- high portuguese
- official and distinctive
- forever unforgettable
- high-sounding, pompous and empty
- least, honorary
- childish and arrogant
- otherwise childish and arrogant
- primordial and inalienable
- also decorative
- honorable and well-known
- new archiepiscopal
- conscious equal
- fresh false
- arrogant, fictitious
- distinctive and familiar
- fine and flattering
- high-sounding and finer
- silly up-to-date
- fancifully appropriate
- decidedly vague
- honorable popular
- oldest hereditary
- unquestionable, plenary
- long and very vulgar
- vague and impracticable
- {original
- new orthodox
- mere honorary
- quaint and modest
- sacred and primitive
- equally aimless
- luminous and suggestive
- decent gaelic
- perhaps nonsensical
- decent, relevant
- atypically bland
- unfortunate and atypically bland
- lesser civilian
- mockingly affectionate
- respectable and noble
- equally catchy
- meaningless royal
- exalted diplomatic
- somewhat immodest
- grand upriver
- official and former
- separate ducal
Popular Searches
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.
Please note that Describing Words uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. To learn more, see the privacy policy.
