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 toe
Below is a list of describing words for toe. 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 toe:
- charred great
- short great
- stiff great
- movable great
- bare big
- inflamed, painful
- last and very little
- civilized great
- extra hind
- outer, hind
- single well-developed
- succulent, succulent
- supple great
- heavy and fantastic
- naked, indi�vidual
- big and next
- hideous electric
- al nationaal
- additional hind
- sole, seedy
- rheumatic big
- true hind
- grimy big
- pink big
- inner or big
- gouty big
- lightest fantastic
- once resilient
- inner or hind
- fourth or hind
- bothersome fifth
- outer or fourth
- reversible outer
- also important and prosperous
- rudimentary inner
- additional or fifth
- well-developed fifth
- external hind
- slender, hind
- dislocated big
- fourth hind
- dusty big
- stony big
- small hind
- sore big
- slender big
- elegantly shod
- muddy big
- cautious yellow
- short fifth
- naked big
- eccentric and acrobatic
- terugval
- human great
- real hind
- fifth rudimentary
- stout, hind
- strong, hind
- deformed big
- inquisitive long
- swollen big
- stubby great
- little or fifth
- long hind
- shorter hind
- impressive yellow
- elegant aristocratic
- last or outer
- safe, dry
- inner hind
- also eccentric
- pink and tiny
- sublime imperial
- rudimentary sixth
- bold and sacrilegious
- supple big
- breathtaking single
- small fourth
- defective little
- akeldissietaal
- gouty wooden
- dark fantastic
- later eenmaal
- outer hind
- rudimentary fourth
- dreadfully sore
- short hind
- little big
- hind
- big, horned
- little fifth
- ambitious great
- inner lateral
- rudimentary hind
- wise big
- terrific big
- corresponding great
- strong hind
- peculiar broad
- gay fantastic
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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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