Describing Wordsfor Tortoises

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Here are some adjectives for tortoises: unwieldy miserable, ordinary lesser, forever teasing, immensely heavy and strong, oversized, enamelled, gigantic mythical, literate but decrepit, least japanese, gavial, numerous, rare, red, steady, stupid, wily, artificial miniature, historic and venerable, gavial, certain diminutive, enormous metal, few somnolent, specially-trained, slow and painstaking, innumerable large, grey wrinkled, cautious old, gigantic fossil, large freshwater, lunar and solar, great wise, great jeweled, more bloody, few sacred. You can get the definitions of these tortoises adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to tortoises (and find more here).

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Words to Describe tortoises

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

unwieldy miserable ordinary lesser forever teasing immensely heavy and strong oversized, enamelled gigantic mythical literate but decrepit least japanese gavial, numerous rare, red steady, stupid wily artificial miniature historic and venerable gavial certain diminutive enormous metal few somnolent specially-trained slow and painstaking innumerable large grey wrinkled cautious old gigantic fossil large freshwater lunar and solar
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great wise great jeweled more bloody few sacred soft-shell small old still respectable immensely heavy slow old clean young wrinkled old huge, lumbering monstrous great freshwater fairly active talkative small native upended closely similar small, fat few hardy great sacred little young upturned fossil wary old amazonian several huge pickled stringed slow, steady reddish brown several large lead nice young huge old demoniacal stodgy truthful ageless shrewd old also numerous segmented athletic enamelled phantom elephantine gigantic arthritic blurry demented lilliputian life-like prescient funereal beatific little wooden laggard unarmed hairless other young colossal politic inquiring wary impenetrable bronzed tidal omniscient literate counterfeit queer little mythical symbolic decrepit uneasy painstaking aquatic little red slow lumbering many small motionless poor old funny little good little several small slow-moving irate somnolent mammoth purple monstrous huge mad sluggish stringy terrestrial lazy teasing more subtle hexagonal enormous indolent metal bearded cautious lunar fair-sized jeweled great big wrinkled defenseless meek craggy thoughtless decayed oversized average fabulous viable solar cylindrical gilt virtuous gray-haired mutant blind amber flat greenish immense asiatic brazen speckled stray industrious plump suicidal bloody scrawny staid hungry tedious african celestial historic good old guilty eager divine male hardy bloated common unfortunate ancient closest red foolish pure poor dead sacred steady normal mystic hollow abominable nice little persistent antiquated golden wise fat awkward identical additional heavy malicious venerable fertile wretched harmless prudent damned tame smaller striking diminutive european fearful lesser innocent delicious kinder miniature most rare green worthy quaint blue respectable japanese miserable fierce beloved admirable anxious dull slender larger native wooden noble drunken tall remarkable sad weary finest regular stupid narrow mechanical true happy political unhappy solid numerous dark subtle mighty solemn delicate brown so-called angry yellow similar wide loose active vain ole hard vast modern whole best human strong ordinary massive empty usual curious various beautiful fresh certain single local black fine small

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Words to Describe tortoises

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "tortoises" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "tortoises" are: unwieldy miserable, ordinary lesser, forever teasing, immensely heavy and strong, and oversized, enamelled. There are 289 other words to describe tortoises listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe tortoises 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, "tortoises" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many tortoises 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 tortoises?

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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