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 tree
Below is a list of describing words for tree. 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 tree:
- conspicuous dead
- healthy mundane
- hot bowral
- local cherry
- huge, potted
- serpentine, purple
- embarrassingly ordinary
- favorite cherry
- young, incomparable
- pipal
- much, generous
- fatal orange
- past eldest
- ancient and monumental
- golden slim
- different and altogether better
- suitable scorched
- gnarled and hardy
- nearest hazel
- young cherry
- plentiful olive
- occasional stark
- ordinary cherry
- ornamentally deformed
- miniature olive
- lone tall
- seven-year-old cherry
- curious or beautiful
- bringal
- lofty elder
- lithe and tough
- sacred and tribal
- ancient, waterlogged
- greatest biggest
- withered, barren
- skeletal dead
- next gnarled
- huge celebrational
- exalted triple
- fair olive
- vast pipal
- imaginary deathless
- lofty leguminous
- big olive
- noble and fragrant
- dominant or intermediate
- dheal
- noble, reliable
- tremulous sensitive
- good olive
- alien evolutionary
- own olive
- wild olive
- more tough-minded
- highest large
- gnarled cherry
- chopped, dead
- nearby cherry
- greenest real
- sacred olive
- dark pliant
- improbable orange
- mammal evolutionary
- sacred fal
- good, climbable
- beautiful and immensely grand
- handsome, fast-growing
- full-grown cherry
- coral and feathery
- full-grown orange
- shaky dead
- little bringal
- goodly olive
- trystal
- totally nebulous
- sacred dheal
- african leguminous
- dead and sunken
- gaunt and skeletal
- unspeakable evil
- potted orange
- sysal
- green olive
- ancient rugged
- fruitful olive
- small leguminous
- biggest, oldest
- simple cherry
- nearest olive
- unoccupied nearby
- laakwal
- towering, old-growth
- nice hazel
- goddam binary
- fully petrified
- lone splintered
- dusty sysal
- beautiful sysal
- typical and famous
- ancient, lifeless
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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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