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 turkey
Below is a list of describing words for turkey. 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 turkey:
- emotional cold
- ostensibly lame
- mexican wild
- withdrawal cold
- old-fashioned cold
- gifted, little
- partly cold
- northern true
- remarkably praiseworthy
- glorious and exclusive
- big and very fat
- sluggish wild
- juicy wild
- dear and wild
- usual sizzling
- baked wild
- medium-sized domestic
- ugly red-faced
- delectable wild
- indifferent provincial
- barbary, european
- entire wild
- together cold
- mad ole
- little villainous
- old and intractable
- planetary cold
- annual baked
- mountainous northeastern
- mythical wild
- fat and very ruddy
- somnolent obsolete
- miserable, sassy
- hungry cold
- erstwhile european
- tall and long
- crackly brown
- white variegated
- young plain
- female wild
- sci-fi classic
- proudest old
- dimly coloured
- maybe cold
- lone wild
- past, more
- confident cold
- colorful, life-size
- brown domestic
- big snowy
- male wild
- large vigorous
- terrible nice
- young or weak
- largest yellow
- chopped cold
- fat wild
- horrible fake
- mildly angry
- last plump
- nice baked
- mostly wild
- rare asiatic
- superb wild
- sure big
- crested white
- distant wild
- rare wild
- magnificent wild
- lone brown
- horrid thick
- enormous cold
- delicate cold
- antique red
- tall, wet
- delicious wild
- solitary wild
- warm cold
- never cold
- nasty ole
- big, red-faced
- fine wild
- asiatic and european
- belligerent old
- old, tough
- oldest and biggest
- few vagrant
- immense wild
- fine male
- irate old
- single wild
- absolutely delicious
- cold wild
- particular wild
- famous big
- just cold
- fragrant red
- delicious young
- fat, young
- greedy young
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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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