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 two
Below is a list of describing words for two. 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 two:
- past intense
- mexican canal
- hardly possible or conceivable
- gloomy plain
- speculative public
- flawless galactic
- rapid galactic
- efficient galactic
- bedraggled other
- inevitable belated
- green aforesaid
- ardent and imperative
- white portugal
- streamlined all-terrain
- happy sorrowful
- decorative or vestigial
- appalling, infelicitous
- hectic last
- pretentious and devious
- impatient signal
- steady, rogue
- zanzibar hard
- simple, woolen
- extremely fair and delicate
- ready chopped
- quite separate and separable
- rather pale and brittle
- private automatic
- avaricious and envious
- low and confidential
- insolent or impertinent
- next stout
- preferred stout
- enormous animal
- sturdy and large
- formal galactic
- inexorable sonic
- present lousy
- predictably stolid and durable
- predictably stolid
- cheesy ancient
- restless and hot
- full additional
- swedish open
- past upheaval
- dark stout
- infuriating, humiliating
- futile and frustrating
- newborn foal
- identical other
- lumbering, insignificant
- now stationary and unattended
- full-fledged, other
- animal downward
- northern dead
- comfortable lazy
- distinctly poetic and archaic
- swift and fleetest
- quite homesick and miserable
- deep fallow
- drunk dry
- late, half-past
- lower innthal
- circular canal
- late carnival
- goal, other
- rather nice and clear
- perfectly clear and practical
- local trifling
- german proposal
- especial approval
- singularly distinct and independent
- respectively didactic and historical
- respectively didactic
- especially racy
- especially racy and piquant
- correct, chartered
- solid vaulting
- naughty animal
- particularly shy and crafty
- icy plain
- loose and fine
- temporal and posterior
- weak, scarred
- shadowy idyllic
- perpetual half-past
- rear full
- polish capital
- ingenious and comic
- amazingly ingenious and comic
- aloof full
- hollow, disturbing
- tropical current
- equally unhistorical and allegorical
- equally unhistorical
- next grained
- now due and unpaid
- quite fresh and hearty
- respectively fourth and fifth
- respectively fourth
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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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