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 vein
Below is a list of describing words for vein. 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 vein:
- discal transverse
- pr�brachial
- praebrachial
- pure-metal
- brown lustrous
- black, pr�brachial
- black, praebrachial
- strongly sarcastic
- postcaval
- post-caval
- pr�brachial transverse
- praebrachial transverse
- pre-caval
- decent congratulatory
- inferior pulmonary
- superior pulmonary
- secret but most precious
- extravagant, satirical
- extravagantly poetic
- subintestinal
- orthodox solemn
- respectably deep
- cold unmetaphorical
- internal metacarpal
- usual captious
- strong facetious
- fashionable romantic
- old and happier
- cold and sometimes ironic
- a--principal
- confidential and reminiscent
- charmingly confidential and reminiscent
- petulant and satirical
- fine but somewhat thin
- partly trifling
- broader and still broader
- great post-caval
- conspicuously casual
- cheerful and vivacious
- lower radial
- posterior cardinal
- richest lyric
- unexpectedly jocular
- rich and straight
- thick, rich and straight
- peculiar irrelevant
- pleasantly sentimental
- fanciful and richest
- economical or religious
- almost satiric
- undetected and persistent
- passionately strong and elemental
- passionately strong
- richer artistic
- loyal and politic
- richest farcical
- intense satiric
- characteristic and felicitous
- ambitious and fantastic
- primary or prominent
- bolder and original
- odd dramatic
- similarly superlative
- odd, racy
- lofty tragic
- strange, humorous
- romantic possible
- tense, full
- large intra-abdominal
- cunning mineral
- truthful natural
- classic paranoid
- unprecedented and hardly credible
- vulgar and sensational
- fluent and copious
- tragic-sentimental
- gallant erotic
- mature and subtle
- happiest familiar
- renowned humorous
- delicate but shallow
- lighter ironical
- single thinnest
- satiric and often bitter
- incisive and witty
- brief fugal
- charming, reminiscent
- feebly extravagant
- happiest comic
- paradoxical, flattering
- well-known happy
- jocularly satirical
- incisive, uncompromising
- racy and delightful
- occasional charming
- lighter, humorous
- airy, satiric
- considerable or fundamental
- unusual and unpractical
- same reminiscent
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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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