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 vests
Below is a list of describing words for vests. 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 vests:
- shabby, open
- floor-length, open
- thin, impenetrable
- flexible reflective
- flowered tabby
- tight brocaded
- often ragged
- green tartar
- quilted old
- bulky quilted
- orange high-visibility
- tapered red
- heavy bullet-proof
- wonderful brocaded
- amazonian red
- thick wadmal
- foppish white
- puffy inflated
- magical bulletproof
- khaki and bullet-proof
- colorful, brocaded
- blacked-out bulletproof
- damned bulky
- early bulletproof
- adjustable bullet-proof
- efficient bulletproof
- long, frayed
- delicate plush
- padded outdoor
- debonair, tight
- unstained padded
- clerical and fancy
- good bulletproof
- also clerical and fancy
- lightweight ballistic
- fancy or white
- lightweight green
- sumptuous silken
- absurd scarlet
- modishly tight
- striped short
- inner silken
- dark-brown open
- soft and spicy
- shiny ole
- dark, brocaded
- festal red
- long-bodied green
- bulletproof
- warm padded
- formal dark
- exterior bulletproof
- full-length bulletproof
- older bulletproof
- brown, gilt-edged
- fluorescent reflective
- padded bulletproof
- heavy bulletproof
- flashy double-breasted
- lightweight bullet-proof
- soft ballistic
- them—brightly colored
- nutty orange
- black bullet-proof
- bulky bulletproof
- many bulletproof
- oddly padded
- also clerical
- uncomfortable castoff
- white and greasy
- grimy green
- brief, open
- formal striped
- old bulletproof
- special bulletproof
- floor-length ambassadorial
- grey tactical
- looser white
- outer tactical
- open, brocaded
- nautical survival
- scarlet inner
- spotty black
- high double-breasted
- stunning yellow
- sporty striped
- padded or quilted
- picturesque, scarlet
- silken inner
- simple silken
- similar exotic
- dirty whitish
- coarse warm
- dirty tan
- sallow yellow
- famous median
- rich jeweled
- good fitting
- flashy yellow
- blond white
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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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