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 waistcoat
Below is a list of describing words for waistcoat. 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 waistcoat:
- double-breasted fancy
- coloured dingy
- typical scarlet
- rough, double-breasted
- exceedingly open
- white or fancy
- yellow shag
- immaculate azure
- maroon fancy
- cooler white
- high, clerical
- natty double-breasted
- expensive french-made
- particularly bright and garish
- giddy fancy
- eminently plaid
- coal and vivid
- speckled and slightly rotund
- flimsy, bloodstained
- subduedly elegant
- narrow but gay
- visible plaid
- finest flowered
- flowered gray
- poor, greasy
- oriental open
- ample fancy
- elegantly flowered
- wide speckled
- stiff inner
- extravagantly v-shaped
- rough double-breasted
- marvellously brocaded
- elegant but plain
- dirty light-colored
- abbreviated, gorgeous
- patriarchal red
- outrageously fancy
- speckled fancy
- best, white
- newest metropolitan
- fashionable open
- ruddy tan
- closely buttoned-up
- brocaded red
- ample yellow
- white, flowered
- black-and-yellow striped
- expansive white
- memorable purple
- particularly fruity
- last, excessive
- double-breasted flat-bottomed
- bright and garish
- tight, ornate
- dusky crimson
- occasional colorful
- double-breasted white
- spacious yellow
- high double-breasted
- outrageously fine
- red, capacious
- coloured scarlet
- flowered brocaded
- far-reaching white
- old hair-seal
- exceedingly yellow
- portentous white
- remarkable and precious
- pneumatic life-saving
- black fancy
- long homespun
- double-breasted pique
- thick double-breasted
- poor plaid
- yellow pique
- jolly white
- zo�logical fashionable
- zoological fashionable
- revolutionary red
- splendid striped
- single or double-breasted
- rotund speckled
- slim red
- gallant white
- red hungarian
- hair-seal
- long scalloped
- elegant brocaded
- capacious white
- wonderful flowered
- green fancy
- white pique
- immense heavy
- same, white
- dreadful striped
- dark, drab
- natty gray
- slightly rotund
- red scarlet
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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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