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 workmanship
Below is a list of describing words for workmanship. 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 workmanship:
- balefully exquisite
- unknown and utterly exotic
- utterly exotic
- fanatically fine
- own and most cunning
- egyptian or etruscan
- material and careful
- costly material and careful
- excellent and meticulous
- precise smooth
- slipshod and hasty
- expensive or difficult
- exquisite and cunning
- hasty and amateurish
- artistic and utterly unknown
- elegant and severe
- admirable and exquisitely fine
- richest and most fantastic
- costly material and fine
- foreign and intricate
- costly material
- undeniably superior
- intentionally bad
- unknown celtic
- exquisitely artistic
- unbelievably fine and precise
- frequently careless
- exceptionally intricate
- suave and seductive
- untouched and very beautiful
- superior but ancient
- costliest and most perfect
- good and artistic
- material, inferior
- material, faithful
- true etruscan
- immature or awkward
- concrete and poor
- quality--thoroughly artistic
- zeal and excellent
- skilful and neat
- exquisitely delicate and intricate
- costly mexican
- rude or untrained
- hasty or inferior
- exquisite ancient
- superb pagan
- faultless and permanent
- bad and insecure
- tasteful and ingenious
- bad and inaccurate
- exquisite and uncommon
- deliberate, conscientious
- costly material and exquisite
- inferior thirteenth-century
- delicate or precise
- marvellously neat
- exquisite corinthian
- positive and almost mathematical
- clumsy, rude
- opulent and bold
- rare various
- tasty, careful
- exceptionally skilful and conscientious
- artistic and neat
- excellent etruscan
- unusually delicate and beautiful
- elegant and cunning
- old but strong
- accurate and neat
- faithful and fine
- remarkably neat and durable
- honest or trustworthy
- elegant and indeed artistic
- ethiopian or egyptian
- honest and exquisite
- increasingly laborious
- rare infernal
- material, good
- superb and delicate
- remarkable and exquisite
- unquestionably native
- sweetest and choicest
- material and common
- good grecian
- grotesquely graceful
- fine and masterful
- material and fine
- finer apparent
- highest oriental
- gorgeous and dangerous
- unforgivably sloppy
- slightly shoddy
- extraordinarily artful
- massive and rich
- complete and cunning
- exquisite and admirable
- material, poor
- material and poor
- veritable spanish
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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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