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 writer
Below is a list of describing words for writer. 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 writer:
- strongly thematic
- piquant and humorous
- venerable juvenile
- profligate and amusing
- excellent but anonymous
- award-winning technical
- fine, forceful
- deeply fantastic
- --historical and miscellaneous
- peculiarly pleasant and fascinating
- poignant and fascinating
- liveliest medical
- copious and popular
- obscure but wonderful
- award-winning full-time
- facile and pleasing
- illiterate heavy
- gifted mystic
- consistently able
- chaotic and unequal
- reckless and defective
- fantastic, voluptuous
- impertinent, nonsensical
- trenchant german
- same well-informed
- homosexual literary
- heterosexual commercial
- fairly practised
- prolific and gifted
- devout but careless
- fantastically virile
- chief editorial
- obscure or visionary
- voluminous and original
- talented and imaginative
- thoughtful and elegant
- recent colored
- pious but obscure
- immoral or offensive
- earlier nineteenth-century
- scornful and powerful
- major twenty-first-century
- plainest and quickest
- bold, unconventional
- advertisedly temperamental
- wicked but witty
- profound or most eloquent
- political and deistical
- divine and miscellaneous
- judicious french
- pleasant and fascinating
- peculiarly pleasant
- industrious and prolific
- voluminous miscellaneous
- brilliant and wonderfully successful
- unknown public
- merely florid
- lengthy and drowsy
- especially ready
- ready and versatile
- ready and picturesque
- remarkably original and voluminous
- original and voluminous
- versatile and voluminous
- irish scientific
- politico--economical
- notably brilliant
- portuguese historical
- unhealthy, decadent
- theological, philosophical and medical
- careless or ready
- dull and voluminous
- ephemeral rapid
- incisive french
- questionable mediaeval
- full-time free-lance
- voluminous and versatile
- ferociously productive
- famously paranoid
- terrifically clever
- self-conscious and highly skilled
- funny sci-fi
- florid and fabulous
- dead, popular
- preimmortal
- clearly illiterate
- pleasant, popular
- serious and inventive
- famous and estimable
- truly chaste
- fertile and profound
- prolific miscellaneous
- able anonymous
- attractive or pleasing
- definitely irresponsible
- dreary and voluminous
- french controversial
- philosophical or biological
- earlier philosophical or biological
- faultless and immaculate
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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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