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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красивые глаза
красивые глазки
добрые глаза
красивыми глазами
Very soft lips and… pretty eyes.
Surely not because he had pretty eyes!
What you looking at, pretty eyes?
How you doin’ tonight, pretty eyes?
You got some pretty, pretty eyes.
Your pretty eyes are not the reason we want to take a picture of you.
Да ты не волнуйся, мы тебя снимаем не за твои красивые глазки.
You’re good, pretty eyes.
I love waking up in the morning and having pretty eyes.
Hardly an inspiring sight for such pretty eyes as yours, I’m sure.
Довольно неприглядное зрелище для таких прекрасных глаз, как ваши.
Let’s see those pretty eyes, sweetheart.
You have pretty eyes, a pretty face…
Как вы милы, с красивыми глазами…
You need to turn those pretty eyes inward toward the monster ripping you apart.
Ты должен обратить взгляд своих хорошеньких глаз внутрь себя, навстречу тому монстру, который разрывает тебя на части.
Man hands and the pretty eyes, yes.
Santa named her that because of her very pretty eyes.
Now I see why people say I have pretty eyes.
I miss your beautiful face and pretty eyes.
Любимый, я скучаю без твоих красивых глаз.
What’s happened to those pretty eyes?
I must look like mud to your pretty eyes!
What secrets is she hiding behind those pretty eyes of yours?
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pretty eyes — перевод на русский
Pretty eyes, lovely teeth!
Красивые глаза, красивые зубы
Cause you got pretty eyes.
За красивые глаза.
— You have such pretty eyes.
У вас красивые глаза.
He’s got pretty eyes, Hammersmith.
У нее красивые глаза, Кузнец.
You have really pretty eyes.
У вас очень красивые глаза.
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Your pretty eyes are not the reason we want to take a picture of you.
Да ты не волнуйся, мы тебя снимаем не за твои красивые глазки.
— You’re good, pretty eyes.
— Очень хорошо, красивые глазки.
[FLORA SCREAMS] Gimme those pretty eyes.
Дай мне эти красивые глазки.
Pretty eyes.
Красивые глазки.
How you doin’ tonight, pretty eyes?
Чем занимаешься сегодня вечером, красивые глазки?
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— She’s got pretty eyes.
— У нее прекрасные глаза.
to get a look at those pretty eyes.
Чтобы полюбоваться на эти прекрасные глаза.
Mmm, they’re such pretty eyes.
Эти прекрасные глаза.
Do you mind if I take a look at your pretty eyes?
Можно я взгляну на ваши прекрасные глаза?
Hardly an inspiring sight for such pretty eyes as yours, I’m sure.
Довольно неприглядное зрелище для таких прекрасных глаз, как ваши.
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Look into his
eyes
those big, pretty eyes and tell me yes or no.
Посмотри в его
глаза
эти большие, красивые глаза и скажи мне да или нет.
Hardly an inspiring sight for such pretty eyes as yours,
It’s not sarcoid. We would have seengranulomas in his— she has pretty eyes.
Это не саркоидоз. Мы бы увидели гранулемы на его… У нее красивые глаза.
Tell me who it is or Plugger gets plugged between his pretty eyes.
Скажи мне, кто это, или Додик получит пулю промеж своих милых глазок.- Брось,
I have never noticed this before, because he’s always trying to destroy my career,
Ух ты. Я раньше не замечала этого, потому что он вечно пытается разрушить мою карьеру,
Actually, would you prefer a girl with healthy eyes… to a girl with pretty eyes who’s blind as a bat?
На самом деле если вы предпочитаете Девочку с здоровыми глазами… или девушку с красивыми глазами которая является слепой как летучая мышь?
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How does the adjective beautiful differ from other similar words?
Some common synonyms of beautiful are comely, fair, handsome, lovely, and pretty. While all these words mean «exciting sensuous or aesthetic pleasure,» beautiful applies to whatever excites the keenest of pleasure to the senses and stirs emotion through the senses.
beautiful mountain scenery
How are the words comely and handsome related as synonyms of beautiful?
Comely is like handsome in suggesting what is coolly approved rather than emotionally responded to.
the comely grace of a dancer
When can fair be used instead of beautiful?
The words fair and beautiful are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, fair suggests beauty because of purity, flawlessness, or freshness.
When could handsome be used to replace beautiful?
While in some cases nearly identical to beautiful, handsome suggests aesthetic pleasure due to proportion, symmetry, or elegance.
a handsome Georgian mansion
How do lovely and beautiful relate to one another?
Lovely is close to beautiful but applies to a narrower range of emotional excitation in suggesting the graceful, delicate, or exquisite.
In what contexts can pretty take the place of beautiful?
The words pretty and beautiful can be used in similar contexts, but pretty often applies to superficial or insubstantial attractiveness.
a painter of conventionally pretty scenes