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 arrayed
Below is a list of describing words for arrayed. 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 arrayed:
- widest
- magnificently stern
- surrealistic three-dimensional
- cumulative and appalling
- royal rich
- naked, pure
- circular slatted
- mighty and unassailable
- odd and seemingly useless
- vast ever-changing
- wonderful, vast
- compact cellular
- bright and martial
- fiery rich
- fearful and menacing
- tall and poor
- traditional useless
- infinite rectangular
- loose and crumpled
- tidy and expansive
- casual, stunning
- unbroken hostile
- vast instructional
- precious and fantastical
- formidable germanic
- relatively sumptuous
- comprehensive standard
- long and showy
- smart gala
- long and tempting
- long but barbarous
- incongruous domestic
- distinct and blood-stained
- diverse and fantastic
- fantastic and menacing
- resplendent and most elegant
- seemingly alarming
- sturdy, colorful
- youthful swift
- noticeably fresh
- miscellaneous and endless
- motley but sinister
- altogether undisciplined
- sometimes magnificent
- solemn and sometimes magnificent
- vast and pathetic
- usual spectacular
- bally solar
- vast three-dimensional
- perfect rectangular
- pseudoneural
- average portal
- awesome and very private
- homogeneous cellular
- classic tetragonal
- austere but fine
- luxurious modular
- awesomely effective
- inconsiderable offensive
- more-or-less rectangular
- ribbed, conical
- old sensory
- ludicrously vast
- deadly glassy
- grimly utilitarian
- portable solar-cell
- ah-ray—hexagonal
- long-range signal
- pure angelical
- starchy and stiff
- poor festal
- brilliant chivalrous
- yon formidable and invincible
- yon formidable
- authoritative and unassailable
- decorous funeral
- former tasteless
- spiritual temporal
- present disheartening
- chaotic, delightful
- loveliest festal
- especially unpromising
- tranquil bright
- numerous and exceedingly noteworthy
- quiet but ever glorious
- amorous, pale
- longest and most ponderous
- long, barbaric
- richest and most sumptuous
- simply maddening
- brilliant and pugnacious
- alarming and endless
- rude but fierce
- incongruous and most inefficient
- solemn and interminable
- due and formidable
- unfinished bridal
- necessary glum
- gay and most unpalatable
- enthusiastic and warlike
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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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