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 asylum
Below is a list of describing words for asylum. 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 asylum:
- private lunatic
- industrial orphan
- benevolent national
- criminal lunatic
- british orphan
- nearest lunatic
- local lunatic
- nearest insane
- enormous orphan
- provincial lunatic
- hospital, lunatic
- huge lunatic
- eighteenth-century insane
- hospital and lunatic
- central lunatic
- swiss lunatic
- large lunatic
- private insane
- immense lunatic
- famous lunatic
- general lunatic
- new lunatic
- female orphan
- colored orphan
- general orphan
- splendid lunatic
- open-air insane
- german orphan
- bustling insane
- local orphan
- industrial, educational and orphan
- coloured orphan
- first-class lunatic
- male orphan
- whole orphan
- territorial insane
- peaceful and chaste
- hospital or insane
- ready orphan
- western insane
- episcopal orphan
- finest lunatic
- western lunatic
- peaceful romantic
- agreeable and solitary
- largest lunatic
- infant orphan
- big lunatic
- local insane
- self-proclaimed lunatic
- particularly easygoing
- gold-plated insane
- private idiot
- adjacent lunatic
- comfortable lunatic
- temporary and tranquil
- magnificent lunatic
- cantonal insane
- far-famed private
- female lunatic
- quiet idiot
- donegal lunatic
- veritable lunatic
- single lunatic
- oldest lunatic
- austrian lunatic
- spherical lunatic
- better insane
- high and unseen
- new insane
- lunatic
- good orphan
- distant lunatic
- state-run insane
- underground insane
- pestilential lunatic
- computerized lunatic
- high-end mental
- maximum-security lunatic
- high-security insane
- bad insane
- palatial and magnificent
- safe and eminently suitable
- safe and propitious
- turbulent lunatic
- lunatic or idiot
- educational blind
- royal blind
- criminal insane
- cheap orphan
- common lunatic
- one-time lunatic
- open-air lunatic
- kinder orphan
- impending orphan
- appropriate lunatic
- respectable lunatic
- safe opulent
- montreal insane
- old-fashioned orphan
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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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