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 hosted
Below is a list of describing words for hosted. 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 hosted:
- temporary mortal
- genial and diligent
- late discomfited
- eager and solicitous
- attentive and excellent
- gracious, tactful
- faint satanic
- silent and immortal
- hospitable and intelligent
- hostile or insane
- cooperative, voluntary
- vacant female
- unsmiling and dark-skinned
- particular intermediate
- entirely excellent
- worthy and entirely excellent
- seemingly mischievous
- yon despairing
- inquisitive and troublesome
- wild and exuberant
- easy, courteous
- bravest and most numerous
- larger, unwilling
- true and habitual
- generous, wise and genial
- amiable and magnificent
- eccentric but warm-hearted
- genial, tentative
- prospective ancient
- watchful and uneasy
- hospitable and loyal
- barbaric and motley
- normal intermediate
- demoniac phantom
- proudest and most numerous
- vigorous infidel
- perspiring and affable
- mighty and most fantastic
- gracious and well seasoned
- brilliant and good-natured
- quietly grateful
- little and piquant
- vast and warlike
- solitary, stable
- game-show
- vastly larger and stronger
- lunatic genial
- gracious, garrulous
- numerous and colorful
- amiable and easygoing
- gracious and jovial
- solicitous and cooperative
- best ephemeral
- rough, convivial
- fragile, erratic
- restless and malevolent
- semi-fanatical
- moody, restless
- brave unguided
- mighty, imponderable
- vast, unthinking
- whole mythic
- innumerable celtic
- wearisome mystical
- exceptionally frugal
- permanent armored
- warlike and supernatural
- mighty and far-flung
- sad corinthian
- mighty and countless
- stiff nor unsocial
- presumably intrusive
- joyous and courteous
- whole discomfited
- polite and splendid
- mad and motley
- plumb anxious
- genial and rugged
- wary cautious
- vast invincible
- cheerful, magnetic
- worthy and obsequious
- tolerably urbane and courteous
- tolerably urbane
- brilliant phantom
- vast undisciplined
- suave delightful
- valiant and almost innumerable
- lewd and lawless
- small unthinking
- exceptionally attentive
- austrian big
- wretchedly negligent
- unsuspecting and helpless
- liberal and pleasant
- visible and innumerable
- whole ruthless
- hearty, rubicund
- inhospitable royal
- loving and ancient
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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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