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 repast
Below is a list of describing words for repast. 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 repast:
- fairly sumptuous
- somewhat sketchy and primitive
- sketchy and primitive
- rich substantial
- truly frugal
- healthful and abundant
- impressive and necessary
- solitary but ample
- silent and rather nervous
- silent, calm
- coarse but ample
- carousal, sumptuous
- meal, hasty
- scanty, unfinished
- cheerful and frugal
- short and frugal
- exceed\-ingly fine
- mostly acceptable
- sad and sulky
- merry and excellent
- fallacious, chimerical
- cold, hebdomadal
- dainty but substantial
- plentiful but not luxurious
- common and innocent
- excellent and highly seasoned
- alarmingly sumptuous
- elegant and plentiful
- tough and loyal
- high and delicious
- well-prepared and ample
- anomalous and picturesque
- dainty but not sumptuous
- genuine funeral
- great delectable
- so-called frugal
- signally merry
- heterogeneous post-prandial
- heartiest and most delicious
- correctly continental
- substantial and very acceptable
- frugal but delicious
- indeed sumptuous
- equally worthy and honorable
- plentiful but coarse
- copious and succulent
- dainty but sumptuous
- simple, cool
- luxurious mental
- welcome and enjoyable
- evidently tempting
- frugal betrothal
- cheap and dainty
- humble but plentiful
- plain but abundant
- substantial matutinal
- exceedingly hasty
- sumptuous and plentiful
- delicate and savory
- hearty and delicious
- frugal intellectual
- simple but well-served
- enormous and delicious
- slight, hasty
- shocking and inhuman
- sumptuous funereal
- usually regular
- welcome and luxurious
- unusually sumptuous
- well-prepared and tasty
- somewhat uninviting
- simple but tasty
- adingly fine
- classic visual
- clandestine chinese
- gastromical
- fru-gal
- rural but eminently satisfying
- cool and enjoyable
- slight matutinal
- excellent and comfortable
- sociable and conversational
- unusually prudent
- copious and substantial
- slender and spare
- equally frugal
- rude but plentiful
- subsequent sour
- somewhat tedious and long
- magnificent but tedious
- rather nocturnal
- suitable invalid
- polite and generous
- slight and hasty
- comfortable and plentiful
- truly academic
- usual sumptuous
- splendid funeral
- unusual and delicious
- usually abundant
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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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