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 routing
Below is a list of describing words for routing. 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 routing:
- easier underground
- new and utterly impossible
- promising daytime
- somewhat circuitous
- devious possible
- standard shortest
- practicable and economical
- handy direct
- magically direct
- fastest or most direct
- best and most silent
- rather circuitous
- circuitous
- usual evolutionary
- same easier
- giddy helter-skelter
- preferred and legal
- economical and practicable
- easier and common
- slightly indirect
- more circuitous
- devious and seemingly coincidental
- shortest alternate
- shortest available
- shortest, safest
- steep but direct
- green, walled
- acceptably safe
- different and steeper
- apparently circuitous
- nearest and quickest
- practicable and feasible
- broadly circular
- shorter, happier
- unnecessarily tedious
- alternate and rougher
- pleasant and circuitous
- characteristically circuitous
- direct and eligible
- parallel adjacent
- usual devious
- safe slow
- circuitous northern
- scenic, restful
- easiest legislative
- tortuously circuitous
- scenic roundabout
- wavy watery
- direct and populous
- suitably circuitous
- wild, demonic
- final supplementary
- navigable commercial
- direct east-west
- northern and circuitous
- natural north-south
- central and practicable
- usual or shortest
- original and rather indirect
- direct fluvial
- extraordinarily indirect
- former circuitous
- direct or easy
- quick, safe
- long and circuitous
- prettiest and most picturesque
- direct and navigable
- alternate and poorer
- circuitous, long
- safest available
- most direct
- convoluted and dangerous
- small but direct
- long, scenic
- precarious, narrow
- main processional
- somewhat indirect
- unexpected aquatic
- safe southern
- base-rate
- roundabout base-rate
- unidentified rural
- difficult and improbable
- safer upland
- conspicuous and quickest
- main migratory
- easier, roundabout
- other and circuitous
- old roundabout
- easiest anatomical
- devious but practicable
- immensely roundabout
- expeditious tidal
- quickest and most obvious
- roundabout, devious
- doubly circuitous
- direct but pathless
- roundabout but very picturesque
- northerly central
- slightly roundabout
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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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