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 accommodation
Below is a list of describing words for accommodation. 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 accommodation:
- gradual and willing
- arbitrary scriptural
- reasonable stable
- larger hospital
- actual skeletal
- new flashy
- special aa
- cramped dirty
- suitable and respectful
- public, sufficient
- poor and scarce
- indifferent third-class
- empty female
- lush private
- rapid and bloodless
- extra burial
- extremely agreeable and convenient
- other and ample
- equitable and solid
- ample and swift
- seeming but small
- wretched front-line
- tediously slow-moving
- warm and excellent
- possible less
- insufficient, further
- properly social
- ample cold-storage
- so-called second-class
- free temporary
- thousand-fold better
- adequate postal
- slender postal
- ample and even lavish
- hypocritical and sceptical
- adequate and special
- supply reasonable
- sanitary self-respecting
- superior and superb
- intimate muscular
- ample and spacious
- insufficient sanitary
- extant local
- necessarily unsuccessful
- desperate but necessarily unsuccessful
- abrupt and instinctive
- poor, temporary
- shorter-term and temporary
- entirely first-class
- suitable overnight
- smallest and most wretched
- cramped and poor
- good and roomy
- sufficient sanitary
- convenient indoor
- honorable and liberal
- ample hospital
- solid and equitable
- comfortable and necessary
- general best
- ample and comfortable
- other or larger
- better and proper
- mere prudent
- ample stable
- better hospital
- spanish, comfortable
- large and sufficient
- comfortable and genteel
mutial - formally courteous
- temporary secret
- supply decent
- copious and elegant
- complete and desirable
- comfortable and congenial
- available first-class
- such gaunt
- more postal
- consequently ample
- particular domestic
- ready and careful
- suitable sanitary
- supply proper
- suitably respectable
- spacious but old-fashioned
- exactly five-star
- sometimes domestic
- new, finer
- desirable additional
- enough hospital
- more burial
- slight and rough
- snug, quiet
- absolutely less
- little and bad
- thoroughly peaceful
- second-rate and third-rate
- generally comfortable
- suitable domestic
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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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