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 accommodations
Below is a list of describing words for accommodations. 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 accommodations:
- gradual and willing
- commercial and transient
- arbitrary scriptural
- spanish, comfortable
- reasonable stable
- larger hospital
- monsters—extremely primitive and dangerous
- actual skeletal
- monsters—extremely primitive
- new flashy
- crudest stripped-down
- special aa
- round-trip and deluxe
- cramped dirty
- temporary and palliative
- suitable and respectful
- public, sufficient
- poor and scarce
- usual sterile
- indifferent third-class
- empty female
- discreet overnight
- lush private
- cheap but permanent
- rapid and bloodless
- elegantly comfortable
- extra burial
- respectable second-class
- extremely agreeable and convenient
- judicious, reasonable and helpful
- other and ample
- inferior hospital
- equitable and solid
- adequate transient
- ample and swift
- comfortable overnight
- seeming but small
- deplorably inferior
- wretched front-line
- excellent overnight
- tediously slow-moving
- civil hospital
- warm and excellent
- equal but separate
- possible less
- dirty and insufficient
- insufficient, further
- humble but adequate
- properly social
- indifferent residential
- ample cold-storage
- hardy and rude
- so-called second-class
- liberal and convenient
- 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
- primitive and dangerous
- ample and spacious
- insufficient sanitary
- separate-but-equal
- several artful
- extant local
- realistic anachronistic
- necessarily unsuccessful
- more deluxe
- desperate but necessarily unsuccessful
- monsters�extremely primitive and dangerous
- abrupt and instinctive
- monsters�extremely primitive
- poor, temporary
- extremely primitive and dangerous
- shorter-term and temporary
- limited interior
- entirely first-class
- congenial, interior
- suitable overnight
- co-payment
- smallest and most wretched
- fancier co-payment
- cramped and poor
- state-of-the-art, plush
- good and roomy
- cut-rate or second-class
- sufficient sanitary
- ghly profitable
- convenient indoor
- less miasmal
- honorable and liberal
- less comfy
- ample hospital
- adequate and comfortable
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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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