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 adventures
Below is a list of describing words for adventures. 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 adventures:
- weirdest and most astounding
- comic, perilous
- absurd or tragical
- wonderful and edifying
- great and rather enviable
- preferred undersea
- exhilarating youthful
- unintended but unavoidable
- honorable and pleasing
- pleasant and sharp
- desperate, wild
- daring and profitable
- extravagant and bloodthirsty
- hairy & scary
- primitive maritime
- bitter and heartbreaking
- private, unauthorized
- daring physical
- extraordinary and madly heroic
- numerous thrilling
- safe, synthetic
- quaint and dangerous
- extravagant virtual
- little expansionist
- fictitious amorous
- undoubtedly harrowing
- fantastic, exhilarating
- further thrilling
- commercial and foreign
- pure dispassionate
- unknown and momentous
- numerous and exciting
- strange surprising
- small but instructive
- perilous and strange
- small hazardous
- innocent and singular
- tiresome, uncomfortable
- wild and racy
- possible and almost impossible
- mutual and horrible
- ever delectable
- anxious, disagreeable
- cunning or desperate
- wildest and bravest
- bold or difficult
- reasonably fantastic
- deluxe interior
- unpredictable military
- marvelous, terrifying
- unlimited psychic
- enjoyable historical
- expensive and delightful
- dubious and picturesque
- burlesque and gross
- safe and pleasurable
- comical and rather boisterous
- perilous and dizzy
- far-famed and singular
- amazing syrian
- promising piquant
- jolly imprudent
- surprising and most stupendous
- singularly daring and successful
- surprising curious
- terrifying and incredible
- joyous and heroic
- mighty and perilous
- numerous tragic
- new perilous
- incessant and countless
- terrific and desperate
- strangest and most mysterious
- perilous and untried
- lewd, fantastic
- strange and most unpleasant
- nightly dramatic
- incessant and hazardous
- fleeting amatory
- peculiar many-sided
- warlike and perilous
- gallant but quite hopeless
- ultimate passionate
- curious and absurd
- many and exciting
- greatest, boldest
- many inconceivable
- clean, open-air
- madly heroic
- little unlucky
- many thrilling
- considerable vicarious
- intimate and exotic
- joyous, impossible
- greatest coming-of-age
- nice swashbuckling
- incredibly true
- cleanly dangerous
- rapid and vivacious
- dangerous but romantic
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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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