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 apartment
Below is a list of describing words for apartment. 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 apartment:
- spacious and ornate
- bare cheap
- remote and windowless
- perfectly sumptuous
- grim, lower-class
- secret infidel
- ramshackle, three-story
- shabby one-room
- entire high-rise
- handsome high-rise
- gothic and gloomy
- extremely sumptuous
- modest but elegant
- elaborately frescoed
- small and immaculately clean
- empty and filthy
- cozy, private
- fancy two-bedroom
- blue-carpeted royal
- comfortable royal
- blue-draped royal
- other three-story
- permanent lower-level
- spacious and cool
- small but very high
- elegant and plain
- vast, frigid
- cheap, first-floor
- artistic but not splendid
- nicely air-conditioned
- delightful ground-floor
- impressively expensive
- tiny third-floor
- smaller, cosy
- neat one-room
- once swanky
- probably neatest
- stuffy curtained
- well-kept culinary
- great and somewhat bare
- silent and airy
- tight partial
- magnificently cheap
- modern, pretentious
- sunny double
- dark grimy
- shabby five-story
- sumptuous great
- tiny two-room
- lousy two-bedroom
- modest two-room
- spare one-room
- one-room cheap
- indifferent dark
- clean three-room
- irrationally private
- unused, former
- huge three-bedroom
- four-room second-story
- rather severe and gloomy
- few four-story
- low first-floor
- dim and uninviting
- cozy two-room
- l-shaped inner
- spotless, sweet
- unfriendly empty
- simple but scrupulously neat
- largely book-lined
- beautiful oblong
- respectable and sacerdotal
- fair-sized and comfortable
- luxurious one-man
- smaller, hexagonal
- nice first-floor
- clean and very nice
- large and unoccupied
- curiously bare
- cramped one-room
- large and very high
- rent-controlled
- desolate upper
- tacky pink
- long unoccupied
- allegedly vacant
- own seven-story
- generic one-room
- basic three-room
- shabby cheap
- dismal concrete
- affordable two-bedroom
- solitary and wretched
- quiet, pretentious
- dingy but spacious
- modest midtown
- spacious third-story
- tiny prefab
- bright two-bedroom
- new nondescript
- clean, low-key
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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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