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 appliances
Below is a list of describing words for appliances. 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 appliances:
- yellow or surgical
- ominous electro-magnetic
- old-fashioned and electrical
- roughly compatible and interchangeable
- roughly compatible
- supply modern
- preposterous electrical
- useless electrical
- legislative and defensive
- unused mechanical
- special horticultural
- disagreeable and clumsy
- rough but plentiful
- various hydrostatic
- big sanitary
- safest and most efficacious
- numerous up-to-date
- electro-mechanical domestic
- deadly dental
- crudest and cheapest
- further optical
- >�electrical and domestic
- electric or automatic
- electrical and domestic
- delicate and nicely balanced
- other semi-autonomous
- rusted beige
- necessary and neat
- dangerous or defective
- innocuous and benign
- small instrumental
- economical labor-saving
- similar academical
- flexible and compact
- electric culinary
- up-to-date labor-saving
- scientific remedial
- sanitary, medical and surgical
- movable pneumatic
- artistic and labor-saving
- correlated cultural
- certain electro-medical
- elegant and somewhat luxurious
- sensible gymnastic
- statutory life-saving
- original life-saving
- photographic and electrical
- luxurious internal
- luggage--theatrical
- few labor-saving
- antiquated and dangerous
- other retentive
- cunning mechanical
- weird scientific
- huge and fairly famous
- new and secondhand
- functional and basic
- hospital and skilled
- wacky dental
- automatic fire-fighting
- demented electrical
- ready certain
- low-potential
- defunct, electric
- suitable scientific
- surgi-cal
- simplest artificial
- >�electrical
- electro-surgical
- �electrical and domestic
- wholly inefficient
- several recreational
- interesting and often beautiful
- unusual dental
- apparently unprofitable
- rogue domestic
- structurally intricate
- shiny, heavy
- regular electrical
- industrial stainless-steel
- aggressive educational
- limited mechanical
- systematic or careful
- initially expensive
- primitive and unsatisfactory
- cheapest and crudest
- special and effective
- up-to-date sanitary
- comfortable sanitary
- modern pedagogical
- costly mechanical
- wise hygienic
- innumerable and powerful
- domestic electrical
- _--mechanical
- conventional angelic
- inadequate sanitary
- past, modern
- simpler gymnastic
- ample mechanical
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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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