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 arrangement
Below is a list of describing words for arrangement. 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 arrangement:
- one-year standby
- primordial molecular
- mere different
- specious and fantastic
- modern interpretive
- sustainable domestic
- signal or previous
- regular irregular
- practical and equitable
- immediate amicable
- specious and fantastical
- excessively advantageous
- england--final
- convenient and congenial
- sensible and warm
- systematic and effectual
- excellently appropriate
- tacit conventional
- rough zonal
- speedy and disadvantageous
- extremely neat and artistic
- amazing circulatory
- vertebral spinal
- spacious and somewhat lavish
- odd and unhealthy
- wise providential
- curious discoid
- rudely rectangular
- natural methodical
- fair conditional
- present cooperative
- diversified and elegant
- individual contractual
- smooth luxurious
- uncommon seasonal
- original and graphic
- friendly reciprocal
- tortuously logical
- cheap and enlightened
- coarse, unartificial
- permanent, amicable
- ingenious experimental
- determinate molecular
- sublime constitutional
- transmitter--general
- cordial political
- transversely segmented
- non-zonal
- frankly decorative
- quest--chronological
- such well-understood
- true and only respectable
- methodical or proper
- idiotic international
- previous symmetrical
- new and most liberal
- geological or geographical
- foregone conventional
- simple and infallibly operative
- infallibly operative
- advantageous and economical
- highly advantageous and economical
- monstrous culinary
- gradual theatrical
- satisfactory postal
- wholly subterranean
- mutooal
- mysteriously knotted
- traditional first-floor
- domestic or romantic
- beneficial little
- nicely feudal
- longstanding, peaceful
- surpassingly desirable
- present stellar
- erminal
- block-chair-terminal
- typically lush
- uneasy and unspoken
- beastly unfair
- ingenious magnetic
- bizarre defensive
- curious and very common
- similarly rectangular
- skilful artificial
- natural, quantitative
- peculiar and advantageous
- apparently non-symmetrical
- conventional and political
- much-discussed ante-nuptial
- simplest and most ingenious
- ignorant or defective
- comparatively succinct
- singular loose
- extremely wasteful and inartificial
- wasteful and inartificial
- wrong optical
- one-sided and thoughtless
- sadly dirty
- original zonal
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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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