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 asia
Below is a list of describing words for asia. 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 asia:
- ruthless, aggressive
- soviet central
- young and shy
- cryptic and immemorial
- shy and self-effacing
- unreal, chinese
- central southwestern
- chinese central
- greater east
- oriental tropical
- buddhist central
- western & northern
- devastating western
- utterly foolish and vain
- ancient nearer
- cold northeastern
- western or central
- northern and southwestern
- central, western
- southern or central
- nearer central
- upper and western
- open soviet
- penetrating central
- impure, mysterious
- eastern, western and southern
- western and central
- central and northeastern
- northern and temperate
- southeastern and eastern
- east and central
- temperate and northern
- lower and central
- central and eastern
- contiguous western
- central and western
- actual central
- central and south-eastern
- central and northern
- remote eastern
- massive, magnificent
- eastern central
- past rich
- minor western
- central and southeastern
- high interior
- central or western
- central and east
- northern and central
- eastern and central
- southern and south-eastern
- ancient eastern
- utterly foolish
- eastern and southeastern
- open central
- northern or southern
- southern and eastern
- ancient western
- ancient and respectable
- tropical and subtropical
- central and southern
- eastern or western
- eastern and southern
- southern and central
- western and southern
- dear young
- eastern and western
- south-eastern
- pure, unadulterated
- central
- poor benighted
- brown and yellow
- own warm
- more northern
- other well-known
- western
- southeastern
- eastern
- shy
- northern
- cryptic
- unreal
- southern
- old, old
- east
- impure
- temperate
- tropical
- more recent
- ruthless
- much less
- nearer
- young
- upper
- many other
- lower
- ole
- vain
- physical
- brown
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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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