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 assortment
Below is a list of describing words for assortment. 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 assortment:
- odd and pitiful
- entire inhuman
- already rifled
- unalterable, comprehensive
- excessively attractive
- numerous and excessively attractive
- lightweight but lethal
- astonishingly colorful
- new and obstinate
- interesting but impracticable
- exceptionally tasty
- off-duty and motley
- delicately specialized
- familiar extraordinary
- thoughtful international
- bilious, motley
- closely-packed and various
- moderately miscellaneous
- amusing or characteristic
- absolutely miscellaneous
- inappropriate and heterogeneous
- general heterogeneous
- various and substantial
- vivid and inharmonious
- peculiarly ill-fitting
- usual bizarre
- superb and complete
- remarkably queer
- odd and fantastical
- extensive and elegant
- vast and unfocused
- eclectic and personal
- usual unremarkable
- wry and tasteful
- infuriatingly precise
- haphazard skeletal
- cheap, haphazard
- distinctly non-typical
- incredible simultaneous
- strange and dazzling
- vast motley
- typical annoying
- decidedly motley
- random, amateurish
- decidedly eclectic
- heterogeneous and rather casual
- international ecumenical
- avaricious, paranoid
- heterogeneous but fairly sizeable
- fairly vile
- nice middle-of-the-road
- few and ill
- rich but heterogeneous
- mere miscellaneous
- fullest and most satisfying
- capital and comical
- rather motley
- fresh and general
- vast and useful
- fiendishly complex
- usual miscellaneous
- most elegant
- thoroughly inadequate
- typical motley
- large or perhaps larger
- valuable and voluminous
- energetic social
- blind, careless
- whole heterogeneous
- odd and unpleasant
- grand and elegant
- wonderfully frank
- fairly broad
- valuable genetic
- marvelously compact
- somewhat miscellaneous
- motley, colorful
- wildly eclectic
- large and miscellaneous
- less various
- staid and conservative
- somewhat gay
- motley
- particularly bizarre
- next random
- amazingly diverse
- complete small
- largest and choicest
- extensive and various
- usual revolting
- awfully broad
- fine general
- wildly divergent
- large and extensive
- non-typical
- small but fine
- rather miscellaneous
- same incongruous
- usual vile
- nothing-special
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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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