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 bank
Below is a list of describing words for bank. 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 bank:
- european central
- own jovian
- canal national
- precious jovian
- canadian imperial
- chemical national
- swedish central
- national provincial
- bahamian orbital
- distant and highly secret
- commercial national
- continental national
- second national
- higher east
- newly fat
- totally secret
- capital national
- steep left-hand
- largest state-owned
- eligible mexican
- shallow southwestern
- lebanese central
- precipitous and ragged
- manual fire-control
- nameless and invisible
- ambitiously devious
- gracefully pillared
- lower opposite
- opposite and high
- high, opposite
- separate hungarian
- many savings-deposit
- brazilian central
- decorous, second
- opposite and very rugged
- national central
- new jovian
- warm grassy
- somewhat spongy
- federal planetary
- strictly blonde
- strictly blonde and blue-eyed
- permanent, immovable
- thick and unbroken
- awesomely towering
- tight commercial
- still green and pastoral
- regional central
- poor chalky
- solid opposite
- snug, warm and cosy
- unofficial central
- african central
- undulating alluvial
- windy grassy
- low, vertical
- visible western
- universal, multiterminal
- prosaic flat
- thirteenth national
- opposite sandy
- foggy, tree-lined
- tangled, busy
- prestigious venture-capital
- computerized mobile
- galactic capital
- autonomous digital
- muddy western
- african federal
- treacherous shallow
- more offshore
- muddy, reedy
- red, florid
- black, opposite
- green and grateful
- distant further
- inaccessible and autocratic
- apparently clean and safe
- excessively mountainous
- neat local
- obviously rotten
- moderate and seemingly innocuous
- tall and obviously rotten
- barren and steep
- entirely proper and constitutional
- steep snow-covered
- inevitable grassy
- certain austral
- idle grassy
- swiss central
- steep sweet
- venerable musical
- bulgarian agricultural
- steep rich
- national commerical
- well-managed national
- dusty stony
- curious wooded
- savings-deposit
- chiefly irredeemable
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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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