Describing Wordsfor Basketball

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Here are some adjectives for basketball: fat, tabby, hard-nosed female, such snappy, two-hour one-on-one, high-profile professional, darn tough, unexpectedly exciting, simple high-topped, six-foot seven-inch, ridiculously funny, great, decisive, intermural, ofessional, paunchy old, professional female, six-foot tall, supremely gifted, top-ranked, former professional, best short, intramural, much-heralded, ho-hum, big-deal, bloated red, large orange, zero-gravity, one-on-one, ratty old, immensely popular. You can get the definitions of these basketball adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to basketball (and find more here).

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Words to Describe basketball

Below is a list of describing words for basketball. 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 basketball:

fat, tabby hard-nosed female such snappy two-hour one-on-one high-profile professional darn tough unexpectedly exciting simple high-topped six-foot seven-inch ridiculously funny great, decisive intermural ofessional paunchy old professional female six-foot tall supremely gifted top-ranked former professional best short intramural much-heralded ho-hum big-deal bloated red large orange zero-gravity one-on-one ratty old immensely popular high-topped
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real professional after-school junior high big-time small grey interstate fairly successful pick-up hard-fought undefeated first-ever collegiate seven-inch early-morning fenced-in pint-sized lackluster dirty white paved professional eight-foot outdoor all-out indoor sandy-haired upcoming snappy heavy black such fine tabby unused spirited overweight hungarian red-and-white junior competitive classical phenomenal avid fantastic swampy senior rowdy homemade rusting tame gargantuan decisive black and white overhead impromptu big black endless brand-new lunar mammoth lumpy favorite sweaty biggest golden noisy oversized red-haired capacious orange aerial trial dirty dark blue female awesome fanatical concrete worst gifted cute same old spectacular incoming striped cosmic rival foul top empty traditional imaginary greatest tough mobile hospital exciting old-fashioned momentary interesting sorry ardent enthusiastic beloved invisible black flaming entire local recent former grey splendid short funny prominent previous white blue formidable inevitable colored expensive brilliant damned next public high late wonderful successful considerable best popular whole national fat nearest major huge common human distant massive fine usual poor important tall single dead regular mere terrible green famous strong ordinary red great ancient

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Words to Describe basketball

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "basketball" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "basketball" are: fat, tabby, hard-nosed female, such snappy, two-hour one-on-one, and high-profile professional. There are 184 other words to describe basketball listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe basketball suits your needs.

If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, "basketball" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many basketball adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is basketball?

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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