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 cabin
Below is a list of describing words for cabin. 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 cabin:
- least porous
- bare main
- massive and impregnable
- usually large and luxurious
- suddenly stuffy and cramped
- suddenly stuffy
- strangely spacious
- once habitable
- low, beetle-browed
- ancient and ramshackle
- dirty, six-foot
- artificial stern
- snug and respectable
- rarely luxurious and fine
- rarely luxurious
- foul-smelling old
- small conservative
- spacious, long
- generally off-limits
- unoccupied stern
- tiny blacked-out
- seemingly rustic
- narrow boxy
- private cylindrical
- windowless one-room
- slim central
- cramped, tubular
- commonly overcrowded
- smoky and squalid
- charming but cold
- cozy, fair-sized
- hot, disgusting
- almost dark and more
- tiny, fetid
- sunny main
- low-lying central
- two-story central
- unheated and largely unprotected
- snug portable
- snug lean-to
- sturdy and very spacious
- suspiciously complete and particular
- suspiciously complete
- allegedly rustic
- cozily personal
- tiny aft
- humble two-room
- bigger, warmer
- grand, inaccessible
- solid, domed
- well-known, hospitable
- ramshackle two-room
- otherwise tight and dry
- stuffy, low
- noisy flaming
- wretched tiny
- comparatively roomy
- lonesome, untenanted
- entirely airless
- equally roomy and luxurious
- handsome and delightfully cool
- two-room, white-washed
- same two-room
- larger one-room
- yon snow-covered
- dingy, one-room
- almost dry and ready
- little, unforgettable
- stout, snug
- upper signal
- solid and pretty comfortable
- little first-level
- snug, cool
- wee, wind-swept
- roomy, snug
- hospitable and welcome
- unknown and miserable
- low-ceilinged, white-washed
- tiny, white-washed
- large or lower
- cozy, tiny
- hospitable but limited
- funny, grass-green
- more, substantial
- large two-burner
- common, same
- cramped aft
- comfortable main
- little stern
- tiny main
- smallish but adequate
- now neat and tidy
- quarter-million-dollar minimum
- open, golden
- luxurious main
- small stern
- distressingly inorganic
- comfortably warm and paneled
- cramped but man-made
- small, sweaty
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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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