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 caravan
Below is a list of describing words for caravan. 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 caravan:
- filmy phantom
- martial and hostile
- slow, ample
- regal, exotic
- manageable and effective
- noisy, bearded
- odd-looking theatrical
- dangerous and very uncertain
- mahmal
- noisy braying
- vast, perpetual
- relatively insensitive
- already eccentric
- damned carnival
- several well-traveled
- independent long-haul
- long-awaited royal
- segmented silvery
- old four-wheel
- now sedentary
- small reliable
- own unsheltered
- mere powerful
- western asian
- great north-south
- eternal big
- lopsided little
- next inbound
- entire improbable
- gallant and merry
- regular westbound
- full and lavish
- last eastern
- entire strange
- rollicking, wide-open
- china-bound
- slow and unwieldy
- tolerably harmonious
- adequate little
- single annual
- new and direct
- small, anonymous
- slow and devious
- wild eastern
- biggest and most luxurious
- supposedly honest
- whole picturesque
- miserable small
- weird and terrible
- extremely dilapidated
- curious and singular
- whole ponderous
- tiny cramped
- slow, laborious
- whole exciting
- silent, lifeless
- almost defenseless
- great arterial
- civilisational
- whole monstrous
- ominous little
- southbound
- rough tough
- dirty, untidy
- great tartar
- whole egyptian
- long-haul
- stark little
- long dusty
- eager, restless
- entire long
- horse-drawn
- huge lumbering
- five-day
- westbound
- snake-like
- ancient great
- old ramshackle
- roomy, comfortable
- large, unwieldy
- large and wealthy
- small shabby
- loose-knit
- gaudy yellow
- early babylonian
- richly laden
- whole strange
- semi-oriental
- great gaudy
- slow-moving
- inbound
- last large
- vastly larger
- sorrier
- ten-day
- large european
- good rich
- north-south
- fine, rich
- apparently empty
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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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