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 cavity
Below is a list of describing words for cavity. 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 cavity:
- pleuro-peritoneal
- annoying dental
- perivisceral
- general peritoneal
- primitive buccal
- whole cranial
- capacious cranial
- cotyloidal
- natural ogival
- gross oral
- narrow and sonorous
- deep toothless
- central ellipsoidal
- monstrous digestive
- straightforward labial
- ill-fitting cranial
- abdomenal
- primitive perivisceral
- shadowy, triangular
- sub-umbral
- peritoneal
- abdorminal
- canal and cranial
- cozy, dark
- free peritoneal
- common synovial
- western, great
- considerable conical
- common digestive
- mysterious and awesome
- canal or abdominal
- peribranchial
- pleural
- vast, spherical
- tapered cylindrical
- now aseptic
- immense resonant
- female vaginal
- circular vaginal
- large vaginal
- crystal pillared
- black, red-rimmed
- great and seemingly bottomless
- dominal
- truly hemispherical
- central unlined
- always circular and regular
- double internal
- own buccal
- femerotibial joint
- quite small and difficult
- continuous atrial
- tympanal
- spacious cranial
- orbital or buccal
- normal peritoneal
- great peritoneal
- entire peritoneal
- meso-sternal
- ~pleural
- ~peritoneal
- lower or pelvic
- central or abdominal
- sunken, blue-black
- large pericardial
- cloacal, branchial
- supra-oral
- pre-existing, common
- deep, acute
- wide rose-pink
- specialized pericardial
- huge and deep
- distinct abdominal
- shallower inverted
- main digestive
- wide digestive
- immense digestive
- shallow apical
- shallow basal
- thin, central
- gastral
- inner or gastral
- b=subdermal
- peri-visceral
- deep and profoundly dark
- corresponding orbital
- thoracic-abdominal
- abdominal or peritoneal
- entire buccal
- warmer peritoneal
- post-pericardial
- large cell-free
- capacious cerebral
- straight digestive
- mobile digestive
- definite synovial
- small synovial
- intercarpal joint
- internal circular
- true pleuro-peritoneal
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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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