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 chasm
Below is a list of describing words for chasm. 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 chasm:
- huge ideological
- veritable nether
- wide and seemingly bottomless
- small north-south
- tremendous watery
- monstrously deep
- gloomy deep
- dizzily deep
- dark, six-foot
- deep romantic
- still cold and brittle
- important and almost impassable
- corresponding structural
- narrow but terrific
- wide, fiery
- unimaginably deep
- strange, devilish
- deep, abyssal
- awful doubtful
- wider and still deeper
- dark, terrific
- abrupt huge
- tortuous inner
- narrow and naked
- immediate and precipitous
- narrow but awful
- black miserable
- wide, terrible
- dark and very deep
- yon profound
- extraordinary and sinuous
- circumscribed upland
- immeasurably deep
- immeasurable social
- stupendous and picturesque
- huge, bottomless
- narrowest deep
- impassable social
- great, bottomless
- deep and fatal
- sudden bottomless
- insuperable theological
- logickal
- familiar bottomless
- particularly painful
- vast and windy
- infinite and dreary
- hollow and black
- deep and apparently hopeless
- deep tortuous
- somewhat shorter and much
- grand sombre
- narrow, wind-swept
- slight sufficient
- immense infernal
- great, blank
- sheer walled
- translucent, buoyant
- ten-foot deep
- awful intellectual
- deep sudden
- vast and singular
- vastly deep
- black unfathomable
- vexing moral
- vast, abiding
- ridiculously deep
- immense bottomless
- deepest and wildest
- narrow, forbidding-looking
- fearful bottomless
- deep and formidable
- singular and fearful
- deep, vast
- endless, bottomless
- bottomless, black
- silent and awful
- large and fearful
- deep and precipitous
- deep and infinite
- narrow icy
- virtually bottomless
- unbelievably deep
- awful, impassable
- huge narrow
- deep, striking
- vast and shadowy
- same impassable
- deep and steep
- black, awful
- seemingly bottomless
- deep and treacherous
- endless silent
- dark, bottomless
- deep and remarkable
- great and perplexing
- deep, impressive
- deep stony
- deep and long
- bottomless
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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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