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 chateau
Below is a list of describing words for chateau. 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 chateau:
- historic and gorgeous
- hideous split-level
- fabulous crystal
- ruinous french
- quaint but vast
- huge and woefully dilapidated
- ancient and dismal
- picturesque, white
- authentic eighteenth-century
- decent rural
- desolate, old
- modest but very beautiful
- luxurious residential
- vast incredible
- equally desolate
- sturdy, defiant
- woefully dilapidated
- old but handsome
- gilded, french
- least, historic
- remote burgundian
- fine and rather staid
- fine seigneurial
- entirely livable
- too-medieval
- wonderfully ornate and impressive
- wonderfully ornate
- pompous but then desolate
- ornate or magnificent
- colossal french
- great high-up
- leaky, wind-swept
- dilapidated, old
- entire historic
- small and rather dilapidated
- gloomy and empty
- veritable old-time
- popularly famous
- great seigniorial
- ornate and impressive
- lovely cloistered
- dreary, old
- past groenendal
- charming suburban
- old-time french
- sumptuous and magnificent
- old and desolate
- once stupendous
- royal french
- small but ancient
- suitably remote
- cloudy and misty
- quaint, angular
- large red-brick
- old rococo
- thin french
- charming miniature
- cameo-like
- old and picturesque
- good complete
- once royal
- miniature french
- rather staid
- historic french
- oldest and most beautiful
- great residential
- dismal old
- massive french
- genuine gothic
- tranquil old
- great manorial
- ancient manorial
- ancient ducal
- small royal
- old run-down
- ancient grand
- complete french
- well-known ancient
- handsome modern
- truly gorgeous
- seignorial
- superb old
- small solitary
- somewhat pretentious
- whole silent
- narrow, old-fashioned
- stately gothic
- desolate old
- less grand
- gloomy, silent
- old french
- old baronial
- small modern
- classical french
- so-called new
- ugly modern
- seigniorial
- splendid old
- perfect french
- fresh, new
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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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