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 climate
Below is a list of describing words for climate. 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 climate:
- shabby temperate
- perpetual tropical
- predominantly hot and humid
- predominantly hot
- gentle maritime
- brighter and sunnier
- somewhat tropical
- now tropical
- already near-lethal
- generous tropical
- hot and extremely bright
- temperate, healthy
- salubrious and delightful
- harsh, capricious
- generally unfavorable
- sufficiently benign
- wet, tropical
- corrective medical
- green, mild
- stickily sweltering
- own ungenial
- hyperequatorial
- milder southern
- extremely pragmatic
- cold european
- savagely cold
- agreeable or salubrious
- moist and genial
- harsh alaskan
- merely arctic
- mild bloody
- frightful siberian
- year-round perfect
- genial and temperate
- bones--glacial
- moist and variable
- genial and congenial
- generally mild and temperate
- cold, wet and windy
- more changeable
- recent milder
- dry and healthful
- fauna--tropical
- comparatively cool and healthy
- exquisite and balmy
- mild and almost sub-tropical
- extremely dry and warm
- constant tropical
- average temperate
- severe northern
- unhealthy tropical
- occasionally difficult
- year-round mild
- warm, man-made
- singularly hot and cold
- considerably hotter
- intemperately wet
- warm local
- perpetually marvelous
- temperate and salubrious
- mild and healthful
- exceptional and variable
- beautiful temperate
- colder eastern
- unusual hot
- perpetually humid
- changeable temperate
- hot, debilitating
- reasonable, sociable
- genial, temperate
- genial temperate
- mild and cold
- frightful asiatic
- glum, doleful
- consequently rough
- consequently rough and ungenial
- dry and intensely cold
- temperate or cooler
- temperate or subtropical
- harsh and wintry
- warm and rainless
- fervent and unhealthy
- healthy and propitious
- healthier and milder
- temperate and agreeable
- fickle and moist
- changeable but temperate
- agreeable tropical
- terribly hot and muggy
- equally hot and moist
- rigid, inhospitable
- better and equally salubrious
- nice tropical
- own discrete
- genial and sunny
- similarly dry
- temperate and fruitful
- generally temperate
- boring and stable
- fairly temperate
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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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