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 commodity
Below is a list of describing words for commodity. 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 commodity:
- bulky and perishable
- honest colonial
- crucial external
- lucrative or sensible
- particularly useful or desirable
- vanishingly rare and expensive
- historically familiar
- ordinary marketable
- little or contemptible
- diversified primary
- remarkably common
- dreadfully cheap
- doubly unknown
- crucially basic
- fleeting, disposable
- ultimate precious
- totally unmarketable
- intellectual but very bulky
- great home-grown
- cheap and perishable
- much higher-priced
- sufficiently marketable
- proper marketable
- precious and dangerous
- earthly private
- perfectly marketable
- marvellously scarce
- somewhat scarce and precious
- worthless and injurious
- cheapest marketable
- remarkable valuable
- vicious and contraband
- admittedly vicious and contraband
- increasingly marketable
- distinctly marketable
- vast scarce
- cheap but necessary
- cheap marketable
- precious and sweet
- bare raw
- vanishingly rare
- highly negotiable
- coarse and comparatively valueless
- weak international
- somewhat worthless
- rare and volatile
- anishingly rare and expensive
- anishingly rare
- indefinable, irreplaceable
- valuable and sometimes rare
- suspicious, fragile
- defective or otherwise undesirable
- scarce and fragile
- useless and negative
- ther critical
- precious and relatively uncommon
- eternally elusive
- absolutely irreplaceable
- relatively changeable
- cheapest and freest
- illusory, unattainable
- neutral or innocent
- awfully high-priced
- mere marketable
- inert and unproductive
- tropical raw
- soft international
- pure or genuine
- chief marketable
- contraband and dangerous
- scanty and precious
- adaptable and convenient
- practical, popular
- admittedly vicious
- special mysterious
- unreasonably expensive
- universally desirable
- contraband but genuine
- useful marketable
- ready marketable
- more marketable
- marketable
- more salable
- useful or desirable
- remarkably valuable
- key international
- easily marketable
- increasingly scarce
- universally current
- key industrial
- scarce and precious
- mighty rare
- former valuable
- heavy and valuable
- valuable and marketable
- valuable or desirable
- other salable
- highly singular
- notoriously variable
- ultimately useless
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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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