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 confinement
Below is a list of describing words for confinement. 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 confinement:
- strict solitary
- rigid and illiberal
- virtual solitary
- ultimate solitary
- strict and shameful
- separate and rigorous
- unimaginative metallic
- strictest solitary
- dismal and fearful
- separate or solitary
- frequently irksome
- frequently irksome and oppressive
- rude but modest
- high, faraway
- narrow and irksome
- indefinite solitary
- voluntary solitary
- idle, passive
- incessant and deleterious
- unexplained solitary
- solitary or secret
- hopeless solitary
- cerebral solitary
- bowl-shaped, inescapable
- cultural solitary
- permanent and very strict
- temporary solitary
- solitary, inexplicable
- necessarily military
- daily solitary
- german solitary
- compact, systematic
- long numbing
- exactly solitary
- far monastic
- last and closer
- consequent solitary
- strict cloistral
- immediate solitary
- exceptional long
- fine or short
- long, painful and rigid
- painful and rigid
- feverish, long
- social, solitary
- long and unwholesome
- perpetual solitary
- lifelong solitary
- ancient inertial
- absolutely solitary
- brief and safe
- human, such
- hideous and unaccustomed
- just closer
- inertial electrostatic
- benefit-non-hospital
- existential solitary
- nonpenal solitary
- sterile stuffy
- niveal
- additional punitive
- least unlawful
- punitive solitary
- regular solitary
- continuous solitary
- lustful, solitary
- unremitting sedentary
- separate and solitary
- medieval solitary
- continual solitary
- dangerous and helpless
- nice and strange
- doubly irksome
- anchoretical
- ‘occasional solitary
- solitary or homicidal
- strict and solitary
- irksome and laborious
- immediate and unquestioned
- strict and vigilant
- absolute solitary
- long and rigorous
- essentially solitary
- tedious and irksome
- perhaps solitary
- preferred solitary
- unbroken solitary
- almost life-long
- such wrongful
- cruel and loathsome
- brand-new temporal
- temporal
- cheap inertial
- twin inertial
- comfortable last
- galactic solitary
- endless solitary
- self-imposed solitary
- windowless solitary
- military, naval or civil
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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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