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 corner
Below is a list of describing words for corner. 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 corner:
- further left-hand
- farthest, darkest
- top left-hand
- odd, disinterested
- comfortable, out-of-the-way
- upper right-hand
- lower right-hand
- farther right-hand
- lower left-hand
- tiny, cooler
- upper left-hand
- darkest, farthest
- furthest, darkest
- far right-hand
- top right-hand
- lowest vacant
- tranquilly resounding
- dank, nasty
- nasty high
- jolly tight
- small, rational
- certain lonesome
- left-hand lower
- top, right-hand
- unexplored, inexplicable
- farther left-hand
- distant and intimate
- small, numb
- left-hand top
- coolest, darkest
- farthest and darkest
- wet southeastern
- farthest and most obscure
- whole left-hand
- shady snow-covered
- chilly historic
- posteroproximal
- right-hand top
- remote, unoccupied
- visible top
- favorite dark
- farthest darkest
- antiseptic little
- dark, mental
- extremely inconspicuous
- inactive, remote
- tight fiscal
- further right-hand
- moorish cosy
- extreme posteroproximal
- proximolateral
- inconspicuous or dusty
- unoccupied or convenient
- far left-hand
- absurdly rational
- same out-of-the-way
- outer rear
- back left-hand
- extreme south-eastern
- particular remote
- right-hand upper
- left-hand upper
- nice shadowy
- darkest interior
- remote, uncharted
- sad dusty
- tiny honest
- latest sharp
- distant darkest
- high and unresolved
- obscure but scientific
- particularly misty
- dirtiest and coldest
- lofty, shadowy
- sharp bleak
- remote and darkest
- nasty, reasonable
- small and nearly perfect
- similar tight
- white, indistinguishable
- upper southeastern
- inner or nasal
- northeastern or southwestern
- wildly rough and inaccessible
- turkish cozy
- darkest and most remote
- sinister upper
- cozy turkish
- lowest or east
- hitherto fallow
- quiet, native
- lateral distal
- bald and bare
- right-hand lower
- good cozy
- right lower
- posteroventral
- far southeastern
- darkest and remotest
- rear upper
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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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