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 court
Below is a list of describing words for court. 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 court:
- central criminal
- consistorial and episcopal
- customary or traditional
- nascent civil
- thy offal
- ragged offal
- open, adversarial
- entire pontifical
- federal constitutional
- senegal constitutional
- devout and most respectable
- vicious, negligent
- fantastically dull
- wide and lengthy
- intermediate appellate
- walled green
- separate constitutional
- nearby sacrificial
- centumviral
- stilted imperial
- dazzling, glorious
- treacherous capricious
- spacious cloistered
- parliamentary criminal
- sufficiently hostile
- inner and imperial
- barbarically magnificent
- truculent and dishonest
- disgustingly respectable
- venerable and sovereign
- barbaric but well-organized
- rather barbaric but well-organized
- depraved and luxurious
- inner cloistered
- interior paved
- morose, bigoted
- international criminal
- appellate
- global environmental
- deeply arrogant
- horrible paved
- ravenously greedy
- ravenously greedy and rapacious
- dull paved
- main juvenile
- staid and stagnant
- unfinished outer
- present phony
- formal and rather intricate
- special clerical
- tiny cloistered
- shabby, paved
- colonial general
- lewd or unbelieving
- tribunal or judicial
- episcopal consistorial
- curious and most precipitous
- wild, jealous
- inefficient commercial
- small vice-regal
- last heraldic
- invincible and infallible
- sombre royal
- righteous royal
- portal, paved
- same venal
- joyful red
- illusory high
- feudal, majestic
- old-world paved
- standard and final
- princely central
- worshipful criminal
- principal trial
- nearest civil
- stuffy german
- crisp, arrogant
- deliciously sunny
- luxurious and thoughtless
- secret dummy
- formal postwar
- austere and conservative
- peaceful and happier
- peaceful tree-shaded
- elegant, century-old
- scandal or federal
- circular, streamlined
- parochial ecclesiastical
- awful unerring
- highest or last
- trifling, intriguing
- tribunal or international
- ancient and most expeditious
- gorgeous and spacious
- enlightened and exalted
- egyptian ecclesiastical
- universal arbitral
- ancient jocular
- nearest secular
- gay and pompous
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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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