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 cruise
Below is a list of describing words for cruise. 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 cruise:
- random three-dimensional
- noble experimental
- five-mile circular
- lone, independent
- fanciful and disastrous
- solemn aimless
- oceanographical
- long transatlantic
- round-the-world underwater
- outwardly luxurious
- active three-week
- tense but sluggish
- subsequent coastal
- wild piratical
- similar but uneventful
- mad piratical
- short uneventful
- brilliant and destructive
- annual around-the-world
- speculative but cautious
- easy fair-weather
- cheery, hygienic
- last lengthy
- otherwise disappointing
- protracted and adventurous
- previous memorable
- nearly four-month
- entire year-long
- dreary interstellar
- blue-ribbon jovian
- small and particularly exclusive
- joyful bahamian
- little cut-rate
- spiced and stylized
- free five-day
- brief and sunny
- historic five-year
- fastest and most luxurious
- own snotty
- long and purposeless
- efficient minimum
- surprisingly uneventful
- ordinary alaskan
- unlucky and unpleasant
- long and strangely adventurous
- accurate cursory
- short and eventful
- otherwise idyllic
- raucous, modern
- long and unproductive
- laborious and disagreeable
- round-the-world
- final trial
- air-launched
- laval multipurpose
- majestic extraterrestrial
- single-class
- better-known air-launched
- pleasant nighttime
- short, successful
- fourth busiest
- brief trial
- indifferently successful
- long and enjoyable
- short and exciting
- last, ill-fated
- constant and sufficient
- short and rough
- ground-launched
- around-the-world
- submarine-launched
- largest and most luxurious
- particularly exclusive
- new sophisticated
- newest and most beautiful
- normal, tame
- similar intelligent
- long and unexpected
- almost uneventful
- long and venturesome
- unknown and uncertain
- conspicuously successful
- long interstellar
- thy endless
- cool, cool
- long and distant
- alert other
- already legendary
- rare long
- fatal last
- last joyous
- strangely adventurous
- long, forlorn
- thy woodland
- single fortunate
- short, energetic
- short southern
- thirty-caliber
- present horrid
- rather adventurous
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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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