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 decoration
Below is a list of describing words for decoration. 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 decoration:
- equally rich and complex
- sole mere
- hideous interior
- skillful interior
- never exuberant
- fanciful but never exuberant
- refined architectural
- gaudy and artificial
- work--mural
- florid, georgian
- last and fitting
- fashionable aesthetic
- reasonably significant
- traditional ornate
- gaudy personal
- fantastic conventional
- permanent chromatic
- floral or sculptural
- glaring grotesque
- military and feminine
- exquisite sculptural
- originally well-founded
- charming indoor
- much victorian
- exotic cultural
- foolishly wonderful
- purely stylistic
- cuban interior
- free curvilineal
- gaudy, whimsical
- principal and emblematic
- little--monumental
- successful interior
- primarily mural
- extravagant and rich
- less floral
- inconvenient scenic
- extraneous, artificial
- mural and structural
- serviceable and graceful
- classic interior
- curved and animal
- emblematic but indistinct
- highest italian
- rich but unobtrusive
- interior floral
- ecclesiastical mural
- oldest ornamental
- lavish mural
- profuse and somewhat mechanical
- fanciful and exuberant
- vivid mural
- wonderful mural
- cheap up-to-date
- symmetrical rococo
- same ceramic
- similar iconoclastic
- conspicuous mural
- poverty-stricken byzantine
- satisfactory or generally available
- fantastic and endless
- grandiose, idealistic
- frightful, festive
- manufactures--external
- probably religious and funereal
- easy and opulent
- feeble conventional
- harmonious coloured
- sumptuous pictorial
- ornate and incongruous
- savage and african
- truly savage and african
- effective aristocratic
- legitimate architectural
- panoramic mural
- genuine and suitable
- tasteful, oriental
- severe but splendid
- vegetal and undulating
- quaint but charmingly artistic
- mural or monumental
- heraldic or armorial
- rich spiral
- small titular
- trivial but exquisite
- necessarily mural
- ingratiating pictorial
- heraldic or ornamental
- much mythical
- rococo architectural
- spare and austere
- brilliant and fanciful
- good interior
- intricate and exotic
- prestigious national
- gaudy primary-color
- exquisite heraldic
- merely bizarre
- just interior
- elegant, linear
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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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