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 decorations
Below is a list of describing words for decorations. 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 decorations:
- prestigious and rare
- gorgeous mural
- equally rich and complex
- refined abstract
- sole mere
- splendid and almost royal
- hideous interior
- useful or splendid
- lavish pink
- absurdly oriental
- skillful interior
- multitudinous sculptural
- never exuberant
- important exterior
- fanciful but never exuberant
- fine marginal
- refined architectural
- triamphal
- gaudy and artificial
- earlier mural
- work--mural
- frivolous floral
- florid, georgian
- last and fitting
- fashionable aesthetic
- rear and smaller
- reasonably significant
- consciously ancient
- traditional ornate
- extraordinary mural
- gaudy personal
- marvelous and colorful
- fantastic conventional
- black and strange
- permanent chromatic
- evidently conventional and expressive
- floral or sculptural
- evidently conventional
- glaring grotesque
- conventional and expressive
- military and feminine
- stitches--traditional
- exquisite sculptural
- acceptable mural
- originally well-founded
- extremely effective and graceful
- charming indoor
- inexpensive grave
- impressive mural
- charming or pious
- colored mural
- bright festival
- gay and brave
- much victorian
- omnipresent facial
- exotic cultural
- baroque revival
- foolishly wonderful
- golden or jeweled
- purely stylistic
- original and oriental
- cuban interior
- usually tawdry and uninteresting
- free curvilineal
- usually tawdry
- gaudy, whimsical
- enormous architectural
- principal and emblematic
- victorian and colonial
- little--monumental
- georgian, victorian and colonial
- successful interior
- always mural
- primarily mural
- broad, sketchy
- extravagant and rich
- ugly mural
- less floral
- plain, faultless
- inconvenient scenic
- genuinely national and characteristic
- extraneous, artificial
- pleasingly grotesque
- mural and structural
- ornate and weary
- serviceable and graceful
- second-hand theatrical
- classic interior
- massive, superb
- curved and animal
- truly gorgeous and striking
- emblematic but indistinct
- tawdry and dilapidated
- highest italian
- vague fanciful
- rich but unobtrusive
- curious quadrilateral
- interior floral
- precious interior
- ecclesiastical mural
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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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