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 dish
Below is a list of describing words for dish. 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 dish:
- hotly seasoned
- collapsible metallic
- appetizing scalloped
- optically pure
- subtly aromatic
- unusually tasty
- sticky ceramic
- shallow, golden
- large directional
- extra dainty
- great canted
- dainty warm
- elegant but substantial
- well-dressed tempting
- well stewed
- rare nautical
- comfortable--capital
- seasoned cold
- desirable high-protein
- otherwise high-protein
- delicious scalloped
- especially palatable
- palatable scalloped
- appetizing and attractive
- cheap high-protein
- peculiarly elegant and delicious
- classical and well-known
- savory and handsome
- adroit, tempting
- occasional and acceptable
- nutritious and cheap
- flat brazen
- deep capacious
- proper vegetarian
- traditional cajun
- cut-glass olive
- tasty irish
- perfectly traditional
- athenian national
- ornamental and nice
- exceedingly ornamental and nice
- national moorish
- cruel nice
- terrifying but exceedingly palatable
- succulent but very greasy
- especially delectable
- delicate and estimable
- fairly palatable
- cheap, wholesome and appetizing
- clean suitable
- acceptable, presentable
- sophisticated, big-city
- delicious and dainty
- salutary and antidotal
- highly salutary and antidotal
- favorite moorish
- extra tasty
- flat, cut-glass
- wholesome and succulent
- fairly wholesome and digestible
- oval, one-sided
- savory and popular
- delicious epoch-making
- exceedingly unpalatable
- dainty, luscious
- finely stewed
- dainty and savory
- new babtismal
- babtismal
- inaccessible and uninviting
- savory and wholesome
- nice and fashionable
- popular syrian
- supposedly delectable
- delicious and economical
- wholesome canine
- tame sweet
- celtic national
- succulent or dainty
- satisfying and palatable
- coarse and substantial
- distasteful or even unwholesome
- real unwholesome
- substantial and not unpleasant
- concave, rimless
- far-famed emerald
- queer but very nice
- coarse, fishy
- palatable and nutritive
- good, cordial
- damned and disagreeable
- appetizing and nutritious
- oblong and somewhat deep
- newly spiced
- ubiquitous national
- uncommon but very excellent
- uncommon and very delicious
- excellent but very difficult
- economical and palatable
- nice palatable
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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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