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 distribution
Below is a list of describing words for distribution. 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 distribution:
- extraordinarily unequal
- free
- quaint and arbitrary
- better countrywide
- rare bimodal
- flat-equal
- highly unequal
- circular normal
- consistent regional
- unequal territorial
- _geographical and geological
- current fragmented
- natural and most advantageous
- regular and economical
- normal pyramidal
- exogens--geological
- markedly uneven
- wide and judicious
- relatively inequitable
- artful and singular
- mere unequal
- exactly mathematical
- bimodal
- severely unbalanced
- rather low-density
- deal, international
- sixth quinquennial
- entire peripheral
- equitable and proportionate
- apparent unequal
- well-known threefold
- insects--geographical
- dissemination--geographical
- singularly local
- ordinary migratory
- original unequal
- unequal geographical
- rude geographical
- equal and compulsory
- probable geographical
- sane and equitable
- free, unequal
- attractive, equitable
- unequal diurnal
- generous and lavish
- present geographic
- wide geographical
- present geographical
- widest geographical
- cos-mically unusual
- surprisingly homogeneous
- stable and symmetrical
- �bimodal
- totally routine
- likewise generous
- three-year european
- accidentally unequal
- apparently promiscuous
- comprehensive and ample
- unjust or negligent
- regular and consequential
- symmetrical linear
- wholesale gratuitous
- practically world-wide
- entirely unequal
- complete geographic
- such vegetative
- erratic and imperfect
- present unequal
- indiscriminate and wasteful
- promiscuous free
- alone equitable
- equal all-round
- obviously equal
- compact or continuous
- typical geographic
- wide or cosmopolitan
- various zonal
- better cautionary
- late and totally useless
- strict and mathematical
- quite discontinuous
- widely discontinuous
- universal or sub-universal
- convenient and abundant
- equal and abundant
- annual racial
- labour--asiatics--geographical
- central, such
- generous, thorough and rapid
- trial or limited
- past geographical
- possible asymmetric
- truly unlimited
- irregular or general
- upheaval and wide
- worth wide
- -geographical
- effective and equitable
- one-sided and inequitable
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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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