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 entertainment
Below is a list of describing words for entertainment. 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 entertainment:
- fabulously dramatic
- low-grade continuous
- gleeful suburban
- solemn and popular
- simple but hospitable
- rural itinerant
- trifling musical
- private rural
- professedly mere
- enthralling public
- much big-name
- rather jazzy
- healthy, imaginative
- hitherto shabby
- pleasing and rational
- new and decadent
- superb and original
- completely readable
- violent and completely readable
- hilarious and thrilling
- fleeting and impersonal
- casual, restful
- tragic pantomimical
- comic and ludicrous
- festival, convivial
- promising richer
- festive, carnival or other
- cheerful and instructive
- picturesque traditional
- freewheeling improvisational
- pure, passive
- delightful and magnificent
- warmer, livelier
- three-hour theatrical
- more unintentional
- undoubtedly total
- ancient and clunky
- spectacular musical
- unsatisfying and even diminutive
- refined and permissible
- funeral and philanthropic
- memorable and most exciting
- other paradisiacal
- sufficiently festal
- probably ingenious and splendid
- probably ingenious
- congenial, dismal
- plentiful and even sumptuous
- widespread and indiscriminate
- stodgy grown-up
- otherwise conventional and formal
- bizarre and rather vulgar
- enjoyable and brilliant
- exceptionally exhilarating
- great or noisy
- clear and courteous
- reasonable and highly effective
- popular and profoundly philosophical
- municipal musical
- sombre, dramatic
- intellectual, respectable
- purely moral and instructive
- orchestral and dramatic
- rational or sensible
- wholesome, amusing
- idle and comfortable
- modest theatrical
- welcome and most hospitable
- eternal perennial
- new and always pleasing
- reasonable and inexpensive
- rational or delightful
- rural or outdoor
- graceful and most agreeable
- constant sensible
- present-day outdoor
- fuller spectacular
- grand inaugural
- innocent, unsuspected
- exhilarating and piquant
- expensive indoor
- refined & original
- extraordinary pleasing
- snappy dramatic
- royally hospitable
- infrequently intelligent
- refined and overpowering
- rational or even irrational
- compact magical
- funny theatrical
- ready-made, easy
- puerile and foolish
- truly original and thrilling
- semi-arithmetical
- unique and very amusing
- sumptuous or splendid
- rich & splendid
- agreeable and ideal
- audio or other
- usually diversified
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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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