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 entrance
Below is a list of describing words for entrance. 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 entrance:
- slow and slightly unsteady
- uncharacteristically rude
- clever one-way
- religious question--triumphal
- question--triumphal
- safe and broad
- exotic wooden
- quite plain and functional
- massacre--triumphal
- old, monumental
- shadowy, arched
- vulgar and ungracious
- solemn and tranquil
- main or eastern
- cavernous, torch-lit
- tirely separate
- always silent and instantaneous
- controversial pyramidal
- grand western
- decayed grand
- hollow and barren
- oblique grand
- rather quiet and sudden
- separate underwater
- late, flashy
- mammoth main
- grandiose royal
- bronze-and-crystal
- gloomy main
- angry and dramatic
- doubtlessly correct
- polite and circumspect
- nearest subterranean
- lowly narrow
- western or grand
- strange, critical
- eastern or main
- traditional eastern
- own lateral
- narrower or southern
- splendid arched
- apologetic and somewhat troubled
- small pedestrian
- would-be dramatic
- familiar arched
- symmetrical arched
- splendidly dramatic
- regular timbered
- ground-floor main
- abrupt and unannounced
- slick covert
- handsomely milled
- domed exterior
- doorseal
- widely arched
- private back-door
- lower, obvious
- efficient and relatively painless
- equally uneventful
- moist and bloody
- outwardly self-contained
- sole incorporeal
- next and large
- monumental and official
- main and triumphal
- important and smaller
- small, eastern
- instantaneous deep
- cold and unattractive
- disgraceful main
- arched and narrow
- separate and spectacular
- recent unopposed
- principal and well-guarded
- upper principal
- magnificently wild and picturesque
- propitious thine
- shallow but safe
- late and disturbing
- impressive, gothic
- key and principal
- grimy main
- arched, dismal
- arched and gloomy
- convenient and deep
- full but easy
- moderately full but easy
- broad, southeastern
- formal triumphal
- possibly secret
- wide but rather dark
- arched, walled
- stealthy, peaceable
- portal or great
- unattractive, old-time
- older ornamental
- wide unadorned
- formidable chief
- brown ornate
- obscure and unpretentious
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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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