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 europe
Below is a list of describing words for europe. 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 europe:
- congested and discontented
- central and east
- humanist and multilingual
- coastal northwestern
- undivided, democratic
- war-torn central
- royal feudal
- dead, brutish
- western continental
- western and central
- cultured but cold
- central, western and south-eastern
- western or central
- western and civilized
- northern or temperate
- younger and distinct
- stagnant western
- baltic and east
- baltic and central
- central, eastern and southeastern
- central and south-eastern
- rainy northern
- medieval western
- northern, eastern and central
- generic western
- social and royal
- brave and unthinking
- monarchical and diplomatic
- northern and modern
- remote occidental
- still dark and troubled
- feudal and reactionary
- perfectly feasible and easy
- southeastern and western
- real or western
- central or southeastern
- civilised, humane
- unemployed, disorganized
- horrifying civilised
- northern or even southern
- human, scorched
- torpid moribund
- radiant, peaceful
- superior contemptuous
- now happy and free
- spacious and pompous
- present, western
- perturbed or polluted
- monarchical, imperial
- still conspicuous and similar
- over-populated, agricultural
- premature appeal
- western, northern and central
- western, southern and central
- seductive old
- dynastic, aristocratic
- wretched and restless
- indignant but powerless
- vain standard
- terrific upheaval
- legal, scholastic
- eastern, central and northern
- central and occidental
- western, central and south-eastern
- now general and urgent
- northern prehistoric
- work-a-day twentieth-century
- indifferent western
- whole, stagnant
- easy-going and utterly corrupt
- ago central and northern
- central or eastern
- sophisticated, cultured
- corrupt southern
- temperate western
- central and western
- total western
- central and eastern
- free and self-reliant
- east and central
- northern and coastal
- least western
- modern and snappy
- east or central
- southeastern and central
- patrician and conventional
- anarchic western
- strong and resurgent
- alternate fifteenth-century
- strong and generally prosperous
- prosperous, civilized
- central and northern
- south-eastern and central
- enlightened and troubled
- timid, old
- northeastern central
- new and undivided
- immature, reluctant
- capital and western
- benighted rotten
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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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