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 excursion
Below is a list of describing words for excursion. 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 excursion:
- short but critically necessary
- critically necessary
- two-hour pedestrian
- orthodox nuptial
- classical and delightful
- poetical and pastoral
- special quick
- terminal excorporeal
- perilous and famous
- seemingly endless and aimless
- short but disastrous
- excorporeal
- bizarre orbital
- short airborne
- unlawful exploratory
- murderous and predatory
- next and merriest
- somewhat rude and absurd
- own piscatorial
- inevitable but agreeable
- grand sunday-school
- short antiquarian
- blithe and careless
- foolish but innocent
- noble funeral
- last aqueous
- singular late-night
- sudden berserk
- perilous and guilty
- anxious and uncomfortable
- comfortable pedestrian
- fatal subterranean
- hitherto adventurous
- solitary pedestrian
- brave and legitimate
- short, hilarious
- insane pedestrian
- ambitious and most interesting
- safe and childish
- briefest outdoor
- present roundabout
- short and foolish
- brief egotistical
- romantic pedestrian
- fresh judicial
- bold pedestrian
- back third-class
- singularly interesting and enjoyable
- simple nocturnal
- exciting nor exhilarating
- pleasant or satisfactory
- pompous and pleasant
- desirable, delicious
- active psychical
- private, romantic
- fruitless ornithological
- attractive one-day
- impromptu pedestrian
- dreary but most interesting
- interesting suburban
- recent piratical
- temporary and erratic
- grand one-day
- grand two-day
- best three-day
- interesting or laudable
- seemingly unlucky
- unlikely anatomical
- rude and absurd
- restful and charming
- futile and possibly fatal
- previous subterranean
- impromptu five-day
- little daytime
- long but indispensable
- legal government-sponsored
- wonderfully crazed
- particular airborne
- weekly culinary
- pleasant daylong
- rare mimetic
- brilliant and terrifying
- big, long-planned
- mere off-road
- interesting but probably forlorn
- creepy archaeological
- abrupt and abortive
- little information-gathering
- recent and decidedly final
- preliminary observational
- a�rial photographic
- irreverent theatrical
- exceedingly imprudent
- great and hitherto pleasant
- vain and purposeless
- professional and arch�ological
- professional and archaeological
- delightful and natural
- long and involuntary
- seemingly technical
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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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