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 exhibition
Below is a list of describing words for exhibition. 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 exhibition:
- pleasant gratuitous
- imperfect dental
- comical but rather scandalous
- international agricultural
- curious and dull
- ingenious and masterful
- french international
- finest public-school
- late photographic
- humorously graceful
- humorously graceful and grotesque
- ludicrous and severe
- free and artless
- characteristic and faithful
- condensed, scientific
- sober historic
- palpable and effective
- positively instructive
- wonderful and very sickening
- indiscreet, illegal
- rather pathological
- staggeringly convincing
- desperately furious
- wanton and ostentatious
- open classical
- significant or beautiful
- --royal agricultural
- instructive dramatic
- last cataclysmal
- similarly marvelous
- colonial and indian
- clear and influential
- systematic and wonderfully artistic
- subtle, triumphant
- disgusting and most cruel
- extreme and ironical
- powerful and emphatic
- simple and external
- keen, playful
- woefully sorry
- revolting public
- prodigiously amusing
- extravagant, unparalleled
- resplendent and sudden
- post-midnight private
- public and odious
- other ill-timed
- temporary theatrical
- franker and clearer
- great but fruitless
- new and unchecked
- simplest and most artistic
- gymnastic or theatrical
- degrading and disturbing
- beautiful or successful
- material and agonizing
- philippine local
- fine alaskan
- greatest and most prodigal
- tolerable dramatic
- delicate, grandest
- naughty and improper
- desirable and instructive
- japanese british
- bare servile
- purely aqueous
- brave and decisive
- meretricious and dazzling
- truly monotonous
- pompous, bombastic
- paramount, constant
- deliberate and somewhat indecent
- faithful and definite
- impartial and full
- irritating and idiotic
- striking rough-and-tumble
- late revolting
- loathsome pantomimic
- usual fearful
- visually disgusting
- unlicensed public
- highly moral and instructive
- comically naked
- concerted and shocking
- tasteful and refined
- alaskan educational
- insincere melodramatic
- biggest and most consistent
- graceful and grotesque
- striking and yet pleasing
- mutual and perfectly voluntary
- sublime, inspiring
- splendid and most interesting
- luminously scriptural
- uncommonly asinine
- utmost and most exalted
- scornful and ostentatious
- cute and endearing
- vain and offensive
- singular and pernicious
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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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