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 extravagance
Below is a list of describing words for extravagance. 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 extravagance:
- trivial, puerile
- new unwarrantable
- latest unwarrantable
- typical mannered
- full baroque
- unchecked and wasteful
- prolific and splendid
- total avian
- wasteful public
- thoughtless and wanton
- general and joint
- indeed intolerable
- ridiculous and indeed intolerable
- vicious or prodigal
- fancy and gaudy
- reckless and frantic
- atavistic participatory
- wicked wanton
- “typical french
- unbelievable and delightful
- unseen private
- breath-taking, intoxicating
- young winsome
- wanton, iniquitous
- insane and unscrupulous
- boyish, heedless
- delicate, reckless
- formerly boundless
- appropriate but improper
- immoral or unintellectual
- opposite and most unwholesome
- almost wasteful
- curiously bizarre and tragic
- prevalent and temporary
- similar and incredible
- former sentimental
- capricious futile
- invincible and still boyish
- simply disgraceful
- visible and too unbounded
- reckless and utterly useless
- chiefly bull-headed
- wanton and wasteful
- unlucky critical
- wild, needless
- ruinous and even reckless
- ideal and capricious
- glorious exuberant
- wasteful and corrupt
- excess or stupid
- commonly wasteful
- mischievous youthful
- heartless, wasteful
- tawdry and tasteless
- last, thoughtless
- wasteful and purposeless
- careless national
- tasteless or vulgar
- reckless, ignorant
- abominable and reckless
- reckless and heartless
- riotous, insane
- wasteful and wanton
- picturesque and sensational
- clean, irresistible
- thoughtless and abominable
- unprecedented reckless
- wasteful vulgar
- reckless and wasteful
- wasteful and absurd
- often puerile
- absolutely inexcusable
- enthusiastic, idealistic
- utmost outlandish
- ultramodern, daring
- eventual operational
- brief bushy
- costly personal
- feverish and hectic
- last geographic
- barbaric and ostentatious
- rich, ornate
- bleak and heartless
- early reckless
- splendid, careless
- sheer cynical
- sheer and sinful
- wanton and senseless
- same inharmonious
- wasteful, heedless
- wanton, senseless
- insane, senseless
- reckless, wasteful
- whimsical, paradoxical
- ostentatious and almost insane
- terribly reckless
- least, initial
- certain brittle
- bizarre and tragic
- proud and delightful
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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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