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 factories
Below is a list of describing words for factories. 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 factories:
- small obsolete
- middle-sized austrian
- arsenal, many
- prefab chemical
- interior metabolic
- greenhouse-gas
- lunatic human
- industrial and exploratory
- frantically eager
- silent chemical
- independent chemical
- past clamorous
- dastardly drunken
- great worsted
- fair-sized chemical
- many urinal
- own cometary
- useless immense
- enormous good-looking
- moderately large and good-looking
- secret explosive
- professedly up-to-date
- large and professedly up-to-date
- equal, standard
- last mobile
- drab new
- self-contained automatic
- new standardized
- grim, three-story
- low and windowless
- mass-produced, computer-controlled
- newer concrete
- new pharmaceutical
- nanological
- orbiial
- large well-organized
- hideous biological
- shores--only dingy
- small but homicidal
- past smoke-stained
- longer physical but metaphysical
- girlish intellectual
- physical but metaphysical
- new and ill-equipped
- three-story above-ground
- small, new and ill-equipped
- interdependent national
- seventy-six great
- other self-supporting
- co-operative or private
- brutally realistic and illusionary
- sanitary and even attractive
- great small-arms
- seldom rear
- up-to-date and well-equipped
- small viennese
- wretched broken-down
- government-owned and government-operated
- royal a�rial
- biggest metal-working
- national small-arms
- stately european
- tragically poor
- thoroughly unionized
- same instructional
- largest oatmeal
- furthest portuguese
- coal and large
- empty dutch
- grimy, unwholesome
- unmanned orbital
- large and good-looking
- big, automatic
- moderately large
- well-organized chemical
- royal aerial
- unstable chemical
- chemical and mineral
- miniature chemical
- few sophisticated
- big nutrient
- apart immense
- modest optical
- complex and outlying
- shiny sterile
- withdrawal or specific
- great, prosperous
- ancient noisy
- huge prefab
- smaller south-of-the-border
- toxic old
- smoky cambodian
- efficient metabolic
- earth‑orbital
- routinely filthy
- cellular chemical
- illegal underground
- coal and many
- small-town sheet-metal
- maimed and rusting
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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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