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 farms
Below is a list of describing words for farms. 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 farms:
- enormous fallow
- small family-owned
- productive family-owned
- highly mechanized and efficient
- lawless, lazy
- local commensal
- chunky blue-green
- small and burned-out
- inanely bloated
- inefficient small
- lone ancestral
- mechanized and efficient
- central experimental
- poor but precious
- fine dependent
- former upland
- equally advantageous and more
- wider extensive
- own medium-sized
- small inefficient
- democratic funny
- big undersea
- outlying human
- top thoroughbred
- totally mechanized
- large, mechanized
- secret deep-sea
- deep-sea funny
- gawky but very polite
- economic and uneconomic
- average recreational
- rough stumpy
- broken-down ramshackle
- fragmented, small
- narrow but extraordinarily heavy
- large and dear
- superlative, dear
- past lost
- well-managed and lucrative
- mostly individual
- impoverished collective
- usually prosperous
- small, inefficient
- nearest funny
- semitropical seaside
- egalitarian collective
- big, well-cared-for
- handsome nearby
- especially arable
- clattery old
- thy interminable
- certain mangled
- little brutish
- still warm-hearted
- fertile, well-kept
- ornamental or experimental
- aggregate transvaal
- own seigniorial
- therefore dearer
- huge, well-cared-for
- therefore cheaper
- fenced and well-defined
- worse and therefore cheaper
- outlying swedish
- past well-stocked
- untenanted little
- undeveloped outlying
- worn-out, run-down
- well-managed fruitful
- successful ostrich
- small and comparatively unproductive
- dirty and tumbledown
- war-torn little
- upland undulating
- daytime comfortable
- old indoor
- snug, fat
- nearest upland
- dearer, small
- generally timbered
- together outlying
- unproductive miserable
- presently rich
- well-to-do norwegian
- poor collective
- occasionally unprofitable
- collective or cooperative
- expensive and occasionally unprofitable
- independent collective
- wolvekraal
- individual collective
- originally fruitful
- least mechanized
- real, local
- mechanized and specialized
- fundamentally antagonistic and irreconcilable
- highly mechanized and specialized
- fundamentally antagonistic
- longer cheerful
- rough seaside
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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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