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 feature
Below is a list of describing words for feature. 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 feature:
- depressing recurrent
- mountainous geographic
- odd decorative
- x-rated short
- worst double
- seventh suspicious
- familiar astronomical
- exceptional additional
- prime decorative
- dominant topographical
- notable geographic
- new and very distressing
- nearest geographical
- prominent clinical
- peculiarly gothic
- ideal and significant
- possible anatomical
- lengthy and cavernous
- difficult but stubborn
- inherent and irreducible
- primitive linguistic
- distinct and noteworthy
- prominent botanical
- main unfinished
- late-night double
- major salient
- striking joint
- single recognizable
- definitive physical
- single lovable
- single topographical
- apparently conspicuous
- strictly special
- sole sharp
- unique and popular
- dominant geologic
- prominent and salutary
- painfully conspicuous
- significant and central
- remarkable and most hideous
- distinctly notable
- main, striking
- controversial single
- intentional but secondary
- characteristic scenic
- common, ever-present
- peculiar and highly characteristic
- necessary and prominent
- castles--chepstow--grosmont--raglan--central
- striking and unforeseen
- additional and dreadful
- ridiculous and astonishing
- genuinely cool
- uniquely individual
- single attractive
- ferocious and repulsive
- instantly endearing
- distinctive topographic
- truly unanticipated
- latest animated
- humorous or remarkable
- tiny anatomical
- oddly dramatic
- subsequent distinctive
- interesting and most obscure
- extraneous or incidental
- peculiar and noteworthy
- capital geographic
- small and quite microscopical
- quite microscopical
- pronouncedly regular
- constant or prominent
- next atypical
- characteristic and central
- characteristic messianic
- prominent, peculiar
- prominent and hideous
- permanent and innate
- dominant or principal
- common and most obvious
- strange and airy
- admirable, fair
- distinctive and almost indispensable
- doubtful accidental
- additional and most attractive
- attractive and enviable
- comprehensive and identical
- least anomalous
- pleasing and prominent
- distinctive and descriptive
- unquestionably unpleasant
- restful architectural
- fifth physiological
- unimportant climatic
- prominent or generic
- striking and noticeable
- central and satisfying
- fourth striking
- distinctive economic
- important traditional
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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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