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 fountain
Below is a list of describing words for fountain. 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 fountain:
- still withered
- still withered and barren
- central conic
- colossal and pompous
- quaint ornate
- violently yellow
- scented and iridescent
- graceful tiled
- contagious parental
- woman--eternal
- brightest crystal
- dried-up ornamental
- still nonfunctional
- broad and luxurious
- variegated gothic
- glorious pure
- deep, foul
- everlasting and abundant
- full and inexhaustible
- great broken-nosed
- additional circular
- dry concrete
- quite-real
- sacred and solitary
- low tiled
- high, transcendent
- lorqual
- pure, original
- amazing baroque
- superb hexagonal
- sparkling and delicious
- fabled or famous
- identical and original
- clear and salubrious
- enormous and perennial
- octagonal tiled
- greatest and most august
- larger monumental
- spontaneous, delightful
- refreshing and ever-present
- crystial
- benzedral
- dry and dilapidated
- vertical, broad
- clear, abundant
- lovely octagonal
- sparkling and alluring
- copious, refreshing
- conspicuous and ornamental
- famed pink
- abundant and truly splendid
- ever refreshing
- disagreeable, anti-clerical
- wonderful unfailing
- plentiful and most useful
- silvery sparkling
- far-famed mythical
- thy perennial
- deepest, clearest
- fine fantastic
- sacred and hallowed
- incandescent inverted
- next indoor
- self-contained ornamental
- decorative stainless-steel
- graceful, multilayered
- absurd dry
- impossible colossal
- famous two-tiered
- small, never-ending
- grotesque golden
- blue, floodlit
- gigantic vertical
- devastating horizontal
- seemingly obligatory
- once uncanny
- tremendous, awe-inspiring
- woman—eternal
- stout and slippery
- big architectural
- happy, secret
- ineffable and immense
- large, refreshing
- yon fresh
- chaste towering
- small and sparkling
- mysterious and eternal
- pure and icy
- plentiful and delicious
- old, modest
- cheapest and most delightful
- eternal, unfailing
- huge, cylindrical
- small, movable
- virtually bottomless
- great inexhaustible
- new pyrotechnic
- cool and sparkling
- small and circular
- beautiful triangular
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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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