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 furniture
Below is a list of describing words for furniture. 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 furniture:
- modernist crystal
- considerable massive
- sensible, pleasing
- tiny and ingenious
- gently shabby
- dull and shabby
- sully fine
- clumsy seventeenth-century
- stiff plush
- straight and uncaring
- aside charred
- plain and rather dismal
- scanty shabby
- rich and infinite
- cheap and utilitarian
- delicate expensive
- expensive and very old
- whatsoever wooden
- adorable old-fashioned
- cardinal such
- polished wooden
- modern, ready-made
- deliberately flimsy
- low, unthreatening
- high-gloss french
- essential and most luxurious
- capital substantial
- scanty and inartificial
- peaceable, reasonable
- ordinary and ornamental
- rustic and yet comfortable
- old-fashioned and heterogeneous
- gilt heavy
- antiquated, lumbering
- deservedly unfashionable
- neat, smooth
- metallic and wooden
- costly antique
- sad, washed-out
- sturdy, simple
- ancient, handsome
- ordinary secondhand
- lously clean
- lovely hand-carved
- somehow masculine
- old, tasteful
- particularly rich and high
- severe and obviously uncomfortable
- comfortable, incongruous
- offensively rich
- intimate luxurious
- irregular comfortable
- convenient, substantial
- splendidly voluptuous
- cumbersome, provincial
- extra-ornamental and human
- extra-ornamental
- barbaric, clumsy
- good and sumptuous
- spurious italian
- coarse and necessary
- old-fashioned dirty
- sombre, sparse
- scanty, old-fashioned
- uncomfortable, shabby
- old-fashioned and venerable
- showy but heterogeneous
- dental or veterinary
- surgical, dental or veterinary
- flimsy and useless
- handsome convenient
- neat and sturdy
- shamelessly luxurious
- antique elizabethan
- tasteful, modern
- rustic hand-hewn
- eclectic, utilitarian
- cheap, prosaic
- chatty new
- cheap hand-me-down
- dusty, old-fashioned
- old but expensive
- outdated, enormous
- florid, oversized
- cheap rustic
- grim, mass-produced
- concrete, splintered
- grey, characterless
- fashionably anemic
- mediocre modern
- also expensive
- vacant, such
- awkward municipal
- towering rococo
- beige and off-white
- decrepit but beautiful
- twin, past
- solid and unadorned
- possible comfortable
- just danish
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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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