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 guests
Below is a list of describing words for guests. 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 guests:
- permanent, privileged
- important and high-ranking
- unhappy, nonpaying
- comfortable but solitary
- un--magical
- perfidious and beautiful
- rollicking and greedy
- fair larger
- unexpected and generally unhappy
- peculiarly privileged
- odious and expensive
- uninvited and unpredictable
- ill-mannered and thankless
- unknown and rather suspicious
- occasionally transient
- frequent and beloved
- occasional and important
- well-bred and cheerful
- unexpected but not unwelcome
- uninvited and unwanted
- worshipful and welcome
- late but unimportant
- polite casual
- diminutive sentient
- unexpected overnight
- honorable, welcome
- new ragged
- excellent and most attentive
- more drop-in
- occasional would-be
- consequently unreliable
- bland, polite
- noisy and impertinent
- welcome and acceptable
- other non-official
- thrice unwelcome
- awful interested
- incompetent and generally worthless
- happily weary
- unbidden but humorous
- occasional utilitarian
- thoroughly unique and inexplicable
- gracious, willing
- unexpected and unbidden
- brave hereditary
- persistent and uninvited
- weary homesick
- now unnumbered
- soft and truthful
- noble interplanetary
- principal and popular
- many overnight
- surprisingly fashionable
- foreign overnight
- brittle and lovely blond
- ordinary uninvited
- partly willing
- uninvited and unexpected
- snug and even luxurious
- renowned ostensible
- obscure and restive
- frequently unseen
- unassuming humble
- generally disproportionate
- mysterious funeral
- permanent and generally hereditary
- vivacious and welcome
- other unbidden
- helpless, unaccounted
- illustrious and eloquent
- dear and very generous
- troublesome and uninvited
- dark genteel
- absolutely uninvited
- foreign and altogether inexplicable
- unbidden unwelcome
- bold unwelcome
- same unphilosophical
- delightful annual
- genuinely welcome
- transient and blasphemous
- unworthy and wholly useless
- gracious, welcome
- welcome and instructive
- august but unwelcome
- extremely rude and discourteous
- dear shadowy
- troublesome and chargeable
- now curious
- strong and insolent
- cheery and witty
- frequent and welcome
- sinister and unexpected
- uninvited
- more uninvited
- strangely gifted
- generally unhappy
- impeccably courteous
- marginally welcome
- highest-ranking female
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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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