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 hospitality
Below is a list of describing words for hospitality. 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 hospitality:
- formal but warm
- flattering noble
- profuse and exuberant
- boisterous and almost brutal
- kindly welcome and generous
- lavish and gracious
- courteous irish
- usual open-handed
- splendid and lavish
- social and urbane
- stiff and raw
- rather stiff and raw
- elegant, historic
- least due
- cordial and antique
- frank, open-handed
- generous and elegant
- habitual and vivacious
- robust and cordial
- diminutive parallel
- generous but rude
- familiar and intermittent
- genuine good-natured
- welcome and boundless
- abundant rude
- humorous and memorable
- hospitable, humorous and memorable
- open but elegant
- greatest good--intellectual
- profuse but somewhat indiscriminate
- broad, mental
- wholesome and charming
- rare and bare
- welcome and generous
- frank, personal
- rude and plentiful
- simple and cordial
- renowned and lavish
- contemptuous and grudging
- full and most cordial
- equally meticulous
- lavish musical
- refined and lavish
- profuse and open-handed
- magnificent, jovial
- universal and cordial
- rude but genuine
- practised generous
- gay and inventive
- native and courteous
- lazy, restful
- vehement noisy
- cordial, gleeful
- largest and most free
- free and courteous
- everywhere lavish
- old-fashioned, thoughtless
- open, exalted
- say--aboriginal
- frank and wordy
- noble and considerate
- genuine and far-reaching
- profuse and splendid
- supposedly gracious
- sensitive and solicitous
- welcome and grudging
- lavish and too luxurious
- profuse but reckless
- jovial coarse
- persistent and almost anxious
- practised unbounded
- lavish and careless
- genial and profuse
- genuine and even enthusiastic
- thoughtful and sumptuous
- open-handed old-fashioned
- cordial, old-fashioned
- democratic, unpretentious
- proverbial western
- incessant and genuine
- humble and best
- well-known and universal
- merciless savage
- simple but courteous
- gratifying and ready
- pleasant and insistent
- tardy and chaotic
- gracious, old-time
- free and often careless
- splendid and liberal
- affectionate and boundless
- endless and rather aimless
- welcome and sumptuous
- unbounded, superlative
- poverty-stricken but always generous
- generous and equal
- baronial spanish
- judiciously lavish
- simple lavish
- generous and regal
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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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