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 kingdoms
Below is a list of describing words for kingdoms. 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 kingdoms:
- magical faraway
- independent and short-lived
- important pre-imperial
- small and secretive
- animal, animal
- maritime and martial
- whole animal
- mum, thy
- eternal messianic
- east, inhospitable
- northern stygian
- clean blank
- remote and interior
- pure and hereditary
- splendid and potent
- unworthy and obscure
- mineral and elemental
- ancient, sinister
- powerful and cosmopolitan
- rich and expansive
- useful vegetal
- lunar animal
- separate danish
- former georgian
- entire animal
- distant magical
- huge and acquisitive
- rebellious or independent
- fairly vast
- ordinary, visible
- small, oppressed
- elective or turbulent
- tiny and petty
- petty jutish
- far realer
- material and intelligent
- intolerant jewish
- anciently distinct
- continuous and paramount
- anciently distinct and hostile
- weak egyptian
- other sporty
- mighty and most sublime
- divine, supernatural
- thine obvious
- polish autonomous
- merely vegetal and animal
- merely vegetal
- paternalistic little
- nascent spanish
- independent gothic
- populous and well-regulated
- profound and inextricable
- gloomy nocturnal
- large and therefore powerful
- mysterious and otherwise unknown
- already great and glorious
- mighty and stable
- tottering, staggering
- proud ancient
- else solitary
- hostile and separate
- famous lilliputian
- recent and transitory
- ancient and most famous
- extensive and often powerful
- tiny, so-called
- tidy and busy
- old nebular
- eerie, underground
- mighty and proud
- presently invisible
- korean tribal
- small, feudal
- uncounted petty
- splendid mythical
- primitive but broadly harmless
- self-perpetuating mechanical
- broadly harmless
- noisy and peaceable
- paranoid miniature
- fragrant inner
- petty and short-lived
- an\-imal
- mineral and animal
- whole would-be
- plentiful and mighty
- relatively small and poor
- anciently separate
- eccentric animal
- portuguese or pagan
- dependent polish
- once belligerent
- glorious, universal
- also large and populous
- world-wide, eternal
- vast, virtual
- glorious incoming
- rich and most powerful
- mighty and fertile
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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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