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 kitting
Below is a list of describing words for kitting. 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 kitting:
- tire-patching
- cold-survival
- complete cold-survival
- desert-survival
- resilient heavy
- well-stocked medical
- oblong medical
- orange medical
- full fifty-pound
- hypodermic and medical
- pragmatic tropical
- comprehensive survival
- whole survival
- fresh sick
- portable medical
- domestic do-it-yourself
- medium-sized medical
- comfortable tropical
- computer-operated surgical
- portable surgical
- unmistakable stable
- lavish cosmetic
- namely stray
- utterly obsolete and useless
- studiously inattentive
- enthusiastic, flattering
- indeed definite and insurmountable
- smart full-dress
- old short-skirted
- minuscule medical
- virtuous, innocent
- small medical
- small survival
- flat medical
- miniature celtic
- neat medical
- personal, leather-bound
- small clean-up
- ill…medical
- seriously ill…medical
- cosmopolitan survival
- new front-end
- king-sized medical
- maddening, quicksilver
- ready, menacing
- miniature survival
- bulky medical
- simple renewal
- untouched medical
- sparse survival
- forensic clean-up
- single tabby
- unopened overnight
- indeed definite
- enough sheer
- open medical
- rudimentary medical
- larger medical
- comfortable khaki
- less businesslike
- built-in survival
- comprehensive medical
- whole medical
- omnipresent medical
- compact medical
- full outdoor
- basic little
- clearly aware
- compact survival
- rvival
- vádjával
- v�dj�val
- dark tabby
- full medical
- old-fashioned medical
- me-di-cal
- obsolete and useless
- meager medical
- genial and lovable
- survival
- i>medical
- wee medical
- nanosurgical
- little hypodermic
- small hypodermic
- miniature medical
- wrong medical
- away spare
- peaceable little
- hypo
- ethological
- utterly obsolete
- basic survival
- full tropical
- i>personal
- big medical
- standard colonial
- small surgical
- larger gray
- medical
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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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