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 lamps
Below is a list of describing words for lamps. 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 lamps:
- practical incandescent
- depressingly few and small
- depressingly few
- bright officious
- glaring and malignant
- sovereign vital
- elaborate golden
- present incandescent
- rococo metal
- grey, doleful
- sole red
- bright high-intensity
- ordinary smoky
- tall gold-and-crystal
- tall astral
- pale and antique
- distant unbroken
- stern and gimbaled
- rare sepulchral
- fancy twin
- little battery-operated
- hottest, cleanest
- magically automatic
- small bizarre
- illuminating colored
- true wonderful
- hideous brassy
- primitive fat
- decorative portable
- sole, enormous
- several incandescent
- corresponding supervisory
- experimental incandescent
- valuable astral
- tiny brazen
- monstrous and ancient
- ordinary incandescent
- better ordinary
- orange glaring
- fairy electric
- occasional indoor
- gladiatorial and theatrical
- dreadfully smoky
- dead perpetual
- red, perfumed
- purely burial
- disastrously brilliant
- night-time coloured
- fairy, tiny
- solitary pale-blue
- incandescent electric
- bad fluorescent
- prosaic common
- movable electric
- brazen old
- unbreakable electric
- lone feeble
- remote electric
- strong, battery-powered
- erratic electric
- flighty overhead
- decent damned
- adjustable surgical
- weak, overhead
- tiny overhead
- sputtering fat
- rude brown
- rather plebeian
- trimly bright
- stones--technological
- old-fashioned astral
- smoky harmful
- rude kamchadal
- current incandescent
- visible electric
- earliest incandescent
- single and pale
- curious memorial
- smallest miniature
- luminous, unneeded
- modern incandescent
- luminous yellow-green
- steady, smokeless
- lighted--several
- doubtfully valuable
- ill-advised electric
- long-cherished but doubtfully valuable
- feeble symbolic
- ugly blue and yellow
- massive grecian
- scant, inefficient
- heptahedral
- odd-looking antique
- quaint heptahedral
- dismally dim
- feeble incandescent
- immediately helpful
- wireless or signal
- powerful terminal
- exhibits--ornamental
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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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