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 lands
Below is a list of describing words for lands. 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 lands:
- limited arable
- arable
- oldest and most significant
- former armenian
- hydroelectric potential
- cleaner, greener
- amber, arable
- geothermal potential
- most agricultural
- always small and clotted
- less happier
- parklike residential
- diverse and magnificent
- verdant virgin
- magnificent, productive
- unoccupied, unused
- weary pathless
- dry bleak
- other, hospitable
- hilly rocky
- unimaginably beautiful
- tilled considerable
- overpowering barren
- potential, arable
- sad and disorganized
- always wild and untamed
- sonic new
- much arable
- dangerously civilized
- strange, despondent
- forth dry
- utterly strange and confusing
- flood-prone
- much fertile
- continuous circumpolar
- good arable
- fabled, far-off
- once rich and mighty
- rich and renowned
- terrible polar
- divine magnetic
- harsher northern
- distant and fertile
- heavy and fertile
- nepal arable
- portugal arable
- italy arable
- senegal arable
- once dry
- smoky and dark
- little arable
- probably arable
- high, hard and stony
- civilized and warm
- sun-warmed green
- new and naked
- sluggish native
- public coal
- spectral rustic
- sunken western
- coal, arable
- much brushy
- far native
- more arable
- strangest and most remote
- idyllic historic
- eternal and ancient
- marvelous and delightful
- literally underground
- white bumpy
- fertile and long-settled
- strange and probably hostile
- infinite lifeless
- unusable uphill
- desolate golden
- nearby arable
- warm and southern
- wet but barren
- whole thankless
- extensive arable
- wild, unclaimed
- southern and dry
- fruitful, plentiful
- far-off fancy
- dear native
- rough bad
- unknown and probably dangerous
- preferred flat
- enough arable
- tame northern
- worthless hot
- spectacular wild
- damnably dry
- arid public
- hot and hideous
- cheap and sunny
- unchanging, flat
- wild and unimproved
- clearly unoccupied
- virtually unspoiled
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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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