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 lodging
Below is a list of describing words for lodging. 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 lodging:
- rustic, wooded
- primitive conical
- poor and lonesome
- compact grand
- roomy and fairly comfortable
- worshipful grand
- mortal or spiritual
- legal grand
- ancient and ivy-covered
- large conic
- elegant rustic
- vacant, ruinous
- new and rather pretentious
- dilapidated, uninhabited
- clandestine or irregular
- much rogue
- spacious and superb
- present viceregal
- hungry and mischievous
- comfortable three-story
- warm and roomy
- meanest and worst
- oversized western
- large and implacable
- gray tumbledown
- circular or conical
- colored grand
- largest and principal
- quickly awake
- quickly awake and astir
- happy, helpful
- secret grand
- unlawful and clandestine
- lawful and genuine
- similar rustic
- customary little
- bustling main
- roomy, rustic
- pink walled
- colorfully uniformed
- standard ritual
- rude and misshapen
- tall bright
- broad rustic
- usually circular
- substantial and picturesque
- tiny coal
- know-nothing
- large and silent
- safe, dry
- largest untapped
- small, undecorated
- remote pastoral
- glorious and celestial
- large ceremonial
- own adjacent
- same african
- many wee
- thy gory
- little ivy-covered
- squat grey
- hard and hot
- regular and general
- national grand
- somber old
- remarkable large
- viceregal
- neat gothic
- own airy
- comfortable and substantial
- convenient and handsome
- large spacious
- regular and legal
- small but neat
- honorable old
- huge conical
- lual
- modern gothic
- same irish
- various grand
- small, conical
- broad, blue
- big rustic
- thy innocent
- little red-faced
- vice-regal
- almost palatial
- little gothic
- ivy-covered
- little one-story
- small rental
- small low
- simple but beautiful
- loyal little
- romantic old
- dark and smoky
- old red-brick
- dilapidated little
- particular black
- monial
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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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