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 offerings
Below is a list of describing words for offerings. 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 offerings:
- other votive
- more votive
- grave such
- token votive
- cheap or inferior
- votive and other
- allowable and customary
- down votive
- also votive
- utmost, special
- numerous votive
- votive
- worthy, five-fold
- certain and voluntary
- many votive
- similar pure
- scanty votive
- beautiful but unaffected
- dead and symbolic
- cool and sorrowful
- communal periodical
- solemn or dreadful
- peculiarly solemn or dreadful
- cumbersome and useless
- probably votive
- rich votive
- heathen votive
- sculptural votive
- insignificant votive
- hasty, bitter
- old votive
- such votive
- sincere, simple
- heartfelt generous
- assorted culinary
- forth culinary
- illuminating smoky
- bizarre votive
- cruel, compulsory
- promising vicarious
- permanent votive
- introductory and final
- sundry penitential
- excellent obsequial
- such obsequial
- voluntary full
- red and modest
- statutory and customary
- antique votive
- costly votive
- patriotic and contrite
- sundry floral
- therefore veritable
- thy stored-up
- apparently funereal
- splendid votive
- enchanting orchestral
- interesting votive
- successive votive
- liberal votive
- splendid fragrant
- comparatively small and precarious
- fragrant and innocent
- corinthian votive
- precious votive
- undoubtedly votive
- queer votive
- much, voluntary and other
- commonest sepulchral
- high-level educational
- specific online
- originally ordinary
- humiliating charitable
- fair, thine
- mexican ritual
- day--royal
- initial public
- sensible, edible
- accordingly various
- exciting visual
- other televisual
- small, votive
- sacrifi\-cial
- possibly votive
- gentle, moist
- comparatively melodious
- worthless but sentimental
- strong and innovative
- token sacred
- silly scented
- new supple
- month-old funeral
- assorted possible
- newest and most attractive
- frequently expressive
- sumptuous votive
- mystic and symbolic
- pale tropical
- evidently votive
- simple votive
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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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