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 platform
Below is a list of describing words for platform. 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 platform:
- fifth and penultimate
- definite synodical
- spacious temporary
- little, windswept
- narrow and unstable
- nearest and swiftest
- rigid subsurface
- kinda circular
- artificial and well-fortified
- certain leaded
- rugged but still elegant
- shaky muddy
- smallest underground
- credible environmental
- wide, broad and high
- undulating natural
- ast main
- dangerous antisubmarine
- temporary, add-on
- spherical artificial
- relatively soft and dry
- wide, ribbed
- triangular, concrete
- shaky, narrow
- paratively solid
- mobile telescopic
- lower but essential
- flat and frail
- higher and smaller
- ramshackle metal
- precarious little
- thin-metal
- flat, thin-metal
- small, retractable
- upturned mobile
- squat, neat
- enticingly revolutionary
- ascetically barren
- pluralistic political
- momentarily stable
- circular, metal
- slatted, circular
- rectangular, massive
- central rotational
- circular, rocky
- wet and flinty
- a�moderately high
- small and nearly circular
- sectional, anti-slavery
- exceedingly gritty
- hot and exceedingly gritty
- forlorn and decrepit
- broad and constructive
- fearless and unyielding
- towering three-cornered
- flat, unpaved
- safe or sufficient
- desolate and forbidding-looking
- emphatic but not radical
- squared rectangular
- broken-down burial
- grave and burial
- generally small and narrow
- cut-down burial
- makeshift rustic
- bleak rear
- black, tottering
- futile and intellectually dishonest
- perilously small
- perilously small and narrow
- cosmopolitan political
- last slow-moving
- unequivocal nationalistic
- long arrival
- lofty, wooden
- open, tiled
- small counter-balanced
- long and outspoken
- enormous phoenician
- windswept natural
- psycho-corporeal, double
- psycho-corporeal
- extensive and rather convex
- small black-draped
- solitary and interminable
- dry leafy
- tolerably impregnable
- high wet
- curious huge
- continuous wooden
- windy grey
- exalted sexual
- high movable
- long, concrete
- wide temporary
- clean paved
- small, padded
- small concave
- highest transparent
- final, high-profile
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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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