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 pool
Below is a list of describing words for pool. 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 pool:
- rectangular turquoise
- utterly stagnant
- decent genetic
- tiered hexagonal
- fascinating genetic
- smaller, cooler
- deeper, fresher
- unseen hot
- sticky, shallow
- nearer blue
- acceptably full and foamy
- acceptably full
- mineral-rich thermal
- blue cool
- nearest frigid
- inaccessible underground
- single stagnant
- moon-drenched, placid
- vast renewable
- quiet intermediate
- sensuous, liquid
- clear but troubled
- suitably deep
- dim dreadful
- mere nor trodden
- milky, viscous
- low walled
- blissfully hot
- dark, inarticulate
- clotted black
- private, kidney-shaped
- large genetic
- thick nauseous
- magical reflective
- sufficiently deep and wide
- small and apparently shallow
- quiet marginal
- large, stagnant
- offshore tidal
- torrid thermal
- great dried-up
- deep, crystal
- distant subterranean
- shallow swollen
- sullen and slimy
- certain stagnant
- sluggish, reedy
- small calm
- wide, polluted
- whole secretarial
- disturbing stagnant
- dull, fat
- small, unfrozen
- vast, red
- brown secret
- green, grueling
- animated, perfumed
- pure tranquil
- dark, stagnant
- short municipal
- shallow, quicksilver
- ormanental
- fragile central
- last woodland
- fully hot
- deepest coldest
- muddy, ankle-deep
- ancient, sunken
- sullenly dark
- lavish outdoor
- small molten
- sluggish crystalline
- antly warm
- black, pristine
- fine sunken
- quiet, wide
- icy crimson
- thirty-foot circular
- dull and somewhat dirty
- glassy quiet
- stagnant sweltering
- muddy and perturbed
- crystal brown
- picturesque, shady
- stagnant polluted
- glassy, quiet
- sombre and rectangular
- horrid, muddy
- slack and unruffled
- stagnant muddy
- slimy and bloody
- shallow and troubled
- temptingly inaccessible
- dim or lucid
- perfectly clear and delicious
- black, soapy
- filthy big
- famous anthracite-coal
- turbulent oval
- also stagnant
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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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