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 prices
Below is a list of describing words for prices. 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 prices:
- full retail
- merely inflated
- average or ordinary
- astonishingly higher
- mildly extortionate
- high retail
- exorbitant bridal
- shamefully insufficient
- grim but necessary
- low inclusive
- historically low
- fictitious retail
- swank and lower
- same and simple
- high and unreasonable
- wholesale, wholesale
- complete classified
- comparative real
- original nominal
- average wholesale
- stiff metabolic
- subsidized domestic
- great and exorbitant
- canal reasonable
- own uncompetitive
- regular retail
- obscenely extravagant
- broader local
- actually higher
- customary, ancient
- low and long-term
- huge genetic
- stronger international
- fair present
- away topmost
- arbitrary maximum
- seffral
- septennial average
- imply reasonable
- shamefully low
- special net
- marvellously low
- ruinously low
- awesomely awful
- slightly exorbitant
- bitter and often exorbitant
- promising low
- stark but well-understood
- currently lower
- everyday low
- perhaps inflated
- conservative commercial
- low or even nominal
- atrociously exorbitant
- natural and average
- galactic average
- arbitrary and high
- awful, barbarous
- winter--highly imaginative
- phenomenally cheap
- capital and exorbitant
- equally crippling
- exorbitant fancy
- owing exorbitant
- outlandishly cheap
- surprising paltry
- imperceptible, such
- single competitive
- manifestly fancy
- extraordinarily reasonable
- amazing low
- recklessly high
- exorbitant or ruinous
- aristocratic general
- abnormally cheap
- absolutely lowest
- extravagant and great
- miserable and totally inadequate
- lowest wholesale
- absurdly cheap
- already outrageous
- handsome six-figure
- ordinary or average
- new retail
- ridiculously low
- consequent depressed
- theoretically infinite
- worth fabulous
- unreasonably low
- highest current
- weak international
- high, irrevocable
- outrageously inflated
- exacting fair
- fantastic low
- prohibitively low
- temptingly low
- wonderfully terrible
- eventually wholesale
- below-market
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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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