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 receptacles
Below is a list of describing words for receptacles. 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 receptacles:
- sacred biological
- lifeless and submissive
- proper immediate
- fireplace-several other
- open and double
- male, temporary
- spongy or succulent
- cylindrical dry
- pubescent or hairy
- mostly pubescent or hairy
- favorite and general
- small, ovarian
- convenient conceivable
- primitive and wretched
- enormous and hideously modern
- miserably primitive and wretched
- unfit or useless
- generous postal
- sacred and awe-inspiring
- strongest metallic
- immense capacious
- innocent secret
- luxurious and vicious
- still spherical and white
- final normal
- still spherical
- coincident, passive
- good and very convenient
- dry conical
- rude but compact
- common undivided
- specialized seminal
- convex or slightly concave
- vast, miscellaneous
- grossly filthy
- fleshy hollow
- convex succulent
- miscellaneous and convenient
- copious slatted
- fitting, golden
- thine appropriate
- pocket--unusual
- oblong hollow
- hollow, fleshy
- probably domestic
- mostly pubescent
- sweet fleshy
- shallow, open
- exterior electrical
- intact, ample
- little kidney-shaped
- solid cut-glass
- double glandular
- miserably primitive
- cylindrical leaden
- constant and sure
- common, oblong
- ancient, gloomy
- separate temporary
- wholly willing
- safe and handy
- flat or slightly concave
- same unresponsive
- infinite and indivisible
- common, large
- corresponding secret
- convex spongy
- incipient shallow
- carefully jacketed
- great and very deep
- grand roomy
- net or other
- sole and proper
- hideously modern
- gloriously blue
- strong and suitable
- habitual ready
- particular rich
- safe and silent
- oblong or oval
- vast and cavernous
- sundry precious
- special, mobile
- somewhat concave
- obconical
- grave or other
- thine excellent
- short common
- now dismal
- other excretory
- wooden or other
- venerable oaken
- strange and prodigious
- ancient, sentient
- such nondescript
- rather secret
- various lunatic
- shallow, oblong
- same inexhaustible
- best, mere
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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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