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 reception
Below is a list of describing words for reception. 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 reception:
- dayton--final
- cold popular
- protocologically correct
- cheerful and most hospitable
- welcome, hearty
- sufficiently benignant
- hamburg--cordial
- uncivil and rude
- magnificent and cordial
- imperial zonal
- immense, domed
- big, formal
- naval official
- formal papal
- appropriately extravagant
- hearty entire
- similar hot
- welcome and hospitable
- universal and undisputed
- ready and honorable
- honorable and hospitable
- --cordial
- lawful or fruitful
- polite but unsympathetic
- sharp and well-prepared
- welcome and best
- effusive and startling
- respectful and suitable
- late and passive
- rigorously diplomatic
- rather cold and clammy
- more well-prepared
- hospitable and truly polite
- approval, favorable
- flattering and cordial
- resolutely unfavorable
- indulgent and gracious
- unexpectedly cordial
- enthusiastic and noisy
- cold and uncordial
- universal welcome
- ordinary, formal
- never-to-be-forgotten and gracious
- cold or angry
- arrival and cordial
- cold, doubtful
- wide oblong
- splendid and honorable
- cordial and respectful
- hospitable and magnificent
- pitiable and cruel
- magnificent triumphal
- formal imperial
- cool initial
- rather signal
- silent and spare
- photo-montage
- initially cold
- now loud and clear
- previous amiable
- initially cool
- deliriously enthusiastic
- good but sonic
- cordial and honorable
- magnificently enthusiastic
- seemingly ill-mannered
- formal cool
- courteous but unenthusiastic
- eminent and gratifying
- spiritual simple
- occasional and ostentatious
- subsequent conventional
- warm and truly british
- brilliant and cordial
- --ceremonial
- right-loyal
- hearty and warm
- ready and peaceable
- meekly obsequious
- indignant and rather warm
- thoroughly enthusiastic
- slightly ungrateful
- heartlessly mischievous
- hearty australian
- courteous and tolerant
- cordial, hospitable
- pronouncedly loyal
- pronouncedly loyal and hearty
- immediate suitable
- courteous but unsatisfactory
- clamorously eager
- wildly inhuman
- arrival and good
- genteel and hospitable
- equally generous and appreciative
- thoroughly flattering
- hearty enthusiastic
- rude and gruff
- informal and involuntary
- gracious and very cordial
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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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