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 reef
Below is a list of describing words for reef. 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 reef:
- largest coral
- invisible coral
- land-based coral
- fantastic coral
- linear marginal
- old-time coral
- new, foamy
- un-unusual
- states--coral
- bally uncharted
- outer coral
- distant coral
- grandiose coral
- ticularly desirable
- exotic coral
- solitary coral
- outer or marginal
- true coral
- treacherous coral
- smartcoral
- dense coral
- healthy coral
- dead, rocklike
- prehistoric coral
- millennial coral
- artificial coral
- offshore coral
- tortuous coral
- sunken coral
- stony, rocky
- fatal irish
- far-away coral
- knotted more
- simple coral
- desolate coral
- arid coral
- occasional coral
- largest or main
- fatal sunken
- uninviting coral
- bad coral
- dangerous coral
- vast coral
- narrow coral
- fourth or lower
- coral
- circular coral
- ancient coral
- extensive coral
- great coral
- fungal coral
- immovable coral
- far black
- electronic coral
- broad coral
- organic coral
- frenetic hybrid
- coral and brilliantly colored
- luscious coral
- dangerous sunken
- immense continuous
- frothy luminous
- tiny uncharted
- cruel coral
- jagged, stony
- narrow outlying
- unexpected coral
- palm-fringed coral
- well-defined continuous
- exterior solid
- inevitable golden
- charming coral
- dumb, past
- single coral
- old coral
- desolate, silent
- blue coral
- sheer main
- snowy coral
- steep coral
- treacherous grey
- hideous, horrid
- low coral
- barren coral
- -unusual
- damned coral
- nice coral
- empty coral
- gigantic coral
- wondrous coral
- low, sunken
- baroque coral
- unseen coral
- outlying coral
- lonely coral
- treacherous sunken
- singular coral
- long coral
- large coral
- long wicked
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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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