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 refreshments
Below is a list of describing words for refreshments. 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 refreshments:
- legitimate and pleasing
- inevitable and unfailing
- robust german
- pleasant and wondrous
- various and exceedingly cold
- liquid and substantial
- poorest, dullest
- profuse elegant
- favorite ante-prandial
- desperate, other
- and--mental
- bad and very dear
- spirited liquid
- delicious and unique
- little fruity
- voluptuous and grateful
- solid or non-alcoholic
- usual lighter
- wholesale periodical
- simple but grateful
- probably unclean
- available liquid
- unlimited liquid
- potential liquid
- preferred stronger
- dainty, appetizing
- welcome and salutary
- dainty, delicious
- little appropriate
- assorted horizontal
- meal and liquid
- sick and wretched
- delightfully unique
- abundantly laden
- liquid and other
- principal liquid
- further liquid
- useful and comfortable
- universal french
- perfectly digestible
- seemingly higher
- usual smoky
- little much-needed
- horizontal
- supply liquid
- exotic terrestrial
- bottled and canned
- little alcoholic
- traditionally favorite
- innocent and social
- intellectual and animal
- supply present
- wholesome and temperate
- once physical
- generous liquid
- certain liquid
- supply necessary
- own liquid
- peculiarly agreeable
- such listless
- most abundant
- supply wholesome
- welcome and much-needed
- mere liquid
- solid and true
- just liquid
- cool juicy
- little liquid
- enough honorable
- little cordial
- little moderate
- much liquid
- pleasant and sweet
- always slight
- wholesome and palatable
- more digestible
- abiding spiritual
- little frugal
- now necessary
- agreeable mental
- other due
- beautiful mental
- thy cool
- enough liquid
- psycho-logical
- big open-air
- cool, dusky
- exceedingly cold
- wonderfully welcome
- seweral
- little glad
- extreme moral
- plain and wholesome
- usual annual
- similar simple
- other liquid
- meal and other
- little spiritual
- less dry
- mere aesthetic
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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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