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 rendezvous
Below is a list of describing words for rendezvous. 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 rendezvous:
- central and undisturbed
- well-known bohemian
- favorite naval
- one-time notorious
- final pre-assault
- mars-orbital
- vulgarly bustling
- simple three-month
- many chaparral
- eager and strange
- stern and ugly old
- regular or temporary
- charming and discreet
- later innocent
- sacred, idolized
- irreverent nocturnal
- last abiding
- painful and traumatic
- notorious piratical
- next fruitless
- unfortunately inexact
- particularly evocative
- classic orbital
- populous and noisy
- well-known aristocratic
- late and distant
- garish, flamboyant
- picturesque and captivating
- well-known and most ancient
- so-called financial
- former and favorite
- span>orbital
- next clandestine
- further clandestine
- common dissenting
- dreadful double
- delightful artistic
- next nocturnal
- long and tranquil
- pre-assault
- less economical
- certain festal
- general tribal
- common and neutral
- quiet, romantic
- oldest animal
- chief naval
- favorite social
- secret romantic
- new and radically different
- sentimental, romantic
- great intermediate
- co-orbital
- peculiarly agreeable
- famous double
- tremendous and terrible
- last glad
- convenient and appropriate
- once-fashionable
- single commercial
- certain potential
- retrieval
- pre-arranged
- frequent secret
- secret and dangerous
- midocean
- mysterious and unknown
- many clandestine
- more apt
- wholly desirable
- deep-space
- happier little
- great secondary
- preset
- long-awaited
- somewhat perilous
- clandestine
- secret political
- sordid little
- more neutral
- six-thirty
- reasonably safe
- many official
- local military
- literary and social
- manned
- intertribal
- late-night
- chaparral
- all-too-brief
- more brief
- fourth and final
- bohemian
- general
- orbital
- once famous
- eventual
- such unpleasant
- important military
- sneaky little
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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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