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 residence
Below is a list of describing words for residence. 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 residence:
- elegantly sophisticated
- small and slightly shabby
- weird, seignorial
- fabled past
- fine manorial
- agreeable palatial
- opulent chief
- safe or quiet
- gracious ancient
- attractive, one-story
- privy fearful
- slightly pretentious
- temporary terrestrial
- quiet and utterly unknown
- lengthy or luxurious
- little renaissance-style
- legal permanent
- sumptuous official
- small stylish
- heavenly beloved and thy
- heavenly beloved
- old gubernatorial
- barbarically sumptuous
- worst royal
- small but not inconvenient
- poetic and charming
- delightful sacerdotal
- alluring and impressive
- unquestionably fine
- cheap, decent
- desirable and pleasant
- chief ducal
- cathedral and episcopal
- gracious cave-like
- lush papal
- eminent and all-too-familiar
- mature and gracious
- genteel but unexciting
- gloomy street-corner
- conical private
- short or permanent
- dark tibetan
- dull, tranquil
- dilapidated baronial
- agreeable and favorite
- permanent terrestrial
- permanent royal
- salubrious and most agreeable
- dull, magnificent
- obscure and monotonous
- perfect and actual
- genuine seignorial
- appropriate ducal
- particularly disagreeable and inadequate
- disagreeable and inadequate
- decidedly delectable
- ordinary and chief
- new vice-regal
- pitiful and evil
- episcopal and parochial
- exquisite ivy-covered
- prehistoric royal
- entirely nebulous and illusive
- entirely nebulous
- former sumptuous
- appropriate occasional
- bustling and splendid
- afraid long
- often-repeated casual
- chief and most ordinary
- common or permanent
- delightful or healthy
- salubrious and agreeable
- large and unpretentious
- preferred suburban
- princely suburban
- ultraroyal
- flat or private
- grave and dismal
- personal and constant
- white eligible
- majestic palatial
- cathedral and official
- suitable and pleasant
- fitting and luxurious
- prim missionary
- desirable seaside
- spacious, substantial
- palatial cuban
- quiet, modern
- extensive and often sumptuous
- removal and temporary
- removal and permanent
- rewarding and delightful
- marvellously expensive
- beautiful manorial
- desirable and palatial
- valuable, desirable and palatial
- old-time papal
- casual and fleeting
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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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