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 schools
Below is a list of describing words for schools. 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 schools:
- papal medical
- philippine normal
- public elementary
- higher primary
- famous preparatory
- private secondary
- photographic, commonplace
- parochial and private
- public and high
- consolidated high
- normally suave and articulate
- intensely rival
- small preparatory
- public high
- female normal
- episcopal theological
- technical high
- tough prep
- public normal
- agricultural high
- military free
- cheap preparatory
- private and higher
- cathedral classical
- colored public
- prefectural normal
- popular high
- high and normal
- public primary
- upcoming high
- centralized rural
- private primary
- laval normal
- regional high
- consolidated rural
- white private
- symbolic and decadent
- exclusive prep
- trifling logical
- same prep
- secondary and high
- coeducational high
- national and british
- rural high
- communal secondary
- imitative gothic
- post-graduate medical
- high-class preparatory
- spirited and very modern
- atheistic and infidel
- provincial normal
- old legato
- excellent provincial
- high and high
- suave and articulate
- municipal technical
- free common
- little vocational
- crabbed religious
- same parochial
- best infant
- iatrophysical
- private elementary
- mystic oral
- monastic and cathedral
- true or fine
- cathedral and monastic
- oral and mystic
- industrial and truant
- healthy, public
- residential special
- elementary free
- public or free
- early italian and dutch
- good higher
- cathedral or episcopal
- additional normal
- minor monastic
- one-room rural
- private and parochial
- elementary and secondary
- better common
- four-year high
- german secondary
- local comprehensive
- coraval
- private prep
- korean primary
- fancy prep
- public and preparatory
- nasty military
- western parochial
- classic buddhist
- normal and high
- entire elementary
- denominational and private
- naval postgraduate
- secondary and public
- mellow elementary
- private and secondary
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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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