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 submarines
Below is a list of describing words for submarines. 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 submarines:
- major coaxial
- coaxial
- specifically nuclear
- long-range ocean-going
- old nipponese
- clammy noisy
- usually soviet
- legendary and fabled
- underwater remote-controlled
- inexplicable but frightful
- reckless and lawless
- also atomic
- particular japanese
- decrepit nuclear
- smallest nuclear
- comparable soviet
- sunken soviet
- supply hostile
- noncorrosive soviet
- thence austrian
- latest and most secret
- piratical german
- fantastic atomic
- classified probable
- disaffected german
- incredible yellow
- effective, practical
- international anglo-french
- now unmanageable
- eager or too brutal
- again safe and snug
- rather german
- fiber-optic
- soviet nuclear-powered
- soviet conventional
- imperial
- old-fashioned one-man
- stubby nuclear
- lousy australian
- small defunct
- gargantuan unmarked
- distant nuclear-armed
- newest and most revolutionary
- dummy or disused
- newest nuclear
- easily up-to-date
- lowest previous
- medium-size german
- state-of-the-art nuclear
- newest austrian
- imaginary soviet
- mysterious, lone
- already hushed and taut
- ruthless and unrestricted
- unlimited, ruthless
- fastest and most formidable
- small and speedy
- stealthy and destructive
- multiple international
- unrestricted and ruthless
- bitter and unrestrained
- so-called unrestricted
- again safe
- so-called ruthless
- interesting but unpleasant
- newest and most formidable
- illegal german
- old and valueless
- high-capacity
- thinnest and lightest
- cramped, claustrophobic
- numerous soviet
- larger and shallower
- radioactive nuclear
- also more and more
- largest and latest
- latest atomic
- astonishingly durable
- obsolete nuclear
- average nuclear
- noisy chinese
- decent passive
- gigantic lumbering
- latest nuclear
- various soviet
- german unrestricted
- other austro-hungarian
- sunken german
- already hushed
- precipitous and tallest
- illegal, piratical
- murderous german
- complete a�rial
- meanwhile german
- elusive german
- unlawful and inhuman
- unrestricted
- illegal and inhuman
- definite german
- moderately shallow
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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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