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 summit
Below is a list of describing words for summit. 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 summit:
- extreme dorsal
- remote woodland
- extreme ventral
- remarkable conic
- flawlessly circular
- plain and scorched
- fiftieth grassy
- beetling east
- sharp, airless
- white and inaccessible
- grim outstanding
- broad and rather desolate
- bald, snow-covered
- excellent and bright
- altogether rude and naked
- altogether rude
- naked and inaccessible
- smooth and spherical
- previously virgin
- bold, treeless
- double or equal
- low, white-clad
- stony and soulless
- jagged, topmost
- goal and blissful
- last and sublime
- stupendous arctic
- snow-white central
- lofty and wind-swept
- slightly intrusive
- next liquid
- short obtuse-conical
- obtuse-conical
- smooth and almost circular
- lone, inaccessible
- stainless and olympian
- lumpy western
- conspicuous snowy
- windswept, open
- desolate and sepulchral
- perilous fiery
- flat or circular
- rarely acute
- strange jagged
- thine happy
- familiar pale-blue
- serene icy
- key environmental
- disastrous superhuman
- barren, domed
- big, featureless
- airy snowy
- joyless, flat
- lofty, pristine
- full-scale world-wide
- socio-industrial
- narrow and giddy
- broad and uneven
- principal or southern
- highest and most eastern
- craggy, snow-covered
- smooth wind-swept
- bare and snowy
- carefully paved
- lofty and pyramidal
- lofty, barren
- lofty leafy
- grand icy
- rocky, windy
- actual highest
- lofty but still distant
- eastern and lower
- red and barren
- vast but shapeless
- altogether naked
- barren moss-covered
- boldly obvious
- partially bare
- black, craggy
- bare and bold
- invisible airy
- other and opposite
- high, dingy
- bare and craggy
- steep, conical
- inaccessible and precipitous
- less conical
- bare rugged
- flat, snow-covered
- vertiginously high
- yellow rocky
- highest and most southern
- eastern and principal
- strange bleak
- majestic blue
- fitting and harmonious
- nearest woodland
- tall steep
- bald and rocky
- bare and hard
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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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