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 tablets
Below is a list of describing words for tablets. 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 tablets:
- waxen memorial
- unstained white
- neat mural
- mexican cosmical
- blank and endless
- large bilingual
- bilingual egyptian
- genuine scalloped
- wonderful square-meal
- age-old, golden
- small antiseptic
- numerous babylonian
- immutable votive
- square-meal
- exalted and incorruptible
- gilded ancestral
- priceless and exalted
- irregular colored
- eleventh and most important
- numerous and historic
- proud memorial
- rough votive
- earliest astrological
- earlier votive
- powerful analgesic
- generic medicinal
- last unmarked
- wooden astronomical
- dark-gray, rectangular
- admirable memorial
- dedicational
- central and left-hand
- plain monumental
- huge commemorative
- babylonian dynastic
- green, antiseptic
- oval memorial
- _mathematical, metrological and chronological
- new and loquacious
- sundry mural
- clear and unwritten
- extremely hard and insoluble
- digital multifunctional
- domestic certain
- tiny babylonian
- double waxen
- upright oblong
- church--mystical
- conspicuous memorial
- early church--mystical
- mysterious leaden
- durable memorial
- smooth or blank
- frequent votive
- contemporary commemorative
- eccentric monumental
- flattering memorial
- original memorial
- remarkable babylonian
- elliptical and oval
- unobtrusive memorial
- famous votive
- little commemorative
- chiefly mural
- goodly gilded
- strange votive
- many mural
- yellow legal
- certain mural
- incomparable and wondrous
- waxen and other
- resplendent and luminous
- numerous mural
- semicircular white
- innumerable votive
- quaint mural
- large mural
- egyptian sepulchral
- thin, inflexible
- several memorial
- dark troubled
- low legal
- \~meal
- last oblong
- own sulphonal
- immense and luminous
- highly reflective and clean
- general herbal
- numerous fragmented
- great, ceremonial
- many intact
- chinese ancestral
- multi-vita-mineral
- truly resplendent
- green, blue and orange
- little mural
- ancient, unsymmetrical
- small symbolical
- ancient powdery
- eternal mathematical
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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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