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 temples
Below is a list of describing words for temples. 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 temples:
- lost jewelled
- venerable briddhkal
- fantastic pagan
- unquestioned and undisputed
- more well-designed
- older and perhaps aboriginal
- gorgeous, ornate
- horrific, deformed
- broad and deep-set
- vast buddhist
- wondrous and angelic
- extravagantly gilded
- normally poor
- two-story, rectangular
- impossible domestic
- towering, phantom
- sole and most magnificent
- still wet and slick
- small ionic
- now buddhist
- fine buddhist
- earlier doric
- small doric
- grand heathen
- great druidical
- icebound southern
- chaste, white-columned
- frequent jewish
- ornate buddhist
- siva--bengal
- perhaps aboriginal
- generally sumptuous
- beloved open-air
- lofty, large or magnificent
- ancient, shadowy
- keen, hollow
- open grecian
- movable and ambulatory
- sacred aztec
- yon red-faced
- far-famed double
- evil and grotesque
- miraculous and angelic
- grandiose new
- weird residential
- foul and splendid
- double-ugly homemade
- imperial ancestral
- vast incredible
- occasional buddhist
- squat, plain
- generally small and rude
- beloved buddhist
- earliest doric
- major outlying
- unfinished heathen
- mystical solomonic
- cheerful grecian
- visible solomonic
- circular pagan
- bare subterranean
- luminous and stupendous
- small druidical
- oldest corinthian
- famous delphic
- unheeded many
- oldest and most magnificent
- other pyramidical
- noblest heathen
- simpler historic
- long but little
- best doric
- famous but inaccessible
- larger peripteral
- contemporary doric
- oldest peripteral
- old and architecturally picturesque
- structural heathen
- structurally insignificant
- silent and mighty
- mighty and symbolical
- old, mighty and symbolical
- far-famed and infamous
- tiny doric
- sanctified and august
- pseudoperipteral
- old, antique
- pampered and aristocratic
- immense and gaudy
- old, majestic
- peripteral
- veined, sensitive
- underwater mayan
- temporary chinese
- real aztec
- huge suburban
- small multi-purpose
- hence magnificent
- vast, open-air
- moist thy
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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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