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 the province
Below is a list of describing words for the province. 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 the province:
- resolutely middle-class
- natural and most suitable
- dumb and arid
- arctogaeal
- rich and guilty
- rich and maritime
- agriculturally rich
- quite peaceful and steady
- southwest chinese
- different distributional
- perfectly submissive
- troublesome german
- perplexed, distressed
- fertile and happy
- opulent and important
- difficult and illustrious
- due and limited
- vassal but autonomous
- dim transcendant
- great and largely unexplored
- rich aztec
- direct and peculiar
- richest and most peaceful
- petty and worthless
- interesting austrian
- fertile sugar-producing
- rich and tolerably enlightened
- soft and wealthy
- distant and narrow
- lower austral
- contiguous british
- trans-baikal
- immaterial, potent
- key and very troublesome
- rich and generally willing
- northern natal
- shadowy adjacent
- fractious northern
- widespread arctogaeal
- other distributional
- foreign and adjacent
- loyal and admirable
- savage and distant
- swampy maritime
- equally adjacent
- exceedingly fertile and pleasant
- principal and great
- imperfectly subjugated
- wild and imperfectly subjugated
- beloved but unscrupulous
- famous and highly civilized
- wildest and most fruitful
- beautiful pleasant
- peaceful, well-regulated
- rugged norwegian
- hardy thrifty
- wonderfully interesting and amusing
- warlike and anti-foreign
- whole occidental
- old bahr-el-ghazal
- now brazilian
- little-known and comparatively unimportant
- truly fertile
- fertile and free
- populous spanish
- new but hostile
- large semi-independent
- own primatial
- loessal
- glacial and loessal
- illimitably fresh
- remote but temperate
- queer temporal
- immense equatorial
- unhealthy equatorial
- over-populated, overdeveloped
- small and unified
- comparatively small and unified
- tireless and laborious
- ever tireless and laborious
- former peruvian
- populous and valuable
- largest wheat-growing
- fertile and unfortunate
- central and metropolitan
- interior brazilian
- southernmost and richest
- peculiar or essential
- anciently renowned
- happy and most fertile
- distant and loyal
- central and most characteristic
- legitimate distant
- upper austral
- tropical climatic
- austral climatic
- boreal climatic
- consular military
- once fertile and happy
- newly-created equatorial
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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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