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 tower
Below is a list of describing words for tower. 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 tower:
- brazilian orbital
- african orbital
- topmost accessible
- massive and tall
- impossibly massive and tall
- intricate cathedral
- ancient windowless
- lofty, scarlet
- squat four-story
- venerable circular
- highest grandest
- tall, hexagonal
- original slender
- miniature four-story
- monstrous cylindrical
- squat, grudging
- magical and elusive
- sheer central
- embattled western
- central embattled
- yon dizzy
- distant mural
- squat, functional
- ornate cathedral
- single four-story
- stupendous high
- fog-signal
- tall signal
- magical crystalline
- massive three-hundred-foot
- shadowy, massive
- other sullen
- tall and famous
- gigantic, unsubstantial
- three-story gray
- gaunt perforated
- far-off cathedral
- lofty lacy
- chopped bulky
- massive embattled
- grim and inaccessible
- slender but magnificent
- huge, ivy-covered
- ivy-covered east
- enormous menacing
- so-called misty
- uninhabitable residential
- flat-topped octagonal
- elegant hexagonal
- gothic flowered
- ugly grim
- breezy reddish
- lofty rectangular
- inaccessible and most bomb-proof
- solitary lofty
- triple walled
- stupendous movable
- beautiful and very lofty
- gothic western
- squat blind
- delightful wireless
- high vermilion
- beautiful, unassailable
- higher but slender
- modern and prosaic
- left-hand, southern
- low central
- improbably tall
- four-story double
- tall solid
- defensive-residential
- old defensive-residential
- nearest signal
- seemingly windowless
- vulgar and arrogant
- deliberately precarious
- odd pyramidal
- thy spiral
- slender, impractical
- familiar squat
- old limnological
- rossaveal
- immense floodlit
- decidedly cool and distant
- occasional gilded
- dramatic spiral
- tall and dirty
- tremendous solitary
- enormous, unfinished
- damned insane
- highest domed
- possibly translucent
- two-story, squat
- grey moss-covered
- slender, sky-high
- smaller hexagonal
- dedecagonal
- bold central
- fine embattled
- storied central
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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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